I'm shocked, shocked!

[John Morris]

On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 13:48 -0400, Digimer wrote:

> I dealt with this by setting names I want in
> /etc/udev/rules/70-persistent-net.rules to match MAC to device names
> (and then the name to IP in the usual ifcfg-X files).

Yup, did that one long ago.  Now where do I lock down the names of my
displays?  Finally came to F21 this weekend and my docking fixup script
broke yet again because some idiot decided renaming all of the displays
from a zero based numbering scheme to a one based names was worth
breaking things over.  Don't even remember what the change was last
time, but it was something equally pointless.  Of course in the long ago
I didn't even NEED a docking script, Gnome just did the right thing on
its own.  Long ago.

Changing existing names of things for trivial reasons should be an
offense at least worthy of scorn and verbal abuse, but increasingly it
is accepted and even praised.

Not to mention docking in general has 'strongly discouraged' ever since
the Tablet Madness hit.  Mate lets be escape enough of it to be mostly
useful, just so long as I remember that shutdown or reboot will fail
when docked and apparently is a 'won't fix, you shouldn't do that' bug.
Really wish I could find a way to change the power management behavior
when a session isn't running, even if I could just disable ALL power
management until a mate-power-manager could start.

> Little less drastic than switch to BSD, where really, you're trading one
> set of headaches for another.

Switching operating systems over one bug is drastic, but increasingly it
is more a philosophical divergence.  The UNIX way vs whatever this new
RedHat computing model is supposed to be called.  Inertia keeps me
running updates instead of reinstalling but when I finally replace this
Thinkpad it will probably be time to distro/OS hunt.
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