Subj : Re: Distrohopping
To   : esc
From : Bucko
Date : Wed Aug 23 2023 07:16:24

On 22 Aug 2023, esc said the following...
 
 es> Well, in the spirit of some of the recent linux conversations, I figured
 es> I'd give a little writeup on my recent experience.
 es> 
 es> Gnome is utter trash. It is so fucking terrible in every way. Why do
 es> distros still ship this as their default OS? It's slower than KDE Plasma
 es> (the other "big" DE), has far fewer features, relies too much on
 es> extensions to do basic things, and the theming is so complicated you can
 es> easily break shit and have an ugly desktop. No thank you.
 es> 
 es> So here I sit pondering my next move. I have basically narrowed it down
 es> to:
 es> 
 es> day 2. Reinstall Debian but with a different DE and see how it goes

I have always been a Windows user, until about 3 years ago when I needed to assemble some assembly code for the Commodore 64, I was told Linux would be easiest to do it. So I created a Ubuntu with Gnome Virtual Machine and did my assembling. Worked fine, but I started to play more with Ubuntu, and eventually set up my original plan for my BBS' when I first got back into BBS'n have a Linux based machine running VM's of all of my BBS' (one on every platform). I was able to do this. Fast forward a few months, I was having issues with one of my desktops and the Commodore emulator Vice constantly crashing. A friend mentioned running Manjaro and XFCE desktop. I did and for the most part the crashing slowed down (turned out to be bot attacks that my BBS software couldn't handle). Not being a Manjaro fan, I went to Debian because it is such a light distro. I haven't looked back, Debian 12 runs on this laptop I am using to type this, i5 3.0ghz, 16 gigs RAM. Bootup time is under 10 seconds, no issues at all.. Runs very fast all the time and battery life is between 3 to 3.5 hours from 100% to dead. My experiences on this have taught me that a lighter distro customized the way you want is a better distro.. Windows 10 on this machine gave me about 2 hours battery life, and would boot in about 40 or 50 seconds.. 

Give Debian 12 and XFCE another look at. You might just like what you see.

Al

.... The dog ate my .REP packet

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