#Random Linux


Built from the ground up using Qt and coded in C++, Orbitiny Desktop is a new, 100% portable, innovative and traditional but modern looking desktop environment for Linux. Innovative because it has features not seen in any other desktop environment before while keeping traditional aspects of computing alive (desktop icons, menus etc).

First i've heard of Orbitiny Desktop, looks very archaic compared to plasma.
 
* Random Linux posts that are not worthy of their own thread - Please quote the post to which you're replying. *

I'll start. Does anyone else always remove the splash screen from Linux distros?

It's something I've always done.
I used to, it was cool seeing all the texts scrolling when booting up, but then I realized how little I see it since I basically never shut down my PCs, only rebooting
/shutting down when needed (so basically after kernel/mesa updates, hardware maintenance, etc)

Though I should probably go back to disabling the splash screen for my laptops, I shut them down if I'm not going to be using them for more than couple of days.
 
Today's pièce de résistance

Having FTTP installed today so will be running this baby and asking the Openreach engineers to explain why the new installation is shy te :D

Bash:
#!/bin/bash

while [ 1 ]; do
    for c in 1 2 3 4 5; do
        speedtest --no-upload 2>&1 > /dev/null &
        speedtest --no-download 2>&1 > /dev/null &
        sleep 1
    done
    sleep 10
done
 
I must admit that the last time i saw anything useful was when trying out SpiralLinux it failed to load AppArmor profiles, it turned out that the developer disables it by default.

It did throw me for awhile.
What did you think of Spiral? I'm a fan, I've rebuilt my own custom spins. It used Debian Live build so not hard
 
What did you think of Spiral? I'm a fan, I've rebuilt my own custom spins. It used Debian Live build so not hard

I had a play with an early release that was buggy so ended up back on LMDE, i was going to retry it a few months back but noticed that the last release was back in 2023 so i left it.
 
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To which there was a bit of a surprising response:

"Removing RPM applications is my long term goal, but I'm not sure how quickly we'll be able to get there."

That response was from Michael Catanzaro, a Red Hat engineer on their desktop team, a member of the Fedora Workstation Working Group, and a member of the GNOME Release Team.

WOW!, Gnome Software thinking of going Flatpak only.
 
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I don't know everyone else feels about this, but for me, it makes no difference, but that's probably because of how I do things, I install stuff via terminal using distro's package manager, I do this for most flatpaks too but there are few packages where the name of the package can be kinda annoying to type or find in the terminal, so for these I use Discovery/Gnome Software.
 
I don't know everyone else feels about this, but for me, it makes no difference, but that's probably because of how I do things, I install stuff via terminal using distro's package manager, I do this for most flatpaks too but there are few packages where the name of the package can be kinda annoying to type or find in the terminal, so for these I use Discovery/Gnome Software.
I use Arch so using terminal to install packages is pretty normal haha
 
Just moved from bazzite to cachyos from bazzite in anticaption of an AMD card, was such a nice experience had very few hiccups even with me not really knowing arch. Very impressed very slick.
 
Not Linux but no idea which other thread I would put this in!

I'm getting up to speed with FreeBSD as I haven't used it in a long time. The only major annoyance I have is that it comes with vi not vim or neovim so you have to manually install it. As an operating system I like how it is all intgrated.
 
Not Linux but no idea which other thread I would put this in!

I'm getting up to speed with FreeBSD as I haven't used it in a long time. The only major annoyance I have is that it comes with vi not vim or neovim so you have to manually install it. As an operating system I like how it is all intgrated.

More interestingly the 'vi' on BSD is actually 'nvi' for licensing reasons, and 'vim' isn't technically vi improved, but stevie improved, although stevie was a clone of vi so it's all fun.

I had to do some stuff with ZFS on Linux a few weeks ago and it's so much better on FreeBSD, although I still prefer OpenBSD personally. I'm perfectly happy running nvi though nowadays. Getting deep into BSD land these days, trying to daily drive it, completely comfortable in Linux but definitely some fun differences.
 
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