#2741 2026-01-20 14:27:14

unklar

Back to the roots 1.9

From: #! BL

Registered: 2015-10-31

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Haven't really changed my setup in years.  The only difference in this one is it's hyprland with eww instead of awesomewm that I normally use.  The performance is a lot better than X11 on my ThinkPad.  I'm planning on porting my eww setup to quickshell which is in my repos too but haven't gotten around to it yet.

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 29#p147529

^^@cog did it was done. He released his ISO with hyprland and quickshell on 2026-01-17. 
https://hatcherylinux.org/download/

It makes the usual good impression on 'Metal'.
It can be installed with calamares or the debian installer. I chose my trusted Expert installation because of my multi-setup.

Setting the language for the programs was a bit tricky. I already mistrusted the installer and then found the necessary setting in ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES it ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf

env = ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT,auto

@cog, if you read that, maybe you should already do this setting in the iso. New users then don’t need to search. 

At the moment I can't get any screenshots. Only empty .png files are created. 
And I haven't bothered with the 'quickshell' yet either.

Big thanks to @cog.

MarkW

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Eww is not a name that inspires confidence

hhh

Gaucho

From: High in the Custerdome

Registered: 2015-09-17

Posts: 16,638

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

^ *laughs in Guh-NOME*

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Colonel Panic

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Registered: 2018-11-13

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Extrox 2.1, which is heavily based on MX XFce but with the Compiz compositing manager added in, has just come out and looks very promising. By combining XFce with Compiz, its devs aim to provide a desktop environment which has much of the flexibility of Plasma but which is much lighter in its resource demands. The devs have also made some tweaks to the distro's audio output too, in the hope of getting better sound quality on playback.

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hhh

Gaucho

From: High in the Custerdome

Registered: 2015-09-17

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

^ What's the custom audio-filter thingy?

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Colonel Panic

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Registered: 2018-11-13

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Thanks for replying, but I honestly don't know hhh. I tried to read what the devs said about it but gave up.

Here's an article about it thoUgh (and even the reviewer admits that the choice of tools can be overwhelming);

https://www.zdnet.com/article/extrox-di … ultimedia/

The only yardstick I;m goiNg to use is a straightforward one of playing piEces of music through Extrox and then through a standard distro, and see which oine I like better. Full marks to the devs for trying, though.