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Colonel Panic · 2024-07-04 10:43:34

yak wrote:

Thanks for the links. Yeah, I feel like OpenSUSE it's doing a bit of a mess lately with all this changing and splitting.
I never liked it that much, but now it just feels unapproachable to me

That's a shame. because I've always found Leap pretty solid and reliable and Yast is an excellent tool.

https://yast.opensuse.org/

I think it needs better marketing though. SUSE probably don't care all that much because they make their money from the Enterprise versions. This lack of accessibility (to newbies in particular) is one reason why Gecko was produced;; it installs as standard all the multimedia codecs that OpenSUSE doesn't.

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kozimodo · 2024-07-04 18:17:22

I installed openSUSE Tumbleweed the other day and I must say that I'm pretty happy with it. They do need better marketing and one small annoyance that I've found is their console login welcome message: "Have a lot of fun..." Cute but gives off a non-professional feel to the distro. Otherwise seems great!

Colonel Panic · 2024-07-05 20:57:55

Excellent! I sometimes browse the OpenSUSE subforum on Reddit and Tumbleweed seems popular on there, but it is sometimes stressed that you need to keep it updated regularly (as I said, Leap is more tolerant in this respect, the downside being that its software is less current than Tumbleweed's). Horses for courses.

[Edit: the beta version of Mint 22 has just been released, and it works well as a live disk but when I tried to install it the installer crashed just as grub was being installed and configured. So at this stage I can't really recommend Mint 22 (although 21 still works fine).]

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Nili · 2024-07-07 11:59:07

Tumbleweed it is a rock solid OS. Two years with it, it has gone very well for me.

altman · 2024-07-07 15:00:55

Thx @Colonel Panic @darknetmatrix, might check those out !

kozimodo · 2024-07-07 19:04:08

Nili wrote:

Tumbleweed it is a rock solid OS. Two years with it, it has gone very well for me.

What kind of environment are you using? I'm curious as to how well Gnome handles an in place upgrade.

Nili · 2024-07-08 05:29:17

kozimodo wrote:

What kind of environment are you using? I'm curious as to how well Gnome handles an in place upgrade.

KDE, I've been using KDE exclusively for two years. I came from Fedora GNOME to openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Incidentally i wanted to see what KDE looked liked? but what i saw made me do a turn switch from GNOME to KDE. I'm completely in KDE currently due to chances of themes able customizations, Apps, I like a few app that can't go without them, Dolphin, kTorrent, Elisa Player, Kate, Gwenview, Spectacle and so on... I don't know what to say about GNOME on openSUSE, haven't used on this OS. But, on Fedora i had a very good experience for about a year. I see environment openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE / Fedora GNOME as a good choice.

Watch them both on LIVECD and decide which one seems more suitable to you.

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Colonel Panic · 2024-07-12 08:37:32

In other news; I've just updated Debian Bookworm to its latest version, and it mostly went well except that the menus disappeared in Mate (the desktop environment I mostly use in Debian), so I switched to LXQT instead. LXQT isn't perfect but the menus are back .

Bearded_Blunder · 2024-07-13 06:39:56

I like LXQT, it's my 2nd choice of Debian based desktop after Bunsen.. Or my choice when I've time on mt hands (fat chance) and am playing with Gentoo.

Colonel Panic · 2024-07-13 09:50:16

Thanks for replying. For me LXQt's a "fall back" window manager; it's more limited in what it does than some others but it's pretty much problem free, so I use it when something goes wrong in a different one.

I thought it was a shame that when it was first created the devs discarded the clock, because this was surely one of razor-qt's most attractive features;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor-qt

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altman · 2024-07-14 20:47:31

Installed SolydXK 12 on Trixie with Xanmod kernel on a small ssd that wasn t used, I like it so far.

darknetmatrix · 2024-07-15 07:32:08

altman wrote:

Installed SolydXK 12 on Trixie with Xanmod kernel on a small ssd that wasn t used, I like it so far.

I'm running SolydX over more then a year now, stable as it can be. No issues with it, and my version is the 13 or EE version based on testing/sid.

altman · 2024-07-15 14:58:03

darknetmatrix wrote:

altman wrote:
Installed SolydXK 12 on Trixie with Xanmod kernel on a small ssd that wasn t used, I like it so far.
I'm running SolydX over more then a year now, stable as it can be. No issues with it, and my version is the 13 or EE version based on testing/sid.

Good thing to know ! Guess that I m gonna download the Beta version as well, ( if it is called so).

darknetmatrix · 2024-07-15 20:49:04

altman wrote:

darknetmatrix wrote:
altman wrote:
Installed SolydXK 12 on Trixie with Xanmod kernel on a small ssd that wasn t used, I like it so far.
I'm running SolydX over more then a year now, stable as it can be. No issues with it, and my version is the 13 or EE version based on testing/sid.
Good thing to know ! Guess that I m gonna download the Beta version as well, ( if it is called so).

It's called SolydXK Enthusiast's Editions (EEversion)

altman · 2024-07-17 13:54:35

darknetmatrix wrote:

altman wrote:
darknetmatrix wrote:
I'm running SolydX over more then a year now, stable as it can be. No issues with it, and my version is the 13 or EE version based on testing/sid.
Good thing to know ! Guess that I m gonna download the Beta version as well, ( if it is called so).
It's called SolydXK Enthusiast's Editions (EEversion)

Hey cool thx. Downloaded for future testings.

Colonel Panic · 2024-07-17 16:14:20

I've just installed Omega, a lightweight distro based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and using LXDE as its desktop manager. Apart from Chromium for web browsing, PcmanFM for file management and Mpv for multimedia it comes with very little software as standard, but it also doesn't have snap so you can install software on it the Debian way if you want to (as I have just done to be able to use Firefox).

Omega's probably not for everyone but might be of interest to someone who wants to build a Ubuntu-based distro more or less from scratch, a bit like WattOS (which is based on Debian) is now, especially if they want to keep it to lightweight applications like abiword or gnumeric. Nice wallpaper too.

https://ohjhas.github.io/omega-linux-en/index.html

Running ohjhas's github profile (which is in Spanish) through DeepL revealed this;

Hi I'm Ibsan Baza (known as ohjhas) I'm fond of Linux and other things, I'm the only developer of OmegaLinux and now I'm 17 years old.

https://github.com/ohjhas

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Colonel Panic · 2024-07-22 16:00:39

In other news; I've just installed Fedora 40 (Cinnamon Edition), and it's working well and seems very solid apart from a brief freeze up at the end of carrying out an update, where the taskbar and menu both disappeared (but reappeared on reboot).

As with the previous version of Fedora though it's very heavy on updates (the last one was a 1.4 GB total download, and you can add another gigabyte if you want all the multimedia codecs as well), so I can't really recommend it to anyone who doesn't have a fast internet connection.

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Colonel Panic · 2024-08-02 13:40:31

Ikey Doherty (the former lead developer of Solus) has attracted a lot of interest recently through his work on Serpent OS, a heavily Rust- and D-based distro that aims to make distro upgrades as safe as possible;

https://serpentos.com/

I've reached a stage though where I'm finding it hard to muster much enthusiasm for new distros, especially when it takes a longish time to set up a new distro the way I want it. Debian Stable is easy and safe to upgrade as is OpenSUSE Leap (although Leap has a smaller package base).

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hhh · 2024-08-02 17:17:00

Wasn't Ikey also part of the original Linux Mint development? Also worked on the Budgie desktop.

-edit- Yup...

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1655

Something bad happened though, Ikey quit. I don't know the story.

shortarcflyer · 2024-08-04 00:00:57

hhh wrote:

Wasn't Ikey also part of the original Linux Mint development? Also worked on the Budgie desktop.
-edit- Yup...
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1655
Something bad happened though, Ikey quit. I don't know the story.

Ikey was a part of several distros at one time or another. One time on one distro he got it to a point, had several forum members donate equipment and money to the cause and then abruptly quit and moved on to another distro/direction. From that point he then quit and moved on again. Since those things have happened I have not had any trust in anything he is involved with. YMMV

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