Post by @smitjo@mastodon.au
am becoming so despondent at the slopbot invasion in linux, seemingly getting worse weekly [oh linus! 💔], that more & more i ponder a possible #BSD escape route, yet nothing i read anywhere so far gives me any confidence at all that i would be capable of handling all the technical challenges involved. i just want a daily desktop, not a server, & i want it not for a technical challenge at all but simply so i can use my apps to do the stuff i need... which is not at all database or server related in any way. i've just finished perusing a few dozen subreddit threads on the three arguably best known BSDs, & it was nothing but depressing & demoralising
in 2013 when i tired of 20+ years of redmond arseholery & shitfuckery, i discovered linux & was delighted with it, entirely meeting all my needs ever since. now however, with this very same hitherto paradise apparently rushing to sleep with the enemy, it feels like i have no realistic escape option
faaaaaaaaaaaaarque!
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@MsDropbear42 Given Linus’ complete move over to the dark side 😡, my thoughts are further intensifying about escape paths. Further playing with my Haiku VM is really endearing it to me. It has almost all of the apps i need, otherwise has solid alternatives, is fast as fuck, is quirky & fun. Atm the major unsolved issue afaict, which would be a showstopper if i can’t solve or workaround, is security. Specifically it is atm only single-user, so one does not login to a session, one simply boots directly to the desktop, & similarly afaict not only is there no disk nor partition LUKS [or similar] encryption, so far i’ve not found a way to even just be able to do, or mimic, a #TrueCrypt / #VeraCrypt function of creating an encrypted container in which one can then securely store one’s docs & data.
If i can’t solve that, then a workaround would be to keep basically nothing important in the #Haiku partition, but access “my” stuff in my existing Shared Data partition that lives on another SSD. In other words, i’ve more or less reached the limits of the VM’s purpose now, & prolly need to embrace attempting to install it in a spare partition in Towie [ignoring the old clunker single-task media pooter, the actual "doing stuff" pooters are "Towie" & "Lappy" 🤪], then see if i can access Shared from it. Were it so, then… well, it all becomes very exciting!
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@MsDropbear42 ah well, alas. it seems my brief flirtation with the interesting #Haiku must now be at an end.
- installed it in Towie’s spare partition on the larger of my two new SSDs, in which already are two working non-encrypted data partitions
- boots fine, if the installer USB-stick is still plugged in
- boots into rescue screen when stick unplugged [ie, the installer seems to have put the bootloader onto the stick not the partition]
- with stick back in, boots fine again, so then explored possible mounting other drives & partitions
- can see both those non-LUKS data partitions on the same SSD
- warned me when mounting them that due to them not having the BeOS filesystem, & the Beta nature of Haiku, it would happily let me mount them as read-write but advised me tis safer to mount as read-only to prevent risk of data loss on them! So, ofc, i did RO
- in doing so, i realised this was the puckering of the lips for the kiss of death for Haiku
- reopened the Mounts GUI app, looked for the essential LUKS Shared Data partition back on the original SSD [wherein also resides Arch]. Nada, zilch… that partition is invisible to Haiku
- i recognised this as Haiku now delivering the kiss of death
tis sad, genuinely sad
So now, in coming weeks, hope rests with the #BSDs, & this intriguing #OpenIndiana wotsit. Ofc, if these possibilities also fall short of what i can accept, then i suppose it’s just me resigning myself to an inevitability of wall to wall enslopped penguins without any pragmatic escape left for me
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@MsDropbear42 I've been attempting to install Mint on the old acer but can't get it to boot from the hard drive. It works when running on the usb stick but, despite all fiddling with the bios, can't get it to boot from the hard drive. I'm going to try an older version today.
@smitjo oh wotta bumma! if that pc once had windoze on it, is there any chance that silly system's irritating "Secure Boot" is enabled in the bios? i know you've already waged battle with said bios, but thought i'd double-check on that one detail? 🤞🤞🤞
@MsDropbear42 It had Windows XP on it. I have played with the various settings in bios but with no luck. On my desk top pc I have Ubuntu and if I let the firmware update it tends to assume that ms windows will be the os and have to change to custom keys or it gives the 'no os installed,' message. I can't find a similar setting in the netbook bios though. It's currently installing 21.3 xfce. If it plays up too I'll double check the secure boot settings.
@MsDropbear42 provisional result is Success. After installing an earlier version things seem to be working ok. Very slow but that's expected as it's an old unit - manufactured in 2010.
@smitjo well done! 💃 however, i do wonder what explains that success, vs the current version's failure, on the same HW 🤯🤷♀️
@MsDropbear42 However, after leaving it unattended for a half hour or so it's gone into sleep mode and is proving difficult to awaken from its slumber. Seems to be more comatosed than sleeping. 😵💫
