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
> <https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Initramfs-Zstd-Too-High>
>
> 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
>>
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