I ran Statler for a time, but it was too different for my taste, but I have seen others that absolutely love it. It is fast, but based on Debian, prone to breakage.
Ron Gibbs said:
I ran Statler for a time, but it was too different for my taste, but I have seen others that absolutely love it. It is fast, but based on Debian, prone to breakage.
Prone to breakage? You're joking right?
Statler is based on the Debian Stable release - rock solid!
60 kWh said:
Ron Gibbs said:
I ran Statler for a time, but it was too different for my taste, but I have seen others that absolutely love it. It is fast, but based on Debian, prone to breakage.
Prone to breakage? You're joking right?
Statler is based on the Debian Stable release - rock solid!
It may be so now, but when I ran it, updates caused all kinds of havoc. Different strokes for different folks though. If you enjoy it, more power to you.
I like Debian and Gentoo.
Gentoo isn't that hard to install and configure on a clean install. It appears that most emerge/ebuild failures are from old installs.
But, for KDE, must add "extras" to the "USE=" variable or the Gentoo packaging system will give bull about a required portion being missing and terminate. It frusterates me that it gives me a fatal error over just not having "extras".
Arch went fine for me when installed on my Acer Aspire M5630, which has Intel graphics, despite there's a "GRAPHICS BY ATi" sticker lol.
But, pacman is messed up, the mirrors are messed up, some files appear to be missing from mirrors for no good reason, pacman frequently displays "Not found" for files pacman needs to fetch and terminates, for *many* files and I had to keep switching mirrors in the mirrorlist file, just to complete the installation of KDE!
The errors from pacman are more likely a 404. I never had errors like that with apt and emerge.
From my current experience, Arch has the most breakage.
Pacman was worse on a system with Nvidia graphics:
When I did pacman -S nvidia, pacman acted like malware, I saw error message "command not found" go by on the screen then on reboot, I got error message "ERROR: root fs cannot be detected".
Pacman felt alpha-like when trying Arch.
Looks like it messed up the initramfs portion. I cannot recommend Arch for PCs with Nvidia graphics at this time.
I have been using joliOS & though I no longer have my ebox I think it would run fine. It is a cloud OS & at first I didn't like it but gave it a second try. It is different & very geared toward smart phones & tablet use but I found I could drive it along pretty well with just keyboard commands. It is pretty much ubuntu underneath. I like to use the keyboard. I know how people have wailed away at unity but I love ubuntu & it is quite friendly with the keyboard.
Harold Roberts said:
I gave Peppermint a look since you guys liked it, Much like JoliOS, it is very cloud oriented. I liked the Ice program a lot. JoliOS has a very similar Site Specific Browser app as well but I think Peppermint does a better job. The cloud is great & makes for a light OS but I do like to some stuff keep native.
Peppermint Three is supposed to be released in ABOUT 3 weeks, give or take.
