Other Interesting Distros, Part 4

elfprince

brent I keep bluetooth disabled and have no known hardware issues not even printer or scanner issues.

Same here. Don't need bluetooth hickups. usb/ethernet guy over here...... 😁

stalebrim

elfprince My 360 controller makes me wish I had bluetooth. The micro USB slot is in a very suboptimal place on the controller and the cable pins get loose very quickly.

elfprince

stalebrim Sympathies.

stalebrim

elfprince Thanks. Been eyeing on some 8BitDos but haven't made any purchase decisions yet, since in the end I don't game so much.

brent

Staudey dangling the promise of a snippet of an iso would've been more accurate on my part🙂

WetGeek

WetGeek I'm going to let the new laptop just gather dust for a whille, and investigate other interesting dstros using VMs.

I gave up on that "gathering dust" idea and installed Sparky Linux Plasma on it. I figured I can easily install something else when the time comes, so why not? Just abou a duplicate of my main laptop by now. Needs some games installed, but otherwise very complete.

My two grandsons are going to stay with us for a while, and I was thinking of creating accounts for them on it, so they don't need to browse with their phones while they're here.

brent

WetGeek I have never seen so many stupid picks thrown consecutively in an NLF game before until I had to endure this Miami game. Nauseating.

stalebrim

I got a neat-looking mug as a present.

brent

stalebrim literally anything beats a gift card

stalebrim

brent I think gift cards are okay since they give the recipient autonomy to decide on a present they like. Though remembering to use them before their expiration is a hassle. People are scared of just giving money as a present for some reason.

brent

stalebrim distribution of gift cards is unimaginative and uninspired (I'm as guilty as anyone)---cash so much better even a mug or socks.. cashiers at the place you use them never know how they work and then you back up the line and start feeling uncomfortable. elfprince and linux something something packaging

elfprince

Stay on topic, will ya? 😆

stalebrim

elfprince Distribution of christmas presents is interesting distribution.

stalebrim

brent I put value on the meaningfulness of the present, so a gift card can be nice at times. But if it's just for the sake of giving a present due to some arbitrary tradition I'd rather receive nothing.

WetGeek

@Staudey, I installed Sparky 6.5 on a new laptop, to see how it would be in hardware, and configured it to be a duplicate of my main laptop. The idea was to see how it would be in daily use. I noticed that the VirtualBox it provides is 7.0, so of course, I had to try that to see what's new. This is what it looked like as I created a Solus Plasma VM:

There are several workflow improvements. One is the full-screen presentation of the VM window during an installation. No more trying to click the upper edge of the [Next] button to go to the next step. And the initial process is changed a bit - more properties are established when the virtual drive is created. But mostly it works the same as the 6.x version, so there's no steep learning curve.

I was wondering if you know whether we're getting any closer to releasing it with Solus by now? Thanks!

stalebrim

WetGeek

One is the full-screen presentation of the VM window during an installation. No more trying to click the upper edge of the [Next] button to go to the next step.

Have you got a screenshot of how it was?

Staudey

WetGeek I've held off on the update for a bit because there were many reports of bugs (and correspondingly many bugfix releases of VirtualBox 7), but by now the situation seems to have stabilized a bit. Gonna take another look soon.

WetGeek

stalebrim Have you got a screenshot of how it was?

No, not without starting to create another VM that I don't want or need. The VirtualBox window for the "live" ISO session that is being used to run the installer is barely larger than the installer window itself. It is so tight that it's possible, but difficult, to move on from one completed step to the next one.

If you have VirtualBox installed on a Solus machine, just begin creating a VM and you can see that for yourself. You'll just need to take one step into the process to see what I mean, then you can close the installer if you want to.

WetGeek

stalebrim Have you got a screenshot of how it was?

I finished what I was doing, and created one for you.

The [Next] button is just above the "3:3" in the time. This represents creating a Solus Plasma VM. I can click on that tiny part of the button, but it's inconvenient. Compared to the 7.0 version, it's easy to see how much easier the process is there.

stalebrim

WetGeek Ah yeah. I think the 7.0+ version allows for larger screen mode right from the start.

WetGeek

stalebrim I think the 7.0+ version allows for larger screen mode right from the start.

Yeah, you can see how much bigger. My screen capture shows it on a full HD laptop. The little panel on the right that looks a bit like Raven, is actually for nofications about the installation process. It can be turned off by dismissing the notifications inside it.

WetGeek

Staudey Gonna take another look soon.

Thank you! I'm sure I'm not the only one who will appreciate that. I hope all the dust has settled by now. If it matters at all, when I created that Solus VM on the Sparky laptop, I didn't run into a single problem. And that goes for the VM I created.

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