Another rant

[Liam Proven]

On 16 November 2017 at 18:36, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
>
> Even though compared to you I am young

Ha!

50 now. I find it hard to believe.

> I have definitely reached the age
> where I constantly say "I am too old for this" when I run into the same
> hassle I had when I was 15.

Well, yes, exactly.

> I just tried to upgrade LVM2 to a version from Yakkety ;-). That used to
> work just fine, but my system doesn't boot anymore now.

This is odd. Your response, which was to my reply to you, seems to
have appeared in Teresa's thread.

Anyway, you probably won't like this, but my comment is simply this.

For the most part, I have few problems with multi-booting lots of
OSes. This is because I follow a few simple guidelines, and among
these is that I restrict myself to simple, MS-DOS/NT3 compatible
partitioning schemes.

That means: one primary boot partition, with DOS or some form of WinNT
in it. Even though I don't normally use them, they are extremely
useful for emergencies, BIOS reflashing and so on.

Then, *only* if needed by non-DOS/Windows/Linux OSes such as *BSD, no
more than a max of 2 primary partitions for those OSes.

Then a single extended partition containing logical drives for Linux
and any other OSes happy to run in logical drives.

This means:

* no encryption
* no LVM -- not Linux LVM, not Windows Dynamic Drives/Storage Spaces etc.

I have tried multiple versions of all these sorts of technologies and
I find them more trouble than they are worth.

I realise this doesn't work for everyone but it helps me to keep life simple.

KDE violates the keep-it-simple principle. I have 1 box currently that
runs KDE and I find it impossible to configure in a way I am
comfortable with. Single vertical panel in deskbar style -- vertical
panel, horizontal contents: https://imgur.com/a/fLeAy .


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