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1 • Wine Curmudgeon (by rufo on 2023-05-01 00:23:58 GMT from United States)
Imagine my surprise when I clicked the link to Jeff Siegel’s wine site when I discovered it was about…wine. Not the Windows emulator, but the fermented grape juice.
2 • Wine and Windows (by Wedge009 on 2023-05-01 01:29:44 GMT from Australia)
Yeah, I made that same mistake a previous time the Wine Curmudgeon site was promoted.
I recognise that for the majority of people outside of DistroWatch readership, desktop computing is 'dead', and even laptops are nowhere near as favoured as mobile phones and other touch-based devices. But I had a feeling Microsoft was heading in a bad direction with Windows since 8, 10, and now 11.
If only laptop hardware didn't depend so much on Windows-specific drivers, I could ditch Windows for just about everything. As it stands I've already running Linux on nearly all my desktops since Window 7 was killed off.
3 • Installing portable linux apps (by Ivan on 2023-05-01 02:09:43 GMT from Italy)
My goal was to provide a home for the portable linux apps (AppImage packages in particular, being there no centralized repository), so I've developed two utilities in bash that can install, remove, update, backup, restore and manage more than 1500 portable applications (more of them are AppImage packages, but there are also standalone applications like Firefox, Blender and Google Chrome). The main one is "AM", it installs everything in /opt (according with the Linux Standard Base), the second one is "AppMan", i.e. a copy of "AM" that allows you to choose where to install all your applications in your home directory and without root prvileges. Each program is installed into its own directory, containing the application itself, a script (named AM-updater) needed to update the application (note that many AppImage packages cannot use the standard tools to be updated, do the script can compare the installed version with the new one from the source), the icon and a text file containing the version of the installed app (this is used by the AM-script I've talked previously). To see the code, videos and more details about "AM", just click my name or visit my repository on github, I'm the user Ivan-HC. I hope you enjoy my project, I'e worked alone on it for two years but I'm looking for cooperators to convert this into a community project.
4 • Screenshots of Xubuntu in Review (by Foss-is Great on 2023-05-01 06:07:55 GMT from Germany)
About 2 weeks ago i did a review on Xubuntu 23.4 here. I wrote :"Well, and there is the look and feel - strictly speaking - no look and feel. Thus, Xubuntu is really only an offer for users who always customize the desktop according to their own taste anyway, or who don't care about the appearance. I guess they could get much more users, if they would spend much more time on a good looking look and feel - there is still a lot possible."
Today i saw the Screenshots in Jeff's review - light theme, transparent panel, also better costomized than the default Xubuntu. So i put the 23.4 iso on a thumbdrive to test it. But the costomizing of the desktop was the same like always, not like the screenshots in Jeff's review.
So let me ask: are the screenshots original from the actually lifesystem or are the from a costomized version?
5 • Crunchbang (by Foss-is-great on 2023-05-01 06:44:55 GMT from Germany)
A legend is back. I going to try it, as soon as I find the time to do it. Main question: what a differents to bunsenlabs. I am really enjoinging the feather lightwight side of the linux world.
6 • where software is installed (by Dr.J on 2023-05-01 06:56:56 GMT from Germany)
I think we have to differentiate here. I couldn't care less where software installs itself. However, this only applies to the actual program files. Something completely different are the configuration files and - of course - the data files. For both, I usually and if necessary, adjust the paths so that they are placed in the directories (such as /home/user) that are regularly backed up.
7 • Fidget Flie Manager (by Trihexagonal on 2023-05-01 07:11:01 GMT from United States)
I'm going to lump changing standard locations of where files are installed in my "Not Leaving Well Enough Alone" category of worst mistakes new people make.
Whether it be ports, pkg, apt or apt-get I stay with the default paths for program builds.
8 • Xubuntu is more a Midwight Distro now (by Foss-is-great on 2023-05-01 08:15:10 GMT from Germany)
Where are the good old times when a Xubuntu iso had a size of 1.3 GB ? Today the Iso got a size of 3 GB! Twice much than in former days! So today Xubuntu must be seen as a Midwight distro.
I am really thinking of lxqt. But there is one big point for xfce - its the whiskersmenu - that is really great!
9 • Crunchbang++ vs Bunsenlabs (by NameyDude on 2023-05-01 08:38:49 GMT from Sweden)
Bunsenlabs is the community continuation. Crunchbang ++ is more of a one-person-thing if I remember correctly. I mean that not at all in a bad way though
10 • Xubuntu is heavy (by Alex on 2023-05-01 13:37:17 GMT from United States)
Xubuntu always seems to use up about 100-200 MB more ram than Debian-based XFCE distros. I don't know what makes it heavier...maybe Snap? These days I find myself on Pardus, PeppermintOS, or Spiral Linux.
11 • Default locations (by Friar Tux on 2023-05-01 14:35:42 GMT from Canada)
@7 (Trihexagonal) I'm with you on leaving well enough alone. And, yes, I've messed up many an OS trying to put stuff where I wanted it to be. I now use the default locations for everything. EXCEPT AppImages... I have a folder in my Home directory for those, to make it easier to back up and restore if need be.
As for Xubuntu, or even just XFCE, I find both to be about the same size as Mint/Cinnamon. I think it's because of the desktop Applets/Widgets. I use these a lot so I prefer a desktop that offers them. Since XFCE started offering them I've noticed a steady climb in size. (The bigger the pipe, the more water it holds.)
12 • Xubuntu size (by AloofBrit on 2023-05-01 21:01:22 GMT from United States)
@8 the 23.04 Minimal is 1.7GB, which doesn't seem too bad for a usable DE
13 • Xbntu Min (by eight.bit.al on 2023-05-01 23:54:23 GMT from United States)
Xubuntu Minimal. Nice, clean slate to build on.
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/daily-minimal/current/
14 • Installing manually (by fenglengshun on 2023-05-02 05:28:53 GMT from Indonesia)
If I install stuff manually, and I can't 'hide' it inside Conty, Distrobox, Nix home-manager, or Flatpak, then I just put it in ~/.local/bin or /opt, mostly the former. You do need to add it to PATH, but I think that should be done automatically by most distro when it detects ~/.local/bin exists. But I still sometimes install stuff at ~/Applications, following AppImageLauncher convention, as a convenient *visible* place to put some random apps in.
Though, for games, following old Lutris convention, I put them in ~/Games, which might just be linked to another folder. I didn't know /usr/games is a thing though, I was surprised when I saw gamescope from a ppa I installed was located in /usr/games.
15 • Xubuntu 23.04 (by Carlos Felipe on 2023-05-02 14:00:07 GMT from Brazil)
"Finally, I had tremendous difficulty getting the ISO to load successfully onto a USB key. I used both Balena Etcher and the GNOME Startup Disk tool and got kernel panics five or six times."
I used Fedora Media Writer (all 23.04 family) to create a live usb, for the first time didn't work well.
16 • Install ISO (by vmclark on 2023-05-02 16:17:52 GMT from United States)
For getting ISO's installed, use Ventoy. Works every time.
17 • Burn an ISO (by Marco on 2023-05-03 00:40:44 GMT from United States)
sudo dd bs=4M if=/path/to/some.iso of=/dev/sdb conv=fsync oflag=direct status=progress
has never failed me. Ever. Just make sure /dev/sdb is your USB thumb drive. Really sure.
18 • Crunch me (by Cruncher on 2023-05-03 04:34:56 GMT from Germany)
@5:
No one is preventing you from installing Openbox and/or Fluxbox window managers in most Linux distributions. Crunchbang was interesting, but one can easily whip up something similar in a short time.
19 • Crunchbang++ vs. BunsenLabs (by ICHwersonst on 2023-05-03 18:12:49 GMT from Germany)
biggest difference: BunsenLabs has a lot of additional software pre-installed, which one may not use at all. So if you like it light, choose Crunchbang++.
20 • Thunar 2-panel (by F3-help on 2023-05-04 03:25:45 GMT from New Zealand)
Have to agree - mindblow, Thunar arrives at Midnight Commander level. This (previously missing feature) was setting my impression of the whole DE as "amateurish". This is an encouraging step forward.
21 • @5 Crunchbang++ (by vmclark on 2023-05-04 17:26:13 GMT from United States)
Works very well, but as there is only one author, developer, is a concern. Yet, its debian, so no issue, just use debian repositories, regardless what happens.
22 • Use Ventoy (by Mr.Sahay on 2023-05-05 06:49:57 GMT from India)
@15 I am using ventoy with multiple distro in it just need to set it up once only that's it. all you need to do is copy paste the iso and delete the one not needed.
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