Re: [GTALUG] Installing Linux: Still a PITA, continued

2022-05-07 Thread William Park via talk
On 5/7/22 23:04, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: ... My graphics card is a fairly recent AMD RX 6500 XT which works fine under Windows and is claimed to be supported by X. Or do I just give up on MX? A search on its forum appears to draw blanks, except for me to boot in failsafe mode which

Re: [GTALUG] From Slackware to which distro?

2022-05-07 Thread William Park via talk
On 5/7/22 16:02, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: William Park via talk | I have bad experience with UEFI. You can't just move the disk to a new | motherboard, and boot. Is that the only bad experience? That's the main one. My motherboard got fried. So, I bought a new

[GTALUG] Installing Linux: Still a PITA, continued

2022-05-07 Thread Evan Leibovitch via talk
Or maybe I'm not keeping track of chapters. As some of you know, I've been on a quest to upgrade my daily desktop from Windows to a dual-boot Linux system (and eventually, I hope, to eliminate Windows). As some of you know, I've been replacing systems with dual-boot (first Unix, then Linux) on

Re: [GTALUG] From Slackware to which distro?

2022-05-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: William Park via talk | I have bad experience with UEFI. You can't just move the disk to a new | motherboard, and boot. Is that the only bad experience? UEFI firmware setup screens are not standardized. Generally, all you have to tell UEFI is the path of the .efi program to boot.

Re: [GTALUG] From Slackware to which distro?

2022-05-07 Thread William Park via talk
On 5/7/22 11:28, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | From: William Park via talk | OK, I'll probably go with Fedora-36/KDE when it comes out. I use Fedora almost always. I don't use KDE. I don't know if Fedora users use KDE often enough to be sure that it is well-teste I'm used to KDE. At work,

Re: [GTALUG] From Slackware to which distro?

2022-05-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: William Park via talk | OK, I'll probably go with Fedora-36/KDE when it comes out. I use Fedora almost always. I don't use KDE. I don't know if Fedora users use KDE often enough to be sure that it is well-tested. | I usually don't partition my disks. I use the whole disk. Boot