There was a bit of controversy about them a couple of years back that put me off.

• They used to disable Wayland and force X11 - that was a pain.
• They didn’t fully open source all components I think.
• There was some concerns about where it was being developed, I think it’s entirely Chinese devs.

I think this is the correct answer in all honesty. Create a new script like help (or man2 or whatever) that pipes the argument through bat for you.

Are you having a stroke? Is there someone I can call for you?

I’m not a SuSE user - but did they not have the ability of using LVM or setting the hostname during install (GUI) prior to this?

Can you share which step you are up to which doesn’t have a non-systemd instruction?

Aren’t these the guys who disallow the term “Taiwan is a country” and “Free Tibet” in their chat system?

Won’t this cause cat to iterate through all files in the cwd once zcat encounters an issue, instead of just the specific file?

Yeah, it’s a pain. Leads to bad one liners:

for i in $(ls); do zcat $i || cat $i; done

I’ve used shfmt in the past: https://github.com/patrickvane/shfmt

Sooo, I guess a couple of things.

What error do you get when you try to boot it not in rescue mode?

Was your /home directory a separate partition?

I don’t think networking neccesarily starts in rescue mode, so you getting a response that 127.0.0.1:8118 is unreachable probably makes sense (your tor proxy will rely on the network service afterall)

If you think that’s bad, Oracle renamed their LTS DB product from 23c to 23ai the other day.

However, distributions like Fedora will definitely be in the lead, judging by previous experiences and stories of adapting new Linux technologies and Systemd components.

I wonder if this is still true, now that he no longer works for RedHat, but Microsoft.

To answer the question of discrepancies, yes. There are actually different types of virtualisation techniques that offer different levels of interaction between the VM and the hardware (negating the use of additional emulation and processing, etc.). Look up paravirtualisation.