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
>> <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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