#3001 Yesterday 12:56:09

Colonel Panic

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Registered: 2018-11-13

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Thanks for the info. I think I'd have be convinced though that FreeBSD was better than what I'm already using (especially when I have an old and gradually failing computer that I'm trying to keep going).

I don't know how much this is true for everyone else here but I've got a lot of "sunk cost" in terms of the knowledge I've built up over the years that I've been using Linux, even down to things like the batch files I use that rely on Linux partition naming conventions (the BSDs are different in this regard), so I feel I'd need a good reason to change over.

At the moment I'm posting from MX 23 (Melodie's Bento respin).

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MarkW

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I could try refurbishing my previous laptop and putting FreeBSD on that.   Just need to get some more tools

Döbbie03

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

For anyone wanting to try Void, this might be worth a looksee

https://odysseylinux.org/

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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Looks good Dobbie!

unklar

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

For anyone wanting to try Void, this might be worth a looksee

https://odysseylinux.org/

Thanks!
Unfortunately, there's too much of a discrepancy between the *grand* announcement and the *download*...   

Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I've had another go at installing MX Fluxbox 25.2, and this time it worked. I'm posting from it now.

I took PackRat's and greenjeans's advice and disabled the screensaver first (I wasn't able to do the same for power management, but in the event it didn't matter). And of course I didn't have Firefox open this time.

So far it's working very well and is light in system resources (for a 2026 distro). I'm not overly keen on the appearance, which it has in common with all the other MX 25.2 series, but that's easily changed.

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