[lug] Fedora vs Ubuntu vs Mint

[Zan Lynx]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 09:38:56AM -0600, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 07:32:15 -0600
> Zan Lynx wrote:
> 
> > The thing that you want, to control startup services, is systemctl.
> 
> jbaer at robinson:~$ systemctl
> systemctl: command not found
> jbaer at robinson:~$ locate systemctl (no results)
> jbaer at robinson:~$ man systemctl
> No manual entry for systemctl
> 
> Yeah, yeah, I know ... just install it. Uh ...
> 
> jbaer at robinson:~$ apt-cache search systemctl
> (no results)

Well then, whatever you are running isn't using systemd.

> 
> But, the point (for me) isn't in the minutiae of specific details;
> systemd is just one example. I could give many, but that would quickly
> become tedious. :) The larger point is that I spent a lot of time
> learning how to make my system work the way I wanted it to, and a lot of
> that time / effort has been rendered moot.

At last, someone who uses the correct work, "moot" when writing that
phrase. :-)

Things change, and people come up with better ways to do things. If you
didn't want to change, you don't actually have to. So at some level you
must enjoy new stuff, or you'd still be using Debian skeevy, or whatever
that was called.