eh. Just pointed you in the right direction. Good luck in your distro-hop. Matthew On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 3:28 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Thanks so much for taking the time out of your day to teach me how I > should have looked into the error and you solved my problem. So I’ll > distro hop till I find something that doesn’t panic. > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 5:21 PM Matthew Gibson via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> Salutations. >> Taking a peek at a quick internet search for the keywords "initramfs zstd >> compression" and perusing the listings with the knowledge that Michael is >> using Mint21 (I'm assuming it's similarly labeled following it's parent of >> Ubuntu) it seems likely that there is an issue with the compression being >> run on that particular hardware. Then I found this article by Phoronix >> which gives added weight to the theory that it is a compression problem: Ubuntu >> Rethinking Its Initramfs Compression Strategy - Phoronix >> >> >> It's likely that Mint22 or even Ubuntu21.xx LTS will not have the same >> problem. That's just my theory though. Use at your own discretion. >> >> As for this little jewel of disdain ridden text: "Who ever needed init >> system support before systemd?" Literally anyone who wasn't familiar with >> the technology and didn't RTFM. >> >> Just the thoughts of a Gentoo-Juvenile-now-Fedora-Adult. >> Michael, Hope you find a solution you like for your woes. >> Steve, Stay Sassy friend. >> >> TTFN >> Matthew >> >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 1:13 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < >> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 19:47 +0000, T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > You could go to a distro which has something other than systemd for >>> init, >>> >>> Yes yes yes yes, YES!!! >>> >>> > but recognize you will be missing some features (which could probably >>> be done >>> > with something else), the daemon services will be written and managed >>> differently, >>> >>> s/differently/better/ in the case of the runit init system. >>> >>> > and there are a lot fewer people available for support. >>> >>> Who ever needed init system support before systemd? >>> >>> > Unfortunately, a bit of FLOSSware is written with the assumption >>> you're using >>> > systemd. >>> >>> Who needs Gnome and the Snap packager anyway? >>> >>> > I tried Artix for a hot minute but decided ultimately it wasn't for me >>> because >>> > either a) I am dependent on the distributers to maintain their >>> repositories which >>> > are often missing packages for configuring daemon services or b) I >>> would be >>> > compiling packages for myself and writing my own init scripts. >>> >>> Try Void Linux. All major software, and even some minor software, is >>> supported. Void >>> uses the Runit init system. With runit, writing your own init scripts >>> (called run >>> scripts) is trivial --- easier than writing a systemd Unit File. >>> >>> Note that the s6 init system is a little more complicated and >>> featureful, but what I >>> said about runit is true of s6 too. >>> >>> SteveT >>> A happy Void and Runit user for 7 years >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss