Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Posted on 12/16/2021 10:41:16 PM PST by Varmint Al
# OK—I’m confused here. Are you saying that Mint (I’ve never used it) cannot install other desktop environments?
No, but it is definitely an afterthought, and something that is not encompassed as an actual sanctioned release. That’s pretty much why I went to Kubuntu for my desktop. When I get around to reloading my media player, I’ll be dropping kubuntu on it as well.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
You can, but like with any other DE, it has it’s drawbacks. I originally did install KDE to Mint, but too many hiccups :/
I think pretty much all of them have systemd now. I remember looking through all of the distros trying to avoid it. Gave up :P
Tried Manjaro for about a month.. not my style. I think even they have systemd now.
Thanbk you for the link.. never saw that one before, although I have installed KDE over Mint. Too many issues :/
Thanbk you for the link.. never saw that one before, although I have installed KDE over Mint. Too many issues :/
# When I was playing with different distros / troubleshooting this one, I wrote a bash script that will install all the software I needed, so I could re-install without worry. The script sets up my user account, hostname, NFS mount points, wallpaper that I like, adds a couple of PPAs, sets up my VPN, performs a full update/upgrade, and reboots.
I’d be interested in the script if is generic enough that you could share it sir.
It's really quite straightforward and no logic
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]
then echo "Please run as root"
exit
fi
cp /home/ShadowAce/ShadowAce-user /etc/sudoers.d/.
cat /home/ShadowAce/fstab >> /etc/fstab
hostnamectl set-hostname <new-hostname>
git clone https://github.com/pop-os/pop.git
# change version number to something current (This is for the nvidia driver)
/home/ShadowAce/pop/scripts/apt add 470.42
mkdir /usr/share/backgrounds/images
mkdir /mnt/{TV,movies}
cp -r /home/ShadowAce/Downloads/wallpaper/*.jpg /usr/share/backgrounds/images/.
#add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
#add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
apt-add-repository ppa:lucioc/sayonara
apt -y install /home/ShadowAce/Downloads/nordvpn-release_1.0.0_all.deb
apt -y install xfsprogs xfsdump attr quota
apt update
apt -y full-upgrade --allow-downgrades
apt -y install nordvpn
apt -y install kde-standard
apt -y install tuned terminator vim transmission rdesktop flameshot
apt -y install pidgin pidgin-sipe python3-pip expect tcl ffmpeg mediainfo vlc xsane xsane-common
apt -y install sayonara nfs-kernel-server shellcheck shc
apt -y install xscreensave* hpli*
apt -y install /home/ShadowAce/Downloads/zoom_amd64.deb
apt -y install /home/ShadowAce/Downloads/icaclient_21.6.0.28_amd64.deb
systemctl set-default graphical.target
pip3 install bpytop
curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
ln -s /usr/bin/python3.8 /usr/bin/python
systemctl enable nordvpnd
apt -y autoremove --purge
reboot
This is specific to Pop!_OS. I have a similar one for Fedora when I was trying to get that to work on my System76 hardware.
Interesting. I would have thought it would need to be much more complex than that. Since the last time I reloaded my desktop, I’ve been keeping a log of all of the additional programs that I had to install. I see that I could easily convert that log into a script using the ‘apt -y install’ command. That would make things much more straightforward.
Right now, I’m on the Kubuntu 20.04 LTS release. I’ll probably stay on that until the next LTS is finalized.
I am thinking of reloading my media player to the same, just to have them in sync, even though that is a bit of overkill for how that device is being used at the moment, though having a fully functional ‘spare’ computer that I could use in an emergency without having to do a lot to it is nice just in case of a catastrophic failure of my desktop.
Nice!
What really allows it to work is that my /home dir is on a separate partition that I do not re-format with installs. Thus, all of my personal configuration is still saved, and I just have to install the application to read it.
I have been doing the same for a while now. I need to print out my dnf installed apps and keep them somewhere in /home. There are the odd packages that dont go through dnf (pip, npm, tarballs etc) but in general those can ge gotten as needed if it were ever to come to that.
My current fedora (34) started out as fc14 about 10 years ago and I’ve just upgraded every 6 to 12 months. I have HW RAID so as disk die (which they often do) they get replaced and the array just rebuilds itself.
Bkmk
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