Distro-hoppers anonymous

Colonel Panic · 2024-08-15 14:20:19

I've just updated Nobara, which I've had a few problems with recently, and it all seems to be running fine again.

I don't play many games so I got rid of Steam, and then installed Openbox, LXPanel and Conky. I could be well on the way to a FedoraBang (is there a demand for one?).

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Sector11 · 2024-08-15 14:21:42

Colonel Panic wrote:

{snip} I could be well on the way to a FedoraBang (is there a demand for one?).

ALWAYS!!

Colonel Panic · 2024-08-15 17:50:52

Thanks for replying Sector.

I think Fedora is a pretty good base for a Bunsen-type distro or spin - its software is mostly up to date but it's stable and easy to keep current if you update it reasonably regularly. OpenSUSE is another option although its future at the moment appears to be less certain.

I've already tried one of the official Openbox-based Fedora spins (LXDE) but sadly couldn't get it to install, so to me it makes more sense to start with a Fedora-based distro I already have on my hard drive such as Nobara and adapt it to make it more lightweight and (for me) more user-friendly by installing Openbox etc. in it.

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DeepDayze · 2024-08-16 00:31:35

Colonel Panic wrote:

Thanks for replying Sector.
I think Fedora is a pretty good base for a Bunsen-type distro or spin - its software is mostly up to date but it's stable and easy to keep current if you update it reasonably regularly. OpenSUSE is another option although its future at the moment appears to be less certain.
I've already tried one of the official Openbox-based Fedora spins (LXDE) but sadly couldn't get it to install, so to me it makes more sense to start with a Fedora-based distro I already have on my hard drive such as Nobara and adapt it to make it more lightweight and (for me) more user-friendly by installing Openbox etc. in it.

Perhaps you could try installing the minimal Fedora base system then install OB and friends and set it up much like BL with maybe hack the BL scripts and utilities to enable them to run under Fedora. Arch is also a good base for BL like setups (The old Archlabs comes to mind).

Colonel Panic · 2024-08-16 07:41:25

DeepDayze wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
Thanks for replying Sector.
I think Fedora is a pretty good base for a Bunsen-type distro or spin - its software is mostly up to date but it's stable and easy to keep current if you update it reasonably regularly. OpenSUSE is another option although its future at the moment appears to be less certain.
I've already tried one of the official Openbox-based Fedora spins (LXDE) but sadly couldn't get it to install, so to me it makes more sense to start with a Fedora-based distro I already have on my hard drive such as Nobara and adapt it to make it more lightweight and (for me) more user-friendly by installing Openbox etc. in it.
Perhaps you could try installing the minimal Fedora base system then install OB and friends and set it up much like BL with maybe hack the BL scripts and utilities to enable them to run under Fedora. Arch is also a good base for BL like setups (The old Archlabs comes to mind).

Thanks for replying Deep Dayze. I don't have the Fedora base system to hand but I've tried it with Fedora Cinnamon and there's too much extra stuff you need to install to even compile a program like tint2 - it doesn't even have CMake or Git as standard.

You don't realise how spoilt you are with Debian stable (and maybe Slackware too in this regard, though Slack has other issues such as dependency handling).

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DeepDayze · 2024-08-16 12:15:42

Colonel Panic wrote:

DeepDayze wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:
Thanks for replying Sector.
I think Fedora is a pretty good base for a Bunsen-type distro or spin - its software is mostly up to date but it's stable and easy to keep current if you update it reasonably regularly. OpenSUSE is another option although its future at the moment appears to be less certain.
I've already tried one of the official Openbox-based Fedora spins (LXDE) but sadly couldn't get it to install, so to me it makes more sense to start with a Fedora-based distro I already have on my hard drive such as Nobara and adapt it to make it more lightweight and (for me) more user-friendly by installing Openbox etc. in it.
Perhaps you could try installing the minimal Fedora base system then install OB and friends and set it up much like BL with maybe hack the BL scripts and utilities to enable them to run under Fedora. Arch is also a good base for BL like setups (The old Archlabs comes to mind).
Thanks for replying Deep Dayze. I don't have the Fedora base system to hand but I've tried it with Fedora Cinnamon and there's too much extra stuff you need to install to even compile a program like tint2 - it doesn't even have CMake or Git as standard.
You don't realise how spoilt you are with Debian stable (and maybe Slackware too in this regard, though Slack has other issues such as dependency handling).

Lol agreed, Debian has most if not all of the build tools as part of a default install and installing the build-essential package brings in any that might be missing. Fedora is more of a workstation/server type distro and undoubtedly quite solid. Think there's a spin for installing as a server OS where it has minimal package set installed along with some server tools, but that could be adapted for building a custom setup.

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Colonel Panic · 2024-08-16 17:51:29

Yes, there's a good reason why so many distros (and distro spins) are built on a Debian base; it's just so easy to administer as well as being very comprehensive in what it provides. Debian Stable is also (as its name suggests) very stable and reliable.

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Colonel Panic · 2024-08-24 09:03:53

In other news; I've just installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, having read good things about it recently from people on Reddit, and so far it's working well.

I'm glad I'm no longer on an 80GB a month limit with my ISP though. Just installing the updates alone (which you tick a box for when you're installing the distro) took up 1.3 GB, and that's before you get to downloading any other software you want such as Opera, Strawberry, Thunderbird etc. because the distro is quite miserly about the amount of application software it installs.

You're also only allowed to select one desktop environment for installation, so you can't for example have both KDE and Xfce; it has to be one or the other.

altman · 2024-08-24 13:15:07

After some distroHopping late craze ( it was halted for a bit ! lol) I m back on BL Carbon/Trixie with Xanmod kernel on my laptop & CachyOS XFCE on my desktop.

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shortarcflyer · 2024-08-24 19:49:29

I have been playing with antiX, dsl2024, 4MLinux and Magiea on my testing laptop. They are fun to play with but I will stick with my Arch based distros, Void, and PCLinuxOS for my everyday uses.

darknetmatrix · 2024-08-25 05:26:44

After much distro hopping I currently have on desktop 1 debian trixie/sid (cinnamon), on desktop 2 LMDE (cinnamon) and on my laptop debian bookworm (gnome).
Should I suddenly decide to replace one it will be back debian, lmde or fedora, I have decided not to run any more small scale distros because sooner or later they die a quiet death.

hhh · 2024-08-25 05:45:43

Well, we're a year away from a decade here at BL. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOBOOKWORM!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFhmihe3eUM

johnraff · 2024-08-25 06:43:25

hhh wrote:

Well, we're a year away from a decade here at BL.

Only 9 years? Seems like for ever.

altman · 2024-08-25 13:54:06

hhh wrote:

Well, we're a year away from a decade here at BL. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOBOOKWORM!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFhmihe3eUM

Wow, time goes so fast !

marens · 2024-08-25 14:42:40

@hhh

Days?

$ echo $((($(date +%s -d 20240825) - $(date +%s -d 20150917)) / 86400))
3265

Average number of posts per day?

$ echo 15181 / 3265 | bc -l
4.64961715160796324655

Unbelievable!!!

How long will it take me to get to those numbers?

Oh, sorry.
My system crashed.

DeepDayze · 2024-08-25 15:22:52

darknetmatrix wrote:

After much distro hopping I currently have on desktop 1 debian trixie/sid (cinnamon), on desktop 2 LMDE (cinnamon) and on my laptop debian bookworm (gnome).
Should I suddenly decide to replace one it will be back debian, lmde or fedora, I have decided not to run any more small scale distros because sooner or later they die a quiet death.

You see that also happen on Arch based distros too, so many will just end up sticking with plain Arch.

Sector11 · 2024-08-26 03:19:36

johnraff wrote:

hhh wrote:
Well, we're a year away from a decade here at BL.
Only 9 years? Seems like for ever.

And let us not forget #! before that.
Some time in 2008 for me.
It's been a RUSH!

johnraff · 2024-08-26 05:25:29

Sector11 wrote:

johnraff wrote:
hhh wrote:
Well, we're a year away from a decade here at BL.
Only 9 years? Seems like for ever.
And let us not forget #! before that.
Some time in 2008 for me.
It's been a RUSH!

I think we joined #! around the same time - same year certainly.
So, wow that's ~16 years total...
Somehow in my mind early CrunchBang days and the Linux Outlaws podcast are sort of mixed together.

Sector11 · 2024-08-26 16:51:53

johnraff wrote:

Sector11 wrote:
And let us not forget #! before that.
Some time in 2008 for me.
It's been a RUSH!
I think we joined #! around the same time - same year certainly.
So, wow that's ~16 years total...
Somehow in my mind early CrunchBang days and the Linux Outlaws podcast are sort of mixed together.

July 2007 - Win2k Died, Ubuntu 06 went on my drive the next day, It was as slow as W2k on my old PIII so I tried Xubu. It lasted a few months. I remember recommending #! to a few people before I even tried it. I was still in the "I need the [Start] button phase.
Xubu started getting very slow as well, so I bit the bullet in just under a year of using "U" Linux and hopped on to #!. And #! was based on Ubuntu then too. I was one of the ones that voted for Debian when Core asked us.

Never looked back.

Nili · 2024-08-26 19:13:13

It made me fly out of joy as my old computer started breathing freely with #!.

The old forum had undoubtedly many specialists' assistants.

I have used so far from 1999 up to now, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT, XP, 7. 2011, on this year i passed on Linux and i never returned to Windows in my personal computer. Desktop on Linux, Ubuntu, Mint, #!, Debian, Devuan, Fedora, Tumbleweed.

Periodically i had run Alpine, ArchLabs and a bit of BSD. In the latter BSD, i did not get familiar quickly and gave up, I had to have insisted more, but i pulled out quickly.

#! It was a good time to be.

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