Original post: Ubuntu 18.04 Upgrade Problem Resolutions
I recently upgraded my 3-year-old Lenovo X1 Carbon from Ubuntu 16.04 TLS to 18.04 LTS. I t...
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Not sure, never tried that. But basicaly it seems to be one-man-show as far as I understood it.
Sabayon is not definitely flexible but I found it the best alternative to not have to compile everything by being able to pull binary packages from their repos while still be able to integrate my own compiled apps into existing system with full control I'm used to in Gentoo/Funtoo.
Pretty much works well on my old laptop. If I had a 4c8t cpu and SSD I would go for Gentoo/Funtoo instead and compile on my own (I have no discc either).
Yes, it may get into your way sometimes but as a long-term Gentoo user you will manage. I'm running Sabayon with mixed emerged packages for over 2 years now without major problems. I still do 'equo update; equo upgrade' - with Sabayon's package manager and emerge packages I need USE flags control; or -9999 versions from git; or are not part of Sabayon's repo - either from layman's repos or just by downloading/creating custom overlay.
Login loop has been fixed in Ubuntu 18.04.1.
Let's try Sabayon. Gentoo based with binary packages.
You still have portage available and you can emerge (compile - note for others) packages into the system (they share the same database).
Gentoo, Funtoo, Sabayon?
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It works! I just tried the installation of nvodia-352, then the loop login issue was immediately fixed!
I had the login loop on 16.04 intermittently, always after upgrading nvidia drivers. I spent days on different occasions searchong for the answer. No issues on 18.04 though - wish I saw this then!