It said it saved other distributions in my NUC and only booted Sparky Linux.
Version 8 did not let me install AbiWord.
Instead of panicking I clicked it's update and it took 20 minutes for update. Outdated games packs were the culprits.
It tookTrixie to update them.
However I got Gnome Installed.
Dock is frozen and did not let me remove or update the icons.
When things gets bad with GRUB I have a simple solution.
I install Debian XFCE on a single partition of 9.5GB.
It's only addition application is AbiWord which is about 300MB. It takes.
Installer takes about 5.5GB and I have 4GB left for /home partition and for additional software. As you install software the / home partition get smaller and smaller. This is why I hate Ubuntu which uses one partition. Whereas, Debian''s let's you several choices.
Today, I tried to Install on text mode and got stuck configuring WiFi password.
I tried 3 times with two wrong and one correct password and it gave fail status in all three. I gave 60 seconds for each option but it did not hook up with the WiFi.
However, Debian gives you enough time and worse scenario to abort the installation.
Text mode let me select Fsck utility and Gparted which was interesting.
So my advice is go for graphical installer and why toil with text mode unless you are doing it for an examination practice.
Redhat used to have this certification method which I hated and never tried.
TimeShift
TimeShift and Sparky Linux.
For my own learning I did a trial of two times shits. Each one cost me 1.2GB.
One when it was on XFCE and one on after Gnome was installed.
Funny part was I gave /opt partition with nearly 2.4GB for the snapshot and I started getting warning message the disk is full. Root partition had over 10GB remaing and the tiny /opt partition restricting my Freedom.
Thankfully, Sparky had Gparted and I unmounted this partition and formatted it.
I have done this once and Debian would not boot after that. If one fiddle with the partition table that is the end of the story.
I think Gparted had come of age.
Sparky provided the wrong information in the Open Internet saying it has the latest Trixie Version. It did not but the version was December,2024.
What it did was to pick the Debian 12.1. +38 on update.
There was hardly any time for any alternative distribution to keep pace with Debian team. These guys and girls gone independent does not contribute to Debian Development Team.
These Polish Guys are Suckers.
Do not use this distribution.
I am going to erase it once I get my boot loader in order.
By the way, JFS or the Journalized file system of IBM was faulty and I had to reinstall Debian using Ext4.
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