Distro-hoppers anonymous

el_koraco · 2016-02-29 08:36:16

ostrolek wrote:

Clean white
And, no adverts

Firefox theme or Edge?

nobody0 · 2016-02-29 16:35:52

That was Edge

This is Firefox. Same clean look. Firefox also is taking sides.

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Eraph · 2016-02-29 23:52:58

Gonna have a go at remembering all the distros I've attempted over the years, starting from about 2000 or 2001, through to 2009...

WinLinux
Debian (I was terribly inexperienced at this point and ended up with only a cli and I was all such as "WTF")
Knoppix
Fedora Core (could be 5, the wallpaper looks familiar)
Ubuntu (early version)
OpenSUSE (managed to stick with this on an aging laptop, but not as my primary machine)
Android
Linux Mint 7

Around this point I started feeling a lot of love for Microsoft as their products seemed to be getting rather good - OneDrive and Visual Studio and OneNote and so on. I largely forgot about Linux for a while. Then Nadella took over and things went downhill again, free OneDrive storage was revoked towards the end of last year and I was worried with the way things were heading so I saw it as a good opportunity to see how things were going with Linux again.

Linux Mint 17.2/17.3 - the first distro to successfully fully switch me over from Windows on my main machine. It helps that the likes of Steam has come along to massively improve support for Linux.
CentOS - I'm now renting a VPS in the cloud for running cloud storage and planning to move all my hosting over to it as well, it's been a mega Linux learning experience, using nowt but SSH to start with but discovering tools such as WebMin has been super helpful.
Fedora 23
Korora
Debian 8.2
Bunsenlabs RC2 - Here I am

So I've been around, but it's funny because I still feel like a beginner. Maybe I should start looking at myself as 'lower-intermediate', after all, if I can administer a VPS server over SSH then I must be getting somewhere. What the hey, I'm having fun. Just gotta stop distro-hopping and start being productive!

Snap · 2016-03-01 09:46:05

Just gotta stop distro-hopping and start being productive!

LOL, same here!

dolly · 2016-03-01 10:09:43

Eraph wrote:

Just gotta stop distro-hopping and start being productive!

Yeah right! That is what we all say!

ratcheer · 2016-03-01 12:51:58

dolly wrote:

Eraph wrote:
Just gotta stop distro-hopping and start being productive!
Yeah right! That is what we all say!

I used to have 5 or 6 distros installed all the time, and most of them were constantly changing. But I'm now down to two, and the second one hasn't been booted for the past couple of months. I'm only using Arch Linux.

Tim

g33zr · 2016-03-01 14:14:27

^I usually have a couple of distros installed in VB, in addition to my main Linux distro (with which I use two different DEs), but I rarely boot the VB distros anymore. Perhaps my distro-hopping days are over. 8)

Irulan · 2016-03-01 14:19:28

From liveCD/DVD/USB boot I can have a shiny new distro in 15-20 minutes and be productive (aka writing/debugging/submitting code) inside the company (and hooked into the samba/nfs land)
Not a testament to me, rather the quality of the installers.
-Hinto

nobody0 · 2016-03-01 14:20:51

Since 25th February, I am still with Win10 and liking it. The app windows have spartan looks. Fonts are easier on the eyes. Gimp starts up faster. Using WPS office instead of Libre office. Virtual desktops make life easier. I've been away from Windows for 6 years. Nothing much to learn, though. My Linux laptop is having a rest. Not dual booting like most of us Linux users. I'm using the comp to be productive, whatever the OS.

el_koraco · 2016-03-01 17:03:11

If this is a computer you depend on for work, make sure you remove the Microsoft account and enable the local one. My office Win10 laptop had a situation one thay where it couldn't communicate with Microsoft's servers, so it made my whole user account useless. I fixed it with two hours researching on the phone and hacking the registry, but it happened on a super busy day...

jalexander9 · 2016-03-01 19:01:08

Recently, installed FreeBSD 10.2 on my old refurbished desktop. Using the package method on some easy installations. While using the ports method on more extensive installations - like qt4-corelibs and qt4-gui. Over the last two years have had only marginal success with establishing a good system. (Usually weekend experiments only with Openbox, and this last one using i3wm.) Documentation from man pages, FreeBSD Handbook and Porter's Handbook prove to be valuable learning texts for understanding the working mechanics of BSD and other Unix-like operating systems.

When the systemd brew-ha-ha broke out last year, these experiments with BSD helped me to understand how to run my system hardware with alternative methods, and learn to have a plan B if ever needed.

Since last night, re-installed Bunsenlabs on the old desktop and it runs great.

EDIT: Testing FreeBSD 10.3 Beta 3 this weekend.

2016-03-18 EDIT: Added MATE Desktop and upgraded to FreeBSD 10.3-RC2...pF also added...it runs ok.
2016-03-24 EDIT: Switched to i3wm and upgraded to FreeBSD 10.3-RC3...it runs fine.

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nobody0 · 2016-03-01 19:16:30

el_koraco wrote:

If this is a computer you depend on for work, make sure you remove the Microsoft account and enable the local one. My office Win10 laptop had a situation one thay where it couldn't communicate with Microsoft's servers, so it made my whole user account useless. I fixed it with two hours researching on the phone and hacking the registry, but it happened on a super busy day...

I have one account as the Local Account Administrator and another Microsoft one. I don't depend on Windows as an OS for my work, any OS would do. My work now stays in the net, in a server in another country, so if my comp/os fails, my work would be still be intact.

Isn't it quite interesting that the majority of our Linux users actually are dependent on Windows for work? They use Linux distros mostly at home and it is sort of a hobby.

Irulan · 2016-03-01 19:20:39

^
I code on Mac and Windows. (C/C++/Objective C)
When I coded mainly Java, I was 100% Linux.
Now, I run Win7 as a vmguest on Linux.
Some habits are hard to break
-H

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zephyr · 2016-03-01 21:11:01

Installed Star Morbius i3 x64 Special , exceptionally nice distro built on Devuan and i3 WM. Well worth a look for those who enjoy tiling window managers!

https://sourceforge.net/projects/linnix … =directory

https://i3wm.org/

Z

el_koraco · 2016-03-01 21:24:34

ostrolek wrote:

Isn't it quite interesting that the majority of our Linux users actually are dependent on Windows for work? They use Linux distros mostly at home and it is sort of a hobby.

You have to work with computer illiterate people writing macros for Word 2003 and similar. You can't avoid them.

Snap · 2016-03-02 06:38:22

I currently have three systems on bare metal, but I hardly ever boot onto the other two. Just my main system. Regarding virtual machines. I trim them down from time to time and just leave a bunch of them, but the number tends to grow fast every time. Currently 13 VMs and growing.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-03-02 07:56:33

Currently trying to get Alpine going.
http://www.alpinelinux.org/

It's slightly frustrating as I have the whole system installed (XFCE desktop included) and I can even start & stop services but I can't get the little bugger to boot

Unfortunately, the kernel doesn't support EFI_STUB booting so I'm GRUBbing around in Legacy mode and the initramfs can't find root on my btrfs subvolume

The distribution itself is beautiful, it uses OpenRC (busybox) as init with a grsec kernel and a totally script-driven set up.

g33zr · 2016-03-02 16:02:09

UPDATE:

OK, so after complaining about Mac OS X, I've spent quite a bit of time looking under the hood as much as I can and tweaking things. Despite the fact that I dislike not having the kind of control I have with Linux, such as changing themes, WM, DEs, etc., there are a few things I do like, e.g.:

* Mac provides a great selection of stunning wallpapers.
* You can create, edit, and install bash scripts.
* Command line in terminal is basically Unix since OS X is a Unix spin (i.e., FreeBSD).
* It appears that Apple has been influenced by Linux in several ways. For example, launching apps with Launchpad looks a Gnome DE, if you don't mind a Gnome look.
* After tweaking a bit, boot time is faster -- around 35-40 seconds.

Meanwhile, via VirtualBox, Debian and Manjaro Cinnamon run great. Plan to try OpenBSD next.

In sum, I'm doing what I can with what I have on the iMac. 8)

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photonucleon · 2016-03-02 17:23:45

g33zr wrote:

UPDATE:
OK, so after complaining about Mac OS X, I've spent quite a bit of time looking under the hood as much as I can and tweaking things. Despite the fact that I dislike not having the kind of control I have with Linux, such as changing themes, WM, DEs, etc., there are a few things I do like, e.g.:
* Mac provides a great selection of stunning wallpapers.
* You can create, edit, and install bash scripts.
* Command line in terminal is basically Unix since OS X is a Unix spin (i.e., FreeBSD).
* It appears that Apple has been influenced by Linux in several ways. For example, launching apps with Launchpad looks a Gnome DE, if you don't mind a Gnome look.
* After tweaking a bit, boot time is faster -- around 35-40 seconds.
Meanwhile, via VirtualBox, Debian and Manjaro Cinnamon run great. Plan to try OpenBSD next.
In sum, I'm doing what I can with what I have on the iMac. 8)

Have you seen http://brew.sh/ ? It's described as "the missing package manager for OS X". Looks interesting...

g33zr · 2016-03-02 19:23:17

^photonucleon, I haven't seen it, but I'll try it out. many thanks for the tip!

p.s. I installed it and am about to play with it a bit.

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