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1 • Garuda is improving fast (by Carlos Felipe Araujo on 2020-10-12 01:40:59 GMT from Brazil)
I really enjoyed the distro, but.. The lite versions can be more lite. Still has a lot of bloatwares like a dozen icons and themes that I didn't like none of them, but they are there, eating my ssd. The xfce version has a confuse layout trying to copy gnome and macOS at the same time. I prefer a vainilla desktop or closest of this. Some versions (deepin, UKUI) bring Opera instead Firefox, but I don't understand why.
2 • zRAM (by dude on 2020-10-12 02:04:38 GMT from United States)
I have never used zRAM. But I do use tmpfs for /tmp and the Firefox browser.cache.disk.parent_directory to speed things up a bit.
3 • AllegianceOS (by jorge on 2020-10-12 02:38:15 GMT from Argentina)
Slackware distros like this make me feel I am in my place very nice job my best wishes to the team and regards to Porteus team
4 • AllegianceOS (by john on 2020-10-12 03:33:10 GMT from Canada)
Just downloaded and installed AllegianceOS - writing this review using it now. Seems to work ok, but not really sure of the point. It says it's to make Slackware easier, but seems to be the same as running Slackware itself. Granted - it's been a while since I've used Slackware, and maybe I've just been spoiled with other distros, but I wouldn't call this easy. If you don't know your way around Linux, you'd never get this running. Distros that exist to make "hard" versions easy - like Manjaro does for Arch - do a good job. This one still needs a bit of work.
5 • Nitrux sounds really interesting (by Andy Prough on 2020-10-12 04:13:23 GMT from United States)
I'm a big fan of openRC and Devuan. Mixing them with some software from the Ubuntu repos sounds like a very intriguing setup. Thanks for the review, I'm going to give it a spin.
I'm also very glad that it isn't just another Ubuntu respin with a different desktop, wallpaper, and a few different default apps thrown in. There are way more than enough of those floating around already.
6 • Re: Garuda Linux (by eco2geek on 2020-10-12 06:10:44 GMT from United States)
I downloaded and ran Garuda Linux (reviewed a few weeks ago), getting the KDE Ultimate Edition. I didn't install it, but ran it from a USB drive. When they say they recommend 6 GB of RAM to run the Ultimate Edition, they really mean it. It helps to have a fairly recent video card as well. If you like KDE's ability to display blurry (rather than merely translucent) backgrounds, this would be the distro for you. It's set up to run that way out of the box.
It also comes with Latte Dock, set up in such a way that the menus of applications are in the top bar when running, which is interesting.
They also have a "Lite Edition" for which they recommend 3 GB of RAM. Even it wants a recent video card to show off the eye candy.
The one thing that stood out as really odd was that there's a service named "nohang" that's supposed to handle low memory situations. It in fact caused KDE to hang on several occasions when running Firefox on the Ultimate Edition. The hangs stopped when the service was disabled.
As @1 Carlos said, you could certainly call this distro, even the Lite Edition, bloated, in that it's got a bunch of startup apps running by default, a bunch of pre-installed extensions in Firefox, and eye candy that wants newer hardware to run correctly. On the one hand, you can turn the eye candy off if you need to. On the other hand, if you've got the hardware, or at least some patience, it's a nice-looking distribution.
7 • zRAM (by mdisaster on 2020-10-12 06:19:53 GMT from Italy)
zRAM works like a charm on my Raspberrys, both the 512kb and the 4Gb models, and apparently helps to limit wear on the SD cards (I still have to lose one). I never tried it on a desktop PC though, maybe I'll give it a try after the next upgrade.
8 • @4 (AllegianceOS) (by Captain Obvious on 2020-10-12 12:08:34 GMT from United States)
Apparently it's listed as a Beta version.. maybe that's why it still needs work? :)
Also seems to be a video which guides one through the install. But if videos are not for you..
Two cents.
9 • zRAM (by dabbler on 2020-10-12 14:01:18 GMT from South Africa)
Surely the increased use of SSD's negates the advantages of using ZRAM?
10 • zRAM vs tmpfs (by anotherDude on 2020-10-12 16:08:48 GMT from United States)
Like @2 I've *also* never heard of zRAM, and also use tmpfs for /tmp and a couple other things. I don't know if I'd want to use it for swap (maybe if I set it up to be the first, tiny swap before disk?), but this week's question now has me thinking I'll need to look up the zRAM equivalents to tmpfs and maybe try it out.
I'm honestly surprised that a question about a "feature which allows us to treat a portion of the computer's physical memory as though it were compressed storage space" doesn't even *reference* how, from that description, it's basically tmpfs with compression? And if the reason is it's *not* that, then I'm surprised there isn't a disclaimer warning users that it *sounds* like that but isn't.
I'm not in the "try an experimental thing that reworks a critical part of my system" mood right now, but this alone has certainly warranted me flagging this issue to go back to later and see if this is worth switching to. Having even *more* room in RAM to spare the SSD needless writes and still (effectively) guarantee file removal on shutdown sounds useful.
11 • zram (by mikef90000 on 2020-10-12 20:55:15 GMT from United States)
Since memory is cheap and plentiful, I use zram for both /tmp and swap.
Zramswap is a convenient way to set up zram for swap, just edit /etc/default/zramswap and reboot. You can allocate space by absolute or percentage size.
12 • @8 (Allegiance) (by john on 2020-10-12 22:13:27 GMT from Canada)
Beta is for bug fixes and system issues. This is missing entire features for "making things easy" - like welcome screens and setup wizards and point and click installers... That's what I meant about still needing work. (and if you need to watch a video to figure out how to install and configure it, vs click next like Calamares or other advanced installers, then also - not "easy"). Just saying that I don't think it's currently living up to its stated goals. The OS works fine, but not simply.
13 • @12, Simple Allegiance (by Juan de la Cruz on 2020-10-13 12:23:37 GMT from Philippines)
I think you confuse simple or easy with GUI. I try different distros often, and Allegiance is a lot easier than the Nitrux mess. As simple as Debian, if not simpler. No video necessary. You do need to use cfdisk to create a partition, which can be confusing if you aren't familiar, but after that it's all accepting the default by hitting 'Enter" or typing "yes" a few times. Once done and booted to desktop you are given some choices of software to install add users and configure the desktop. No video necessary. I chose to install Chromium, and that's what I'm using right now. There's no GUI package manager like Debian's Synaptic. It is Slackware after all, just with a quicker and simpler install.
14 • zRam (by Ankleface Wroughlandmire on 2020-10-13 12:30:53 GMT from Ecuador)
I use zRAM on a Thinkpad with 8GB of RAM and an Intel CORE I5. I mainly enable it so that the kernel has somewhere to flush stuff to avoid a total crash/freeze if I get in over my head in RAM usage. However, it usually does *not* prevent freezes under low memory conditions. This actually highlights one of the biggest weaknesses of the Linux kernel in my opinion, which is terribly poor handling of low memory situations. Swapping (to the disk or to RAM) results in a completely unusable system (mouse won't even move). The kernel also has the OOM killer, but it never intervenes on time, and once it gets into zRAM the system is basically unrecoverable and has to be force-powered off. I say this as huge fan of Linux and with almost 2 decades of experience with it-- Linux allows the system to get into an unrecoverable state in low memory situations, which a good kernel should *never* allow to happen.
15 • @14 zRAM / RAMdisk is not advisable for high memory utilisation (by Matt on 2020-10-13 16:59:12 GMT from Singapore)
I think your machine crashes is likely due to your use of zRAM rather than the Linux kernel memory handling capabilities. Swapping seldom used OS modules, programs and data to the hard disk is a way for the OS to free up memory.
In your case, enabling zRAM has restricted the total available RAM for your memory hungry applications. Furthermore your zRAM space is probably too small for Linux to dump the uneeded programs. (Assuming 10% of your 8GB RAM is used for zRAM.)
I would advise not using zRAM for swap unless your machine is similar to a Raspberry Pi where the SD card storage has limited writes.
16 • Simple Allegiance (by Cynic on 2020-10-13 21:20:11 GMT from Ghana)
A graphical package manager is being developed. Glad it seemed simpler to you.
17 • @15 zRAM / RAMdisk is not advisable for high memory utilisation (by Ankleface Wroughlandmire on 2020-10-14 00:56:48 GMT from Ecuador)
Interesting, thanks for the response. I've had similar results with a large swap file on the SSD, although I admit I haven't tried a swap partition for years. I don't think a partition vs. a file could make a big difference. As for the zRAM size, the default configuration for my distro seems to create the same size as the physical RAM, as the zRAM is also 8GB in size.
18 • @16, Simple Allegiance (by Juan de la Cruz on 2020-10-14 03:09:26 GMT from Philippines)
Good luck with your project. After giving up on Zenwalk in frustration, I appreciate a working installer. Something like gslapt would be useful.
19 • @18 GUI for Software Management (by Cynic on 2020-10-14 03:42:00 GMT from Ghana)
Sadly gslapt only deals with packages. The one in development for AllegianceOS will incorporate packages, SlackBuilds.org, python pip and node NPM into one for install/upgrade/remove. One tool rather than needing 4 or more.. we'll see. :)
20 • Regarding Garuda Linux review (by Leo_sk on 2020-10-14 08:31:13 GMT from India)
After reading the review, I couldn't help myself without telling the reviewer that strange behaviour he had with windows was due to krohnkite being enabled default. It is a kwin script that allows tiling behaviour
21 • @18 - Slackel is a nice Slack-based distro (by Hoos on 2020-10-14 11:28:57 GMT from Singapore)
It has a graphical installer (of the distro) where the user can choose not to reformat existing swap partition(s).
As far as I'm aware, for various other Slack-based distros, they are still using the ncurses text-based installer where the user is forced to reformat swap, or even their graphical installer does that.
When you have multiple distros on your machine and you don't wish to mess with the existing swap and its UUID (which your other distros' fstab uses), that is an important consideration.
22 • AllegianceOS and Software Management (by barnabyh on 2020-10-14 19:45:50 GMT from Czechia)
Sounds like a great idea. I'm looking forward to trying AllegianceOS when that's done. IMO with the same amount of dedication and resources Slackware could be made into something just as good as what Manjaro is on the Arch base.
23 • @14 the handling of low memory situations (by Flatlander on 2020-10-15 07:44:05 GMT from Netherlands)
Maybe have a look at 'earlyoom'. With it installed, the first two times that Firefox suddenly went down were surprising, but I much prefer it to an unresponsive system and then having to hold the power-off button.
24 • Nitrux and WindowsFX (by whoKnows on 2020-10-15 16:26:26 GMT from Switzerland)
Just as Jessie did ... “I showed the groupings to a non-techie and asked ...”
I showed WindowsFX to a techie ...
Well, it was well worth it, we had a fantastic laugh.
https://ibb.co/NjV0BrW
As of Nitrux itself ... weeell ... we just got one more thing that no one needs.
Just like Pop! OS, it disqualifies itself the very moment when the desktop appears.
Black (default!) theme is an absolute no-go from the usability aspect (which IS NOT a matter of taste!), but not only that — they even managed to make it black-on-black!
https://ibb.co/tQzb6zM
Start menu opens with some 3 icons and the rest is empty. Applications are then grouped on the 2nd page.
Not enough, once one opens one of those groups and decides that he doesn't need any of the programs, there's no way to leave it except starting something, just to leave the menu somehow and come back out.
https://ibb.co/tbdRrcK
And then, I decided to check the installer ...
User nitrux with password nitrux quits in error. :)
https://ibb.co/q1Y71HT
Next try, with some random username and password worked, but ...
Upon installation was done (and reboot), there were some 600 MB of updates available.
Graphical and non-graphical install failed each time on base-passwd package.
https://ibb.co/wgPJYKq
https://ibb.co/XLWDkSP
https://ibb.co/64tVyLx
Do we really have to wonder when (sooner or later) something will fail to install on Nitrux?
https://ibb.co/7gpWmVs
25 • Installing Nitrux to HDD (by Kanwar on 2020-10-15 23:57:29 GMT from Australia)
Could not install Nitrux on my HDD. Tried both "install alongside" as well as "replace a partition" option. Nothing happens i.e. does not install even though the installers claims success :)
Anyone else face this?
26 • Nitrux (by Juan de la Cruz on 2020-10-16 00:45:28 GMT from Philippines)
@25, "Could not install Nitrux on my HDD."
Consider yourself lucky. See @24. I concur with @24's assessment, except for the dark theme, but then I don't use LibreOffice. It installed on VBox after a couple of failures, and also ran into the Frankenstein sources.list problem. Installing on SSD was a no-no, as it would not allow a choice of partitions and I wasn't about to screw up my setup.
27 • Dark Themes as Default (by whoKnows on 2020-10-16 07:33:18 GMT from Switzerland)
26 • Nitrux (by Juan de la Cruz)
"I concur with @24's assessment, except for the dark theme, but then I don't use LibreOffice."
Please don't get me wrong on dark themes.
Nothing against if somebody is installing it for her~/himself, but we are talking about “per default”.
The situation is simple: Computers were/are made for work (whatever you use it for).
Working on a computer on a workplace has certain ergonomic demands, and they are not a question of taste, but of science named “ergonomics”, and in the most countries of the world, ergonomic standards and regulations are given (clearly defined).
It's usually clearly defined how one office has to look like; what light levels has to meet, what placement of computers and so on and on.
Glaring displays are no-go, dark themes are no-go, pale fonts are no-go ... even if, if you'd be working in the dark cellar at night, the dark theme would obviously be a better choice. However, that's not a workplace nor the wast majority of people work in the offices without lightning during the night.
But now, please look at this:
https://ibb.co/hDR2z8s
What exactly they were thinking of??
Highlighted text in text editor is dark-on-dark gray with dark blue highlighting!
If LibreOffice already has to be dark, why dark-on-dark icons? There is a Sifr White icon set for that purpose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E23mUplT-cg
And then the default icon set with that pseudo-shading ...
https://ibb.co/Rc9hKMt
Icon set with headache-warranty, if one looks at it for more than a couple of seconds.
The only good news: (Almost) Nobody who needs a computer for serious work uses Linux and if, then Ubuntu (Zorin/Mint) or Fedora/Red Hat.
28 • Serious work... (by Friar Tux on 2020-10-16 13:31:08 GMT from Canada)
@27 (whoknows) "Nobody who needs a computer for serious work uses Linux and if, then Ubuntu (Zorin/Mint)... "
Yup, that's true. Mint for me. I spend about 15 hrs a day on my machine (now that I'm retired) so I'd say my writing, reading, researching is pretty serious. I cannot use the average "light" theme as it's like staring at a 60 watt bulb. And those ugly dark grey themes - nope. For those complaining about the black themes (truely black, not really dark, dark grey), that's exactly what I use with cyan coloured font. It's perfect for all-day computering. I did, however, find a much better solution - the Oomox Theme Builder (not sure if there is a Windows version). It does an absolutely fantastic job of theme creation - in any colour you want. I now use a very dark cyan/teal with light cyan/teal font - quite restful on these old eyes.
By the way, @27, I do agree with that grey-on-grey bring quite hard to read - and then the darkish blue highlight... ouch, I would go cross-eyed after about an hour.
29 • "Serious Work" (by whoKnows on 2020-10-16 15:57:16 GMT from Switzerland)
28 • Serious work... (by Friar Tux)
You are not the measure, but the most users in most situations.
"Serious work" is maybe not a perfect word for it (but I still didn't find the more and the most appropriate substitute for it) and it maybe needs a little explanation.
Many things that one does alone can be done any way one wants it.
One can make a research work or write a book with a pen on paper, by typewriter, on PC in text editor or in some office suite.
However, in most cases "serious work" involves many people, or at least more than one single person (but it's also not necessarily a team work).
That book that you're writing, your publisher demands as DOCX.
Photo as PSD ... Illustration as ...
You get what I mean.
As I also said, there is always some use case for the dark themes, however it is and it will always, as long as there's desktop monitor, a huge no-go as a DEFAULT setting.
30 • serious work (by Otis on 2020-10-16 16:34:15 GMT from United States)
@27 "The only good news: (Almost) Nobody who needs a computer for serious work uses Linux and if, then Ubuntu (Zorin/Mint) or Fedora/Red Hat."
That's quite a cold splash of water in the face. Woke me right up. So, Linux is for non-serious work or recreation only. After all this time.
Where did we go wrong?
31 • "Where did we go?" (by whoKnows on 2020-10-16 17:18:08 GMT from Switzerland)
30 • serious work (by Otis)
"Where did we go wrong?"
So plus, minus ...
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-year-of-dissatisfaction.html
Don't like that fact neither. :(
32 • Serious work (by barnabyh on 2020-10-16 19:54:01 GMT from Germany)
"The only good news: (Almost) Nobody who needs a computer for serious work uses Linux and if, then Ubuntu (Zorin/Mint) or Fedora/Red Hat."
We should qualify we're talking about desktop use here. Unfortunately, I have to concur with the assessment. Perhaps adding Debian and its direct derivatives. However, WE did not go wrong anywhere because I would wager these type of distributions represent the majority in business and enterprise office use. It doesn't matter which distribution, only that it is a Linux distribution.
Dedoimedo is spot on as usual in almost all points. But as we know everybody's use case is different, needs and abilities are different. I haven't had any major issues, if any, since 2009 that did not turn out to be down to impending hardware failure in the end (read write errors on a dying HD). For me it is a case of 'good enough' and certainly better than Windows any day. It ticks all the boxes and does everything I need it to and I suspect there are plenty of users like me.
I hate nagging and pop-ups and would never go back to Win even if they paid me. That's my main pet peeve. Btw, that's a good reason to disable update-notifiers, at least on rolling distributions, and update at your own leisure.
33 • UNIX, Linux, BSDs and so on ... (by Neefty Nixer on 2020-10-17 07:48:52 GMT from Canada)
No matter which flavor of *nix you use,
you always remains unde UNIX sky;
with same legendary stars.
UNIX - KT, DM, and Bell & AT&T Team.
LINUX - RMS, Linus & all others individual distro brewer team.
MIT has played big roll may be because of RMS was at MIT.
BSD - Berkeley Software Team has played very decent roll IN BSD - among with all others.
After for a while when anyone who knows nuts-n-bolts of *nix,
DE, flavor and rest of vast diversities really does not matter much.
As all performs very identical, with slight difference in licensing.
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| • Issue 1082 (2024-08-05): Linux Mint 22, taking snapshots of UFS on FreeBSD, openSUSE updates Tumbleweed and Aeon, Debian creates Tiny QA Tasks, Manjaro testing immutable images |
| • Issue 1081 (2024-07-29): SysLinuxOS 12.4, OpenBSD gain hardware acceleration, Slackware changes kernel naming, Mint publishes upgrade instructions |
| • Issue 1080 (2024-07-22): Running GNU/Linux on Android with Andronix, protecting network services, Solus dropping AppArmor and Snap, openSUSE Aeon Desktop gaining full disk encryption, SUSE asks openSUSE to change its branding |
| • Issue 1079 (2024-07-15): Ubuntu Core 24, hiding files on Linux, Fedora dropping X11 packages on Workstation, Red Hat phasing out GRUB, new OpenSSH vulnerability, FreeBSD speeds up release cycle, UBports testing new first-run wizard |
| • Issue 1078 (2024-07-08): Changing init software, server machines running desktop environments, OpenSSH vulnerability patched, Peppermint launches new edition, HardenedBSD updates ports |
| • Issue 1077 (2024-07-01): The Unity and Lomiri interfaces, different distros for different tasks, Ubuntu plans to run Wayland on NVIDIA cards, openSUSE updates Leap Micro, Debian releases refreshed media, UBports gaining contact synchronisation, FreeDOS celebrates its 30th anniversary |
| • Issue 1076 (2024-06-24): openSUSE 15.6, what makes Linux unique, SUSE Liberty Linux to support CentOS Linux 7, SLE receives 19 years of support, openSUSE testing Leap Micro edition |
| • Issue 1075 (2024-06-17): Redox OS, X11 and Wayland on the BSDs, AlmaLinux releases Pi build, Canonical announces RISC-V laptop with Ubuntu, key changes in systemd |
| • Issue 1074 (2024-06-10): Endless OS 6.0.0, distros with init diversity, Mint to filter unverified Flatpaks, Debian adds systemd-boot options, Redox adopts COSMIC desktop, OpenSSH gains new security features |
| • Issue 1073 (2024-06-03): LXQt 2.0.0, an overview of Linux desktop environments, Canonical partners with Milk-V, openSUSE introduces new features in Aeon Desktop, Fedora mirrors see rise in traffic, Wayland adds OpenBSD support |
| • Issue 1072 (2024-05-27): Manjaro 24.0, comparing init software, OpenBSD ports Plasma 6, Arch community debates mirror requirements, ThinOS to upgrade its FreeBSD core |
| • Issue 1071 (2024-05-20): Archcraft 2024.04.06, common command line mistakes, ReactOS imports WINE improvements, Haiku makes adjusting themes easier, NetBSD takes a stand against code generated by chatbots |
| • Issue 1070 (2024-05-13): Damn Small Linux 2024, hiding kernel messages during boot, Red Hat offers AI edition, new web browser for UBports, Fedora Asahi Remix 40 released, Qubes extends support for version 4.1 |
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CachyOS is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It focuses on speed and security optimisations - the default Linux kernel is heavily optimised using the BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) scheduler, while the desktop packages are compiled with LTO, x86-64-v3 and x86-64-v4, Zen 4 optimization, security flags and performance improvements. The available desktop environments and window managers include KDE, GNOME, Xfce, i3wm, Wayfire, LXQt, OpenBox, Cinnamon, COSMIC, UKUI, LXDE, MATE, Budgie, Qtile, Hyprland and Sway. CachyOS also ships with both graphical and command-line installers and provides a Firefox-based browser (called Cachy-Browser) with some security enhancements and performance optimisations.
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