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Döbbie03 · 2023-12-22 18:19:20

I haven't switched just yet and whether the switch is permanent is yet to be seen. I still have a few tweaks to complete and I really want to use dwm with Nix so a fair bit of work there to be completed yet.

Just wanting something new, it's blazing fast and snappy. I really like the concept of NixOS.

Colonel Panic · 2023-12-22 20:49:29

I've just updated Ultramarine (the flagship version with Budgie as the desktop manager), and whilst it is a good distro that probably deserves to be better known it is definitely not a candidate for my "distros for slow internet connections" thread. It took me a 1240.7 MB download in total.

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Colonel Panic · 2023-12-26 00:25:13

I've just downloaded Exton's spin on the Crux distribution, CruxEX, and am posting from it now. *Most of it works OK but there's no sound on video playback on Youtube and as yet I haven't found out how to enable it (it may need some codecs installed).

Definitely not a beginner's distro IMO though I like the "keep it simple" philosophy and it has a ports system similar to that of the BSDs.

* As usual with Exton's distros though there's no office suite installed as standard; you have to install your own.

[Edit: I'm now busily updating the distros I've currently got installed, in time for the New Year. It's going OK but all I can say is, I'm glad that my ISP like others in our country no longer has an 80 GB monthly usage limit. The last one, Gecko, was 1.15 GB of downloads.]

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Colonel Panic · 2024-01-05 12:37:43

Just updated Manjaro, which was a 1787.22 MiB download; once again I'm glad I'm not limited to 80 GB a month.

I know that Manjaro gets a lot of stick these days but it seems to do everything well enough and takes a lot of the anxiety out of upgrading an Arch-based distro.

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shortarcflyer · 2024-01-05 17:38:47

Colonel Panic wrote:

Just updated Manjaro, which was a 1787,22 MiB download; once again I'm glad I'm not limited to 80 GB a month.
I know that Manjaro gets a lot of stick these days but it seems to do everything well enough and takes a lot of the anxiety out of upgrading an Arch-based distro.

If you like Manjaro, give Mabox a try. It is a spin off of Manjaro and I like it much better for what I do and use than Manjaro. YMMV.

Colonel Panic · 2024-01-06 12:38:30

shortarcflyer wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
Just updated Manjaro, which was a 1787,22 MiB download; once again I'm glad I'm not limited to 80 GB a month.
I know that Manjaro gets a lot of stick these days but it seems to do everything well enough and takes a lot of the anxiety out of upgrading an Arch-based distro.

If you like Manjaro, give Mabox a try. It is a spin off of Manjaro and I like it much better for what I do and use than Manjaro. YMMV.

Thanks, I will. My computer can be a bit strange with Arch-derived distros though; for example, sound doesn't always work in them (even in Manjaro, there's no sound with the live distro and I have to install it to my hard drive to get any sound on playback).

Colonel Panic · 2024-01-10 00:49:04

Just updated Debian 12.2 to 12.4, a 405 MB download in total.

hhh · 2024-01-10 16:10:13

^ Good call, Debian released a bunch of security updates there...

https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20231210

Sector11 · 2024-01-10 18:15:22

Can someone explain to me the why of this:

distro-info-data 	Add Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat; fix several End Of Life dates

What does "Ubuntu" have to do with Debian?
Orange and Red are really beginning to get under my skin.

hhh · 2024-01-10 23:41:46

@Sector11, from man distro-info...

DESCRIPTION
       distro-info is a symlink to the distro-info command for your distribution.  On Debian it links to debian-distro-info and on Ubuntu it links to ubuntu-distro-info.  All options described in
       this manual page are available in all distro-info commands. All other options, which are not described here, are distribution specific.

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/distro-info-data

The developer(s) decided to support Ubuntu as well as Debian. You can also find the package in Fedora...

https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/distro-info/

Also in Arch...

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/distro-info

Döbbie03 · 2024-01-11 02:00:30

Well, blow me down, I successfully installed Gentoo. Only took two attempts

Slowly getting an understanding and getting my install how I like it.

PackRat · 2024-01-11 02:23:58

You can learn a lot installing and running Gentoo.

You been to their forum yet? It's worth looking up their upgrade strategies. Like setting up a cron job to run during off peak hours. Otherwise you get to sit and drink coffee (or Guinness) while you watch everything compile.

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Döbbie03 · 2024-01-11 05:45:57

I have learnt a lot over the last few weeks with Nix and now Gentoo.

I am yet to visit the forums. It is on the list to do.

Colonel Panic · 2024-01-11 10:57:00

Good for you! If you want to try Gentoo and want to avoid most of the configuration steps, Exton did a pretty good spin on Gentoo about a year ago called ExGent, where he did all the hard work for you in advance.

As is typical with his releases though, it contained the bare minimum of software so you had to install your own office suite etc. You also need to know how to upgrade a year old Gentoo installation (it's not easy).

https://www.exton.se/tag/exgent/

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Döbbie03 · 2024-01-11 17:41:00

So far it's going well. I haven't been bothered too much by watching walls of text roll by as everything builds.

I'll take a look at ExGent. Cheers.

Sector11 · 2024-01-11 21:30:40

hhh wrote:

@Sector11, from man distro-info...

DESCRIPTION
       distro-info is a symlink to the distro-info command for your distribution.  On Debian it links to debian-distro-info and on Ubuntu it links to ubuntu-distro-info.  All options described in
       this manual page are available in all distro-info commands. All other options, which are not described here, are distribution specific.

I have no "distro-info"

 11 Jan 24 @ 18:23:15 ~
   $ man distro-info
No manual entry for distro-info
 
 11 Jan 24 @ 18:26:11 ~
   $ ser distro-info
alias ser = aptitude search
p   distro-info          - provides information about the distributions' releases                 
i A distro-info-data     - information about the distributions' releases (data files)             
p   libdistro-info-perl  - information about distributions' releases (Perl module)                
p   python3-distro-info  - information about distributions' releases (Python 3 module)            
 
 11 Jan 24 @ 18:26:17 ~
   $ sho distro-info
alias = aptitude show filename
Package: distro-info              
Version: 1.5+deb12u1
State: not installed
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 67.6 k
Depends: distro-info-data (>= 0.46), libc6 (>= 2.34)
Suggests: shunit2
Description: provides information about the distributions' releases
 Information about all releases of Debian and Ubuntu. The distro-info script will give you the codename for e.g. the latest stable release
 of your distribution. To get information about a specific distribution there are the debian-distro-info and the ubuntu-distro-info
 scripts.
Tags: devel::debian, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility

 
 11 Jan 24 @ 18:26:30 ~
   $

TY hhh

PackRat · 2024-01-11 22:24:43

Alpine Linux -

Installed no problem, and now about 90% done with configuration and themeing.

Nice, robust distro, but unless you have a use-case scenario to build a musl -based system from the ground up; or you just enjoy doing that sort of thing, it's not really worth the time.

Probably go a lot faster if I was more proficient with their package manager. So read up on using apk before doing an install.

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Döbbie03 · 2024-01-11 23:40:15

PackRat wrote:

Alpine Linux -
Installed no problem, and now about 90% done with configuration and themeing.
Nice, robust distro, but unless you have a use-case scenario to build a musl -based system from the ground up; or you just enjoy doing that sort of thing, it's not really worth the time.
Probably go a lot faster if I was more proficient with their package manager. So read up on using apk before doing an install.

Looking forward to the screenshot

PackRat · 2024-01-12 00:27:12

Dobbie03 wrote:

PackRat wrote:
Alpine Linux -
Installed no problem, and now about 90% done with configuration and themeing.
Nice, robust distro, but unless you have a use-case scenario to build a musl -based system from the ground up; or you just enjoy doing that sort of thing, it's not really worth the time.
Probably go a lot faster if I was more proficient with their package manager. So read up on using apk before doing an install.
Looking forward to the screenshot

I just have to find the package that allows for gtk theme changing. No obconf so that's all manual

Edit - obconf-qt is available; so obconf comes with some qt bloat, but I don't have to edit manually.

Last edited by PackRat (2024-01-12 00:36:12)

Döbbie03 · 2024-01-12 01:09:18

Manual theme application aside, that looks great. Light on resources?

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