Distro-hoppers anonymous

Sector11 · 2023-12-14 13:25:36

johnraff wrote:

Interesting site for distro-hoppers - lets you try distros in live form, online. No downloading of isos. BunsenLabs is included!
https://distrosea.com/

Interesting site

Colonel Panic · 2023-12-18 20:49:00

I've installed the latest version of Siduction, "Standing On The Shoulders of Giants", which I think is a nice title (the giant in this case being Debian). It's a good distro for the most part but I've still got the problem that udisks, which I normally use regularly, won't work; there are workarounds for this but they're not as convenient.

[Edit: gdebi doesn't work in Siduction either, I have to use apt to install packages from my flash drive instead. Oh well.]

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Döbbie03 · 2023-12-22 05:03:38

So after many years of using Arch and loving it, I think I am ready to jump ship. I have spent the last couple of days setting up NixOS and have it to where it is how I like it.

It's not my beloved dwm, I'm running Plasma, but I think I will spend the next few weeks using Nix and once I am comfortable I will do an install that will include dwm.

Martin · 2023-12-22 08:48:13

Dobbie03 wrote:

So after many years of using Arch and loving it, I think I am ready to jump ship. I have spent the last couple of days setting up NixOS and have it to where it is how I like it.
It's not my beloved dwm, I'm running Plasma, but I think I will spend the next few weeks using Nix and once I am comfortable I will do an install that will include dwm.

Switching from dwm to Plasma must be shocking :-)

/Martin

hhh · 2023-12-22 08:57:18

^ Yes, a desktop that unifies everything OOTB. The horror.

dwm wrote:

dwm is customized through editing its source code

Ouch.

Sector11 · 2023-12-22 12:37:52

OH MY! Good luck Dobbie03

PackRat · 2023-12-22 14:43:49

Dobbie03 wrote:

So after many years of using Arch and loving it, I think I am ready to jump ship.

Döbbie03 · 2023-12-22 17:02:42

Martin wrote:

Dobbie03 wrote:
So after many years of using Arch and loving it, I think I am ready to jump ship. I have spent the last couple of days setting up NixOS and have it to where it is how I like it.
It's not my beloved dwm, I'm running Plasma, but I think I will spend the next few weeks using Nix and once I am comfortable I will do an install that will include dwm.
Switching from dwm to Plasma must be shocking :-)
/Martin

It's a learning curve in itself! I have to keep reminding myself that I need to focus the window by clicking, and it won't focus automatically.

It's not bad using Plasma, but I prefer dwm.

Thanks, @S11 and @PackRat.

el_koraco · 2023-12-22 18:03:45

Dobbie03 wrote:

So after many years of using Arch and loving it, I think I am ready to jump ship.

Whoah, this is a change. What made you switch? You've been an Arch user for an eternity.

Döbbie03 · 2023-12-22 18:19:20

I haven't switched just yet and whether the switch is permanent is yet to be seen. I still have a few tweaks to complete and I really want to use dwm with Nix so a fair bit of work there to be completed yet.

Just wanting something new, it's blazing fast and snappy. I really like the concept of NixOS.

Colonel Panic · 2023-12-22 20:49:29

I've just updated Ultramarine (the flagship version with Budgie as the desktop manager), and whilst it is a good distro that probably deserves to be better known it is definitely not a candidate for my "distros for slow internet connections" thread. It took me a 1240.7 MB download in total.

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Colonel Panic · 2023-12-26 00:25:13

I've just downloaded Exton's spin on the Crux distribution, CruxEX, and am posting from it now. *Most of it works OK but there's no sound on video playback on Youtube and as yet I haven't found out how to enable it (it may need some codecs installed).

Definitely not a beginner's distro IMO though I like the "keep it simple" philosophy and it has a ports system similar to that of the BSDs.

* As usual with Exton's distros though there's no office suite installed as standard; you have to install your own.

[Edit: I'm now busily updating the distros I've currently got installed, in time for the New Year. It's going OK but all I can say is, I'm glad that my ISP like others in our country no longer has an 80 GB monthly usage limit. The last one, Gecko, was 1.15 GB of downloads.]

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Colonel Panic · 2024-01-05 12:37:43

Just updated Manjaro, which was a 1787.22 MiB download; once again I'm glad I'm not limited to 80 GB a month.

I know that Manjaro gets a lot of stick these days but it seems to do everything well enough and takes a lot of the anxiety out of upgrading an Arch-based distro.

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shortarcflyer · 2024-01-05 17:38:47

Colonel Panic wrote:

Just updated Manjaro, which was a 1787,22 MiB download; once again I'm glad I'm not limited to 80 GB a month.
I know that Manjaro gets a lot of stick these days but it seems to do everything well enough and takes a lot of the anxiety out of upgrading an Arch-based distro.

If you like Manjaro, give Mabox a try. It is a spin off of Manjaro and I like it much better for what I do and use than Manjaro. YMMV.

Colonel Panic · 2024-01-06 12:38:30

shortarcflyer wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
Just updated Manjaro, which was a 1787,22 MiB download; once again I'm glad I'm not limited to 80 GB a month.
I know that Manjaro gets a lot of stick these days but it seems to do everything well enough and takes a lot of the anxiety out of upgrading an Arch-based distro.

If you like Manjaro, give Mabox a try. It is a spin off of Manjaro and I like it much better for what I do and use than Manjaro. YMMV.

Thanks, I will. My computer can be a bit strange with Arch-derived distros though; for example, sound doesn't always work in them (even in Manjaro, there's no sound with the live distro and I have to install it to my hard drive to get any sound on playback).

Colonel Panic · 2024-01-10 00:49:04

Just updated Debian 12.2 to 12.4, a 405 MB download in total.

hhh · 2024-01-10 16:10:13

^ Good call, Debian released a bunch of security updates there...

https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20231210

Sector11 · 2024-01-10 18:15:22

Can someone explain to me the why of this:

distro-info-data 	Add Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat; fix several End Of Life dates

What does "Ubuntu" have to do with Debian?
Orange and Red are really beginning to get under my skin.

hhh · 2024-01-10 23:41:46

@Sector11, from man distro-info...

DESCRIPTION
       distro-info is a symlink to the distro-info command for your distribution.  On Debian it links to debian-distro-info and on Ubuntu it links to ubuntu-distro-info.  All options described in
       this manual page are available in all distro-info commands. All other options, which are not described here, are distribution specific.

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/distro-info-data

The developer(s) decided to support Ubuntu as well as Debian. You can also find the package in Fedora...

https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/distro-info/

Also in Arch...

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/distro-info

Döbbie03 · 2024-01-11 02:00:30

Well, blow me down, I successfully installed Gentoo. Only took two attempts

Slowly getting an understanding and getting my install how I like it.

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