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1 • Vanilla OS (by Toran on 2023-01-16 02:45:02 GMT from Belgium)
Whgen you install Vanilla OS always start withy your PC turned of. If not turned of, the installer might crash. Once installed this OS works like charm. Unfortunatly, like with all other immutables I used, no hplip, no hp-plugin . Hplip is installable but actually not needed. Hp-plugin is not installable, so one needs Vuescan. Kdeconnect can be ibstalled, but does not work yet. This is reported. I have made 2 tutorals on YT regarding Vanilla OS, btw.
https://youtu.be/EBQqIXIIoKw
On how to install firefox and VdhCoApp 1.6.3
https://youtu.be/dugmFtkbHVE
On how to install VueScan if there is a problem with the filesize.
For the rest, I look forward to the future as this distro is really the greatest distro I ever used. But I really need things like my scanner and kdeconnect, so for the time being...
2 • Sharing files between computers (by Sam Crawford on 2023-01-16 03:00:13 GMT from United States)
I share files three different ways between computers.
1. I use USB drives to install a distro to a new computerr.
2. Then I transfer some larger files, such as VMs and music files, and a few configuration files from a portable hard drive.
3. Finally I use "Insync" to sync my Google drive and OneDrive to the current computer.
I've been doing this for years and it's become habit.
3 • VanillaOS (by Desmundo on 2023-01-16 04:55:04 GMT from Australia)
I have tried VanillaOS in a VM but despite being able to install it I didn't go much further when I found it only used Flatpak and Appimage for package management.
I've never liked the Flatpak format and to me the attraction of a Ubuntu-based immutable OS would be the ability to run it purely with Snaps, which I find run much better on this machine than the alternatives.
However Snaps seem to be a known issue and are not offered at install time yet - when they are I might have another look at it.
Having said all of that to me the immutable distro is a novelty only - I don't like the way Android is locked down in similar fashion and I want to be able to do what I want with my computer, and that includes being able to break it.
4 • Sharing files... (by Krzys on 2023-01-16 05:07:26 GMT from United States)
I've been using Synching for all my file sharing between local and remote devices. Been using it for a few years now and it has been very reliable.
5 • File transfer choices (by AdamB on 2023-01-16 06:16:28 GMT from Australia)
I ticked rsync, which is what I use regularly for syncing files (including between Linux and Mac OS), but I also use scp - often when setting up a new installation.
I preferentially use bittorrent for downloading ISOs.
I also use Samba to share files with computers running Windows. I should also mention FreeFileSync, which I use to sync file structures on Windows to my linux computers.
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On an unrelated topic, in regard to the recent review of Void Linux, my installation of Void, running the MATE desktop environment, uses the 'lxdm' display manager.
6 • Sharing files (by Bob on 2023-01-16 06:57:27 GMT from United States)
Can the Opinion Poll be multiple choice? I routinely use rsync to update files on my NFS server, and ftp to share files with my smartphone. I occasionally use removable media or Google Drive to transfer files. And BitTorrent for downloading ISOs, when that option is available.
7 • File tranfer (by Commuter on 2023-01-16 07:09:24 GMT from Spain)
USB hard disks with LuckyBackup
8 • File sharing (by Alexandru on 2023-01-16 07:46:48 GMT from Romania)
I also use multiple ways to transfer files across computers and mobile devices: removable media, network attached storage and cloud.
9 • sharing files (by Dr.J on 2023-01-16 07:53:00 GMT from Germany)
"Sharing files" can mean different things. In the sense of really sharing (my wife sends me a file to read) we use NFS, i.e. all other computers or devices are accessible on my PC via NFS (I have integrated corresponding "mount/umount scripts" for all devices in my file manager with a dropdown menu). Smartphone and tablets are also mounted this way (either directly via WLAN or via FTP).
There is also a network drive for everyone, where shared files (pictures, movie, music, etc.) are located.
For backups to external or network drives I use rsync (mostly as cronjobs).
For full backups of hard drives and partitions fsarchiver and dd.
10 • Unison (by SuperOscar on 2023-01-16 09:04:49 GMT from Finland)
One essential choice is missing from this week’s poll: Unison. I use it between NFS shares and local computer, removable storage and local computer, and two computers via SSH. As far as I know, it’s still the only program that does a decent two-way sync; rsync is OK but essentially one-way.
11 • File transfer (by DachshundMan on 2023-01-16 10:31:35 GMT from United Kingdom)
It is interesting to see that the old fashioned sneakernet still rules the roost when it comes to file transfer. Certainly I voted for it although to transfer files to my partners computer I often use Email for small to medium size files but that was not an option in the poll.
When I was working we used OneDrive a lot but now I am retired and have switched to using Linux 95% of the time I no longer use it.
12 • Vanilla distro (by qwerty99 on 2023-01-16 10:58:38 GMT from United Kingdom)
Once installed this OS works like charm.
Sounds like the 'charm' is set to destroy working systems!
You have to sympathize with Jesse, reviewing these half-baked distros must be a bit soul-destroying.
13 • Vanilla OS and Nobara (by Rickg on 2023-01-16 11:04:00 GMT from United States)
It appears that you had really bad luck with installs this month! I often try new releases in a virtual machine and I recently tried both of these.
Vanilla OS is an odd duck and, although it installed, I do not see the point of it.
Nobara always installs for me and it seems to provide a well configured Fedora.
14 • 2-in-1 movable storage (by MInuxLintEbianDedition on 2023-01-16 11:06:53 GMT from United Kingdom)
so, I have two 32 bit systems on large capacity thumb drives. I use these for admin things, rescue things, and also file transfer.
I have two in case I need to transfer from the system booted from the thumb drive system, and in case one fails.
15 • Filre transfer (by dragonmouth on 2023-01-16 13:29:41 GMT from United States)
To transfer files between my Linux desktop and Win 7 laptop I use sneakernet.
My two installs of Linux share the /home partition so there is no tranfer between them.
16 • File movement (by Otis on 2023-01-16 14:28:29 GMT from United States)
I doubt if I'm the only one to have used several of the listed choices, and still do. Trying to think of which method most often, guess that'd be media, but FTP a close second. BitTorrent often, too.
I checked "other."
17 • File Transfers (by Trinidad Cruz on 2023-01-16 14:28:30 GMT from United States)
Any given day I have 10 or more computers including Windows 10/11 and several differing Linux systems, some on hardware, some on emulated hardware, both qemu/kvm and hyper-v, on my private network and several remote connections. I use SSH SFTP conections more than any other method. I'd guess my file sharing method usage as follows:
1) SSH SFTP 80% (Linux to Linux and cross platform to Windows)
2) MS One Drive 5%
3) SSH SCP 5%
4) Samba 2% (Usually only on old Windows 7 boxes in for repair)
5) RDP+Samba 2%
6) SSH VNC+SFTP 2%
7) Spice Clipboard Qemu 2%
8) USB Drives 1%
9) Google Drive 1%
I utilize Remmina natively and x11 forwarded all the time.
TC
18 • Samba Shares (by Mike W on 2023-01-16 14:57:44 GMT from United States)
Samba shares are not for the faint of heart to setup, especially for a relative novice like me, but once set up it works great.
I use Daphile (https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=daphile) as a music server. It has built-in synching/backup capabilities which make moving files between USB drives attached to the server very easy. Daphile also allows access to those attached drives on the home network, and I connect to them from other Linux boxes, tablets, etc, via Samba.
19 • Sharing Files (by Brad on 2023-01-16 15:14:08 GMT from United States)
"Sneaker-Net" (Removable Storage), so that I can copy pictures from our digital camera to a USB key, and give it to my wife, so that she can post the pictures on FB.
20 • Of storage and Vanilla... (by tom joad on 2023-01-16 17:26:35 GMT from Austria)
I voted 'other.' I have used Box, Dropbox and some other online storage. I was never happy with the security. One I did like was the Ubuntu storage, Ubuntuone or something, but they took that away.
Then the Ed Snowden thing blew up. From that I learned about TOR and Spideroak. I have been using both ever since. And I am happy with both too. I recommend both.
Really SECURE online storage is very handy to have.
Other times I just email what I need to share, either to myself or others. I think that is better than the sneakernet.
And I got a good chuckle from reading the review of Vanilla. 'Throw it back in the pond and let it grow up.'
21 • Immutable Distributions (Vanilla OS, Fedora Silverblue, etc.) (by CorpSouth on 2023-01-16 19:08:09 GMT from United States)
Fedora 37 Silverblue had been tight for me so far. I started with Fedora 36 Silverblue back in October of last year, having some adjustment pains after using Debian. The experience smoothed out in about a week, and it just became another desktop distribution for me.
So far ostree has learned to walk, but perhaps not grow all its teeth in. After three months I am going to stick around because I'm taking a break from distro hopping. Containers are fun and a good way to get rolling release software to use while keeping the host machine on a slower release roadmap.
The long-term sustainability is an attractive prospect, I am diligently watching for refinements in this specific model.
22 • Vanilla OS (by Mulya_yiri on 2023-01-16 21:57:28 GMT from Australia)
I managed to install Vanilla OS as a VM after reading a review of it. I was really interested in it after what I read.
I tried to set it up and install favourite apps as I would any other new distro, but it failed to do so. I acknowledge this is probably my fault because I don't understand clearly what it is doing and after many years of installing through .deb files and flatpaks and Appimages I just could work out how to do these things.
I agree that it will be worth looking at again once it matures and the bugs are ironed out.
23 • sharing (by wally on 2023-01-16 22:52:20 GMT from United States)
Not enough options for sharing.
I use rsync, samba, ftp, and wps for various situations, it just depends, and all except ftp have daily processes to accomplish.
24 • A fully functional OSTree OS already exists (by Bin on 2023-01-17 06:01:42 GMT from United Kingdom)
Just take a look at Endless OS if you want an OSTree+Flatpak distribution.
It works.
https://www.endlessos.org/os
25 • Vanilla OS installation (by jsmith on 2023-01-17 07:40:19 GMT from Australia)
I encounter a very similar on my hp spectre laptop. It diddn't seem to allow anything other than entire disk so i didn't continue on. Some time later i happen to try again, and lo and behold it allowed me to use the existing partition - but this time it didnt allow me to install as i didnt select the uefi partition. It wouldn't allow me to select my uefi partition for some reason, i think it is too small. It is 100M. Many other distros allows that. But this doesn't, though i did encounter Pop OS also complained it is too small and not allow installation too. Excuse my ignorance but i dont see why they can't allow it. Shame though as it seemed good from the live version.
26 • UEFI small partition size, installation can’t proceed - workaround (by TheTKS on 2023-01-17 11:56:27 GMT from Canada)
@25 jsmith
“ this time it didnt allow me to install as i didnt select the uefi partition. It wouldn't allow me to select my uefi partition for some reason, i think it is too small. It is 100M. Many other distros allows that. But this doesn't, though i did encounter Pop OS also complained it is too small and not allow installation too.”
I ran into the same installing elementaryOS 6. I had to make a new, second boot partition (I leave spare space on my drive.) I tried a couple of different sizes. It would only install after I grew it to 500 MB.
TKS
27 • Transferring files (by Sitwon on 2023-01-17 16:16:43 GMT from United States)
Sometimes, netcat is all you need to get the job done.
And yet I cringe at people still using FTP.
28 • Filesharing - FreeFileSync (by Peter on 2023-01-17 17:09:07 GMT from United States)
FreeFileSync is my very favorite for synchronizing files (Linux,PC,Mac). FFS was an early program to correctly handle daylight savings time. It gives you a GUI list of all the changed files to review, then allows one to correct an individual file's direction with one click if you wish before initiating the transfer. I use it multiple times a day between laptop and desktop. Hard to live without FFS, but when lacking it I also use rsync -avP ./source ./destination so I picked rsync in the survey.
29 • simple file transfers (by Jay on 2023-01-17 19:57:29 GMT from North Macedonia)
I've no problem with Warpinator or rsync (and I'm a Remmina fan because of its NX support), but I spend 90%+ of my time transferring files via fish:// (the file transfer protocol built into the Midnight Commander).
fish:// with ssh is simple, fast, and secure; it works with bash and zsh (my admin and user shells respectively) and almost every Linux or *BSD distro has mc in it.
30 • Sharing Files (by lincoln on 2023-01-17 22:39:53 GMT from Brazil)
I still haven't found the ideal software to share files via desktop, mobile, tv and server. That's why I use (depending on the amount of files, sizes and sharing direction) one of the following software: http-server, rygel, bluetooth, git and rsync.
31 • Sharing files (by John on 2023-01-18 02:49:50 GMT from Canada)
Same as @6, I use multiple methods pretty much equally. None stand out, it depends upon the situation.
32 • Sharing FIles, VanillaOS, and Nobara (by fenglengshun on 2023-01-18 09:54:58 GMT from Indonesia)
For Sharing Files, I've gotten comfortable with using Resilio.
Works like Syncthing, syncing P2P between your devices, but is proprietary in exchange for better mobile client and more features. Has selective file sync (free on mobile, Pro-only on desktop) which is *essential* for me as I need a way to access my files while outside the office and I don't have enough space to fit all the files I might need — as an extra it allows me to get off Google Photos entirely as well as no longer needing OneDrive paid plan (which is why I sound like a shill whenever I talk about it — I hated paying for OneDrive and using it on Linux).
I'm planning to finally buy Pro this year since it's pretty cheap but Free works well enough — I just have an old laptop being an always-on sync 'server'. It's just so easy to setup, compared to Nextcloud and the like, and doesn't require me to own a domain.
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Regarding VanillaOS, I've tested it on VMware and it seems to work well enough. It's certainly better than usual immutable OS where you don't have much recourse for modifying root files and settings. It's not great with stuff that requires GUI password prompts and doesn't allow running as root to get-around it (an issue both on host and distrobox side), but for the most part, it's still easier to play around its limitations than other immutable OS I've tried. I've even managed to install and theme KDE with WhiteSur and Unity-like UX on it.
But your review makes me worry because my laptop is a 2022 HP 14. It is AMD CPU with Radeon Graphics, so maybe that's less of an issue, but it does seem that I really should just wait until late 2023 because a lot of things are transitioning or being built and it's better to just wait until it's all done so I can take a look at them all at the same time. Plus, maybe by then they'll have a KDE edition instead of requiring me to abroot shell multiple times to get KDE.
As for Nobara, it's a more convenient Fedora. I'm more interested in risiOS because it's more friendly and can do most of the setup Nobara has for gaming, but Nobara is more ready and has a decent goal for what it's trying to accomplish.
My problem is always with Fedora. It's a PITA getting some of the apps I use there compared to on Ubuntu-based and Arch-based. Arch-based is super simple -- and pamac makes it even more convenient (even if it has its issues). Ubuntu, there's now deb-get and pacstall so I barely have to install .deb manually anymore. Fedora? If it's not in the main repo, rpmfusion, or COPR? It can be a real PITA to install — I had to use alien just to get FDM and the new Surfshark VPN GUI installed, and that was plain annoying. And I still have to use distrobox to get easy access to a pre-built firefox-appmenu from chaotic-aur anyways.
They both are fine projects for what they're trying to accomplish, but the former is just not ready for prime time yet (which is good that people acknowledge it) and the latter is just fundamentally not for me because of what I use and prefer. So I hope 2023 will be a better year for both of them, because I really, really, really want to get off of Manjaro, but nothing has been as convenient with software install than Manjaro with Pamac, Automatic Manjaro Updater, and OOTB grub btrfs-snapshop for easy rollback.
33 • 🅱️ oll (by Cheker on 2023-01-18 23:38:33 GMT from Portugal)
Surprised to see removable media win. Thought I was a minority there. I technically do some, very little, ssh and warpinator as well but 99% of it is ext. HDDs and pen drives.
Vanilla sounds promising, the "run software from any distro" bit reminds me of Bedrock, I like that idea, at least in theory.
34 • Sharing Files (by penguinx86 on 2023-01-19 08:24:38 GMT from United States)
I mostly use removable media to share files. Why? Because my home environment has Linux, PC, Mac, Chromebook, Android and other platforms. I need a way to share my file to Any Platform! For small files, I also send them as email attachments. Most of the files I share are documents, multimedia or sometimes Zip files. Most of these are small files below 20gb. Also, if I email files to non technical users, like my parents, the file format needs to be simple enough for non technical users to open.
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View our range including the highly anticipated StarFighter. Available with coreboot open-source firmware and a choice of Ubuntu, elementary, Manjaro and more. Visit Star Labs for information, to buy and get support.
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| Shells.com |
Your own personal Linux computer in the cloud, available on any device. Supported operating systems include Android, Debian, Fedora, KDE neon, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, Manjaro and Ubuntu, ready in minutes.
Starting at US$4.95 per month, 7-day money-back guarantee
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| Random Distribution | 
WinBi
WinBi was an Indonesian Linux distribution based on Trustix.
Status: Discontinued
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| TUXEDO |
TUXEDO Computers - Linux Hardware in a tailor made suite
Choose from a wide range of laptops and PCs in various sizes and shapes at TUXEDOComputers.com. Every machine comes pre-installed and ready-to-run with Linux. Full 24 months of warranty and lifetime support included!
Learn more about our full service package and all benefits from buying at TUXEDO.
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| Star Labs |
Star Labs - Laptops built for Linux.
View our range including the highly anticipated StarFighter. Available with coreboot open-source firmware and a choice of Ubuntu, elementary, Manjaro and more. Visit Star Labs for information, to buy and get support.
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