#1821 2022-11-12 16:20:00

Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Oh, that is odd..

I regularly use firefox and thunderbird at the same time..but I am using XFCE and not LXQT.

I'm in MX now (the Exton version, with LXQT as the window manager). For my money it's one of the most visually appealing of the distros but it's also one of the most fragile - I've learnt that when I'm in it I can't load Thunderbird at the same time as I've got Firefox open, for example, or the system will freeze up.

I don't need update notification because I when I carry out an update I make a note of the date on a textfile I keep in my /home directory, so I always know when the next one is due.

Hi Marianne,

There's always a certain amount of "Your mileage may vary" with my posts on this thread especially when I'm describing faults that I've encountered. For example, I regularly have a problem running Cinnamon where the text blurs out in the menus, but no one else has ever mentioned having the same one.

Right now I'm in Sparky 5 with the i3 tiling manager, and Firefox and Thunderbird are side by side on my monitor - no problem except that I find the basic i3 setup dreary to look at by contrast with the LXQT setup I have in Exton MX. It's a tradeoff really.

[Edit: I'm now also running Firefox and Thunderbird together in LXQT in Mint with no trouble at all, and I didn't have any problems running them in XFce in MX Exton. Strange.]

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deleted0

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Pics. Pics, please.

We need pics.

Did I mention how nice it would be to see pics?

Thank you for your time.
8bit

deleted0

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Sparky Linux with MX Linux repos.

8bit

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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Pics. Pics, please.

We need pics.

Did I mention how nice it would be to see pics?

Thank you for your time.
8bit

Thanks for your interest 8bit.

Easy this time because I've already posted it elsewhere (this is one of my Twitter accounts);

https://twitter.com/BSmallpiece/status/ … 3338009601

The wallpaper is a picture of somewhere (I don't know exactly where) on the west coast of Ireland, and the Conky setup was a simple one, with just a few small changes to one I found online (basically, I added the "Swap" section and changed the colours).

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

"Unattended upgrades", my inner nerd soul is cringing in disgust. You are right about that it is "too far for many users".

A widget that I can turn off is acceptable though.

Yes "unattended upgrade" sounds way too much like *cough* Windows Updates *cough* and cringe worthy enough .

I would go with the MX update notifier IMO, as I've been playing with MX-21 XFCE and KDE builds and like the idea of an update notifier which can be run from tint2.

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

MX-21 looks interesting

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

MX-21 looks interesting

It sure is and it piqued my interest so I installed MX-21 onto a spare disk in my old laptop and it worked like a charm there and also tested it on my big rig too as it had the nvidia driver installer for that machine. The KDE build uses Discover to notify of updates while the XFCE flavor had a custom notifier in the panel.

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I couldn't remember what version of MX I was running, so I checked and it's MX-21.2.1 Wildflower

I have to say it's been pretty good for me so far.

I still have knoppix on a USB just in case things go wonky

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I couldn't remember what version of MX I was running, so I checked and it's MX-21.2.1 Wildflower

This is always a sign of a good distro.

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

This may be an interesting read for distro hoppers:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/18/ … rivatives/

/Martin

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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

This may be an interesting read for distro hoppers:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/18/ … rivatives/

/Martin

Good article! I liked that it mentioned both CrunchBang++ and Bunsen, but thought the article got it the wrong way round when it said that Bunsen is more like the original CrunchBang than CrunchBang++ is? My impression is that CrunchBang++ is pretty much a straight updating of the original CrunchBang (and nothing wrong with that, CrunchBang was a great distro).

Intriguing suggestion too about Debian and Devuan merging and offering a choice of init systems, but I suspect in practice that would take a lot of extra work to accomplish.
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el_koraco

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Intriguing suggestion too about Debian and Devuan merging and offering a choice of init systems, but I suspect in practice that would take a lot of extra work to accomplish.
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By the time Debian 15 or so comes out, all the alternative init scripts will be ported to a full Debian base, which will make it trivial to rebase the init system, with not much more than several commands. I doubt there will be a need for a systemd free spinoff at that point. The bigger question is whether Debian will ever switch to btrfs as the default file system. Despite all the pushing from Red Hat, this doesn't seem likely.

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Welcome back from the distro graveyard, wattOS! Release announcement in the link.

https://www.planetwatt.com/R12-details/

Martin

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

This may be an interesting read for distro hoppers:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/18/ … rivatives/

/Martin

Good article! I liked that it mentioned both CrunchBang++ and Bunsen, but thought the article got it the wrong way round when it said that Bunsen is more like the original CrunchBang than CrunchBang++ is?

I read it the other way around. But never mind. I downloaded CB++ and gave it a Live spin on a virtual machine. It felt and looked very familiar :-)

EndlessOS (mentioned towards the end of the article) on the other hand felt and looked very different from most other things I have tried. This is not to say it is bad. Different tastes and needs...

/Martin

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Martin

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

KolibriOS, anyone?
http://kolibrios.org/en/

I came across this while looking for something else. Anyone know anything about this OS?

/Martin

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unklar

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For quite some time I have been toying with the idea of a new computer. Preferably with Linux from the factory. This German company from Augsburg in Bavaria has caught my eye several times.

Now the OS installed on it has been released to the general public for testing and I gave it a first 'look' in QEMU. As usual linux... 

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

CachyOS - arch derivative with Plasma (and many others) 

trinidad

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Cachy OS looks promising especially the desktop and file system options. I am particularly interested in their distro specific fork of the LibreWolf web browser. The Wiki is pretty interesting.

https://wiki.cachyos.org/

TC

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^ Yeah, but it's Arch. An update every other minute. Not a question of if but when one of those updates will leave the user with a blinking error message instead of a working computer.

"BTW, I run Arch."

8bit

unklar

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

^ Yeah, but it's Arch. An update every other minute. Not a question of if but when one of those updates will leave the user with a blinking error message instead of a working computer.

"BTW, I run Arch."

8bit

Exactly, a real arch has been running here since March 2015 with zero problems and, you already knew the picture.