Other Interesting Distros

tomscharbach

WetGeek "Ubuntu Budgie is a community developed distribution, integrating the Budgie Desktop Environment with Ubuntu at its core."

Well, sure. UB is community-developed by the UB community, including the team, which is distinct from the community/team developing the Ubuntu OS layer. However, as an official flavor of Ubuntu, the community and users can draw on support from the Ubuntu community as well. The UB community does not, accordingly, have to concern itself with maintaining the underlying OS layer, Ubuntu, but can focus entirely on the Budgie DE. UB is closely aligned with Ubuntu in the sense that many of the UB packages are Ubuntu packages, with some notable exceptions. The UB support forum reflects the division of responsibility, confining itself to supporting Budgie, leaving Ubuntu questions to the Ubuntu forums and other Ubuntu resources. The close alignment of Ubuntu and UB has advantages and disadvantages.

WetGeek

tomscharbach That has advantages and disadvantages.

Thanks for clarifying all of that. If "edition" wasn't the correct word to use, I apologize. I'm sure Brent will find it a very impressive implentation of Budgie, should he decide to give it a try. Next to Solus Budgie, of course.

brent

WetGeek tomscharbach thanks for indulging me. I misspoke about Bodhi above, it's not independent: it is a Ubuntu fork so I know Ubuntu. Maddeningly easy in some respects depending on the DE.
All valuable. I've read a lot about community vs official editions (of distros), all come with pros and cons.
From my limited time with Ultramarine I had no idea it was Fedora. Thanks again.

Also to Tom, I do monitor Buddies regularly to see the issues, tickets, and general info but not noticed (nor was I looking) any grand pronouncements from Josh about direction of the DE. It seems very much his baby and humming right along as far as growth and innovation.

tomscharbach

WetGeek Next to Solus Budgie, of course.

I took a look at other Budgie implementations early this year when the future of Solus was somewhat uncertain. UB was the only Budgie implementation that made the cut for a serious, in-depth evaluation. I think that UB is excellent, but I prefer Solus Budgie because the Solus OS layer is a lot better than the Ubuntu OS layer.

I feel that way about Plasma, as well. As you know, I cut over to Solus Plasma recently because of fractional scaling issues. I took a look at Kubuntu and KDE Neon to see how those Plasma implementations measured up. In a word, neither did.

Solus is a remarkable OS layer. No two ways about it.

WetGeek

KaOS-22.10 Plasma Observations

It's been a good while since I investigated the June 2022 release of this OS, and according to its release notes, there have been a buttload of upgrades.

The KaOS installer is among those upgrades, and it's indeed a joy to use. The Welcome dialog makes it easy to modify the major settings, such as theme, icons, virtual desktops, and so on, and then it makes it easy to Quit the Welcome dialog. The implementation of KDE Plasma appears to be "by the book," but I'll reserve any further comments about this release until I've spent some more time with it.

playforvoices1

Ultramarine Linux is a very nice option if you want a Red Hat based distro. I enjoy these base because of the possibility to use the CERT forensic repo with it.

https://forensics.cert.org/repository/

The lightweight Budgie DE help to reduce the resource hunger and acts fast. But there is only one maintainer on these project if I'm right?

stalebrim

@WetGeek Have you tried Q4OS Trinity? 😄

WetGeek

stalebrim Have you tried Q4OS Trinity?

Yes. According to my ISOs archive, I tried these:

It's been long enough since then that I don't remember much about them now, but perhaps a forum search would turn up something? If I remember right, the "tde" version was Trinity Desktop Environment.

This is from my August 8 review of the Plasma edition. It's the first entry that comes up in a search for Q4OS. If you search for Trinity, you'll probably find that, too.

Indeed, you will;

tomscharbach

stalebrim Have you tried Q4OS Trinity? 😄

A real oddball distro, focused on old hardware. Trinity flagship desktop, 5.10 kernel and so on. Allows installation from within Windows using a Windows executable. Stange mix of packages (Konqueror, really?). Gets very mixed reviews. But Q4OS is interesting, and the KDE desktop is halfway decent. A natural for @WetGeek's flavor the day adventures.

Edit/Update: I see that @WetGeek has already looked at it.

stalebrim

tomscharbach

A natural for @WetGeek's flavor the day adventures.

That's what I thought too.

Lucien_Lachance

just took nixos for a test drive after watching

looks very interesting, certain things are confusing, but so is any distro the first time i guess. ill be looking more closely into it when i have the time

anyone used it for more than the 30 mins i could spare?

WetGeek

Lucien_Lachance anyone used it for more than the 30 mins i could spare

I tried to, but I couldn't figure out how to do much with it. Maybe I just didn't spend enough time with it, either..

brent

WetGeek

brent
Definitely an interesting distro. That's what this thread is all about. I can see why someone with older hardware might like this a lot. Especially the part about the huge .ISO saving a lot of time downloading packages. I don't think I'd want all that stuff installed by default, though. It would make sense to use it as a repository, the way openSUSE does.

elfprince

brent Tinkerer's dream.

brent

WetGeek I would install it to bare metal for their name alone🙂. PSYCHOS. Brilliant! And the philosophy. it's the Wild West with no systemd and some *-init running the show. And "operating system based on Devuan ASCII" whatever that is but it would go good with my cool-retro-term. Wait, there's more!
"This 3.8GB ISO Includes:
- 3000+ installed packages
- 90+ Python modules
- 390+ Supported file formats
- Interesting Thunar Custom Actions
- Customized .bashrc for quickly doing things in the command-line for when CLIMax isn't enough
- DOS software included with RetroGrab to add more"
CLIMax?
What could possibly go wrong. I have an installation partition ready for this next to WIN10. edit: I'm fairly serious.

WetGeek

brent What could possibly go wrong.

Famous last words, Grasshopper. I wish you the best possible experience with it. I'll keep fighting the temptation to install it myself, and wait to hear about your adventure.

Axios

brent You NUT!

stalebrim

brent

This 3.8GB ISO Includes:

3000+ installed packages

Great. I already got tired of installing video codecs. 😃

tomscharbach

brent "This 3.8GB ISO Includes:
- 3000+ installed packages
- 90+ Python modules
- 390+ Supported file formats
- Interesting Thunar Custom Actions
- Customized .bashrc for quickly doing things in the command-line for when CLIMax isn't enough
- DOS software included with RetroGrab to add more"

PSYCHOS is aptly named, to be sure.

Is it true that it is optimized for the i666 chip? 🤣

brent

WetGeek My fear is it is not a day in/day out operating system. Live USB first....that 3.8GB is still downloading. "What go wrong" are always famous last words. I utter them for good luck.

brent

Axios It was a 8-minute video. I got Psych'd up.

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