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Sector11 · 2021-09-05 21:35:36

rbh wrote:

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But, Gnome evolved in an direction I did not like. After evaluating many options I finaly settled for Openbox. Not for hatred of Gnome, but for love of Openbox...
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I agree in part.

Started with Gnome, was not thrilled, but better than where I came from.

Went to Xfce4 and liked that more but with #! I fell for Openbox hook line and sinker.

Martin · 2021-09-05 22:38:57

Sector11 wrote:

Went to Xfce4 and liked that more but with #! I fell for Openbox hook line and sinker.

Same here, sort of. XFCE used to be my favourite, in part because I am an old UNIX user with a lot of time on SUN machines at work and they used CDE. XFCE was originally influenced by CDE...

Then I found #! and the way Openbox was set up there worked so well for me I didn't miss XFCE. #!/bunsenlabs has been my distro of choice at home far longer than anything else...

At work I now have Gnome and I think it works for me. It is different and sometimes it seems it is doing things differently just because it is possible, not because it improves anything. Nothing I can't live with. I know some colleagues beg to differ and use other DEs or WMs. That comes at a cost as some of the corporate IT integration is done for you if you stick with the default Gnome DE. Go for something else and you need to fiddle around a bit more than I am prepared to do.

/Martin

phuturism · 2021-09-05 23:57:04

ratcheer wrote:

Gentoo is hard.
That's the post.

lol

rbh · 2021-09-10 19:51:57

twoion wrote:

OpenSUSE has a very good YaST based installer

Yes, I loved YaST; "Yet another Setup Tool".
Would be nice to have something similar in debian.

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deleted0 · 2021-09-10 21:51:58

Project Trident

Project Trident is a desktop-focused operating system based on Void Linux using the Lumina desktop.

https://project-trident.org/
https://project-trident.org/download/
https://lumina-desktop.org/
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issu … 30#trident

I give it two thumbs up.
(well, a thumb and a half. I ran my left hand through a table saw and mangled a few digits.)

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DeepDayze · 2021-09-11 03:18:20

rbh wrote:

twoion wrote:
OpenSUSE has a very good YaST based installer
Yes, I loved YaST; "Yet another Setup Tool".
Would be nice to have something similar in debian.

I'm sure maybe sometime there be a port of YaST to Debian and call it YaDST "Yet another Debian Setup Tool". Or at least somehow use YaST's best features in D-I.

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rbh · 2021-09-11 08:07:14

DeepDayze wrote:

I'm sure maybe sometime there be a port of YaST to Debian and call it YaDST "Yet another Debian Setup Tool". Or at least somehow use YaST's best features in D-I.

Sadly, there is little interest for a project like that. There was yast4debian, started around 2004 but stopped aournd 2007/2008.

There was a draft for a similar project: DCC Debian Control Center; https://wiki.debian.org/DcontrolDraft a. It never grew beyond planning: https://web.archive.org/web/20150919051 … ebcontrol/
Homepage of Debian Control Center, https://wiki.debian.org/DebianControlCenter.

But, it should not be too hard to write some bash-scripts to configure most common settings... Maybe could be an BL project?

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DeepDayze · 2021-09-11 17:27:34

rbh wrote:

DeepDayze wrote:
I'm sure maybe sometime there be a port of YaST to Debian and call it YaDST "Yet another Debian Setup Tool". Or at least somehow use YaST's best features in D-I.
Sadly, there is little interest for a project like that. There was yast4debian, started around 2004 but stopped aournd 2007/2008.
There was a draft for a similar project: DCC Debian Control Center; https://wiki.debian.org/DcontrolDraft a. It never grew beyond planning: https://web.archive.org/web/20150919051 … ebcontrol/
Homepage of Debian Control Center, https://wiki.debian.org/DebianControlCenter.
But, it should not be too hard to write some bash-scripts to configure most common settings... Maybe could be an BL project?

I remember seeing that one...sad that it didn't continue for long. Apt and D-I could have at least adopted the best features of YaST and it would have been a much better package manager and installer for Debian. Aptitude seems to be the closest to YaST IMO.

Colonel Panic · 2021-09-12 19:40:36

I've just installed the latest version of AntiX (21 beta2) with runit. It's working well so far except that the screen resolution is still too low at 1024x768.

Anticapitalista does say on the AntiX website that the runit versions are only intended for experienced users of AntiX, which I'm not, but I wanted to find out how well runit worked on my system as I hadn't tried it before.

https://antixlinux.com/author/anticapitalista/

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deleted0 · 2021-09-18 00:21:50

ExTix likes to take distros and soup them up.
Here he's added a newer kernel and much more. The only live version of Deepin.
His color choices are... not for me.

http://www.extix.se/

Deepin from the source. It is also too colorful, I made some changes.

I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but I wouldn't run this distro; too many other choices out there.

8bit

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deleted0 · 2021-09-20 23:52:39

RebornOS

https://rebornos.org/

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NightOwl · 2021-09-21 18:06:25

eight.bit.al wrote:

RebornOS
https://rebornos.org/
https://scrot.cloud/images/2021/09/21/Screenshot-from-2021-09-20-23-23-01.th.png https://scrot.cloud/images/2021/09/21/Screenshot-from-2021-09-20-23-17-00.th.png
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This one was kinda interesting, seems like they've taken a kind of "Android-style" to their OS

DeepDayze · 2021-09-21 18:08:59

NightOwl wrote:

eight.bit.al wrote:
RebornOS
https://rebornos.org/
https://scrot.cloud/images/2021/09/21/Screenshot-from-2021-09-20-23-23-01.th.png https://scrot.cloud/images/2021/09/21/Screenshot-from-2021-09-20-23-17-00.th.png
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This one was kinda interesting, seems like they've taken a kind of "Android-style" to their OS

Yep I thought it was an Android build at first but it's actually Arch based.

deleted0 · 2021-09-21 19:11:18

Manjaro 21.1.3

https://manjaro.org/

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Colonel Panic · 2021-09-24 19:32:24

^^ Good choice. I've just updated a month old installation of Manjaro, and all went well except for the very large size of the download - just over 1 GB. Arch-based distros seem to be much more demanding of bandwidth than Debian-based ones do.

(I've also installed LXDE as the desktop manager, which Manjaro doesn't have as standard.)

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deleted0 · 2021-09-25 11:09:31

SparkyLinux 7 (bookworm)

Sway WM

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hhh · 2021-09-25 22:14:59

^ I like the colorful panel.

DeepDayze · 2021-09-25 22:26:28

Colonel Panic wrote:

^^ Good choice. I've just updated a month old installation of Manjaro, and all went well except for the very large size of the download - just over 1 GB. Arch-based distros seem to be much more demanding of bandwidth than Debian-based ones do.
(I've also installed LXDE as the desktop manager, which Manjaro doesn't have as standard.)

I've noticed that as well in my experiments. Wondering if it is because of the dependency mechanisms in use as it appears they install all recommends by default.

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PackRat · 2021-09-26 01:42:13

PlagueOS

From the dev -

PlagueOS aims at minimal architecture and killing off classes of exploitation that are inherent to modern desktop environments.
The aim of the OS is to function as a restricted, minimalist hypervisor (host) that runs virtual machines (guests). The guests on top will vary based on the desired utility. For daily use, it is advised to run Whonix (tor routed) or Kicksecure (clearnet). Normal tasks are meant to be conducted inside of the guests rather than the host to ensure the host stays clean with minimal attack surface.

Looks like an interesting project.

DeepDayze · 2021-09-26 03:02:20

PackRat wrote:

PlagueOS
From the dev -
PlagueOS aims at minimal architecture and killing off classes of exploitation that are inherent to modern desktop environments.
The aim of the OS is to function as a restricted, minimalist hypervisor (host) that runs virtual machines (guests). The guests on top will vary based on the desired utility. For daily use, it is advised to run Whonix (tor routed) or Kicksecure (clearnet). Normal tasks are meant to be conducted inside of the guests rather than the host to ensure the host stays clean with minimal attack surface.
Looks like an interesting project.

Sounds much like what VMWare ESXi basically is...a bare metal hypervisor that provides the services for the guests.

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