Goodbye

[Simon Hoffmann]

One last mail and I promise to never bother you again.

Did you just one day fall out of bed and knew how to use Linux perfectly?
Are you able to use all different Linuxes to the same degree and know everything
there is to know? So are you a master/doctorate in Debian, Suse, RHEL, Fedora, ... to
use your words?
Oh, and you also spoke about Windows. So I guess you are also a Microsoft MVP?



Because you cannot tell me that a Linux install, whatever the distro, has everything
set up exactly the way you want it to be out of the box and automatically.




---

Simon


> On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 3:17 PM Simon Hoffmann <freebsd at simonhoffmann.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Which commands did you use?
> >
> 
> Can't remember anymore. They went out of my head along with the steam
> blowing out of my ears.
> 
> 
> > All of this is listed with detailed explanations. I was able to perform
> > the update on
> > first try without any problems.
> >
> 
> Lucky you.
> 
> 
> > Time: 5 min.
> >
> 
> You must be the one with the doctorate of General (or is it Special?)
> BSDvity Theory then.
> 
> 
> > su says sorry if your user is not in wheel.
> >
> > Sounds to me like you were in Live CD mode?
> >
> 
> Sounds like your hearing must be impeccable.
> 
> 
> > > Google helped again: in order to do that one must choose option 2 while
> >
> > Quick question: you are aware of the very detailed FreeBSD Handbook that
> > answers
> > pretty much every question?
> >
> 
> I am, yes. I just don't like the idea that in order to do some little thing
> one must read it in its entirety.
> 
> 
> > Please take a look at https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/
> >
> 
> No thanks. Also, your hearing must be somewhat less than perfect in this
> case. Let me repeat myself (for the tenth time): reading extensive
> handbooks to solve something that should've been solved automatically is
> not my favourite thing in the world.
> 
> 
> > > booting. Fsck!?! Obviously one must have a BSD degree to use a computer.
> >
> > No, one must read the manual. BSD is not Linux.
> >
> 
> OK, for the eleventh time: you know the drill by now
> 
> 
> > > OK, after a restart (and successful su) I googled about installing a GUI
> > > (KDE to be exact). Being unpleasantly surprised that, instead of a
> > > oneliner, one has to buy a new keyboard with an extended life expectancy
> > in
> > > order to type an equivalent of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
> > > Man, how hard is it to put something in a shell script?!?
> >
> > Again, the Handbook is your best friend.
> > https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/
> >
> 
> Note to self: man, some people choose to turn the blind eye even if you
> practically stick it to them.
> 
> 
> > You even have two ways of installing! Using pre-configured and
> > pre-compiled binaries
> > that can be installed via pkg add, or using ports to configure and build
> > yourself, to
> > fulfill all your needs. Such wow!
> >
> > In a nutshell:
> >
> > pkg install xorg
> > pw groupmod video -m <user>
> > pkg install urwfonts
> > pkg install x11/sddm
> > echo dbus_enable="YES" >> /etc/rc.conf
> > echo proc           /proc       procfs  rw  0   0 >> /etc/fstab
> > echo sddm_enable="YES" >> /etc/rc.conf
> >
> 
> Nope, that's not what the handbook says. It's definitely more than seven.
> Quite a bit more. Moreover, if one makes one little spelling mix-stake,
> that could be your excuse for why the whole thing failed. I'm not into
> that. It has to be failsafe.
> 
> 
> > I don't know about you, but I count 7 lines of commands, which you can
> > basically
> > copy-paste. I don't know what type of keyboard you have, but mine can
> > handle a few
> > keystrokes.
> >
> 
> Mine handles "del BSD" (8 chars, incl. enter) pretty well.
> 
> 
> > Took me about 5 minutes aswell.
> >
> 
> Took me about two seconds. Incl. handling the "Are you sure?" question.
> 
> 
> > You know, you could always ask politely to get help...
> >
> 
> As polite as possible: HELP!
> Then again, it would be useless now. The del I mentioned above took care of
> that.
> 
> 
> > Again, the Handbook is your friend.
> >
> 
> Oh, man, I will not even bother anymore.
> 
> D.
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Viele Grüße
Simon Hoffmann
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