BunsenLabs Reviews

hhh · 2025-12-27 10:42:14

^ Larry Cafiero, there's a forum member from back in the day. The May 2025 review...

https://fossforce.com/2025/05/a-persona … abs-boron/

Sector11 · 2025-12-28 15:04:24

hhh wrote:

^ Larry Cafiero, there's a forum member from back in the day. The May 2025 review...
https://fossforce.com/2025/05/a-persona … abs-boron/

Larry is still with is, well was last June:

Last visit: 2025-06-21 03:12:44

hhh · 2026-02-28 21:50:12

https://youtu.be/HYd3NvbCMWw?si=AFvve0kU2pQBHREX

ratcheer · 2026-03-02 13:03:07

There is a blurb about BunsenLabs Carbon in today's DistroWatch Weekly:

https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issu … 2#released

chroot · 2026-03-02 15:43:57

Also noticed the screenshot on distrowath doesn't have a bar. Was it done intentionally?

hhh · 2026-03-03 18:16:22

@chroot, probably not intentional. That's an RC3 scrot, I think, so maybe his panel didn't open for some reason (using a VM?) and Jessie didn't notice.

hhh · 2026-03-04 00:07:58

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/ … bs_carbon/

We're still getting compared to CB++, but it's a fair review.

I do like the link to the archive of Unia's original thread. That's a nice touch.

hhh · 2026-03-04 00:11:11

https://youtu.be/fOdE-3nB834?si=WyPBJ-qduE0x1-s3

johnraff · 2026-03-04 02:05:01

hhh wrote:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/ … bs_carbon/
We're still getting compared to CB++, but it's a fair review.
I do like the link to the archive of Unia's original thread. That's a nice touch.

+1 to all of that.

johnraff · 2026-03-04 02:29:56

hhh wrote:

https://youtu.be/fOdE-3nB834?si=WyPBJ-qduE0x1-s3

It looks like he also got hit with the picom 3D acceleration glitch, but his way out was to edit the (wrong) autostart file and use xcompmgr instead. That shouldn't have worked but after that he seems to be operating with composition off - fair enough. He did mention the Redhat emulated GPU later on, so maybe it was a deliberate choice not to use OpenGLpassthrough.

Also, here's yet another person who thinks bl-file-manager is a rebranded Thunar. Wrong - it's an alias which points to whatever file manager the user has chosen. We ought to put something about the bl-* apps in the Release Notes, or in a yet to be created [Intro to BL]? Of course nobody would read it anyway...

MarkW · 2026-03-04 09:47:14

Liam's Carbon review's dropped

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/ … bs_carbon/

hhh · 2026-03-04 16:59:44

johnraff wrote:

hhh wrote:
https://youtu.be/fOdE-3nB834?si=WyPBJ-qduE0x1-s3
It looks like he also got hit with the picom 3D acceleration glitch, but his way out was to edit the (wrong) autostart file and use xcompmgr instead. That shouldn't have worked but after that he seems to be operating with composition off - fair enough. He did mention the Redhat emulated GPU later on, so maybe it was a deliberate choice not to use OpenGLpassthrough.
Also, here's yet another person who thinks bl-file-manager is a rebranded Thunar. Wrong - it's an alias which points to whatever file manager the user has chosen. We ought to put something about the bl-* apps in the Release Notes, or in a yet to be created [Intro to BL]? Of course nobody would read it anyway...

It is frustrating to watch these instant reviews (like, take a half hour to explore, first?) The commented line in .config/openbox/autostart pointing to .config/bunsen/autostart was right freaking there. I'm guessing he figured it out eventually and edited the video without showing us his fix.

I posted it because it's a real user posting a review, not some AI junk.

MarkW · 2026-03-04 17:02:52

Picom has 3D? They kept that quiet

johnraff · Today 09:52:15

This is kind of interesting, in a way. It's on a Windows forum for a start. At first glance it looks really careful and detailed but if you read what it's actually saying it starts to sound like something from a company's publicity department, and quite a lot of it is not right. (Plenty is roughly correct though.) I'm pretty sure this is written by AI, not a human.
https://windowsforum.com/threads/bunsen … ss.403941/

EDIT: get to the bottom (it's quite long) to discover it openly admits being written by ChatGPT.

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