Distro-hoppers Anonymous

dot|not · 2013-11-26 21:56:36

After some time with OpenBSD on my laptop (Which I enjoyed thoroughly, this was an excellent computing experience.) I am, with a little tear in my eye, back with Debian Jessie. OpenBSD was missing one very important feature: The possibility to mount smb-shares. The only implementations that exist out there are around ten years old, and even though there is a good chance for FUSE and all the other fancy things to come with 5.5 I would need it now. So here I am, back at being angry on things being inconsistent and oddly working.

On the other distrohopping-front I am in the process of kicking Windows of my main rig, for productivity reasons. I spend too much time playing videogames. But all the distributions I have tried so far were not really convincing. I might end up with Crunchbang again. Would be a valid reason to update my rc.xml @ github and allow tmux to be a bigger part of my workflow again.

Unia · 2013-11-26 22:10:18

^ Out of curiosity, what did you think was good about OpenBSD?

ew · 2013-11-26 23:32:54

intoCB wrote:

Bah. Broken packages. Unmet dependencies. libwwwperl.

Hehe. ROFL...

pvsage · 2013-11-26 23:35:35

^ Hey, as long as it was "For Science", it wasn't wasted effort.

saneks · 2013-11-26 23:44:23

intoCB wrote:

Bah. Broken packages. Unmet dependencies. libwwwperl.

maybe try again with #!9.04? ]:D

ew · 2013-11-26 23:47:02

pvsage wrote:

^ Hey, as long as it was "For Science", it wasn't wasted effort.

Hehe. Well, I`m trying to download #! 9.04 -32 bit now, but the links are dead, and nobody seems to seed it. Well, I`ll leave transmission on, just in case I get lucky

ew · 2013-11-26 23:55:46

ew wrote:

pvsage wrote:
^ Hey, as long as it was "For Science", it wasn't wasted effort.
Hehe. Well, I`m trying to download #! 9.04 -32 bit now, but the links are dead, and nobody seems to seed it. Well, I`ll leave transmission on, just in case I get lucky

Okay. I found the downloads, so I will try both 8 and 9, just to see why some people claim that Crunchbang was better before, and of course, I will try to do what IntoCB couldn`t do..... lol.

dot|not · 2013-11-27 08:17:33

Unia wrote:

^ Out of curiosity, what did you think was good about OpenBSD?

A lot of things seemed more logic and structured, part of it because the documentation is a lot better than for most Linux distributions, the other part because of the strict separation between the basesystem and additional software. They kept things as simple as possible, that was especially noticeable when it came to manually connecting to wireless networks. I (personally) found this to be a pain in the butt under most Linux distributions except Arch with it's netctl. Suspend / Resume was more stable (and a bit faster, but we are talking about parts of seconds here) than now under Debian, sometimes when I wake it up my load goes up to 8,9 or 10 for no reason and the only thing I can do is reboot the box. All special keys were detected automatically while in Debian for some I need to remap stuff and write (read: "copypaste") small shellsnippets.

Part of the experience comes from the x220 being used by many OpenBSD developers, therefore the support is excellent. I've encountered enough bad stories about OpenBSD, or BSD in general, on some machines, but for me everything worked out-of-the-box and did so fine.

ew · 2013-11-28 01:13:50

Well, I tried upgrading #! 9.04 directly to 12.04, but it didn`t work. Not like that was a surprise to me, lol. It`s doable if you go from 9.04 to 9.10 to 10.04 to 10.10 and so on all the way up, but even I passed on that option. But I have to say, #! 9.04 was a very nice release..., and as I wasn`t here then, I was really surprised to find that Crunchbang used to have lite-versions of the releases. More options and more ways to install #! It seems like everything actually was better before

tamikan · 2013-12-05 02:15:46

i thought i was done distro hopping but i did it again this time for debian netinstall ]:D

CSCoder4ever · 2013-12-05 02:20:30

I'm currently wondering if I should install Arch or continue using #! on my new laptop myself...

tamikan · 2013-12-05 03:11:48

CSCoder4ever wrote:

I'm currently wondering if I should install Arch or continue using #! on my new laptop myself...

listen to your heart and youll end up somewhere

CSCoder4ever · 2013-12-05 03:24:05

I thought the heart was a deceiver

orionthehunter · 2013-12-05 04:26:18

Arch requires more work. It also has newer packages. Up to you.

Honestly Ubuntu family is a fairly nice in-between.

#!_828 · 2013-12-05 05:20:19

orionthehunter wrote:

Ubuntu family is a fairly nice in-between.

However, I will never look at Ubuntu the same way again since I discovered Ubuntu: Satanic Edition ]:D

CSCoder4ever · 2013-12-05 05:29:44

Yep, Arch does take more work, I enjoyed installing it strangely enough... I guess I'll have to just wait and see O:)

#!_828 wrote:

I will never look at Ubuntu the same way again since I discovered Ubuntu: Satanic Edition ]:D

LOL!

tamikan · 2013-12-05 05:56:48

CSCoder4ever wrote:

I thought the heart was a deceiver

you're right

hinto · 2013-12-05 14:02:58

I've been running a bit with PearOS.
I have to say I like Gala.
-Hinto

murak · 2013-12-05 17:35:13

It's been a while since I visited this thread and confessed, so I might as well come clean.

I have been of the path (the righteous path which is #!) for a long time. Windows 7 have been a steady companion that has, in a way, been good to me. Others might feel different about my OS of choice but the truth is that using Windows 7, for me anyway, is like not using alcohol. It's safe, no one can blame you for it and if something happens to you they won't blame the OS you are using. But it is boring, like riding a train you almost always know where you are going and where you are going to end up. It's not as bad a OSX which would be the equivalent of joining a cult (it dulls the mind of the user!)

Needless to say I am back on my drug. New laptop, new OS. I'm just going to get every thing stable and the way I want it then I'm set. No more fiddling around with unstable sources and questionable scripts. No, not for this boy, no sir'e.

[me about 24 hours ago] -"Compile a kernel using a guide from a website I never visited before, using terminal commands I don't understand, to get a "unstable" version of a graphics driver working, just to get a game I probably won't play displaying correct darkness/gamma? Sure, why not?"

merelyjim · 2013-12-05 17:42:17

I've been trying a few of the rolling distro's; Manjaro, Sabayon, LMDE. Everything works fine for a few months, then something gets borked after an update. The promise is great, never have to reinstall again. The reality is in conflict with the theory.
Ash well, I learned things along the way, and now back home to #!

lowrider · 2013-12-05 17:59:19

^haha, there is nothing more stable than debian-stable... welcome back.

GekkoP · 2013-12-05 18:06:18

Well, I've been on sid for moths now, never had a problem. Suppose it just depends on the user then.

hinto · 2013-12-05 18:14:55

I ran sid for 6 years, no re-install.
It even "morphed" from Kanotix (when it was sid) to sidux.
-Hinto

KrunchTime · 2013-12-06 09:31:02

I had issues trying to track Sid under a CrunchBang install. Someone commented here in the forums that CrunchBang wasn't designed to run as a rolling release and that I should try a distro specifically designed to track Sid. I installed Siduction LXDE last week on my ASUS UL20A laptop and was surprised that the first aptitude full-upgrade went without a hitch. The only thing I don't care much for is LXDE. I've become enamored with the Crunchbang setup.

I don't think I'll attempt to track Sid on my Dell Studio 1557 laptop anymore because of the legacy AMD graphics chip.

ew · 2013-12-06 12:42:11

KrunchTime wrote:

I had issues trying to track Sid under a CrunchBang install. Someone commented here in the forums that CrunchBang wasn't designed to run as a rolling release and that I should try a distro specifically designed to track Sid. I installed Siduction LXDE last week on my ASUS UL20A laptop and was surprised that the first aptitude full-upgrade went without a hitch. The only thing I don't care much for is LXDE. I've become enamored with the Crunchbang setup.
I don't think I'll attempt to track Sid on my Dell Studio 1557 laptop anymore because of the legacy AMD graphics chip.

Issues? If they can be solved without having to reinstall, then it`s really not issues. I`ve tracked Sid with lots of install, and
sure I`ve run into dependency-issues and the annoying message about "you have kept broken-packages". But it`s almost always
fixable...

It really should be no problem to Crunchify Siduction. Just takes a little work.

CrunchBang Linux

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