Adventures with Linux Distros

I've been away for a few days, more than originally planned. I took some days off after start to write a proposal for decentralized voting influence like is done in regular social networking. I just didn't feel like writing it. After two days I decided to use my brand new 275 GB SSD drive purchased in November. I decided it was finally time to install more operating systems and go back to dual boot or triple boot operating systems as I've done before.

I looked at the distrowatch.com rankings. I had been using Linux Mint in VMs, but I saw some new distros that looked nice. I wanted a good looking KDE frontend.

Manjaro was my first choice. But I would get permanent freezing issues during the installation. I managed to get through the live install but with issues in the OS once loaded with freezing still occurring. A reboot is always required. sha1 checksum is good, no issues there. Even tried an old DVD write in case it was a USB issue, but not that either.

So since that wasn't working well, I wen't to try others, like openSUSE. openSUSE installs but then with freezing issues. All the VMs of these and other distros ran fine, but not once installed on the real hardware. The video was having issues and freezing, as ctrl+alt+f2/f4 would work to bring me out of xwindows.

I ended up installing Sabayon, which I have used 5+ years ago. Well, it worked without any freezing issues. I kept it and tried the other two again, Majaro and openSUSE. I tried different nvidia drivers, different kernels, but I couldn't find the issue.

I spent days reinstalling OSs and trying things out, but in the end I'm using the same Linux distro I previously used years ago in dual booting: Sabayon. I still have Manjaro installed if I want to try to figure out the issue, but for now Sabayon will do.

At some point I'll write up my proposal for decentralized voting based on activity metrics. Not my original global delegation based on activity idea, but a better one from comment inputs in previous posts about this issue.

Just letting people know what's up with me in case anyone wanted to know, hehe. See you later ;)

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2017-03-14, 1:43pm