Distro-hoppers anonymous

PackRat · 2025-05-14 20:18:33

DeepDayze wrote:

Lilidog was a nice little distro and shame Sleek couldn't keep it going and here's hope he can regain his health.

sleekmason is doing ok; putting in a vegetable garden.

Sector11 · 2025-05-17 02:20:55

PackRat wrote:

DeepDayze wrote:
Lilidog was a nice little distro and shame Sleek couldn't keep it going and here's hope he can regain his health.
sleekmason is doing ok; putting in a vegetable garden.

That's awesome news.

unklar · 2025-05-18 14:40:17

Thanks to a hint from @PackRat I installed ‘gila’ from @cog.

This ISO was released on 2025-05-07 and comes with awesome. I didn't think conky and the transparency of his window would be so tricky on this WM, i.e. I had to ‘read up’ first.

But, actually, everything that conky does can be solved right away with awesome's rc.lua...

ratcheer · 2025-05-19 12:50:19

I use awesome with Arch Linux. I have grown to love it.

shortarcflyer · 2025-05-20 00:12:54

ratcheer wrote:

I use awesome with Arch Linux. I have grown to love it.

Pretty much anything works great on Arch Linux or Arch based distros.

hhh · 2025-05-20 00:53:38

How are their upgrades these days? Many stories back when of upgrades crashing the system.

johnraff · 2025-05-20 06:48:14

shortarcflyer wrote:

ratcheer wrote:
I use awesome with Arch Linux. I have grown to love it.
Pretty much anything works great on Arch Linux or Arch based distros.

@shortarcflyer you like Arch Linux I guess?

shortarcflyer · 2025-05-20 15:05:40

hhh wrote:

How are their upgrades these days? Many stories back when of upgrades crashing the system.

Upgrades have been okay as of late. Yes, upgrades in the past did cause issues but, as of late things seem to go off without a hitch.

shortarcflyer · 2025-05-20 15:09:17

johnraff wrote:

shortarcflyer wrote:
ratcheer wrote:
I use awesome with Arch Linux. I have grown to love it.
Pretty much anything works great on Arch Linux or Arch based distros.
@shortarcflyer you like Arch Linux I guess?

Yes I like Arch based distros, some independant distros and only a few debian based distros.

shortarcflyer · 2025-05-23 18:50:28

Trying out this Debian based distro named LOC-OS installed on a spare laptop. Lxde DE but I am running it on openbox window manager. It is fairly low on resource usuage though a bit heavy on "stock" installed +packages. Not bad for a Debian distro and am kinda liking so far and may wind up keeping it installed if nothing else than to play with it. One of only few a Debian based distros that I actually like with antiX and Crowz also being in the group. You can find it here: https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=locos and here: https://loc-os.com/

PackRat · 2025-05-23 20:16:51

shortarcflyer wrote:

Trying out this Debian based distro named LOC-OS installed on a spare laptop. Lxde DE but I am running it on openbox window manager. It is fairly low on resource usuage though a bit heavy on "stock" installed +packages. Not bad for a Debian distro and am kinda liking so far and may wind up keeping it installed if nothing else than to play with it. One of only few a Debian based distros that I actually like with antiX and Crowz also being in the group. You can find it here: https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=locos and here: https://loc-os.com/
https://i.postimg.cc/XGsq7gpG/locos-Screenshot-from-2025-05-23-11-08-48.png
https://i.postimg.cc/rRzmdtrh/locos-Screenshot-from-2025-05-23-13-25-51.png

This is interesting:

Loc-OS is free and without any telemetry. Includes LibreWolf, browser focused on user privacy.

So it's Devuan?

It is a Debian 12.10 fork, owns SysV init 3.14

MAC the Bloody · 2025-05-25 01:33:40

Is anyone currently running debian testing, and if so what has it been like so far?

I've spent the past 3 years running Manjaro because when I got my new hardware it was the only distro I tried that could see and access my raid array out of the box.

I'm thinking that by now debian may have got that working.

I really would like to return to using debian. It was my favourite distro for many years.

IIRC testing went into freeze recently, so based on my experience with that a few years ago it might be pretty usable at this point for a daily driver.
Can anyone verify?

hhh · 2025-05-25 02:31:46

MAC the Bloody wrote:

Is anyone currently running debian testing, and if so what has it been like so far?
IIRC testing went into freeze recently, so based on my experience with that a few years ago it might be pretty usable at this point for a daily driver.
Can anyone verify?

I've been using it on two partitions since the transitional freeze (3 months ago?). Trixie GNOME Wayland for my daily driver and BL Carbon (xorg) for my testing partition. It's solid. Also, the packages are quite up-to-date. I've had no issues, except for an increased fan usage from a kernel upgrade which was resolved in a couple of days. I dropped back to the previous kernel in the meantime. 10/10 would recommend.

MAC the Bloody · 2025-05-25 03:32:57

hhh wrote:

MAC the Bloody wrote:
Is anyone currently running debian testing, and if so what has it been like so far?
IIRC testing went into freeze recently, so based on my experience with that a few years ago it might be pretty usable at this point for a daily driver.
Can anyone verify?
I've been using it on two partitions since the transitional freeze (3 months ago?). Trixie GNOME Wayland for my daily driver and BL Carbon (xorg) for my testing partition. It's solid. Also, the packages are quite up-to-date. I've had no issues, except for an increased fan usage from a kernel upgrade which was resolved in a couple of days. I dropped back to the previous kernel in the meantime. 10/10 would recommend.

Thanks hhh.

Based on that I'm going to give it a shot.

Going back to debian will be like saying hello to an old friend.

EDIT After going to the debian website to grab a netinstall image I can see that it has progressed to the stage of a release candidate.
It went RC1 one week ago. Downloading now.

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hhh · 2025-05-25 03:39:40

Report back, your thoughts might be useful for our Carbon release.

MAC the Bloody · 2025-05-25 03:47:41

hhh wrote:

Report back, your thoughts might be useful for our Carbon release.

Need to get some sleep but I'll probably install after breakfast tomorrow.

If no issues crop up right away I'll give my impression of it after running for a couple of days.

edited for typo

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PackRat · 2025-05-25 14:17:32

MAC the Bloody wrote:

Is anyone currently running debian testing, and if so what has it been like so far?
I've spent the past 3 years running Manjaro because when I got my new hardware it was the only distro I tried that could see and access my raid array out of the box.
I'm thinking that by now debian may have got that working.
I really would like to return to using debian. It was my favourite distro for many years.
IIRC testing went into freeze recently, so based on my experience with that a few years ago it might be pretty usable at this point for a daily driver.
Can anyone verify?

I was using trixie/sid (hatchery linux) for few weeks without issue. No information regarding raid though.

Colonel Panic · 2025-05-31 07:45:25

I've just installed the 32-bit version of Bunsen and am busy adding programs to it (the choice is more limited than it is for 64-bit, but there are still plenty of options).

Using a 32-bit distro is a bit like driving a 1300 cc car when you're used to a 3 litre - it still gets the job done, but you feel more pinched and restricted because you're limited to just over 3 GB of RAM and some options don't work (I couldn't get Chromium working, for example). Definitely an option for older computers though.

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Colonel Panic · 2025-06-13 22:54:39

I've now installed Exton's spin of Damn Small Linux (DSL-e). It's of course very similar to the original DSL but with LXDE as its desktop manager instead of Fluxbox, and some extra programs added, such as Firefox and VLC, which take the size of the ISO up to 1100 MB.

Still, it works very well and is helping to keep my old machine going.

https://www.exton.se/dsl-e-based-on-dsl … ld-240417/

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johnraff · 2025-06-14 01:39:51

Colonel Panic wrote:

...LXDE as its desktop manager instead of Firefox...

Er, what? What's a "desktop manager" anyway? Whatever, I'm sure Firefox isn't one.

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