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Colonel Panic · 2024-07-13 09:50:16

Thanks for replying. For me LXQt's a "fall back" window manager; it's more limited in what it does than some others but it's pretty much problem free, so I use it when something goes wrong in a different one.

I thought it was a shame that when it was first created the devs discarded the clock, because this was surely one of razor-qt's most attractive features;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor-qt

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altman · 2024-07-14 20:47:31

Installed SolydXK 12 on Trixie with Xanmod kernel on a small ssd that wasn t used, I like it so far.

darknetmatrix · 2024-07-15 07:32:08

altman wrote:

Installed SolydXK 12 on Trixie with Xanmod kernel on a small ssd that wasn t used, I like it so far.

I'm running SolydX over more then a year now, stable as it can be. No issues with it, and my version is the 13 or EE version based on testing/sid.

altman · 2024-07-15 14:58:03

darknetmatrix wrote:

altman wrote:
Installed SolydXK 12 on Trixie with Xanmod kernel on a small ssd that wasn t used, I like it so far.
I'm running SolydX over more then a year now, stable as it can be. No issues with it, and my version is the 13 or EE version based on testing/sid.

Good thing to know ! Guess that I m gonna download the Beta version as well, ( if it is called so).

darknetmatrix · 2024-07-15 20:49:04

altman wrote:

darknetmatrix wrote:
altman wrote:
Installed SolydXK 12 on Trixie with Xanmod kernel on a small ssd that wasn t used, I like it so far.
I'm running SolydX over more then a year now, stable as it can be. No issues with it, and my version is the 13 or EE version based on testing/sid.
Good thing to know ! Guess that I m gonna download the Beta version as well, ( if it is called so).

It's called SolydXK Enthusiast's Editions (EEversion)

altman · 2024-07-17 13:54:35

darknetmatrix wrote:

altman wrote:
darknetmatrix wrote:
I'm running SolydX over more then a year now, stable as it can be. No issues with it, and my version is the 13 or EE version based on testing/sid.
Good thing to know ! Guess that I m gonna download the Beta version as well, ( if it is called so).
It's called SolydXK Enthusiast's Editions (EEversion)

Hey cool thx. Downloaded for future testings.

Colonel Panic · 2024-07-17 16:14:20

I've just installed Omega, a lightweight distro based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and using LXDE as its desktop manager. Apart from Chromium for web browsing, PcmanFM for file management and Mpv for multimedia it comes with very little software as standard, but it also doesn't have snap so you can install software on it the Debian way if you want to (as I have just done to be able to use Firefox).

Omega's probably not for everyone but might be of interest to someone who wants to build a Ubuntu-based distro more or less from scratch, a bit like WattOS (which is based on Debian) is now, especially if they want to keep it to lightweight applications like abiword or gnumeric. Nice wallpaper too.

https://ohjhas.github.io/omega-linux-en/index.html

Running ohjhas's github profile (which is in Spanish) through DeepL revealed this;

Hi I'm Ibsan Baza (known as ohjhas) I'm fond of Linux and other things, I'm the only developer of OmegaLinux and now I'm 17 years old.

https://github.com/ohjhas

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Colonel Panic · 2024-07-22 16:00:39

In other news; I've just installed Fedora 40 (Cinnamon Edition), and it's working well and seems very solid apart from a brief freeze up at the end of carrying out an update, where the taskbar and menu both disappeared (but reappeared on reboot).

As with the previous version of Fedora though it's very heavy on updates (the last one was a 1.4 GB total download, and you can add another gigabyte if you want all the multimedia codecs as well), so I can't really recommend it to anyone who doesn't have a fast internet connection.

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Colonel Panic · 2024-08-02 13:40:31

Ikey Doherty (the former lead developer of Solus) has attracted a lot of interest recently through his work on Serpent OS, a heavily Rust- and D-based distro that aims to make distro upgrades as safe as possible;

https://serpentos.com/

I've reached a stage though where I'm finding it hard to muster much enthusiasm for new distros, especially when it takes a longish time to set up a new distro the way I want it. Debian Stable is easy and safe to upgrade as is OpenSUSE Leap (although Leap has a smaller package base).

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hhh · 2024-08-02 17:17:00

Wasn't Ikey also part of the original Linux Mint development? Also worked on the Budgie desktop.

-edit- Yup...

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1655

Something bad happened though, Ikey quit. I don't know the story.

shortarcflyer · 2024-08-04 00:00:57

hhh wrote:

Wasn't Ikey also part of the original Linux Mint development? Also worked on the Budgie desktop.
-edit- Yup...
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1655
Something bad happened though, Ikey quit. I don't know the story.

Ikey was a part of several distros at one time or another. One time on one distro he got it to a point, had several forum members donate equipment and money to the cause and then abruptly quit and moved on to another distro/direction. From that point he then quit and moved on again. Since those things have happened I have not had any trust in anything he is involved with. YMMV

Döbbie03 · 2024-08-04 01:19:20

shortarcflyer wrote:

hhh wrote:
Wasn't Ikey also part of the original Linux Mint development? Also worked on the Budgie desktop.
-edit- Yup...
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1655
Something bad happened though, Ikey quit. I don't know the story.
From that point he then quit and moved on again. Since those things have happened I have not had any trust in anything he is involved with. YMMV

Same here. I actually actively avoid it.

hhh · 2024-08-04 02:40:37

He did have that crazy avatar of a baby wearing a Vietnam-era Army helmet. Am I remembering that right?

johnraff · 2024-08-05 02:18:11

Unstable genius?

Colonel Panic · 2024-08-09 07:37:49

Just installed MX 23.3 KDE, and it's all working well (I had a couple of problems with the last version). It doesn't take up much space for a KDE distro and also of course has all the MX tools as standard (including the boot repair for the times when Grub breaks).

For me the usual visual gripes with MX are still there (it's got a rather dull dark grey theme with a modern art wallpaper which looks like a modernist sculpture on a grey background, the icons are flat and "blocky," and for me, most seriously, the font used in the menu and the text below the icons is faint and not very clear), but a lot can be ameliorated with the right wallpaper, such as this one;

https://www.pixelstalk.net/wp-content/u … ers-HD.jpg

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hhh · 2024-08-09 13:14:03

Colonel Panic wrote:

... (it's got a rather dull dark grey theme with a modern art wallpaper which looks like a modernist sculpture on a grey background, the icons are flat and "blocky," and for me, most seriously, the font used in the menu and the text below the icons is faint and not very clear)...

Scathing review! Funny, too, because wasn't their last release quite colorful, with a pink/red floral wallpaper?

Anyway, can't be too critical of grey. #!, you know.

Colonel Panic · 2024-08-09 15:28:49

hhh wrote:

Anyway, can't be too critical of grey. #!, you know.

I quite like the look of CrunchBang (and CrunchBang++, if I'm allowed to mention it on here). Different shade of grey I suppose. All I did in that review was copy quote what I'd said about MX earlier in this thread.

As you know though, it's easier to change the aesthetics of a distro once you've got it running well than it is to take one that looks good and make it run better.

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Sector11 · 2024-08-09 17:47:11

Distro-hoppers thread so yup #!++ is should be allowed by all means.

I like grey - or dark walls - easier on my eyes.

Still have some old #! walls:
/media/5/Wallpapers/cb/cb.cb.symbol.jpg
/media/5/Wallpapers/cb/cb.CrunchBang.png
/media/5/Wallpapers/cb/cb.velvet.noise.jpg
/media/5/Wallpapers/cb/cb.velvet.noise.NESW.jpg

I should have kept more.

johnraff · 2024-08-10 02:09:48

hhh wrote:

Anyway, can't be too critical of grey. #!, you know.

CrunchBang managed to make grey quite cool-looking IMO, and a lot of people still like it.
It was very carefully done though.

Zepher · 2024-08-12 22:34:25

@johnraff, never used CrunchBang but looked it up. I too like the different shades of grey. I understand now that BL is a continuance of CrunchBang and think you guys have done it justice and then some.

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