Distro-hoppers anonymous

shortarcflyer · 2024-09-04 11:57:20

Döbbie03 wrote:

I see ArchBang have called it a day.
https://archbang.org/2024/09/03/autumn- … to-an-era/
End of an era.

Well, that sucks! :- (

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ratcheer · 2024-09-04 12:36:24

Yeah. I did ArchBang for a year or more, and it is what led me to "vanilla" Arch Linux, which I have now used for many years (at least ten).

Sector11 · 2024-09-04 14:11:59

It will live on in the hearts of many for a long time to come.

Colonel Panic · 2024-09-04 15:20:33

Sorry to see this. ArchBang was one of the first distros I used and (before I broke it with an ill-advised system upgrade), it ran perfectly well even in 512 MB of RAM with fvwm-crystal as the window manager.

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altman · 2024-09-04 16:39:21

Döbbie03 wrote:

I see ArchBang have called it a day.
https://archbang.org/2024/09/03/autumn- … to-an-era/
End of an era.

Who;y shit , I wasn t expecting that one !

As stated, an other end to an era. But guess that he was a one man show, so it had to be expected as well sadly.

altman · 2024-09-04 16:40:22

Sector11 wrote:

It will live on in the hearts of many for a long time to come.

Pretty much so.

DeepDayze · 2024-09-04 18:31:49

Döbbie03 wrote:

I see ArchBang have called it a day.
https://archbang.org/2024/09/03/autumn- … to-an-era/
End of an era.

Wow damn...shame another light Arch distro gone. Have to hand it to him...he's as old as i am and there does come a time when to finally walk into the sunset after many years of maintaining this distro. RIP ArchBang.

Colonel Panic · 2024-09-06 10:18:52

I seem to be one of the few people here who's never really got on board with Arch. It's just too difficult to update without breaking something, and the user's forum is also notoriously unfriendly and intolerant of fools - or those its regulars consider to be fools.

When I was posting on the ArchBang forum, we were all told not to post any questions about ArchBang on the main Arch forum because its users wouldn't appreciate it. IMO, it's that kind of pettiness that puts newbies off trying a Linux distro.

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Sector11 · 2024-09-06 12:42:54

Colonel Panic wrote:

I seem to be one of the few people here who's never really got on board with Arch. {snip}

· I'm the same and for pretty well the same reason. I am happy to know that not all arch users are like those you talk about on the ARCH forum. Döbbie03, our newest moderator, is an ARCH user as well as a few other well known forum members. And they are friendly and very helpful.
· TeoBigusGeekus an avid ARCH user, took his weather script from Ubuntu forums, where they started out, to the Arch forums because of some problems he was having on the Ubu Forum.
· It didn't talk long that they deleted his thread and informed him that it was because it was attracting too many non-ARCH users to the forum.
· I talked with Corenominal about getting his weather scripts over on the #! forums and that's how we ended up having Teo's scripts here.

Colonel Panic · 2024-09-06 13:03:48

Thanks for the reply, and I can believe it.

I agree about Dobbie and ArchLabs though, and there have been others; the chief developer of Mabox (a Polish distro that is based on Manjaro) used to post here too, though I haven't seen him here recently and don't know whether or not he still does.

In other news; CalciumSodium (a poster on the AntiX forums) has put together an iso based on AntiX but upgraded to the Sid repositories and with a few modifications to increase its security (for example, the two browsers it includes are Librewolf and Ungoogled Chromium with UBlock Origin).

It uses IceWM as its default window manager though the other two that AntiX normally comes with, JWM and Fluxbox, are also available. It's a 2.1 GB download, which is quite big for an AntiX spinoff.

I've been trying it out today and it works well; though I'm not enamoured with the all-black wallpaper, that is of course easily changed.

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Sector11 · 2024-09-06 14:11:08

You're welcome CP. It's nice to know that the ARCH form mentality does not apply to all ARCH users.

My D-hopping days are over. I like stability.

shortarcflyer · 2024-09-06 15:50:06

Since ArchBang will soon be a distro of the past, I replaced it with another Arch based distro. RebornOS with openbox window manager now resides where ArchBang once was.

Colonel Panic · 2024-09-06 16:18:27

Sector11 wrote:

You're welcome CP. It's nice to know that the ARCH form mentality does not apply to all ARCH users.
My D-hopping days are over. I like stability.

Good for you! It seems that my own distro-hopping days aren't over yet though I don't "hop" as often as I used to.

I'm lucky enough to have a hard drive with 500 GB of space, so it almost seems a waste to only have one distro on it, and it came with Mint already on it which I still use. I can't see myself going too far from Debian in some form or other for most of my computing needs though because it does so many things right - for one thing, you can upgrade it (especially Debian Stable) and be pretty confident that nothing will break and everything will still work afterwards.

Döbbie03 · 2024-09-06 18:31:47

Colonel Panic wrote:

I seem to be one of the few people here who's never really got on board with Arch. It's just too difficult to update without breaking something, and the user's forum is also notoriously unfriendly and intolerant of fools - or those its regulars consider to be fools.
When I was posting on the ArchBang forum, we were all told not to post any questions about ArchBang on the main Arch forum because its users wouldn't appreciate it. IMO, it's that kind of pettiness that puts newbies off trying a Linux distro.

Yeah, the superiority is high at the Arch Forums, which is really unfounded as the distro isn't that difficult to install.
I think you will find the majority of Arch users are all pretty friendly, as it is with most things, it's the loud minority that ruin it for the rest of us.

Pinhead · 2024-09-06 20:04:39

Fedora 41 Gnome 47 alfa

dhalgren · 2024-09-06 21:41:14

@Sector11 and @Colonel Panic:

Ditto on Arch, though I did try Archbang for a while, but found the learning curve a little too much (laziness, not difficulty, I have to admit.)

I began on Mandrake and Suse because I wouldn't install Debian, knowing nothing about linux at the time. (I knew only that I loathed Windows, even though I continue to keep it installed for those all too frequent moments when my adult sons want to use my computer, though even they are beginning to boot into BL these days). That was around 2001 and I distro hopped madly until I found Crunchbang via Ubuntu forums, and have been there and here since, with no self-perceived need to try anything new.

I even tried Slackware, but no, laziness about learning struck again, and provided me with a quiet giggle.

None the less, I thoroughy enjy reading this thread. It keeps me up to date with some of what is happening, which is good.

Sector11 · 2024-09-07 03:02:53

dhalgren wrote:

@Sector11 and @Colonel Panic:
{snip snip}
None the less, I thoroughy enjy reading this thread. It keeps me up to date with some of what is happening, which is good.

Yea, that me too. I like reading this thread.
And I remember having 3 HHD's and 5 distros here.

unklar · 2024-09-07 12:07:49

Build Debian ISO's yourself
https://linuxnews.de/debian-live-iso-selbst-bauen/
https://fai-project.org/FAIme/

source wrote:

Simple configuration
First you choose between basic and advanced configuration. In the first case, you can first define user. Password, localization and desktop can be defined. FAI.me builds images for both stable and testing. The desktop environment can also be specified. Care should be taken when selecting additional packages to be installed. If a package is specified that is not available in the selected suite, the installation will fail after a few minutes. An immediate check at the start of the build would be desirable here.
The option to include backports only works with Stable, but is also offered when selecting Testing. However, the build process does not fail because of this. Furthermore, developer tools, a web server, Open-SSH and non-free Linux firmware can be included by ticking the box. The firmware tick is particularly important when using the latest hardware.

I have just created a trixie/Lxde live iso, downloaded it and put it on the stick with dd.
First experience:
-works perfectly on the computer on which the ISO is created (this was a laptop)
the resolution is not correct on the desktop

But, you don't have to put it on a USB stick first, you can also install it on the first partition if you wish.

Colonel Panic · 2024-09-12 14:05:29

Exton has just uploaded a new version of his CruxEX live distro, which is based on Crux but specially modified with extra software and to be able to run as a live disk. I'm posting from it now and looking forward to installing it to a live disk and seeing how I get on with adding additional programs to it; like most Exton distros / respins it doesn't come with an office suite.

Be warned though; a beginner's distro it really isn't (although Exton's version is a bit more user friendly than the original Crux). With its ports system it's more like one of the BSDs than another Linux distro; in fact, I suspect that for some of its users that's the attraction.

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Colonel Panic · 2024-09-15 18:36:05

A much easier one today; Calcium Sodium on the AntiX forums has recently released a respin of AntiX based on Debian Unstable and with several tweaks to make it more security conscious - for example there's Libre Wolf instead of Firefox, and Chromium comes in the "Ungoogled" version. It also has a number of different inits installed to choose from at bootup.

Here's the link in case anyone's interested;

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic … id-respin/

First impressions are favourable; although it's a bit plain visually you can always add a good wallpaper. One thing to bear in mind though is that being based on the unstable version of Debian there are more updates necessary than on the standard version of AntiX based on Debian Stable.

[Edit: the internet connection has failed for some reason. Will reinstall later and try and figure out what was going on.]

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