On 05/17/2016 03:35 PM, Derek Martin wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 02:57:12PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> Hi Derek, >> You still living in Japan? > It was South Korea FWIW... 안녕 하세요? :) And no--not for about 11 > years now. > >> In any case, problem solved. At this point, I wanted to solve the problem >> rather than reinstall, but backing up /home and reinstalling Fedora 23 >> would probably have been much less challenging. It also gave me a chance to >> become more familiar with systemd. > Yup, sounds like you more-or-less solved it the way I suggested, just > at a different level. As for re-installing... doing that /probably/ > does take longer (once you know how to identify the problems), but it > requires a lot less thought and attended time. I'm all about that > these days. Sadly. Mostly I just want stuff to "just work." =8^) > > As an aside... It turns out, in this modern age, customization makes > that hard. Individuality seems no longer valued. With the last > decade or so of changes to Linux desktops, I'm much less inclined to > spend time learning how to configure things, or to customize things, > because the latest crop of OSS developers keep breaking things that > used to work (in some cases, for literally decades before). Less > common use cases get far less testing, and I find a general apathy > among OSS developers to deal with fixing the less common cases that > they broke. I no longer have the time or motivation to try to keep up > with that. So as a result I mostly just learn to use whatever they > ship, as it's configured, except for perhaps a few default behaviors > that really drive me crazy (whatever they might be, for that > particular software release). :( > > One example: getting gnome-keyring to stop trying to manage my ssh > agent. I keep having to learn new ways to make that happen, and some > gnome/xfce/whatever developer keeps breaking them. If I'm being > honest, for a long while now I've considered Gnome and its developers > to be a blight. > There are a lot of alternatives to Gnome.
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