On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 14:28:00 -0600 Joe Zeff joe@zeff.us wrote:
On 7/17/22 12:27, stan via users wrote:
NA I always boot to runlevel 3, and start X from there.
When I first started using Linux as a secondary OS, I did that too. Then, I realized that I was doing almost everything in X and decided that it was silly not to boot into runlevel 5. Is there a particular reason that you don't, or is it just habit?
I use the consoles for development, low overhead, and with screen lots of alternate screens. Also, I do dnf updates from a console without X running. Same idea as only doing updates when the system is going down, though not as robust. And it allows me to see the messages from X as it runs (I start it on a different console than 1), if there are problems.
All that said, I think the consoles can be considered as deprecated, as they receive little love from developers, and are slowly being whittled down to inconsequential.