On Monday, March 21, 2016 03:02:49 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-03-21, Alan Grimes <alonz...@verizon.net> wrote: > > Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a safe > > console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head examined. [...] > > A bit hyperbolic perhaps, but I've always been a firm believer in the > "boot to console and start X from the command-line" theory. I've been > doing it that way for almost 30 years now, and it's saved me > innumerable headaches.
I've been booting into X directly for over 13 years (forgot the actual year) now and only had an issue 3 times. Every time I managed to easily fix it by using "init=/bin/sh" and fix it from there. And those have not happened often. (maybe 5 times at the most) The trick is to run mostly stable and use your brain. -- Joost
