Anyone running Server on a Raspberry Pi 4?

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 22:24, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's called "Calamares." There's an Ubuntu version that uses it.

Oh! I have seen this on some other distro. I thought it was a fork of
Ubiquity, TBH.

> The Anaconda developers don't want any bug reports for setting up
> manually what they don't allow to set up automatically. They also
> don't want to have an "expert" mode, like d-i. It's less code to
> write, maintain, and debug.

What do you mean by "d-i"?

> If you put yourself in the shoes of the Anaconda or Gnome developers,
> most of their decisions make sense. They have a bad reputation because
> they're absolutely inflexible when users complain about any change,
> big or small. It's always "niet." It riles people up and mailing lists
> and bugzillas "discussions" always becomes confrontational...

I think ISWYM.

It just annoys me because like their primary sponsor, RH, they
*constantly* go on about being open etc., and they are not. Instead
they have twisted their own definition of what being open means.

> So you're looking for a post-Unity DE :)

I am. Although recently I switched my bedside testbed laptop to the
new Ubuntu Unity remix, and it's pretty good -- but still somewhat
bloated with GNOME false dependencies. The developer is learning and
improving... but he's only 10 years so (!).

> I have to install and use Elementary to understand what you mean.

I blogged about it here:

https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/70000.html

In brief -- copying existing designs or implementations without
understanding the design, so imitating the appearance but missing some
or all of the functionality.

> I don't use the NM GUI on my laptop, but when I look at it on my
> mother's laptop I find it pretty good.

It is, but the thing is that some people want different functionality
-- e.g. static IPs and hardwired DNS using hosts files -- and it does
not adapt well.

So long as you solely inhabit the modern world of dynamic IPs and name
resolution and so on, it's great.

Me, personally, being a grumpy old git, I miss NetBEUI and IPX/SPX.
They just worked and I never had to muck around with them. TCP/IP
feels like a big step backwards, and IPv6 did not fix this at all.

> Sure. I might file an RFE on launchpad and it might be better received
> than my email.

:-)

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