Distro-hoppers anonymous

shadowplay · 2015-11-03 22:31:43

Dobbie03 wrote:

I used to do a reinstall of different distros at least once a week.

This sounds *very* familiar!

Although, tbh, i've calmed down in the last few years. I have a soft spot for openSUSE and usually give each new release a try-out.

MAC the Bloody · 2015-11-04 00:57:27

I used to distro hop a lot and tried just about everything I could get my hands on. Some time around 3-4 years ago I noticed I'm only doing Debian and derivitives. I like it's style of package management and have become comfortable with it.

It seems I'm more interested these days in WM hopping. Trying different desktop configurations and different combinations of apps seems to be the thing that keeps me going. My latest is Sid with icewm. Had not run icewm in quite a long while so it was time to have another look.

nobody0 · 2015-11-04 06:44:23

New player in the Openbox world http://architectlinux.boardhost.com/vie … 1722#p1722

pa$$word · 2015-11-04 06:55:30

^^Me too. Have settled on Debian stable with x-less CentOS.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-11-04 07:43:54

ostrolek wrote:

http://architectlinux.boardhost.com/vie … 1722#p1722

apparent demise of Archbang

That's a shame, I liked ArchBang.

EDIT: Downloading pacbang now

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Snap · 2015-11-04 07:44:01

ostrolek wrote:

New player in the Openbox world http://architectlinux.boardhost.com/vie … 1722#p1722

And the saga continues....

How many #! inspired distros and distrolettes out there?

That's a shame, I liked ArchBang.

Me too. The forums seemed dead (or a desert land) since a while ago. I guess the lack of interest killed it.

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nobody0 · 2015-11-04 08:38:36

There was CTKArch, don't know what happened to it.

g33zr · 2015-11-04 13:24:07

A former #!er who goes by VastOne went on to create and maintain Vsido, which I've run both on VB and on metal. If you like Fluxbox and Sid, you'll like Vsido!

pa$$word · 2015-11-04 13:44:54

http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?id=5510

Snap · 2015-11-04 22:59:22

^I truly wish them good luck. It's not easy keeping alive a rolling distro. Something like #! (or BL) based on stable snapshots has better chances to survive IMHO.

If you like Fluxbox and Sid, you'll like Vsido!

+1. It has been my true love for almost a year. Now I run my own stripped down version of it. But It's all due to Vsido and VastOne. Credit where it belongs.

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g33zr · 2015-11-16 20:22:56

A few Manjaro folks have been chatting about Netrunner, so I thought I'd give it a spin in VB on both my PCs. Unfortunately, the ISO weighs in at 2.1 GB and runs ooooohhhhhhhh-sooooooooooo-slooooooooooooooooooowlyon my aging iMac. It's not much faster on my newer laptop. Well, so much for that. I haven't played with Debian for a while and am downloading that as I type.

Snap · 2015-11-16 23:34:04

Netrunner uses KDE, IIRC. You need to tweak it to make it fast. I don't remember it slow, but not specially snappy either.

pa$$word · 2015-11-17 04:49:41

Installed CentOS 5. This is not the future of Linux.

g33zr · 2015-11-17 13:24:14

@ Snap: Yes, I know that Netrunner uses KDE and I tweaked the RAM before installing it in VB. It was still too slow for my taste. Am now running Debian with a cinnamon DE, which zips along fine.

jalexander9 · 2015-11-21 20:09:07

I have read a few comments regarding Manjaro, and also, Fluxbox, so I gave it a quick spin Friday night. Manjaro Fluxbox 15.10.

Impressive Menu options allow Non-free drivers on the first install selection. I need these drivers on some of my oldest hardware, so that was nice.

Lightweight in general and uses a Pale Moon Web Browser, something I never used before.

Fluxbox looks and feels just like Openbox so that was also nice. Overall good!

Temetka · 2015-11-22 04:48:47

I just tried the latest Ubuntu 15.04 the other day from a live USB on my work OptiPlex.

I was rather impressed. Other than a lack of being able to plays ome video's out of the box, it was snappy and stupidly easy to use. I had to google nothing. I can totally see why this would be a good grandma OS.

That being said, I'm still using BL.

nobody0 · 2015-11-22 09:33:59

You might try this out, http://linuxvillage.org/en/telechargements/ , a Openbox, Ubuntu based distro created by Melodie, a French woman. Very snappy!

ratcheer · 2015-11-22 13:11:09

The new openSUSE Leap has been very flaky for me. Sometimes it boots up and runs great. Other times, with no changes, it boots to a black screen where I can't do anything else. One night, it booted to the black screen about five times, and I was sure I was going to have to give up on it. A couple of days later, I tried it to see if I could do any troubleshooting, and everything came up as if nothing had ever been wrong. Very confusing.

So, I'm starting to think about Fedora 23 Gnome as my secondary system, but IDK.

Tim

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Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-11-23 07:58:21

CRUX 3.2 is out

https://crux.nu/Main/ReleaseNotes3-2

g33zr · 2015-11-23 16:31:00

@Ratcheer: I ran Fedora Gnome for a spell earlier this year and liked it. Unfortunately, I can no longer remember why I switched ....

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