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MarkW · 2026-03-11 18:29:56

Chicago and Auckland?

trinidad · 2026-03-11 18:32:35

Keep track of Jerry's tz (Linux Lite). I'm in CST.

TC

hhh · 2026-03-12 01:58:25

MarkW wrote:

... and Auckland?

Wisconsin, USA. But close on the beer-consumption scale, I'd guess. (source: I'm a former Twin Cities Minnesota resident who's been to Madison, had a girlfriend from NZ once, and can name my favorite Metalhead BL forum member)

Döbbie03 · 2026-03-12 04:49:46

What's this about Auckland? What a shithole.

Colonel Panic · 2026-03-12 10:46:48

trinidad wrote:

Did you choose install from a grub screen or from the running live ISO? On some distros the grub choice doesn't sort right and vice/versa. Just depends.
Currently working on Dev Excalibur. Fast system.
https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/7c/c6/6PeWwzCI_t.png
TC

Thanks for replying. I think it may have been from a grub screen, though I'm not sure and will check next time.

trinidad · 2026-03-12 11:02:08

I lived in Minneapolis one summer with my Aunt and cousins. Third grade or so. Never been to NZ. Never been out of the US except PR and the VI though I've been to every state except California, Alaska, Hawaii and Delaware. Moved to Milwaukee in High School. My three wives were all from Milwaukee. My kids live everywhere. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Washington state, Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, PR and St. Thomas VI. I have cousins, Aunts, Uncles, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren in 33 states, PR, the VI, and Cuba. My Mother is still alive and lucid 95 years. She's still planning a revolutionary takeover.
TC

hhh · 2026-03-13 00:39:50

Döbbie03 wrote:

What's this about Auckland? What a shithole.

lol

Colonel Panic · 2026-03-14 16:21:15

I've installed MX again and gone back a version - so I'm on 23.6 (Bookworm), with Melodie's Openbox-based desktop called Bento.

The advantage of using the older version is that I can still install and use 32-bit software, such as Icedove (which for me is still by far the easiest and most convenient e-mail client to use).

So far everything's working great except that because it's the Bento version it's not exactly flush with included software, so I had to install quite a lot of things myself - there's no office suite as standard, for example. It doesn't take long though and if I was smart about it I could probably write a script to install several packages at once.

[A further note; its a pain in the arse trying to edit anything on Melodie's version, so I cheated and installed Openbox (plus the files I had from earlier) in the version of MX 23 I got from a magazine cover disk,

Maybe having just a handful of distros on my hard drive is the way I'll go in future because it takes so long to set everything up the way I want it in a new distro.]

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Colonel Panic · 2026-03-17 20:36:55

I've just installed EndeavourOS Ganymede from a magazine cover disk. As most people will know, it's an Arch-based distro with KDE.

It certainly looks impressive and I like the name, but the amount of software it comes with as standard is positively miserly - no e-mail client or office suite, for example. Is this the norm now?

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PackRat · 2026-03-17 22:13:07

Colonel Panic wrote:

I've just installed EndeavourOS Ganymede from a magazine cover disk. As most people will know, it's an Arch-based distro with KDE.
It certainly looks impressive and I like the name, but the amount of software it comes with as standard is positively miserly - no e-mail client or office suite, for example. Is this the norm now?

Did you do an offline install? That just installs the software from the live session and you're restricted to plasma desktop.

If you do the online install, you should have been able to select from several desktops, as well as, select additional software during the install. There is a screen with a tree view to add software. There are various categories - Printing Support, Media, Mail etc ....

Same applies to CachyOS.

But yes, many distros and their derivatives (Arch being one) keep the install basic so that the users can build their preferred system post-install. It also lowers the payload of the iso. Some of these distros with X (Wayland) and software bundles are pushing 3GB now. Pretty easy to exceed the size of a DVD these days.

Colonel Panic · Yesterday 04:38:03

PackRat wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
I've just installed EndeavourOS Ganymede from a magazine cover disk. As most people will know, it's an Arch-based distro with KDE.
It certainly looks impressive and I like the name, but the amount of software it comes with as standard is positively miserly - no e-mail client or office suite, for example. Is this the norm now?
Did you do an offline install? That just installs the software from the live session and you're restricted to plasma desktop.
If you do the online install, you should have been able to select from several desktops, as well as, select additional software during the install. There is a screen with a tree view to add software. There are various categories - Printing Support, Media, Mail etc ....
Same applies to CachyOS.
But yes, many distros and their derivatives (Arch being one) keep the install basic so that the users can build their preferred system post-install. It also lowers the payload of the iso. Some of these distros with X (Wayland) and software bundles are pushing 3GB now. Pretty easy to exceed the size of a DVD these days.

Thanks for replying, and yes, that would explain it. I couldn't do an online install because the live disk installer didn't pick up my network card - I get this a lot with Arch-based distros. I could only log in and start browsing once I'd installed the distro to the hard drive.

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