[Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

[Lyberta]

Eric Duhamel:
> Depending on what you mean by "newbies", I don't think they would know if they want any particular image of GNU/Linux except the one that was designed to run on the product by the maker of the product. After all, they don't know the nooks and crannies of GNU/Linux and would just want to receive a product that works.

OK, I'm a software developer, not a system administrator. I have no idea
what 90% of packages installed on my system do. I only use terminal to
upload my code to the Git repository. But I need g++ 6.

Debian Jessie has g++ 4.9.2 which is extremely old and none of my
software will compile there. When I pledged for Debian card, I expected
stock Debian with maybe a few custom packages which would be explicitly
marked as such. And the first thing I'd do is to upgrade to Testing
which as of writing this has g++ 6.3.0.

Now I'm told that issuing "apt-get dist-upgrade" is taking
responsibility, etc. So I'm stuck with old and unusable frankendistro
and on my own if I want to make it work.

I've chosen GNU/Linux because of its freedom and I've chosen Debian
because it doesn't have proprietary software in main. I have no idea of
what is going under the hood. I don't care what init system I run as
long as it is free software and it boots my PC.

A couple of years ago I needed to buy a laptop. I've looked for one
which doesn't come with Windows and I've found one with Ubuntu. Now, I
really hate Ubuntu and the first thing I've done was to install Debian
in dual boot. For some reason, Debian couldn't power off my laptop so I
removed it and I'm still stuck with Ubuntu.

I know what you're going to say: "You should've looked for the solution
on the Internet.". Well, sometimes I don't have time and am scared of
bricking my hardware. I want things to "just work".

It looks like EOMA68-A20 is not going to just work. I don't want it to
end like my laptop.

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