Cinelerra-gg AppImage doesn't show my mounted drives

Laszlo asked to type those parameters on the Debian boot menu using TAB key. I did that, except the last one here:

See the Debian boot menu screens. You will understand the problem.

I can install Debian using USB 3 port but it will be of no use if I cannot use USB 2/1.1 ports. I think I have to go back to Fedora again.

if by that you mean the grub boot menu, Debian entry line
then yes, you got it right

I use ‘e’ but I think tab works too.

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@kovacslt, @nevj and @daniel.m.tripp Following Dan’s advice in another thread, at last I have tested Arch Linux based 3 distros -

  1. EndevourOS
  2. Garuda
  3. Manjaro

I didn’t test pure Arch as I have seen it in action, on YouTube. Only installing it is quite a feat. It is really not for beginners. Now, the most surprising incident is, the Live OS of all three booted without any effort and they all booted from the USB device attached in USB 2/1.1 port without any error. Moreover they also detected the Wifi-plus-Bluetooth dongle. I haven’t tested Arcolinux but it has, most probably the largest video tutorial on Arch Linux and beyond4500 video tutorials! Can you believe it ?! And they really put something in my mind… why not try to go a little bit deeper in the Linux territory. @TypeHrishi You are very young and at this young age, you are dreaming of building a new Linux distro. If you are really passionate about your dream, then, I think, you should visit this website: https://www.arcolinux.info/. I am sure, you will be able to build a completely new Arch based distro with the help of their tutorials, if you are really passionate. Yes, it will take time, may be 6-7 years or more. I may not have that time but you have. You will be able to do it, again, if you are passionate enough. They have embedded a YouTube video on the home page. You should check out that first and should see the whole video. It is not very long.

Now, between these 4 Linux distros,

  1. Fedora,
  2. EndevourOS,
  3. Garuda and
  4. Manjaro

which one should I choose? What’s your opinion? I kinda liked EndevourOS. It’s nice. Plus it has detected all my hardware and it is purely community driven and not under supervision of any corporation which is a strong point for me regarding privacy. Garuda is like an OS for gamers. It looks kinda childish… my opinion only though it is very strong and mainly built for newer hardware and Manjaro… ummmmm… good but very flat… to me. What do you think? Which one should I use?

Whichever you like :slight_smile:
Sounds kike Endeavour is the winner, but after all it’s your system, your hardware, your usage…
As for how it looks: with any distro you get some defaults, that’s true for look&feel too.
But none of them are put in concrete, so you can change afterwards.
So which you choose decide solely on how it works, look&feel should not be problem…

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I was looking for review of these three OS and stumbled upon a YouTube video where the video creator installed the current EndeavourOS on an old PC with AMD processor and an old AMD GPU just like mine. This video gave me a lot of encouragement. So, let’s try Endevour. :partying_face:

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It is based on Arch.
What impressed me much long time ago, I had a complicated setup of Pulseaudio -on Debian of course. Solving my problem (configure Pulseaudio according to my exact needs) was possible, but the know-how was written on the Arch wiki.
If anything, Arch is documented very well!
Probably you’ll find answers to your questions in the Arch wiki.

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All the non-Debian distros work.
Clearly your usb ports issue is a Debian problem
Before you choose, I think you should try ‘Debian testing’… it may be that Debian is just slow at catching up with versions of some software.

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Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu. Ubuntu is based on Debian testing, so that probably doesn’t work either.

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Maybe. I dont know how often Ubuntu sample Debian testing… probably once for each release.?

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Nev, my friend, I take the suggestions you all give me, very seriously. In this post of yours ( Cinelerra-gg AppImage doesn't show my mounted drives - #78 by nevj) you advised me to try Debian Testing. I did that immediately and it didn’t work. So, it is clearly a Debian problem. I have already posted this problem in Debian forum also under the same username which I use here.

You are absolutely right my friend. Mint also suffered from this problem. I didn’t try Ubuntu though and never will because of Canonical getting the anti-privacy award. One of the main reason I am going for EndeavourOS is it is not supervised or owned by any corporation… yet and I am also thinking of going a bit deeper in the Linux territory using the tutorials made by Arcolinux which is based on Arch. So it seems, I have to tie the knot with the distro I feared most… Arch. :stuck_out_tongue::smile:
I think, I should report this bug to Debian and Mint. What do you suggest

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I agree… report it to Debian.
I am sorry we have not been able to help with this Debian issue.

I see you are thinking about Arch based distros. The only Arch based distro I have used is Artix. It is non-systemd. I would not recommend it for you… you dont need to grapple with a different init system.

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No friend. Don’t be sorry. I have learnt a lot from all of you and I have to learn more. You helped me to conquer my fear for Linux. I will be always grateful for that.

Is systemd so bad? Why don’t you (and many others) like systemd? What are the pros and cons of it?

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Briefly

  • it breaks the Linux philosophy on “one tool one task”
  • it comes from a large corporation and threatens to monopolize init systems.
  • it is not multi-platform… will not work with bsd or musl because it requires glibc
  • it is a gross overkill for home systems
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I have no problem with it.

From my point of view: very fine grained control on different daemons/services dependencies, as well as for system-wide services, or (logged in) user’s services.

Using it is sometimes not very intuitive.

I actually do like it.

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It’s basically the standard used on major distros. I have to deal with it to support Red Hat / CentOS / Alma / Ubuntu. I don’t hate it. Just takes some effort to do what was always done.

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Right. It makes some things more complicated, and it is a large and therefore a big learning curve.

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@kovacslt , @nevj , @daniel.m.tripp , @pdecker I have installed EndeavourOS.

And looks like it is working… at least no ‘Device Descriptor’ issue. So, it is proved that the problem was in Debian itself. I will report the bug today.

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I tried Garuda once - last time I distro-hopped - I kinda hated it - it was inconsistent and felt like “too many cooks” - various separate things were scripted both trying to do same thing - lack of quality control… Didn’t like it one single bit… I think I tried Fedora after that - but - eventually settled on Pop!_OS for the last 18+ months…

My understanding of systemd is that it was developed by one single person - the same guy (a German?) who is now developing PipeWire and I think he was also responsible for Pulse… So not a single corporation… Having said that - several LARGE corporations are defaulting to SystemD

  • RedHat
  • Oracle
  • Canonical
    I’d be out of a job if I refused to embrace it. I also LOVE the way it simplifies running daemons as a user - e.g. with ResilioSync, I stop it and disable it as a system service, and ONLY run it under my user profile - but - it’s still running even when I’m not logged in (it’s called “linger”) :
    Here’s how I setup ResilioSync :
sudo dpkg -i resilio-sync-3.0.1.1414-1.x86_64.rpm
sudo sed -i -e 's/'multi-user.target'/'default.target'/g' /usr/lib/systemd/user/resilio-sync.service
sudo loginctl enable-linger x
systemctl --user enable resilio-sync
systemctl --user start resilio-sync && systemctl --user stop resilio-sync
sudo systemctl stop resilio-sync.service
sudo systemctl disable resilio-sync.service
FUGFILE="/home/x/.config/resilio-sync/config.json" ; OIP="127.0.0.1" ; NIP="0.0.0.0"
sed -i -e 's/'$OIP'\b/'$NIP'/g' $FUGFILE
systemctl --user enable resilio-sync ; systemctl --user start resilio-sync

Then I just have to https://new-install-ip-address:8888/ and start adding sync share links… I suppose the above is probably as complex as creating a shell script to run something in the background as a user - but - I know how to do the above almost blindfolded…

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Lennart Poettering

I’m not sure he is involved in creating pipewire.

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Conceded - I knew he was behind one of the audio backends desktop Linux users rely on (by default)… I’d forgotten about “avahi” - I couldn’t manage with out avahi - lifesaver! Apple Bonjour and Microsoft Zeroconf and Linux Avahi all seem to play very well together… When I got my head around Avahi - I decided I didn’t need internal bind server (I have too many devices to rely on /etc/hosts “database” - and managing same across those multiple devices).

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