If you do try Haiku, use Falkon as the web browser. You will have a much better experience than the other Haiku browser options.
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If you are a low-end Linux enthusiast, I would also recommend the Trinity desktop. Just as MATE is a continuation of GNOME 2, Trinity is a modern version of KDE 3. I was quite surprised how light and functional it is.
If you want to give it a shot in a VM, the Q4OS distro includes it as a default DE option. If you really want to be impressed what can be done with little RAM, try the 32 bit version of Q4OS.
What do you think of Thunar? I know it is part of XFCE but I think it would fit in well on MATE.
I don’t love the default XFCE look but the default in distros like EndeavourOS or CachyOS are awesome. It is like a totally different DE.
I am not sure how I feel about it but there seems to be some resistance in the GTK world. Desktops like Cinnamon,MATE, and XFCE have said they are going to stick with GTK3. Mint has proposed a common suite of GTK3 apps called Xapps that would maintain GTK3 versions of some of the applications that GNOME has pulled to GTK4.
https://linuxmint-developer-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/xapps.html
One of the best things about the GTK world was that you had a choice of DEs but got the same universe of “native” applications with any of them. Sadly, it seems that there may now be GNOME and “other GTK” DE universes. On the plus side, there will be a haven for those that want off the GNOME train without as much “left behind” feel as MATE users have had.
He says “no commercial interest” but honestly I bet there could be. For one thing, there is still an astounding amount of VB6 out there is real use. I know of several US law enforcement agencies with Petabytes of data stored in an evidence management system whose UI and core logic is VB6 for example.
Also, there is really nothing quite like VB6 out there today for rapid prototyping or rapid GUI desktop dev for amateur devs. It is a niche that has never really been filled.
If this can run VB6 apps cross-platform on a modern foundation, that could be huge.
[yes, I realize this is a one man hobby project with no such ambition. I am talking about potential.]
2·3 days agoUm, it is fast and light?
United Linux - the famous Red Hat Enterprise Linux killer!
I never used Caldera Linux but I did use their DOS for a while.
DSL is basically an Antix spin now ( which is itself basically just Debian ).
I had not noticed that KDE is available for Chimera now. Very cool.
WSL isn’t a distro.
I think you mean Azure Linux ( formerly CBL Mariner ):
They are using pacman obviously :)
I read this on my 2013 MacBook Air 2013 running EndeavourOS. It runs amazingly well including video meetings.
You have taken the first step towards creating your own distro.
Seriously though, what you suggest is fairly common but really a matter of preference. The same answer applies to “is it just extra work”.
I tend not to customize heavily because it keeps “me” generic and I can sit down at anything and be equally effective. Others heavily customize their environments to keep themselves productive and happy on the machines they actually use.
One advantage of your approach is you can create a “standard” user space across multiple distos. You do not have to remember if this system or that is Debian or Arch if “rk update” works everywhere ( even if is doing something different under the hood. This could be useful if you run a bunch of VMs or containers.
Do you have a favourite text editor that you heavily customize or do you use whatever? Same question for your DE. It is all scratching the same itch.
It looks a bit ugly to my eye but honestly that is a really good idea.
What other company or individual can the same be said of?
He did not say “shared a two-line bug fix one time”. The claim is that Red Hat is almost uniquely important in the Open Source ecosystem. Their source code contributions and / or the number of significant project that they have founded are evidence of this.
Can you name even a single company with the same impact? You certainly cannot name tens of thousands.
Often, when somebody moves the goal posts to avoid addressing an argument head on, it is to intentionally mislead. I hope that is not the case here.
They do not own it because of their commitment to not just Open Source but ironically the GPL. So the large number of projects they have founded and the larger number of projects are the force behind are not “owned” by them.
They could have “owned” a tonne of the software almost every Linux user uses ( including Guix and Debian ).
This is precisely why it sounds so wrong to my ears when talk about Red Hat as above. Few facts. Lots of name calling.
Much more stable but much, much older packages at some point. Can you tolerate that?
It is a lot easier these days as Distrobox and Flatpak offer great escape hatches to get newer software when you really need it.
Some of us fiddle with the base OS more than we should. In many ways, I think using something that changes less often is a great idea.
One great thing about RHEL is the documentation. First Red Hat themselves make great stuff. Then there are mountains of third-party materials. Finally, since it changes slowly, whatever issues you are facing have probably been seen before by others and what you find about it on the Internet will still apply.