Hey fellow Linux enthusiasts! I’m curious to know if any of you use a less popular, obscure or exotic Linux distribution. What motivated you to choose that distribution over the more mainstream ones? I’d love to hear about your experiences and any unique features or benefits that drew you to your chosen distribution.
I’ve been using Source Mage for about a year now! It’s a source-based distro like Gentoo. It’s magic themed, so instead of repositories we have grimoires, and instead of packages we have spells :) my main reason for using it is because I tried it out a few years ago and the magic themed intrigued me. Eventually I decided to write some of my own spells (some important programs were missing that I wanted) I found them a lot easier to parse than gentoos ebuilds personally. But after I’d been sending PRs for a few months, I got added to the team as an official maintainer!
it’s a really fun distro to use, if not a bit hard to get up-and-running (only tarball-based install, we used to have ISOs but they’re out of date for now) I’ve put a lot of work into getting it how i like it, i enjoy the tinkering aspect of it :) its fun
A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment....
For me at least, waynergy doesn’t solve my issues, as I host my kb/m on Linux and share with a Windows PC (no builds for windows, and I can’t get it to work with barrier for some reason) I ended up just buying a USB switch which works, but it’s way slower … but I love hyprland so it’s a net gain I guess
Looks awesome, I love Ruby!! For even more ruby you could swap bspwm with subtle, whose config file is written in ruby :) (subtle itself isn’t though sadly)
A ruby-written window manager would be too cool, I’d check it out! Although unfortunately I’ve switched to Wayland months ago and I know Wayland is a lot harder to write for… ah well :)
Very true! Well hey those are still some great ideas - would be really nice to see something like that exist for sure. Keep us updated on the project! Always love seeing new ruby stuff
To anyone seeing this - don’t read the comments… I’ve lost brain cells. It’s not even an especially long article and you can tell 99% of the people commenting only read the headline lol
I'm currently on Win11 but I'm getting that familiar Linux itch and want to dual boot a while again. I tend to gravitate towards Ubuntu simply because it's so big and well supported by most things....
SourceMage! It's a source based distro like Gentoo. I've been using it as my main distro for a solid 10 months now, I'm very happy with it! We have flatpak so steam works great, as well as lutris and everything else. Definitely wouldn't recommend it to someone looking for simplicity though!
Honestly, the times aren't too bad as long as you have a recent CPU! It definitely varies though - on my main PC, compiling glibc takes about 15 minutes, on my netbook that I had a smgl install on, it took about 20 hours lol
Yep, Joplin is great too, that's what I use currently! I also like that it has built-in syncing with nextcloud and dropbox; as far as I know, obsidian only has their own paid-for syncing (unless you sync externally like the person below using syncthing)
I'm totally new to this, but I thought this might be a good place to ask: Is there an Android app I can use to access kbin? I have the website pinned to my home screen for now, but the touch targets are a bit tiny and it doesn't seem well optimized for mobile. Also any tips and tricks on . . . this whole Fediverse thing would be great. Still trying to wrap my head around it.
I could be wrong but as far as I know, kbin isn't Lemmy. Jerboa only supports Lemmy (although you can make an account on a Lemmy instance and subscribe to kbin magazines, though) ((related GitHub issue here))
I do! I daily drive SourceMage Linux. I found it while I was spelunking distrowatch (along with its brother, lunar linux - they both branched from sorceror back in the day) I ended up having so much fun tinkering with it I ended up writing some spells (packages) for it and ended up getting pulled on as a spell maintainer :) I don't really have a use-case for it; Before it, I was hopping between arch and void linux. I do really enjoy the freedom I have though with SMGL - it's a source-based distro, so it's similar to Gentoo in a sense. Plus I just enjoy having a deeper look into things! I break stuff often and sometimes spells don't install correctly/have problems but solving those issues just makes it that much more fun :) I do highly recommend it for anyone looking into trying out a source-based distro and Gentoo doesn't interest them. (we're #sourcemage on libre.chat IRC, come say hi if you'd like, or if you need help installing, i'll happily walk anyone through the process!)
Yeah it's honestly hard to get set up - we haven't had a new ISO in a solid decade so the only way to install currently is via tarball. Our installation guide though is pretty good, and we're always happy to help people getting it up-and-running :) I'm in the IRC 24/7 for the most part so i'm always available to assist. If you decide to, i'll see you in there! As for a burner laptop - you can install SMGL on just about any device (we have 32-bit support still!) I have SMGL installed on a few of my netbooks ;) ... compile times are less than savory though lol, 1+ day for glibc compilation, the misery...
(I will note though that the only huge downside to SMGL is that we don't have multilib support - 64-bit is 64-bit only, which means no native things like Steam that require 32-bit libs)
(( we have workarounds though, i've added flatpak to SMGL and steam runs perfect in it!))
Who here uses a less popular Linux distribution? What made you choose it?
Hey fellow Linux enthusiasts! I’m curious to know if any of you use a less popular, obscure or exotic Linux distribution. What motivated you to choose that distribution over the more mainstream ones? I’d love to hear about your experiences and any unique features or benefits that drew you to your chosen distribution.
What's your preferred DE?
I’m currently testing Fedora KDE on a VM (windows host) before eventually switching over to Linux completely.
GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support (www.phoronix.com)
A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment....
All Ruby, all the time (almost) (lemmy.stad.social)
Most of my workspaces are tiling (bspwm), but I have one where all windows are floated....
Starfield Fan Banned From Subreddit For Narcing On Leaker To Cops (kotaku.com)
Linux gamers, what distro are you currently on?
I'm currently on Win11 but I'm getting that familiar Linux itch and want to dual boot a while again. I tend to gravitate towards Ubuntu simply because it's so big and well supported by most things....
Looking for OneNote Alternative
Hey everyone,...
Weekend poll: Do you currently use a third-party Reddit app? (www.androidpolice.com)
How many of you use a 3rd-party app to browse Reddit?
Did anyone ever play this? It was a weirdly big part of my childhood. (i.imgur.com)
One of five games I had for the Gameboy. I never finished it, but had a lot of fun with it! Lol.
My hammy, Basil. (beehaw.org)
Hello all. This is Basil. She's weird.
lay it all bare, show me yalls fetch
https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/6fa7b8b6-e42a-4135-85b2-4aeab1ac0639.png
Is anyone here daily driving an obscure OS like HaikuOS, ReactOS, MorphOS, etc?
ArcaOS, KolibriOS, AROS, FreeDOS, Plan 9, TempleOS, or even just an older version of Windows or Linux....