Reo Lounge Part V

[DancingHeretik]

Gentoo and LFS.

Debian "stable" here with LXDE. I have downloaded Slackware to install in Virtualbox and try out, but I still haven't gotten around to it.

debian is good if you have a unique architecture, but then you need everything else to have free drivers or at least generics that won't limit it

i did the full circle into deeply geeky, settled back on a n00b xubuntu set up. i enjoy reformatting twice yearly, but not needing to do daily updates. the patches they apply suit me. arch was fun for a few years though, there's a satisfaction that comes with compiling kernels

i'm waiting for vaping shinyitis to do that, it is my standard cycle to obsessively geek out a few years, then settle on simple/what i have. but for now i'm looking forward to this tmod

i use ubuntu and really enjoy it

I wanted to set my computer up with a dual boot: Windows and Linux. I was thinking of trying Mint.

Any suggestions/recommendations? I've never used Linux. I'm just so sick of Windows. And, I'm not very geeky with anything nowadays. Although, many years ago (pre-Windows), I was quite good at handling DOS, and programming in C, Pascal, and a little bit of this and that.

 

[Doffy]

and customizable! Love portage

i found pkgbuild on arch more suited to my style, with pacman for precompiled stuff. but loved portage when i used it

i tried bsd, but never gelled with it

 

[Doffy]

I wanted to set my computer up with a dual boot: Windows and Linux. I was thinking of trying Mint.

Any suggestions/recommendations? I've never used Linux. I'm just so sick of Windows. And, I'm not very geeky with anything nowadays. Although, many years ago (pre-Windows), I was quite good at handling DOS, and programming in C, Pascal, and a little bit of this and that.

depends what yu use it for, how much time yo want to invest in maintenance, if you have a need for proprietry drivers or programs [flash player etc]

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

Wow. It sounds like my office in here... or rather, looks like a slack channel in my office

 

[TheBikeGuy]

I use Debian for the same reason I use a Reo. It's just simple and dependable.

 

[penguiness]

What WM does everyone use when in GUI?

 

[Doffy]

What WM does everyone use when in GUI?

i3 wm. It stays out of the way. Xmonad before that. Awesome is good, but lua changes too often making it a pita

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[MamaTried]

I can be a pain at times. I installed Windose 8.1 in Virtualbox so I can run stuff that doesn't play well with Debian. Mainly Netflix and Family Tree Maker. I haven't really put much effort into getting Netflix going on Debian. I probably should.

i'm a retired VP of software engineering. did Windows programming since 3.0, which i know pretty well (or used to know)

like you with windoze, i originally used linux in virtualbox. wrote some server-side things that wouldn't scale efficiently (cost-effectively) under windows. that's my be-all, end-all with linux. haven't touched linux since i retired.


but i like to play

 

[Doffy]

I set up lfs in virtualbox a few years ago. Never touched it after getting it set up

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[TheBikeGuy]

Just plain ol' LXDE.

 

[MamaTried]

What WM does everyone use when in GUI?

i3 wm. It stays out of the way. Xmonad before that. Awesome is good, but lua changes too often making it a pita

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dammit. i have no idea what this means



on the good side, the geeks have taken over the thread

 

[penguiness]

i'm a retired VP of software engineering. did Windows programming since 3.0, which i know pretty well (or used to know)

like you with windoze, i originally used linux in virtualbox. wrote some server-side things that wouldn't scale efficiently (cost-effectively) under windows. that's my be-all, end-all with linux. haven't touched linux since i retired.


but i like to play

Obfuscated C, anyone? That is about the only thing I remember about Win 3.0

I like to play as well, which is why I prefer to use a source-based distro. I remember when you had to compute dot clocks to start X. Which was tricky business because you could burn out your graphics card and/or monitor. Akin to firing a 0.2ohm coil on a cheap knock-off battery.

WM: Window Manager - the overlay used on top of X-Windows to use various GUI elements (menus, multiple desktops, etc.)

 

[TheBikeGuy]

WM=Window manager. What you see when you're in a graphical interface rather than a terminal.

 

[TheBikeGuy]

I have an old computer in the closet that was upgraded to Widows 3.1. It originally had Microsoft OS/2.

 

[Doffy]

What do u use peng?

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[penguiness]

What do u use peng?

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enlightenment for the most part. I was once part of the enlightenment project years ago and just kinda stuck with it. I pass options to my x startups to switch around. Depends on what I want to do. I don't boot to GUI so it is easy to switch to something else.

 

[Sterno]

is unity a WM

 

[Doffy]

is unity a WM

Desktop environment

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[Doffy]

enlightenment for the most part. I was once part of the enlightenment project years ago and just kinda stuck with it. I pass options to my x startups to switch around. Depends on what I want to do. I don't boot to GUI so it is easy to switch to something else.

Cool

I boot to gui and just ctrl alt fn key to terminal. But always keep a virtual terminal on one monitor

I'm lazy. I reboot more than is needed to save a few commands. Still only reboot every few weeks

As bike guy said. Simple and dependable

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[MamaTried]

I have an old computer in the closet that was upgraded to Widows 3.1. It originally had Microsoft OS/2.

i used to have a computer that crashed under win3, but rode os/2 well.

i think i actually used that same box to test my first flavor of linux about a decade ago

at the time, it was when os/2 and win were regarded neck and neck.

glad i chose win