Distro-hoppers anonymous

jmr · 2015-11-24 00:04:40

I was using Manjaro for awhile after attempting unsuccessfully to install Mageia. The older hardware I am using was too slow with the Manjaro KDE desktop. Switched it out for a dual boot of lubuntu (for ease of use with school work) and BL. Working excellently so far.

ratcheer · 2015-11-24 14:03:22

Well, all of a sudden, openSUSE Leap is running just fine, again. I will stick with it as long as it's reasonably (heh heh) reliable, because I already have a bunch of stuff set up to my liking. KDE 5 is pretty nice, too.

Tim

jalexander9 · 2015-11-25 00:08:36

I like openSuSE as well. I use it on my laptop most of the time.

Panda · 2015-11-25 17:17:16

I'm pretty faithful and stay close to home, my days of straying are over..

BunsenLabs w/ Openbox & Pekwm.. For that sporty feel.

Mint 17.2 Rafaela w/ Cinnamon & Openbox.. For the luxury cruise with the top down.

They both are simply beautiful in their own way and actually, well.. Work.

MAC the Bloody · 2015-11-25 18:59:23

@Panda Mint is pretty nice if I'm being honest. I support a handful of people who are running it so last night before I went to sleep I set up 2 VMs with the 17.3 beta releases. One with Mate and one with Cinnamon.

I'll be playing with those for a few days to give them a good thrashing. So far they are living up to the usual Mint standards. Very nice.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-11-25 19:04:00

empty@OpenBSD ~ % uname -a
OpenBSD OpenBSD 5.8 GENERIC.MP#1649 amd64

Oh yeah

What a brilliant operating system -- it's all so simple.

For example: to get my wireless connection working, I simply added 3 lines to /etc/hostname.iwn0

nwid <SSID>
wpakey <super secret pasword>
dhcp

That's it.

Beautiful

EDIT: rc.conf FTW!

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iMBeCil · 2015-11-25 19:41:24

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

For example: to get my wireless connection working, I simply added 3 lines to /etc/hostname.iwn0
nwid <SSID>
wpakey <super secret pasword>
dhcp
That's it.
Beautiful

Bollocks
How's that different from the following (in Debian, in /etc/network/interfaces):

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
	wpa-ssid SSID
	wpa-psk <super secret pasword>

However, I can relate to this below (being FreeBSD user since 1995 ... or 1994, can't really remember):

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

EDIT: rc.conf FTW!

nobody0 · 2015-11-25 20:32:50

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

empty@OpenBSD ~ % uname -a
OpenBSD OpenBSD 5.8 GENERIC.MP#1649 amd64
Oh yeah
What a brilliant operating system -- it's all so simple.
For example: to get my wireless connection working, I simply added 3 lines to /etc/hostname.iwn0
nwid <SSID>
wpakey <super secret pasword>
dhcp
That's it.
Beautiful
EDIT: rc.conf FTW!

I'm sure going to try this one day. Maybe, you'd write a how-to on OpenBSD, HoaS?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-11-25 20:34:59

ostrolek wrote:

Maybe, you'd write a how-to on OpenBSD, HoaS?

No need for that, the on-system documentation is absolutely first-rate

For anything not covered by the superbly detailed and well written man pages, see the FAQ:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-11-25 20:39:32

iMBeCil wrote:

Bollocks

I beg your pardon?

iMBeCil wrote:

How's that different from the following (in Debian, in /etc/network/interfaces):
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
	wpa-ssid SSID
	wpa-psk <super secret pasword>

OK, fair point but I do find the OpenBSD version that bit easier.

Another (better) example is doas(1), OpenBSD's `sudo` replacement.

Here is my complete configuration file for doas(1):

# /etc/doas.conf
permit keepenv empty as root

I think I will take that over /etc/sudoers any day of the week

nobody0 · 2015-11-25 20:39:51

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

ostrolek wrote:
Maybe, you'd write a how-to on OpenBSD, HoaS?
No need for that, the on-system documentation is absolutely first-rate
For anything not covered by the superbly detailed and well written man pages, see the FAQ:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html

Thanks for the link.

iMBeCil · 2015-11-25 21:24:10

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

iMBeCil wrote:
Bollocks
I beg your pardon?

Bollocks - yet another word I have happily (once more) absorbed watching reruns of an excellent TV series Cracker. ]:D

It was related to relation between my comment 'Debian ...' against your comment 'Beautiful' ... hm ... 8o 8o

Panda · 2015-11-26 02:58:57

@Anaconda,

I haven't yet played with 17.3 but from what I've read, looks like many improvements (Update man. and task bar goodies). When I get a little extra time, I'll have to grab a copy and give it a spin.

Temetka · 2015-11-26 09:04:42

I took a look at the Netrunner distro that's mentioned earlier in this thread. It looks pretty nice.

Someone else also mentioned Mint. That was my goto distro for years and prior to that it was SuSE. I can highly recommend Mint to people who want a 'buntu derivitive without Unity. I'm paartial to KDE myself. Now if there was an OpenBox Mint, that might be sorely tempting to try out.

apacus11 · 2015-11-26 12:21:53

After reading first 2 pages, I installed VB on my desktop PC and started testing again. I'm a happy Elementary OS user for two years now, but always curious about other Debian-based distros. Now testing Fedora with gnome and the Mint flavours.

Also, installed Simplice on my old netbook after reading your good words. Of course, BL has always a partition on my netbook

Snap · 2015-11-27 08:33:27

@ Temetka: have you tried SolydXK? It derived from LMDE for the KDE and XFCE desktops not offered by Mint. So kinda Mint on Debian. . I made my own re-spins with OpenBox or Fluxbox starting from SolydX and a Razor-Qt spin starting from SolydK. They have a iso builder tool for that. The community mantains isos based on testing too, if you want to roll.

Temetka · 2015-11-28 10:52:55

Snap wrote:

@ Temetka: have you tried SolydXK? It derived from LMDE for the KDE and XFCE desktops not offered by Mint. So kinda Mint on Debian. . I made my own re-spins with OpenBox or Fluxbox starting from SolydX and a Razor-Qt spin starting from SolydK. They have a iso builder tool for that. The community mantains isos based on testing too, if you want to roll.

Nope. Never heard of it.

I don't really distro hop anymore. Once I find a distro I tend to stick with it until either it dies or I find something better. If I have time though, I might setup a VM to check it out. Thanks for letting me know about it.

Temetka · 2015-11-28 12:05:24

I threw it in a VM and checked it out for about 30 minutes or so.

I really like that they offer to install a few extra apps after the install, along with a picture of the app and short description of it. That is very, very cool.

I do not miss KDE. I thought it would be cool to use again. I was wrong. OpenBox won me over.

Overall with my short time in it, it seems like a nice distro. I'll keep the VM laying around to tinker with I guess.

Panda · 2015-11-28 17:05:07

Temetka wrote:

I do not miss KDE.

Agreed. I know some people absolutely love KDE but I never even came close to catching that bug. It's just too.. (I don't know, it's Saturday). It's just too.. Too.

Döbbie03 · 2015-11-28 17:08:06

I like KDE and I will use it for a period of time, but I always come back to Gnome Shell.

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