Distro-hoppers anonymous

deleted0 · 2020-07-25 03:33:20

MiyoLinux - Devuan - Openbox - 272MiB
DXT2 - Debian - Xfce - 311MiB
GeckoLinux - openSUSE - Plasma - 405MiB
ArcoLinux - Arch - Openbox - 433MiB
HefftorLinux - ArcoLinux - Arch - Xfce - 453MiB
MX Linux - Debian - Plasma - 517MiB
Neon - Ubuntu - Plasma - 534/797MiB
Debian - Plasma - 561MiB ¹
Manjaro - Arch - Xfce/Openbox - 651/355MiB ²
EndevorOS - Arch - Xfce - 656MiB
KaOS - LFS - Plasma - 700MiB
Openstage - Arch - Xfce - 872MiB
Neptune - Debian - Plasma - 878MiB
Manjaro - Arch - Plasma - 1032MiB
Sabayan - Gentoo - Plasma - 1090MiB
Venom - Independent - Xfce - 1465MiB
Solus - Independent - Plasma - 1501/1205MiB ³

Notes:
Where neither screenfetch nor neofetch were installed, I tried to install both.

¹
No video driver

²
Manjaro Openbox free

³
Solus Plasma free

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ohnonot · 2020-07-25 08:39:29

[grumble]
The wonders Virtualbox did for distrohoppers! I still remember when most machines weren't strong enough for that and distrohopping meant at the very least rebooting into a live medium, or having 64 logical partitions to install to bare metal. That was the real stuff, those were the real junkies! Nowadays it's all just Methadone.
[/grumble]

deleted0 · 2020-07-25 08:57:51

^ All of my distrohopping is on real iron. No Virtualbox here. Just doesn't have the same feel.

Test machine:

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Nili · 2020-07-25 10:41:44

Someone (old friend for many) appeared suddenly and i was surprised, i'm glad to read him, haven't seeing posting for quite a long time. I wish best of luck on everything to mb.

He came and posted a few things, but above all i appreciated this.

machinebacon wrote:

The biggest difference between distributions is the package manager. All Linux are more or less the same under the hood. Distrohopping is just an illusion

P.S. Do not misconcept the sentence, i don't think he means do not stop trying other distros certainly.

Nili · 2020-07-25 10:51:14

Alpine Linux - My last experience a month ago, extremely satisfied with the way this system is built.

It boot my old hardware for 8s with 40M ram to a WM. More or less like Debian/Devuan NETINST, the big difference to me was apk versus apt. apk was surprisingly faster.

ohnonot · 2020-07-25 11:00:13

I agree with machinebacon there.
And I would go beyond that: most distros are based on the same distro under the hood.
[ This becomes a real problem when newbies have some hardware problem and unsuccesfully try to solve it by throwing various distros at it - because all these distros are based on Ubuntu, which is what they started with :facepalm: ]

eight.bit.al wrote:

All of my distrohopping is on real iron. No Virtualbox here. Just doesn't have the same feel.

OK, you are a real addict then!
What's that, 20 distros in a week?

PS: I like that vintage note taking appliance you are using!

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glittersloth · 2020-07-25 11:36:44

@Nili
Yeah, great to see him back.

Also, kvm/qemu > oracle molassesbox

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Nili · 2020-07-25 13:22:46

@eight.bit.al I appreciate your efforts to produce statistics for those distros. Well done bro.

@ohnonot I used too many ubuntu-based on my linux starting, i learned many tricks from #!, bbq, also from past and current members.
Sometimes starting badly and improving along the way is not a bad thing.

I agree with you, distro over distro or abuse of various forks for ordinary matters it is not advisable. They're too many already around us.

deleted0 · 2020-07-25 14:17:02

^ Thanks for the kind words.

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DeepDayze · 2020-07-25 15:16:30

My distro hopping I use bare metal too, and I swap hard drives/SSDs for that. True that VBox and VMware just don't give the same feel as bare metal does. I do have a 2nd computer for distro testing (a laptop).

MX Linux seems quite interesting and how can you run Plasma on it without systemd as I thought MX is systemd free like its sister distro AntiX.

BL has been my daily driver for a good while now as it's pretty darn fast with OB and screams on my new Ryzen desktop build.

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DeepDayze · 2020-07-25 15:21:00

ohnonot wrote:

I agree with machinebacon there.
And I would go beyond that: most distros are based on the same distro under the hood.
[ This becomes a real problem when newbies have some hardware problem and unsuccesfully try to solve it by throwing various distros at it - because all these distros are based on Ubuntu, which is what they started with :facepalm: ]
eight.bit.al wrote:
All of my distrohopping is on real iron. No Virtualbox here. Just doesn't have the same feel.

OK, you are a real addict then!
What's that, 20 distros in a week?
PS: I like that vintage note taking appliance you are using!

I can picture 8bit doing many well detailed reviews and tips/tricks on all those distros in his spare time. Now that would be a true distro junkie ]:D ]:D

deleted0 · 2020-07-28 23:09:58

Bullseye 5.7.0-1 - KDE 5.72.0 - Plasma 5.19.4 - Norbert Preining repo

# 

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux bullseye-DI-alpha2 _Bullseye_ - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST 20200315-11:07]/ bullseye main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux bullseye-DI-alpha2 _Bullseye_ - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST 20200315-11:07]/ bullseye main

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main non-free contrib
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free

deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/other-deps/Debian_Testing/ ./
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/frameworks/Debian_Testing/ ./
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/plasma519/Debian_Testing/ ./
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/apps/Debian_Testing/ ./
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/other/Debian_Testing/ ./


# This system was installed using small removable media
# (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"
# entries were disabled at the end of the installation process.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
# see the sources.list(5) manual.

8bit

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hhh · 2020-07-28 23:52:31

Gorgeous, ain't it? Is that via siduction or straight Debian sid? Either way, lovely. 656 RAM is about the same as what I get with Buster cinnamon/gnome-shell. When I had plasma running on buster I was able to trim that RAM a bit more.

DeepDayze · 2020-07-29 01:40:07

eight.bit.al wrote:

Bullseye 5.7.0-1 - KDE 5.72.0 - Plasma 5.19.4 - Norbert Preining repo
https://scrot.cloud/images/2020/07/29/bullseye_plasma.th.png

# 

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux bullseye-DI-alpha2 _Bullseye_ - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST 20200315-11:07]/ bullseye main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux bullseye-DI-alpha2 _Bullseye_ - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST 20200315-11:07]/ bullseye main

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main non-free contrib
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free

deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/other-deps/Debian_Testing/ ./
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/frameworks/Debian_Testing/ ./
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/plasma519/Debian_Testing/ ./
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/apps/Debian_Testing/ ./
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/other/Debian_Testing/ ./


# This system was installed using small removable media
# (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"
# entries were disabled at the end of the installation process.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
# see the sources.list(5) manual.

8bit

Looks quite cool, and how's the latest KDE working? I do plan to try a minimal Plasma build again and will try that repo for the packages.

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deleted0 · 2020-07-29 15:48:20

^ Has issues, Fresh start > plasmashell PID 570 seg fault 11, and SDDM has issues logout/in. Not a daily driver.

@ hhh Siduction

8bit

hhh · 2020-07-29 17:44:54

eight.bit.al wrote:

All of my distrohopping is on real iron. No Virtualbox here. Just doesn't have the same feel.

I agree. Which this post of yours ridiculous or amazing or both!

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 16#p104016

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I've custom themed the cinnamon desktop with Lithium (Arc base), scrots in the scrot thread here...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 37#p104137

I'll probably upload it to GitHub, if anyone is interested.

unklar · 2020-07-29 18:17:19

eight.bit.al wrote:

Bullseye 5.7.0-1 - KDE 5.72.0 - Plasma 5.19.4 - Norbert Preining repo
https://scrot.cloud/images/2020/07/29/b … sma.th.png
hhh wrote:
Gorgeous, ain't it? Is that via siduction or straight Debian sid?

With respect, this is never siduction (or, am I misunderstanding something)

hhh · 2020-07-29 18:23:02

unklar wrote:

eight.bit.al wrote:
Bullseye 5.7.0-1 - KDE 5.72.0 - Plasma 5.19.4 - Norbert Preining repo
https://scrot.cloud/images/2020/07/29/b … sma.th.png
hhh wrote:
Gorgeous, ain't it? Is that via siduction or straight Debian sid?
With respect, this is never siduction (or, am I misunderstanding something)

You mean no way is that siduction?

https://news.siduction.org/2018/05/rele … -2018-3-0/

I love this bit...

This release comes with the name “patience 2018.3.0”. How we deal with release names in the future is unclear. The next release will ship whatever we come up with. Maybe it’ll be just numbers…

Siduction is a sid distrolet with an active forum. If you want to run Debian sid with minimal issues, siduction and/or the siduction forums is the way to go. Previously aptosid, which I ran for 2 years as a relative linux n00b. My graduation from Ubuntu to Debian.

-edit- I get it, I was ignoring the emojis. Never siduction because OOTB siduction is never gorgeous. Yes, they're very loyal to Debian in that respect.

You cheeky monkey. 8o

unklar · 2020-07-29 18:50:37

DeepDayze · 2020-07-29 19:49:45

eight.bit.al wrote:

^ Has issues, Fresh start > plasmashell PID 570 seg fault 11, and SDDM has issues logout/in. Not a daily driver.
@ hhh Siduction
8bit

KDE looks cool but seems to always be a work in progress, and same could be said for GNOME. Openbox/tint2/jgmenu seems to be pretty rock solid in comparison.

I find KDE in Buster to have some serious issues as it is as cannot save sessions.

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