FearlessFred
Hello one and all!
I remember the late 70's with a 'Tennis' game from Atari, an old console attached to the TV with two 'dial' type controllers to scroll a bar up and down one side of the screen to 'bat' the square ball back to the other side of the screen..
I've had quite a long history with computers, in fact I am old enough to remember 5 1/4" floppy disks and using a 28kbps modem...
Back then, in the early 80's they didn't do much, and so I wasn't really interested, the first computers I used were the BBC Micro (using an early ARM chip that is slowly taking over the world now), and an old Commodore PET, both of course had only monochrome monitors.
I also remember the early days of consumer computers, like the original ZX80 and the various manufacturer models, that came later, with colour... oh, the joys of loading a game from a cassette tape for 20 mins, and hoping it would finish without error, or a mangled tape..
Fast forward to the late 90's and I used an old Amstrad 1512 to write my early BA assignments, (after loading a word processor 'Rich Text Format' program from three 5 1/4" floppies before starting), and cringing as I hit the print button and an old dot matrix printer fired up and woke the whole house with its horrendous noise.. then an intel 386 came, and then an AMD 486, running at 100 MHz..
Like many users then, I have spent many years on various Windows operating systems, I remember 3.1, '95, XP, Vista and Windows 7.. although I am familiar with what has come from Redmond since, and use them occasionally, I haven't used them exclusively.
I first tried a Linux operating system with Ubuntu version 2, not sure what year that was, but would have been around 2001 I think, they sent me 6 CD's and whilst it seemed an adequate OS for my needs, I couldn't get over the hideous 'Brown' interface it had once booted up, and as I was still into gaming then, I stuck to Windows instead.
Windows is adequate for some needs, but it is hideously locked down, and I was fed up of being assumed an idiot, you ask it to do something, it asks are you sure? yes... are you really sure? just do what I asked damn you.. I've noticed its no more stable these days, just 'crashes' quietly in the background now and restarts where it was, rather than crashing to a blue screen of death..
I started using Mac OSX in 2014, because. of course, I had a Macbook Pro, which was a good investment (second hand) as I'm using it right now to type this.
Mac OSX is pretty good, more control over what my PC is using, but of course still quite heavily locked down, especially so in later versions. My old 2010 Macbook is now considered obsolete by Apple, so no updates since High Sierra, and so I have stopped using OSX altogether these days.
So wanting an up to date operating system, I thus returned to Linux, though by now, I'm no stranger to a command line, and stubborn enough to solve any faults that may crop up, no matter the platform I'm using..
I first used Fedora regularly, and was pleasantly surprised when it installed and ran OK on my old Mac, but I really hate the Gnome desktop, and when looking at different desktop environments, I then realised that so many Linux Distro's these days, are trying to be Windows or Mac OSX like, and create this monolithic operating system, that starts to become 'fragile' when so many parts of it are interlinked. The fact that Gnome wont even run without systemd says it all.
Why did I start with Fedora? Because it was one of the only Distros that would install, boot and run on my Mac, including as a dual boot set up, but of course Fedora being Red Hat influenced, all desktop flavours have systemd in them. (@ fungal_net thanks for the systemd-free website, that's where I found out about Obarun)
So I began looking for an OS that didn't have this reliance on systemd, one that wasn't trying to be yet another locked in ecosystem, and I tried several, though most have issues and won't boot properly on my old Apple hardware or don't support my old Broadcom networking well.
I tried a previous Obarun ISO and it ran well as a live distro, but kept failing to install. The latest version from 1st September however, did, after a few issues, install properly, and so I am now running Obarun as the only operating system on my macbook, and it boots fast, is rock solid, and I am a definite convert ;)
banned_9-26-2021
Nice to hear, nice to read, but you should have asked back on the first time for help how to install and diagnose what was going on. The usual fault for an installation is most likely something unrelated to obarun, either an Arch or an AUR package will change names, locations, or vanish all together, and that will make the installer go crazy because it is either all or nothing. Sometimes if you read the output it says "fail to...." "install .. poker-texas" too dumb to realize it is the same named texas-poker now. The installation technique hasn't changed much. You can edit the list of pkgs to install and eliminate the problem and it goes on, without poker that is :)
FearlessFred
You can often learn more by trying to figure it out sometimes...
The error message I was getting, and so the issue, was actually keys not being valid from Eric :)
I corrected that by editing the config file to allow unsigned to proceed, but then had issues with formatting.
The newer build installed OK with valid keys, and the formatting thing was because my macbook is quite reticent at installing anything but OSX as the only operating system, I tried an install, and it rebooted but then found nothing (get flashing folder with question mark on Mac boot screen), in the end I installed it again choosing the EFI stub method to boot it, and it installed again, but this time it will boot straight into Obarun.
Thank you for the reply though. Yes, of course I could have asked for help, but part of learning something new is making mistakes along the way, and digging through a wiki or two.
