Other Interesting Distros, part 3

tomscharbach

WetGeek Updating a new installation requires apt update followed by apt upgrade.

Or you can do what sensible people do with an LTS -- update/upgrade through the Software Center. You'll find that you get small upgrades every few days, as Ubuntu releases security and maintenance updates. Two minutes here, three minutes there, just like Ubuntu LTS updates.

stalebrim

tomscharbach

Or you can do what sensible people do with an LTS

unattended-upgrades

brent

I love solus for the single repo. Now I have Main, restricted, multiverse, and universe. ugh.
Main is what's in the Software center I suppose.

tomscharbach I'm not at all sure what you mean

I mean this is my new Budgie🙂
baby steps!
WetGeek don't wanna jack your fine review thread (I liked Bluestar!)

WetGeek

brent don't wanna jack your fine review thread (I liked Bluestar!)

No worries, friend. I liked Bluestar, too, until I tried to actually use it.

tomscharbach

stalebrim unattended-upgrades

I suspect that is a personal preference. I prefer to let Ubuntu (UBB or Kubuntu, which I am now using as my daily driver and will be through the end of the year) check, let me know upgrades are available, and let me control when the upgrades run. In my case, it is mostly habit from the old days, but I like to know what is going to update. Unattended does it all in background.

stalebrim

tomscharbach

Unattended does it all in background.

yes that's the point

tomscharbach

stalebrim yes that's the point

Thank you for clarifying. If you prefer to use unattended upgrades (called "automatic updates" in Ubuntu and Ubuntu flavors, I believe) in Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 LTS, that can be set up relatively easily.

stalebrim

tomscharbach yes I'm aware of that

WetGeek

Xero Linux 2022.12 - Plasma

I was attracted to this distro because it's based on Arch, it's not Bluestar, and the DE is Plasma. I was hoping to see an Arch-based distro that looks like -- or can be made to look like -- Solus Plasma. Unfortunately, the trend for Arch distros seems to be towards unconventional desktops.

Unlike Bluestar, in this distro Dolphin is able to Connect with a NAS on the network, examine its shares, and open them to access their contents. It's getting late in the day here, so I'm going to continue this in the morning.

stalebrim

Speaking of Budgie, a Budgie Fedora spin has been proposed for F38.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraBudgie

WetGeek

Having started a thread for exploring XeroLinux, I'm going to pause for a while. After creating some additional virtual desktops to make the task easier. I could find no way in XeroLinux to select one, and I can't work well with a single desktop.

I realize that the Latte dock at the bottom can be customized, so it's possible that a Workspace Switcher applet might be added to it, but for Latte, that's a complicated process. It would be a fitting subject for a tutorial.

Maybe I'll feel like taking that on tomorrow, or next week, or a month from now, but right now I just don't have the energy. (Maybe Bluestar took more out of me than I realized).

stalebrim

WetGeek What's the top panel?

WetGeek

stalebrim What's the top panel?

Ever seen a GNOME DE? It's pretty much whats in the bottom panel on DEs that use one. I've even seen a Solus Budgie installation where the bottom panel was located at the top.

By the way, if anyone is interested in finding out more about XeroLinux right away, there are several gushing reviews of it that are easy to find online.

stalebrim

WetGeek You said it's Plasma.

WetGeek

stalebrim You said it's Plasma.

That depends on what "it's" is. The XeroLinux installation that I started to explore was Plasma. The typical place for a panel in a GNOME installation is on the top. And more than once, I've seen Budgie with the bottom panel moved to the top instead. (It's easy to do in the Budgie Desktop Settings.)

stalebrim

WetGeek How has that anything to do with the original question? To me it looks like a standard Plasma panel, so the workspace switcher applet should be able to be added there.

WetGeek

stalebrim How has that anything to do with the original question?

Sorry, I didn't understand what you meant by "I thought it was plasma." Now that I know what you meant, I suppose it would probably work if there's enough room for it. Maybe the more compact 2-row version from the Latte dock in Bluestar could be used. Maybe it's even the same widget, just used differently?

I'll try your excellent suggestion on my XeroLinux VM. It could make it much easier to use and evaluate.

stalebrim

WetGeek I don't know about Latte Dock's capabilities, but I think the panel may be the only way.

WetGeek

stalebrim I don't know about Latte Dock's capabilities, but I think the panel may be the only way.

Bluestar has a workspace switcher (that didn't work reliably) on the left side of the Latte dock. I just checked, though, and the bar across the top of XeroLinux's Plasma DE is another Latte dock, not a KDE panel. That makes me a lot less interested in further working with it.

stalebrim

WetGeek That's quite an interesting direction to take. Usually distros based on something else is like comparing red apples to apples that are red, but it looks like they're going for something different.

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