Other Interesting Distros, Part 5

stalebrim

brent No, it was Wetgeek.

I used Firefox to download Vivaldi from its web site, and Discover opened the .DEB file and installed it.

brent

WetGeek When just installing software I needed today using nala, dpkg worked fine. The siduction admin, called "Devil," didn't mention what he was doing when he saw the error happen twice.

where were we?

stalebrim

WetGeek If this was addressed to me, I've been doing that for two days now. In fact, I'm doing it at this moment.

Yup I meant you.

brent I'm not sure if you got confused, I was referring to the post where you asked whether the distro has something else than Synaptic.

WetGeek

stalebrim So are you intending to daily drive it on bare metal?

If this was addressed to me, I've been doing that for two days now. In fact, I'm doing it at this moment.

If it wasn't addressed to me, nevermind.

Staudey Driving on bare metal is inadvisable!

And you complain when I'M off-topic. 😄

WetGeek

stalebrim I was referring to the post where you asked whether the distro has something else than Synaptic.

These are the most confusing attributions I've seen in a long while. If somebody's question is whether siduction has both Synaptic package manager and Discover, the answer is yes. It has both. Discover happened to be the "open with" default for .DEB packages.

By the way, @brent, siduction deals in .DEB packages only, at least by default. When I check to see if a package is available, the .DEB is the only source that shows up.

brent

stalebrim I'm not sure if you got confused, I was referring to the post where you asked whether the distro has something else than Synaptic.

I thought you were going to tip your waitress but Discover instead of Gdebi instead of Synaptic.
I believe I just tied this thread's loose ends.🙂
mahalo!

WetGeek siduction deals in .DEB packages only, at least by default. When I check to see if a package is available, the .DEB is the only source that shows up.

bunsen too.

WetGeek These are the most confusing attributions I've seen in a long while.

my partner is kind of a hippy chick and she says mercury is in retrograde.

brent

WetGeek went to their download site. five versions. first three: plas, lxqt, & xfce.
4th and 5th: Xorg and No X?

not a kde or xfce person but I like the LXQT in the family. But those last two...never heard of them as deskto environments . far out. plugging in the ventoy and downloading. Can be new year's day tinkering.

no car driving or bar tonight. we are safely having a slow dance and a Burn Notice marathon. Happy New Years. 4 hours to go in my neck o' the woods.

stalebrim

WetGeek These are the most confusing attributions I've seen in a long while.

How so?

stalebrim

brent I thought you were going to tip your waitress

I'm posting from my home not from a restaurant

WetGeek

WetGeek On hardware, siduction is a joy to use. It would make an excellent #2 distro for anyone interested in such a thing.

If any of you give Siduction a try, and do an update, and get stuck on this Nala bug, you might want to know what turned out to be the cause. It only happens when a config file is being replaced, and the user is asked for (Yn) confirmation. But the confirmation prompt doesn't appear. One user said that entering "Y" when it stopped got it to finish on his machine. I couldn't reproduce it, because I'd fully updated my laptop using apt, so the situation didn't occur again for me.

Sorta reminds me of the Etcher bug where a password prompt is displayed behind the Etcher window. At least, when I now use Etcher, I know that when it stops I need to move its window so I can type in my password. That doesn't work, though, for something scrolling in a terminal window. (I wonder when Etcher will be fixed?)

brent

WetGeek If any of you give Siduction a try, and do an update, and get stuck on this Nala bug, you might want to know what turned out to be the cause. It only happens when a config file is being replaced, and the user is asked for (Yn) confirmation.

The fluxbox live iso I have been playing will not furnish me a master password (I didn't hunt one down at their website because lazy today) so I can't run an update or even open synaptic. I'm sure Plasma is more full-featured than my minimal "Xorg" build WM...but not impressed with native resolutions/image rendering from the live usb.
I can see what you like about it, though. It's straightforward and unfussy the way I like it. Fluxbox has intuitively smarter and bigger right-click menus than Openbox, so I appreciate that.

WetGeek

brent The fluxbox live iso I have been playing will not furnish me a master password

In this post, you quoted something I said about Siduction, but I couldn't see any connection with anything you posted. Did you decide to install Siduction on something and give it a try?

WetGeek

@Staudey : FYI, I just created a Solus KDE VM that's based entirely on the unstable repository. It took 678 upgrades! If I can help by testing something, or confirming a reported fix for VirtualBox (when you get around to it), let me know what you need. Or testing anything else, for that matter. Glad to help if I can.

Staudey

WetGeek The best way to help testing the Unstable repository is by following the #Solus-Dev IRC channel. The topic will usually show which big updates have been recently made and need testing (e.g. kernels). Sometimes team members will send a message asking Unstable users to test specific things or hardware configurations to make sure they work.
In fact one should follow the #Solus-Dev channel anyway, if one is to use the Unstable repository, because it will have notices at times when updating can potentially mess up your system (e.g. "Kernel rebuilds in progess. Do not update!")

brent

WetGeek its connected. just saying I couldnt get far enough to see if I catch the nala bug...

WetGeek

brent just saying I couldnt get far enough to see if I catch the nala bug...

Maybe if I knew what fluxbox is, or what it has to do with examining a distro, I would have understood.

brent

WetGeek I explained of the 5 DE's of Siduction I chose Xorg to explore which has the fluxbox WM.

to, hopefully, make this connection clearer for you, I have been specifically replying to this:
"If any of you give Siduction a try, and do an update, and get stuck on this Nala bug, you might want to know what turned out to be the cause. It only happens when a config file is being replaced, and the user is asked for (Yn) confirmation. But the confirmation prompt doesn't appear. One user said that entering "Y" when it stopped got it to finish on his machine. I couldn't reproduce it, because I'd fully updated my laptop using apt, so the situation didn't occur again for me."

elfprince

brent I think that the Siduction team should have named it 'Fluxbox' and not 'Xorg'.

WetGeek

brent I explained of the 5 DE's of Siduction I chose Xorg to explore which has the fluxbox WM.

Ah, sorry. I didn't make the connection. I must have had something else on my mind at the time.

brent

elfprince yeah if a Window Manager is in charge than the name of the 'desktop' is whatever.however the devs made the LightDM look? I have a hard time with the symantics sometimes.

WetGeek . I must have had something else on my mind at the time.

I am not always crystal clear so no worries.

brent

WetGeek I am going to download and play with Siduction LXQT later tonight. I had a mixed first impression of it's WM DE. I find it an interesting distro.

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