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Sector11 · 2024-05-29 02:40:50

unklar wrote:

^lol ...and, I laughed heartily again (and spat all over the screen). https://i.imgur.com/xjTgQyk.png

Been there, done that type thing.

Sorry for the delay. Real Life

Colonel Panic · 2024-06-09 12:59:40

I recently installed the latest version of Manjaro (XFce). It works well enough on the whole except that internet access appears to be patchy.

I've also installed SolydX, which has a light peach-coloured theme and being heavily based on Debian stable also works well.

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Colonel Panic · 2024-06-22 13:58:20

I've just installed Gecko Rolling (Bare Bones), which is based on OpenSUSE
Tumbleweed though admittedly not the latest version of it.

Tumbleweed has received a lot of praise online but in my experience its
handling of dependencies isn't as good as Debian's, especially if you want
to do anything off the beaten track. (Or OpenSUSE Leap's for that
matter).

For example, when I wanted to install opi it wouldn't let me do it unless
I first uninstalled a package called linsnmp. Opi also failed later on when
I tried to use it to install Qalculate and Strawberry, with Python errors both
times, so I gave up.

Next stop; Ultramarine 40 and (maybe also) a Ubuntu 24.04 based distro such as
Lite.

[Edit: I managed to install Ultramarine but the internet connection with it is intermittent at best. I can't honestly recommend it to others until I know why this is happening.]

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altman · 2024-06-23 12:49:55

SolidX s pretty nice distro as well @Colonel Panic.

Been toyin with ArchCraft & ArcoLinux lately.

Colonel Panic · 2024-06-23 23:38:05

altman wrote:

SolidX s pretty nice distro as well @Colonel Panic.
Been toyin with ArchCraft & ArcoLinux lately.

Hi Altman,

Yes it (SolydX) is; it's also got a nice summery theme to it which is why I tend to install it at this time of year (I'm in the northern hemisphere). I'm not this board's biggest Arch fan unfortunately although I sometimes use Manjaro or Mabox (a Manjaro spinoff made in Poland).

altman · 2024-06-24 11:28:36

Cool !

I ll use Arch-Derived distros that are easily installed ! lol I don t have the patience to install Arch by itselve & all of those.& have not enough knowledge to make a fresh Arch install also.

I m fooling around with those lately on my desktop;

ArchCraft/CachyOS/PopOS &/orMXLinux.They re presently doing the trick for me.

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Colonel Panic · 2024-06-24 20:04:37

Excellent! I've tried Pop! and like the tiling extensions to Gnome but Grub in Pop! doesn't probe the hard drive for other partitions when it installs, so I usually have to install another distro which does probe the hard drive for other partitions when I install it (or use MX's boot repair - see below).

MX I agree about too, and I keep an old copy (MX 21) on my hard drive. It doesn't take up much space, not even the KDE version (which I have). I've not tried Cachy and I think I had problems installing Archcraft (though I can't remember what).

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hhh · 2024-06-24 20:34:16

Colonel Panic wrote:

Grub in Pop! doesn't probe the hard drive for other partitions when it installs...

Boot into Pop!, open /etc/default/grub as root and uncomment or add or switch from =true the line...

GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

Then...

sudo update-grub

altman · 2024-06-24 20:48:46

hhh wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
Grub in Pop! doesn't probe the hard drive for other partitions when it installs...
Boot into Pop!, open /etc/default/grub as root and uncomment or add or switch from =true the line...
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
Then...
sudo update-grub

Good tip @hhh.

altman · 2024-06-24 20:56:17

Colonel Panic wrote:

Excellent! I've tried Pop! and like the tiling extensions to Gnome but Grub in Pop! doesn't probe the hard drive for other partitions when it installs, so I usually have to install another distro which does probe the hard drive for other partitions when I install it (or use MX's boot repair - see below).
MX I agree about too, and I keep an old copy (MX 21) on my hard drive. It doesn't take up much space, not even the KDE version (which I have). I've not tried Cachy and I think I had problems installing Archcraft (though I can't remember what).

On MX s side, I still have to try out their Fluxbox Edition, as I tried MX-Linux 23.3 XFCE
_x64 “ahs”, that work just fine with my install. (Important to note that they all installed with my NVidia GPU which can be a pain with some distros, & I don t want to mess with thoise issues as my lowewr back hurts since wednesday again( some recurrent thing on my end as well as shoulder pain, but it s getting better)

On Cachy OS s side, better try out with their latest iso , guess that they fixed some issues that they had beforehand.Also, I m on XFCE version as I didn t like its OpenBox version that I tried beforehand .

Pop! OS & ArchCraft have been good with some tweaks here & there, as I do to any install that I do.

Edit; loads of typos .

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Colonel Panic · 2024-06-25 14:07:23

Thanks for replying altman (and hhh, for the tip). Altman hope you feel better soon.

One thing I like about Debian, and distros based on it, is that you can update it from even quite a long way back and it will still work without a hitch (I recently updated a version of Spiral which was based on Debian Oldstable and it's still working fine). As I found out recently, you can't do this with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and you can't with Arch or several other distros.

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Zepher · 2024-06-26 21:36:48

^ I agree and have back problems too. Sending my best wishes @altman, get well soon.

altman · 2024-06-26 22:55:31

Colonel Panic wrote:

Thanks for replying altman (and hhh, for the tip). Altman hope you feel better soon.
One thing I like about Debian, and distros based on it, is that you can update it from even quite a long way back and it will still work without a hitch (I recently updated a version of Spiral which was based on Debian Oldstable and it's still working fine). As I found out recently, you can't do this with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and you can't with Arch or several other distros.

Thx, appreciated @Colonel Panic & @Zepher, it s a pain you know where ! lol

Yep, Debian & all could be maintained for quite some time, with the appropriate repos !

Colonel Panic · 2024-06-27 16:32:24

Hi Altman,

True, but I'm referring to something slightly different - the size of the gap between when you last updated a distro (or when it was created, if you've just installed it) and the date when you carry out a distro update or upgrade, and it still works stably and reliably. Even within Debian some branches are better at this than others - Debian Unstable needs to be updated very frequently for example or things will start to break, whereas even Debian Oldstable can be updated straight from first installation without a problem.

Similarly, within OpenSUSE Leap is better at this than Tumbleweed. A new version of Leap (15.6) has just been released but from the review I read on Distrowatch not a lot has changed since the last release so I'm probably going to stick with that one (15.5). I'm a big fan of Leap; not much goes wrong with it at all, just as it doesn't with Debian Stable, and the only price you pay for this is that you have to use slightly out of date versions of software.

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Colonel Panic · 2024-06-29 18:25:16

I've just installed a couple more distros, both of which seem to be working well; Bodhi 7.0.0 (with additional apps) and the gaming distro Nobara 39. Nobara in particular is huge and the updates seem to take forever even though 39 (it's based on Fedora 39) is the latest version.

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XanII · 2024-06-29 18:42:40

Did the stupid today and installed Arch on a 64gb memory card.
I am not quite sure it is worth going further from there. Not sure i want to decide each and every package there is after doing the install with only some basics like browsers and editors etc.

Getting that neofetch window might not be worth it when that xfce i installed looks like it's holding together with duct tape.

Maybe i should try MX again a bit with better time now to figure out why it is so popular. Not that Bunsen is going anywhere. All works here now. Only issue is disk space lost when i tried to grab some from swap and move to / and it didn't quite go right.

altman · 2024-06-29 18:53:53

Colonel Panic wrote:

Hi Altman,
True, but I'm referring to something slightly different - the size of the gap between when you last updated a distro (or when it was created, if you've just installed it) and the date when you carry out a distro update or upgrade, and it still works stably and reliably. Even within Debian some branches are better at this than others - Debian Unstable needs to be updated very frequently for example or things will start to break, whereas even Debian Oldstable can be updated straight from first installation without a problem.
Similarly, within OpenSUSE Leap is better at this than Tumbleweed. A new version of Leap (15.6) has just been released but from the review I read on Distrowatch not a lot has changed since the last release so I'm probably going to stick with that one (15.5). I'm a big fan of Leap; not much goes wrong with it at all, just as it doesn't with Debian Stable, and the only price you pay for this is that you have to use slightly out of date versions of software.

Oh makes sense concerni g Debian s .

Not much into OpenSuse, but it makes some great apps.

I mean that I haven t installd it in years, maybe 10 or so if not more ! lol

altman · 2024-06-29 18:55:10

Colonel Panic wrote:

I've just installed a couple more distros, both of which seem to be working well; Bodhi 7.0.0 (with additional apps) and the gaming distro Nobara 39. Nobara in particular is huge and the updates seem to take forever even thoigh 39 (it's based on Fedora 39) is the katest version.

Cool, Bodhi s on my list when I ll order some more SSDs I ll install it & see if I do like it or not, we never know.

I ll also install BL s latest testing distro on , that way I ll compare it to current BL s .

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Colonel Panic · 2024-06-29 19:27:25

Excellent! Bodhi is based on Ubuntu LTS (22.04 at the moment). It's got a very nice looking desktop, Moksha, which is based ion the Enlightenment window manager.

Here's what it looks like when installed, though if this isn't to your taste you've got a bunch of themes to choose from;

https://www.bodhilinux.com/trial/wp-con … png?x44384

darknetmatrix · 2024-06-30 08:28:29

There is also a Bodhi based on Debian called debodhi

https://sourceforge.net/projects/bodhil … .0.0-beta/

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