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Nitrux 2.5.0 Observations

For some reason, I'd never downloaded a Nitrux .ISO file, so I'm sure I've never seen it. But it's based on Debian and features a KDE deaktop, so it seems like a good distro to take a look at. Version 2.5.0 was just introduced on Distrowatch yesterday, so it ought to be new and shiny!

The installer is very slick, and it seems to have defaulted the user's location, as user input was started with the keyboard seletion. Other than the nice graphics, the progress through this wizard is very much the same as any other Linux installer.

Here's the software section from the About this System page. I'm leaving out the hardware section, because that's all about VirtualBox, and it's the same for every VM based on that system. I believe this is the first time I've used anything based on a 6.x.x kernel.

The system settings are all icon-based, but if you're familiar with them from other KDE systems, it's pretty easy to find your way here.

Sigh ...
Everything about this distro is soooo different from any other KDE I've ever seen, that i'm going to have to work hard to understand and configure it. That's gonna take much time and I don't want to leave this post unsent for that long. Thus, I'm going to leave it for today, and maybe continue it another time.

brent

WetGeek Nice write up. "The system settings are all icon-based,"--you mean there is no list view option? How bizarre. [Am I the last person on planet earth that likes to see accessed/modified/etc?] If true I hope that's not a trend. spiffy looking distro in a PopOS way.

tomscharbach

brent Am I the last person on planet earth

Yes 😆

stalebrim

brent System settings, not file manager

WetGeek

brent you mean there is no list view option?

Yes, there is, but I didn't find it until much later This is the most complex implementation of the KDE interface I've ever seen.

WetGeek

brent you mean there is no list view option

Actually, it probably is a list view. A 2-dimentional one. In other words, a list view of list views.

brent

tomscharbach I'm serious I feel like Will Smith in I am Legend. quite often.🙂

elfprince

brent Rest assured, I ALWAYS switch to 'list view'. Nice and orderly.

brent

elfprince Can't imagine why anyone would not want to see that info, completely agree
stalebrim yes saw that after the fact but solus system settings are list/text based and I am happy they are

stalebrim

brent do you sort your system settings based on their modified/access date? 😄

brent

stalebrim "I sort my folders any way I want or need to."* (*pre-stack update brent)🙂

stalebrim

brent I bogosort my folders

brent

stalebrim "In computer science, bogosort[1][2] (also known as permutation sort, stupid sort,[3] or slowsort[4]) is a sorting algorithm based on the generate and test paradigm. The function successively generates permutations of its input until it finds one that is sorted. It is not considered useful for sorting, but may be used for educational purposes, to contrast it with more efficient algorithms. "
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infinitymdm

brent Wait until you hear about quantum bogosort

tomscharbach

WetGeek This is the most complex implementation of the KDE interface I've ever seen.

Maybe that's the point -- to make it difficult to turn Nitrux into a same-old, same-old, KDE implementation. Who knows?

I noticed on Distrowatch that Nitrux is based on the Debian unstable repository. That strikes me as nuts for a distro aimed at individual users.

WetGeek

tomscharbach difficult to turn Nitrux into a same-old, same-old, KDE implementation

I really think you should give it a try. Maybe we could help each other when one of us is stuck for how to do something simple.

tomscharbach

WetGeek Maybe we could help each other when one of us is stuck for how to do something simple.

Blind leading the blind? 😆

I'm out of the VM business for a while, now that I am on Plasma.

I installed the Gnome Boxes Flatpak a few weeks ago, and the installation produced several GTK inconsistencies, presumably because Boxes is a Gnome tool with all the mess that entails these days. I installed VirtualBox on my Windows 11 desktop, and quickly remembered how much I disliked it, so I uninstalled it.

I just don't care enough about other distros at this point to bother. If I ever want to look at something badly enough, it is a relatively trivial matter to create a Live USB and check it out that way.

Meanwhile, you can be Mikey.

WetGeek

tomscharbach I installed the Gnome Boxes Flatpak a few weeks ago, and the installation produced several GTK inconsistencies

That seems odd. I have GNOME Boxes installed, too, and it seems to work just fine here (for some value of "fine"). But I can understand your getting tired of exploring other distros. I'm getting a little tired of it now, too.

I feel like I've experienced most of the worthwile distros by now, and haven't seen anything that comes close to Solus Plasma. I'm down to the really weird stuff now, and finding out that they're not much fun to explore.

I guess it's just so much challenge for what seems like so little reward.

WetGeek

Nitrux 2.5.0 Observations, Cont.

Not much to say at this point, but if anyone is following along with this adventure and trying to install and make sense of Nitrux, here's a tip for you. You won't find a menu entry for Terminal, or for Konsole. You'll need to look for Station in the System sub-menu. I'm not kidding. Station. It does launch BASH by default, so at least that part will be familiar. To do an update after you've installed Nitrux, try apt update -y followed byapt upgrade -y.

Oh yeah, don't look for Dolphin, either. The file manager is called Index, and you can find it here in the System sub-menu, as well.

Index disappointed me. It's supposedly able to search for smb shared folders, but it isn't able to find my NAS in the Network location. Thus, I couldn't load the files I use to configure a VM that I'm testing. Nor was I able to install the Linux additions from VirtualBox (so I could get to those files via a shared clipboard), because Index doesn't offer any way that I could find to run an executable text file. I'll see if I can do it somehow via Station, but I'm not hopeful.

That's all for now. Let me know if anyone has any questions about this distro, but I'm going to take a break from configuring it. I've made up my mind that I'll never adopt Nitrux as a daily driver, but I want to experiment with the new software (e.g. kernel 6.x.x) for a while. I'll post another continuation if I find something worth reporting.

Axios

WetGeek Downloaded index Pix tried them as appimage interesting.
More like the ios andriod style stuff which I hate and get lost with...rofl
Prob a distro for the younger crowd.
Noticed a few small issues with both programs

stalebrim

WetGeek If your share is NFS, I don't know why you keep searching for smb shares..

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