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g33zr · 2016-03-02 19:38:15

Oh, this is easy! Just install Archey and Screenfetch as a test.

Users-iMac:~ 21$ brew install archey
==> Downloading https://github.com/obihann/archey-osx/archive/1.5.2.tar.gz
==> Downloading from https://codeload.github.com/obihann/archey-osx/tar.gz/1.5.2
######################################################################## 100.0%
?  /usr/local/Cellar/archey/1.5.2: 5 files, 30.3K, built in 1 second
Users-iMac:~ 21$ archey

                 ###                  User: 21
               ####                   Hostname: Users-iMac.home
               ###                    Distro: OS X 10.11.3
       #######    #######             Kernel: Darwin
     ######################           Uptime:  6:41
    #####################             Shell: /bin/bash
    ####################              Terminal: xterm-256color Apple Terminal
    ####################              CPU: Intel Core2 Duo CPU E7600 @ 3.06GHz
    #####################             Memory: 12 GB
     ######################           Disk: 27%
      ####################            Battery: ?
        ################              
         ####     #####

Snap · 2016-03-03 05:10:09

Snap wrote:

I finally decided to give MX15 a go. Great stuff. I think I have a new favorite when someone coming from win or mac asks me to install something else in his/her old creeping lappy. Previously I used to install some flavor of Linux Mint or SolydXK. From now on MX15 will be it.

Sorry to quote myself... but tested the last SolydXK isos yesterday and wow! Arjen keeps developing at his best. This is the best Linux newcomer distro. MX15 is great, indeed, but both SolydX and SolydK are stunning.

And BTW, I'm a WM junkie. Don't want to use desktops, but every time I cross my way with Dolphin I'm really tempted to switch back to KDE. Won't do it, I don't want anything that Plasma has to offer, but Dolphin is my favorite file manager ever.

nobody0 · 2016-03-03 09:42:20

Downloaded Solus 1.1. It booted live in uefi laptop. The scrots are here; https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 818#p20818

el_koraco · 2016-03-03 10:34:40

I'm not hating the GTK theme.

photonucleon · 2016-03-03 10:43:01

g33zr wrote:

Oh, this is easy! Just install Archey and Screenfetch as a test.

Users-iMac:~ 21$ brew install archey
==> Downloading https://github.com/obihann/archey-osx/archive/1.5.2.tar.gz
==> Downloading from https://codeload.github.com/obihann/archey-osx/tar.gz/1.5.2
######################################################################## 100.0%
?  /usr/local/Cellar/archey/1.5.2: 5 files, 30.3K, built in 1 second
Users-iMac:~ 21$ archey

                 ###                  User: 21
               ####                   Hostname: Users-iMac.home
               ###                    Distro: OS X 10.11.3
       #######    #######             Kernel: Darwin
     ######################           Uptime:  6:41
    #####################             Shell: /bin/bash
    ####################              Terminal: xterm-256color Apple Terminal
    ####################              CPU: Intel Core2 Duo CPU E7600 @ 3.06GHz
    #####################             Memory: 12 GB
     ######################           Disk: 27%
      ####################            Battery: ?
        ################              
         ####     #####

Yay!

ratcheer · 2016-03-03 13:47:21

I also downloaded Solus-project 1.1. I have run the live ISO, but haven't decided whether to install it. It's a real beauty, though!

Tim

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Snap · 2016-03-04 07:46:52

ostrolek wrote:

Downloaded Solus 1.1

Ah, yes, Solus. always in the list but never tried it. I should, besides it looks too gnomey to me LOL.

EDIT: Done. Downloading. Let's see what's in.

Last edited by Snap (2016-03-04 07:52:25)

ratcheer · 2016-03-04 14:22:52

Yes, it is very Gnomey.

Tim

nobody0 · 2016-03-04 18:46:52

Anyone tried the newest KDE Plasma Desktop 5.5?

Snap · 2016-03-05 07:07:32

Being playing with Solus yesterday. It's actually nice, fast and easy on the RAM, but as expected, too gnomey. Not my thing. The packages collection seems to be pretty limited. The most popular programs are there, but compared to the huge Debian repos... I'm missing stuff.

Anyone tried the newest KDE Plasma Desktop 5.5?

Yes, a few times. Personally I prefer KDE4. It feels very windoze for good or bad. Also it doesn't seem to be as modular as they said it will be when they where developing and announcing KF5. I have in mind trying Kwin standalone. It seems now it's possible without pulling in half KDE, maybe only a quarter, LOL.

nobody0 · 2016-03-05 15:43:40

^ I have Xfce with Kwin on Debian. Was on KDE4, but upgrade moved it to KDE5.

About the Windoze feel, every distro has that Windoze feel/look, some like 3.1, some like XP, some like Vista, and some like Win7, except Gnome 3 and Unity. Some never grow from the 3.1 look/feel.

Windoze 8 moved away from Win7 look and now Win10 is hard to match by any Linux distros. Tried Unity, Fedora Gnome 3 and Kubuntu 16.04 on a touch screen. Gnome 3 is somewhat ok, but sooo far away from Win10.

Some say Bodhi Linux can run on touch screens. Must try one day.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-03-06 19:10:24

I'm now dual-booting Arch [testing] and OpenBSD-current on my UEFI Intel Haswell laptop

The OpenBSD-current installer now fully supports automagical UEFI installation to GPT disks so it looks like OpenBSD 5.9 will work well on such systems when it's released in April

Unfortunately, it places the .efi loader at the default loader location that I like to use for systemd-boot so I have to drop to a shell before & after snapshot upgrades to preserve my bootmanager set up.

I copied $ESP/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (the OpenBSD UEFI bootloader) to $ESP/openbsd.efi then made this entry for my Arch systemd-boot bootmanager to start it:

# $ESP/loader/entries/openbsd.conf
title OpenBSD
efi /openbsd.efi

5.9 is looking like it's going to be an awesome release, my systems are rock solid and very lightweight -- they make Arch look a little bit bloated...
8)

Snap · 2016-03-07 07:49:03

^ Looking forward for the release.

Thanks for the dualboot tips. This time will try it on bare metal.

Last edited by Snap (2016-03-07 07:51:11)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-03-07 08:07:06

Snap wrote:

Thanks for the dualboot tips

You're welcome

For UEFI installation on GPT disks, use gdisk [1] to make a new partition of type "a600", this will create an OpenBSD disklabel for the installer.

When booting the installer, use the miniroot59.fs image (the netinstall ISO) and select the "OpenBSD Area" in the partitioning stage (this will be the default choice).

The installer will detect the pre-existing EFI system partition ($ESP) and will assign it to the /dev/sd0i slice and copy the UEFI bootloader to the default loader location at $ESP/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI

In Debian UEFI systems, the ESP is mounted to /boot/efi so the OpenBSD .efi loader will be found at /boot/efi/EFI/BOOTX64.EFI

[1] Unfortunately, the jessie version of gdisk cannot make OpenBSD disklabels

Only the version in testing/unstable can do this.

EDIT: Note that the current snapshots installer will only install UEFI systems on disks with a GUID partition table and it needs a pre-existing EFI system partition (this can be created with fdisk(8) from the installer shell); MBR-style disks can only have non-UEFI systems installed.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-03-07 08:13:33)

Eraph · 2016-03-07 22:56:22

Well, already I am getting itchy feet again. I've had a lot of fun tinkering with BunsenLabs but I'm realising it's a lot of work to maintain it - every time a program is installed, there are extra steps to ensure it's accessible from menus, etc. So I'm currently downloading Debian XFCE edition. My reasoning being that XFCE is supposed to be a super lightweight desktop, so I'm hoping to strike that balance between low resource usage and straight-forward maintenence. Either way, Debian is the base distro I'm after for sure.
Mint got me away from Windows, BunsenLabs got me away from Mint. So I hope I'll still be welcome here

tknomanzr · 2016-03-08 00:51:19

It is possible to use auto-updating menus in openbox. Most of us seem to prefer manually updating menus however. I, for one, find it slows me way down on the creation of cruft as I generally give more consideration to whether I want to mess with the details prior to installing stuff. Of course, my preferences for apps are for the most part set and I don't find myself experimenting with them near as much as I did in the past.

hhh · 2016-03-08 03:28:29

xfce4-appfinder --collapsed --disable-server is awesome with openbox and it auto-updates when programs get installed. You can trim your right-click menu enormously as a result.

That being said, I love Xfce and have a bunch of suggestions if you want to PM me. If your using jessie, though, I recommend a mate/xfce hybrid setup. I'll do a HowTo this week, that might be worthwhile.

Eraph · 2016-03-08 03:55:05

Interesting, how does the hybrid work? Components from each DE? What are the strengths from each? I'll look into xfce4-appfinder, cheers!

Snap · 2016-03-08 07:04:57

@ HoaS. thanks for the extras. I'll take a good note of this.

@ hhh, I'm all ears. Really interested in that hybrid.

Eraph · 2016-03-08 10:53:09

Well I had a quick blast at Debian Xfce, couldn't shake the feeling that it wasn't quite right, and I've actually found myself back in BunsenLabs already. I can make this work! Just need a bit more patience, some more configurin'... maybe just to get tint2 up to my liking. And some nicer Conky configs for sure
I'll tell you what I do like though, this segregated taskbar, where my icons are split according to the desktop it is on. It seems like such an obvious thing, and it works so well.

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