Distro-hoppers anonymous

altman · 2024-09-28 12:47:26

Well , I would think that I m back to my distro-hopping craze from years ago ! lol

I m back on MX-Linux FluxBox which has NVidia support out-of-the-box which is very convenient to me.

Looks pretty fast I must say, installed XanMod kernel, surprise-surprise !

Add/Removed apps as usual, loads of them as it seems to help with different peeps I would guess.

hhh · 2024-09-28 16:30:24

Cosmic DE Alpha 2...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 19#p138519

Colonel Panic · 2024-10-03 14:31:00

New versions of Manjaro have just come out. I've downloaded and just installed the XFce version and so far it's working well; I had a few problems with my internet connection with the one I downloaded at the beginning of the year (sometimes there simply wasn't any connection, or it would start and later stop).

Edit; more problems I'm afraid, you have to be ultra-careful when using the boot-up menu or it will freeze and you have to switch the computer off and start again. I ended up installing an old version of AntiX into a different partition (goodbye Crunchbang++) to have a working boot menu again.

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altman · 2024-10-06 17:30:46

Well , bet my distro-hopping craze s back ! lol

Back to ArchCraft after a little stint on CachyOS.

Sector11 · 2024-10-06 21:05:06

Linux people go distro hopping.
Windows people go window shopping.

OK OK I'm leaving.

hhh · 2024-10-07 01:11:29

BSD users go window...

Sector11 · 2024-10-07 03:22:59

hhh wrote:

BSD users go window...

hhh · 2024-10-07 03:45:20

Yeah, I didn't know how to finish it. I guess BSD users go back to California? BSD users go Windows/iOS/Playstation?

Sector11 · 2024-10-07 14:41:22

I was thinking:
BSD people are Bogus System Direction

Martin · 2024-10-07 16:06:54

Hmm, I would like to try some BSD out some day.

/Martin

Colonel Panic · 2024-10-07 20:08:10

Me too. I've seen people like Anthony Campbell (the author who writes on medical and religious subjects) say that he uses OpenBSD exclusively now after a time with Linux.

Unfortunately the BSDs aren't easy to try out; I had a go with GhostBSD a while back and it ended in farce. There are very few live BSD disks to try, and if you want to install FreeBSD you have to reserve a whole hard drive for it.

I remember there was a distro a while back that tried to use FreeBSD as a base, but eventually gave up saying they found too many problems with it and they now base their work on Void instead.

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PackRat · 2024-10-07 21:17:43

Colonel Panic wrote:

I remember there was a distro a while back that tried to use FreeBSD as a base, but eventually gave up saying they found too many problems with it and they now base their work on Void instead.

That was the Trident project. I think that project is abandoned now

Colonel Panic · 2024-10-07 21:30:02

Thanks, that was the one! I didn't know it had been abandoned though, that is a shame.

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Colonel Panic · 2024-10-09 18:16:25

I've just downloaded Sleeper OS, a Spanish distro which is based on AntiX but using the Trinity desktop (though I believe others are available), and so far it's working OK.

[Spoke too soon; Grub broke and there's no sound. I expect it's all fixable but for now I've put it all to one side and installed Bento, a spinoff of AntiX with OpenBox as the window manager, which has a Grub installer that actually works. Looks very nice too.]

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Colonel Panic · 2024-10-12 11:57:12

Tried a minimal version of a distro I've long been wanting to try, a Polish RedHat clone called Euro Linux, and to say I was disappointed was a major understatement; everything went wrong in spades (I'd better not say how how badly wrong in case the company wants to sue me). I find it quite funny now actually.

Anyhoo, I wiped the partition and installed AlienBob's version of Slackware instead, which is all working well.

There are no surprises with Slackware, you know what you're going to get. Quite frequently in Slack on my machine either the sound or the internet goes, but everything's fine so far.

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Nili · 2024-10-12 12:01:21

Colonel Panic wrote:

If you want to run Gentoo but don't Have big balls smile a good way of doing it is to download ExGent, a distro created by Exton which is based on Gentoo and uses the KDE desktop environment. It has most of the initial configuration done for you.
I'm posting from it now. Here’s a link to the website;
https://exgent.exton.net/
There's also a live Gentoo disk which has most of the applications you need and allows you to try it out without having to install it (which you can't anyway, unfortunately)..

At the moment i have stopped distro-hops, cause of demotivation, lack of time and moreover i feel comfortable in Tumbleweed. However, it is never said never. Gentoo/based has been a long time wish, if i am going to land in other distro i will not forget your suggestion or other Distributions based on Gentoo.

Colonel Panic · 2024-10-12 12:06:59

Thanks for replying Nili.

Gentoo has a lot of fans in the Linux community because it's one of the few major distros that isn't systemd based, but it's very difficult to work with - definitely not a beginner's distro - and everything takes a lot longer with it than with other distros; Exton says that's why he doesn't release ExGent more often, because it takes so much work.

That list looks very comprehensive and up to date.

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Nili · 2024-10-12 13:02:12

No prob, welcome! Thanks to you for writing and suggesting.

I stoped fighting systemd once left the Dev1 doors. I made a leap from stable Debian-based distro to Tumbleweed rolling without thinking twice about systemd. I used to have a few scripts for sysV, but burned them with ex distro. Nowdays to me systemd isn't a issue while i am at openSUSE.

Appreciate Gentoo for builing from source, i think we must have a strong hardware to build stuff. I'll have difficulties times with it That's why i stayed away, couldn't keep it up all the time. Undoubtedly, gentoo/based distro with their repositories are a lot easier.

I should have been more courageous a decade ago in distros like Gentoo, at that time i was Linux/distro/de-wm hungry.

Currently i am happy with Tumbleweed/KDE, i like the way Tumbleweed handles his newest packages stable as it gets and always updated thanks to their openQA.

Okay, sometimes packman lags behind or goes ahead the official repository. However, have understood how it works and how to deals with it.

DeepDayze · 2024-10-13 15:29:32

Nili wrote:

No prob, welcome! Thanks to you for writing and suggesting.
I stoped fighting systemd once left the Dev1 doors. I made a leap from stable Debian-based distro to Tumbleweed rolling without thinking twice about systemd. I used to have a few scripts for sysV, but burned them with ex distro. Nowdays to me systemd isn't a issue while i am at openSUSE.
Appreciate Gentoo for builing from source, i think we must have a strong hardware to build stuff. I'll have difficulties times with it That's why i stayed away, couldn't keep it up all the time. Undoubtedly, gentoo/based distro with their repositories are a lot easier.
I should have been more courageous a decade ago in distros like Gentoo, at that time i was Linux/distro/de-wm hungry.
Currently i am happy with Tumbleweed/KDE, i like the way Tumbleweed handles his newest packages stable as it gets and always updated thanks to their openQA.
Okay, sometimes packman lags behind or goes ahead the official repository. However, have understood how it works and how to deals with it.

Got to play with Opensuse a bit and packman is something akin to the Arch AUR...it's certainly hit or miss at times.

Colonel Panic · 2024-10-13 17:29:27

Another tool you might find useful when you're running OpenSUSE is opi.

I've found that opi is a good tool for adding packages to OpenSUSE that aren't in the standard repositories; I've added strawberry, qalculate and other packages to it that way. I've had problems getting it to work in Tumbleweed though (less so in Leap, which is the one I normally use), but it is at least worth a try IMO.

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 89#p126289

https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comme … ally_cool/

[Edit: there's also Gecko, a distro which is based on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed but with media codecs and some extra software added, and also OpSys, Exton's spin on Tumbleweed but I haven't tried that one so can't vouch for it.]

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