Other Interesting Distros, Part 4

stalebrim

It took me back years by its '90s look

I don't know what 90s have you lived, to be honest. That's closer to 2010s look.

WetGeek

stalebrim That's closer to 2010s look.

That was just a quick guess, and it's subjective in any case. I might have exaggerated a bit.

brent

WetGeek Cinnamon strikes me as something akin to MATE. It took me back years by its '90s look, but it was competent in every way. I

from the way you describe it I'd consider a spiritual cousin to the Mate look and performance. Cinnamon has been developed as long as Mint. 25 years? I had no hassle with anything in Mate like you didn't.

you installed Restic--that is telling. and you didn't change out good old gmone-terminal (still my favorite) after 2 days. great review. how is different from Blue?

Staudey

brent Cinnamon has been developed as long as Mint. 25 years?

Linux Mint: Initial release: August 27, 2006
Cinnamon:   Initial release: 2011

WetGeek

brent Cinnamon has been developed as long as Mint. 25 years?

Now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure the last previous time I used Cinnamon was on Mint. Not 25 years ago, but quite a few. Maybe 15 or so. It took me back.

WetGeek

brent how is different from Blue

Night and day. This is Fedora, Bluestar is Arch. This one was fun to configure and use, Bluestar was trouble from the beginning. This VM is small, Bluestar's VM was huge. This one has been backed up, and its icon is still on my desktop. Bluestar icon is gone, as is its VM.

brent

Staudey I had to take out the Mate calculator...Mint at 17 was as close as I got. I feel like I knew about these distros/de's a lot longer I guess.

WetGeek

Staudey Cinnamon: Initial release: 2011

It sounds like I'd over-estimated how long it had been since I first used Cinnamon. It seemed like a long time.

brent

WetGeek Eh don't kick yourself, less subjective than you think, I think. It's all a blur late 90's-2000's. But layouts never changed really then: a desktop, then files in windows, open apps, hard vertical lines, hard horizontal lines, sys trays, minimize, maximize, exit/. I don't think even Mint transcended the accepted schema. Mac was probably the first to change it how we see it methinks.

stalebrim

brent

True, can't distinguish them

murbert

WetGeek Fedora Cinnamon is prolly where I'll go if Solus dies. Everything just works, though there is some configuring that gets it faster.
Have a look at the Plata theme here https://www.cinnamon-look.org/p/1413947/
Add to .themes folder (you may need to create it)
edit to add: dnfdragora is painfully slow. I remove it and add gnome-software.
Increase download speeds https://www.linuxcapable.com/increase-dnf-speed-on-fedora-linux/

WetGeek

murbert Fedora Cinnamon is prolly where I'll go if Solus dies.

I can't be so sure what I'd do. There are so many good distros available, despite the few that I wouldn't touch with somebody else's 10 foot pole. You can probably tell from my post that I liked Fedora Cinnamon quite a bit. I think I'm going to look for a Fedora KDE Plasma next, to see what I think of that.

A combination of Fedora, whick is compact to begin with, and KDE Plasma, which is highly configurable and has great native applications might just be the one to steal my heart. Always with the provision, "if anything happens to Solus."

brent

WetGeek . Always with the provision, "if anything happens to Solus."

murbert Fedora Cinnamon is prolly where I'll go if Solus dies.

It's sad we're all making contingency plans..

brent

stalebrim to your nitpicking I retort:

" My concern with accuracy is on a higher level than nickels and dimes, in a word, line by line"--Hunter S. Thompson

stalebrim

WetGeek My main concern with a distro is "whether it feels like home right away" (and I've always found Solus to be good in that regard). That made me eventually choose Fedora KDE over things that looked good on paper, like Tumbleweed.

Brucehankins

WetGeek it's funny because two days ago I downloaded and installed Mint 21.1 Vera because it's been close to 10 years since I really looked at Mint or the Cinnamon DE.
Over all, I was impressed with how easy the DE was to set up and configure to my liking. I found I could get along just fine with Cinnamon, though I don't like it quite as much as Budgie.
Mint, on the other hand, was not my favorite. They have some good tools, and there's nothing particularly wrong with it, but it wasn't my favorite. It was slow to boot and shutdown, and it felt like I was watching the splash screen for far too long. If I could kill grub, I'd probably like it more.

elfprince

brent Some, not all. 😆

Brucehankins

brent yeah not all. Some of us just have severe distro hopperitus even if Solus is home.

brent

Brucehankins strange, contingency or hopping, even me exploring Ubu Budgie--nothing has felt like home llike solus. I thought Bodhi was once but they were real behind on printer/scanner/peripheral support. I even feel like a tourist in Ubu Budgie right now. For those of us Budgie-inclined, it's exciting to have the lovely and snappy Budgie experience back...but it ain't home/solus.

stalebrim

brent Really interesting to see how the Budgie Fedora Spin will turn out.

brent

stalebrim Wetgeek looooves fedora (fork) budgie Ultramarine, and I almost installed it but but did not, but I really enjoyed using it. it's pretty sharp. I still can't believe Josh signed off on the awful arcolinux budgie they seemed to take great license subverting it but yeah looking forward so fedora's.
(wonder if SerpentOS will use Budgie? I wonder if SerpentOS will ever be released?)

WetGeek

stalebrim Really interesting to see how the Budgie Fedora Spin will turn out.

Anybody know if it will be an official release, or a community "spin"? The Fedora 37 KDE spin pretty much sucks.