Distro-hoppers anonymous

Colonel Panic · 2025-01-19 19:16:21

Just installed EndeavourOS from a magazine cover disk. It's early days yet but everything looks OK so far except that grub wouldn't install (so I had to use the grub on DebEX instead).

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Colonel Panic · 2025-01-23 00:48:38

Me, near the end of last year; "I think I'm done with this distrohopping lark. Just a few well-chosen distros from now on."

Also me, a bit later last year; "Oh look, there's a pack of 50 blank DVD disks for sale on EBay for a bargain price ...."

Just downloaded deadbang, will try it tomorrow.

Sector11 · 2025-01-24 13:32:45

Colonel Panic wrote:

Me, near the end of last year; "I think I'm done with this distrohopping lark. Just a few well-chosen distros from now on."
Also me, a bit later last year; "Oh look, there's a pack of 50 blank DVD disks for sale on EBay for a bargain price ...."
Just downloaded deadbang, will try it tomorrow.

There's only one thing to say:

Colonel Panic · 2025-01-29 22:32:07

Döbbie03 wrote:

Today was the day I learnt of ExGent! Thanks for the link, I will save that for another day.
I'm glad I did it the traditional way, it's real sense of satisfaction.

You're welcome Dobbie, there's a new version out now. I've downloaded it but haven't yet burnt it off or installed it to my hard drive; on past experience though, it should be good.

https://www.exton.se/exgent-gentoo-64bi … -in-3-min/

Döbbie03 · 2025-01-30 04:12:54

That's great, thanks for the heads up.

Colonel Panic · 2025-01-30 08:02:12

You;re welcome Dobbie. I've just updated Spiral (based on Debian oldstable, although the newer versions are based on Debian stable), and it's an amazingly light download; just 215 MB, and a lot of that was due to the fact that I use Opera amongst other browsers. It's a refreshing change from the likes of Fedora with their need for frequent and heavy updates.

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Sector11 · 2025-01-30 12:22:54

I just woke up and still half a sleep I see in my email:

That's great, thanks for the heads up.

MY MIND: Great another AI spammer

so I look for the funny name in the email: Döbbie03
YUP a spammer ... a lovable little brother but still a spammer in good stead

OK folks, move alone nothing to see here.
We now return you to your regular distro-hopping, enjoy your day.

DeepDayze · 2025-01-30 17:57:32

Sector11 wrote:

I just woke up and still half a sleep I see in my email:
That's great, thanks for the heads up.
MY MIND: Great another AI spammer
so I look for the funny name in the email: Döbbie03
YUP a spammer ... a lovable little brother but still a spammer in good stead
OK folks, move alone nothing to see here.
We now return you to your regular distro-hopping, enjoy your day.
https://i.ibb.co/D85HV3v/big-smile-sm.png

Lol you need more coffee in the morning!

Döbbie03 · 2025-01-31 05:03:17

Sector11 wrote:

I just woke up and still half a sleep I see in my email:
That's great, thanks for the heads up.
MY MIND: Great another AI spammer
so I look for the funny name in the email: Döbbie03
YUP a spammer ... a lovable little brother but still a spammer in good stead
OK folks, move alone nothing to see here.
We now return you to your regular distro-hopping, enjoy your day.
https://i.ibb.co/D85HV3v/big-smile-sm.png

Hey! I definitely spam one thread in particular, but I'm no spammer!!!!

Sector11 · 2025-01-31 22:51:40

DeepDayze wrote:

Lol you need more coffee in the morning!

My eyes were barely open .... I'd have to navigate downstairs to the kitchen and make it.
Needed to wake up first.

Döbbie03 wrote:

Hey! I definitely spam one thread in particular, but I'm no spammer!!!!

tis why I said: In good stead.
That thread is designed to spam in.

Döbbie03 · 2025-01-31 23:54:32

Sector11 wrote:

Döbbie03 wrote:
Hey! I definitely spam one thread in particular, but I'm no spammer!!!!
tis why I said: In good stead.
That thread is designed to spam in.

T'was received in good stead too.

How do you know if Dobbie is a Metalhead? He'll tell you by sharing nearly every album that he listens to.

Colonel Panic · 2025-02-06 16:35:49

A new version of Mabox, 25.02, has just come out and has two variants; one for newer machines, and one for older ones.

I've just installed the one for older machines, which has a 6.1 kernel, and it seems to be working OK. Like Bunsen, it has a customised installation of OpenBox with preset shortcuts for launching applications.

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Colonel Panic · 2025-02-12 09:38:02

I've just converted my installation of Gecko Cinnamon (which is based on OpenSUSE) to the Slowroll repositories for ease of maintenance (major updates with Slowroll only happen once a month, hence the name), and so far everything is working as it should, even the more off beat software I installed with opi.

The only problem I had was a file conflict involving libtree-sitter.so.0, but so far I haven't seen any consequences of that.

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Colonel Panic · 2025-02-22 23:54:45

Two for the price of one today; I've installed both the latest release of Pop!OS (alpha 7) and Nobara 41. Both went without a hitch.

Looking forward to trying them soon.

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Colonel Panic · 2025-02-27 09:06:50

Hot on my recent difficulties with Regolith, someone's created an MX Fluxbox spin with a lot of customised shortcuts for manipulating windows and a very elaborate conky configuration, called Fluxbox+. I'm using it now and it;s worth a look;

https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=83967

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Colonel Panic · 2025-03-02 10:47:04

Edited: using Flatpak to install Betterbird and Waterfox in Endeavour did finally work. I'm going to stick with Flatpak (despite the fact that I think it's extremely wasteful of space) rather than AUR from now on when I use Endeavour.

(As an example, just installing Osmo took a 770 MB download. I think it's my old Methodist upbringing that revolts against that kind of profligacy).

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Tikita · 2025-03-10 00:27:14

Hello everyone,

I am looking for a download option for a version of Bunsenlabs that also runs on an old iMac (iMac5,1 from 2006).

2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
MacOS X 10.6.8

Thanks and best regards, Tikita

greenjeans · 2025-03-10 01:34:38

Tikita wrote:

Hello everyone,
I am looking for a download option for a version of Bunsenlabs that also runs on an old iMac (iMac5,1 from 2006).
2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
MacOS X 10.6.8
Thanks and best regards, Tikita

Tagging this as I am very curious myself, have never tried converting any Mac to Linux and would be interested in replies myself.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2025-03-10 14:30:31

Tikita wrote:

iMac5,1 from 2006

The standard amd64 ISO image should work with that, it has support for that machine's 32-bit UEFI implementation.

Have you tried it?

PackRat · 2025-03-12 18:31:32

Sad news.

Due to many issues, including health, @sleekmason will be shutting down LiliDog.

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