WetGeek Pisi is certainly one you'd enjoy taking a look at

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While in the KDE session, you can load the Budgie DE with this command: sudo pisi it budgie-desktop. Then reboot, and Budgie will show up together with KDE Plasma as an option on the login screen.

Unfurtunately I wasn't able to actually try Budgie on Pisi, because every attempt to log on to a Budgie session failed. That's the first beta-like problem I've seen so far from this beta OS. Hopefully it'll be fixed before long. Maybe in time for Budgie 10.6.

EDIT: Unlike openSUSE and Gecko, Pisi DOES have Vivaldi available for installation. The pisi command is just sudo pisi it vivaldi-browser.

    Well, it's at least similar to English 😃

    Apparently, Ikey is starting to get fed up with developing his distro on Debian due to the work involved in its maintenance, especially in the patched and cleaning packages GNOME3 who break into repositories and threaten to break the desktop of SolusOS, for what you have considered stop developing SolusOS 2 (currently in alpha 5 stage) on top of Debian to rebuild it from scratch, with its own independent repositories, and using the package management system of Pardus, PiSi (what does it mean Packages Installed Successfully as Intended).

        Staudey great article. I am looking forward to lispysnake. But that shatters a myth I was led to believe: lispysnake 100% from scratch like bascially Solus. Or is Ikey's teams' reliance on Debian just for the building and writing process of LS?

            brent That is a very old article about happenings in Solus' past, not about anything currently going on.
            Serpent OS (not Lispy Snake, that is his game company) is indeed made from scratch and not based on any other distro / package manager.

                WetGeek Pisi is certainly one you'd enjoy taking a look at.

                In fact, I'm logged on from Vivaldi on Pisi right now. There were just a couple of beta-type bugs that I reported to the Github bug tracker.

                I was able to modify /etc/fstab to include my NAS shares, and modify /mnt to provide their mount points, but unable to actually mount them. Neither nfs-utils nor nfs-common were in the repository. A search showed that libnfs was there, but after I installed that and rebooted, i still could not mount those shares, despite the description from pisi info nfs that said that libnfs would allow mounting nfs shares.

                And despite setting Vivaldi as the default browser, Pisi still used Firefox by default. I needed to add the Lastpass extension to Firefox in order to log on to my account at Github to post the bugs.

                Hopefully those will be fixed in the beta.

                  brent Ack, didn't notice date.

                  Ack, ack, ack, ack. Reminds me of an alien from a movie i watched. Can't remember the name.

                      brent

                      Yeah, what that "Alien Attack," or something like that? I remember there was a sequel, too.

                          WetGeek Whenever I hear Ack and alien in the same sentence there is only one Alien I think of: Dick Solomon.

                          It's very likely we are on the wrong thread again.....🙂

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                            WetGeek For those who like to explore interesting distros, Pisi is certainly one you'd enjoy taking a look at.

                            My Pisi adventure was fun for a while, but unfortunately, it seems that no one is seriously working on making it viable. I reported some beta issues I'd found, and every time I checked back, my reports were still the top three in the list. And the number of issues had not changed.

                            I tried to join the Pisi forum, and provided all relevant info, after which I was told to look for an email with a link I should click in order to "activate" my membership. (Typical email verification.) By the nextday that email hadn't arrived, so I added another report noting what happened, and letting them know that if that process was automated, it was apparently broken. I actually got a response a couple of days later thanking me for the report, and telling me that their "web team" was working on it. But as of today, the email still hasn't arrived.

                            As I said, it was fun for a while, and I thought that Pisi ("cat" in Turkish) looked like it had a lot of potential, especially as a distro supporting Budgie, but it seems to be virtually abandoned. Such a shame. But since I'd encouraged others to take a look at it, I thought I should follow up with a retraction. Probably not worth your time.

                                WetGeek This possibly could be a one person project, or a very small team? Juggling work, life and the project can be challenging.

                                    elfprince This possibly could be a one person project

                                    Yes. And I understand and appreciate that. And maybe I'll check back with them in another year or so. (It only takes me 4 or 5 minutes to create a VM.)

                                    But after encouraging others to take a look at Pisi, I wanted to make it clear that this probably isn't a good time to do that, after all. Their experience would almost certainly be the same as mine.

                                      WetGeek
                                      Problem with virtual machines(and girlfriends) is the equipment isn't real.
                                      Put that distro on a disk and "uh oh"...may show up before you ever get the thing installed.
                                      I looked at the calendar today. 2022.
                                      SSD's are beer cheap and you can cut and remove partitions as often as you like with no issues.
                                      These tuberz.."Oh this distro is great ! "
                                      Yeah. On a VB.
                                      A poor unknowing soul (Billy boy W10)has to find out real hard that 180 out of 200 on distrowatch are nothing but garbage

                                          tilaran Problem with virtual machines(and girlfriends) is the equipment isn't real.

                                          I'm not sure what your problems are, but I'm thankful that they're not mine. My programs on VirtualBox VMs perform just a tiny bit slower than on my i7 laptop host itself (a TINY bit), and they display on its full HD screen exactly as the host machine does. I'm replying to you from my Budgie VM now, and I can't tell the difference. At human speeds, there simply is no perceivable difference.

                                          I'm sure the performance difference would be more noticeable to a compression utility, or a compiler, but not to a forum, an email client, or a word processor, or most of the other applications I use a computer for. Thankfully, I have hardware machines for those purposes.

                                          Your message sounds like you've never actually used VMs, but have a strong opinion about them, regardless.

                                              elfprince Perhaps he alluded to the potential problem of a distro not running on hardware installation, but ok on VB?

                                              Seems unlikely, but not impossible. Perhaps he'll clarify that for us. If that really is his problem, maybe he should just make his hardware a VM host, and create VMs for his daily use?

                                                  elfprince Perhaps he alluded to the potential problem of a distro not running on hardware installation, but ok on VB?

                                                  I suspect so. The problem with virtual machines (and I currently have 11 available in Gnome Boxes, Zorin 16 Core permanent and the others referential/experimental temporary) is that virtual machines frequently mask hardware issues.

                                                    Mars Attacks! Yeah, that was the name I couldn't remember when I wrote that. I think it was the best combination of sci-fi and comedy that I've seen so far. The sequel, perhaps not so much.