On Tuesday 29 September 2020 23:58:02 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2020 Tue, 29 Sep 23:45:25 -0700 > > William Morder via tde-users scripsit: > > On Tuesday 29 September 2020 21:26:27 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote: > > > On 2020-09-28 16:09:16 William Morder via tde-users wrote: > > > > Since this conversation appears to have gone off the rails already -- > > > > at least three or four "leaps" in thought beyond the original > > > > question and header -- I am starting a new thread. > > > > > > > > Please feel free to cut out the excess verbiage. > > > > > > > > > > > > For the present, I must try to limit myself to keeping things that > > > > will actually fit inside my living space; otherwise, there will be > > > > nowhere for me to rest my head at night. > > > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > If I could figure out how to get VirtualBox working in OpenSuSE I'd > > > use that to run other OS images, but so far my inability to install > > > some of its components has me stymied. > > > > > > Leslie > > > > Yes, I would also consider running some kind of virtual machine inside my > > Devuan system, so that I could test some other distros now and then (just > > to keep my hand in, to know what's out there), but at the moment I have a > > lot of other more pressing concerns, and besides, I like my Devuan > > system. > > I have some X61 for this purpose. It's nice to run distos on real hardware, > you don't get the "emulator"-feeling. Just the real stuff with real > problems :) > And that sends me straight back to my fundamental problem at the moment, which is not enough space and too little money, along with more pressing concerns (such as data recovery). For the moment, Devuan does everything I need or want. My main reason for wanting to be able to test other distros, etc., is that things change: that is, maybe in another five or ten years, Devuan will go the same way as Debian, or worse Ubuntu, and "freedom" will come to be redefined in a more commercially or politically acceptable manner. It's good to have options, just in case the winds start blowing in a different direction. > > As somebody else wrote already (please pardon my faulty memory here!), > > Debian/Devuan has a rather steep learning [curve]*, especially for one such > > as myself who isn't suited to technical work by either temperament or job > > requirements; but once we learn how to get it to behave as we want, we > > have freedom. * correcting my own mistake here > > > > Nik makes BSD sound interesting, and I would like to explore Slackware > > some more, and there are others, as well; but at the moment I don't need > > to change horses, and there is no hurry. > > > > Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@... To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@... Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@...