mhbell Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 I just can't get into or like Manjaro or Arch. I tried the latest Manjaro and did not like it at all. I replaced it with Siduction LXQT. It is fast and with the Installer that Siduction is using very easy to install. So far it is working flawless for me and I have all of the updates installed so far. Mint and Debian are my main distros on my production computers. Mel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Well Manjaro is a horrible example of Archlinux. Besides pacman, they share very little with each other. Think of Manjaro as Ubuntu in terms of actual relation to Debian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 I tried Manjaro and the Xfce version is very polished. I didn't like the forum though - folks there were pretty arrogant. I figured I may as well go ahead and install Arch. Arch is remarkably stable after you get it installed and you can learn a lot by the installation process. I just wish I had a better piece of hardware to install it on. It's an old netbook with low memory and an Atom processor. Arch itself runs fine but any modern browser is S-L-O-W. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 I still think siduction is remarkable. The installer is quick and painless, updates are reliable as long as you read the warnings in the forum, and the forum is low traffic and helpful. Last week I had to do my first backup restore for years, only because of a mismatched pulseaudio update which didn't even affect audio. A subsequent update fixed it. I installed Stretch with a view to possibly switching over so I'd get less updates but still haven't switched. There are just a couple of applications I'd miss which are not available in Stretch. The latest Plasma 5.13 came in last week also which is so smooth and well-behaved. Haven't tried the LXQT version for a while though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 I had a short-lived run with siduction several years ago. My preference now is to run Debian Stable, Arch, and maybe either Kubuntu or Lubuntu (in fact, at this time I'm running Stable, Arch, and Kubuntu LTS). The idea of running siduction instead of Arch is intriguing, but I enjoy Arch too much to do that right now. Out of curiosity, I took a look at this page: https://manual.siduc...g/sys-admin-apt Excellent info there! I'd certainly study that page closely if I were to decide to try siduction again. I was wondering about the default sources, and I see that siduction (by default) uses its own repos rather than sid sources directly. Interesting setup in sources.list.d. This part reminds me of my general routine with Arch: You should always check Current Warnings on the siduction main web site, and check the warnings against the packages that your system wants to dist-upgrade. And: dist-upgrade as routinely as you can, ideally once every week or two, at least 1 time per month to be safe. A dist-upgrade initiated only every 2 to 3 months should be considered the safe outer limit. Maybe someday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon James Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 I still think siduction is remarkable. The installer is quick and painless, updates are reliable as long as you read the warnings in the forum, and the forum is low traffic and helpful. Last week I had to do my first backup restore for years, only because of a mismatched pulseaudio update which didn't even affect audio. A subsequent update fixed it. I installed Stretch with a view to possibly switching over so I'd get less updates but still haven't switched. There are just a couple of applications I'd miss which are not available in Stretch. The latest Plasma 5.13 came in last week also which is so smooth and well-behaved. Haven't tried the LXQT version for a while though. I have Siduction LXQt in a VM and I LOVE it! It's the most polished version of a LXQt desktop that I have experienced, and I've checked out all of them, except Redcore (haven't had a chance yet). I'm so impressed with Siduction LXQt that I'd like to make it my daily driver, but my daily driver is also a production machine and the Siduction devs warn against doing that. So I won't...but I really, really want to! If you're interested in LXQt, let me encourage you to check it out. I think you'll be impressed?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 I was wondering about the default sources, and I see that siduction (by default) uses its own repos rather than sid sources directly. The debian.list in siduction contains the standard Debian sid repos from which 98% of packages come. The only siduction packages come from extra.list and fixes.list which are siduction's repo and mainly have kernel upgrades and a small handful of utilities. The fixes.list is rarely used where siduction devs find a bug in a sid package and fix it before the Debian devs do. The fixed packages regularly are contributed and become the Debian packages. And yes regular upgrades are good. I usually do it once a week. The main thing to be wary of is when a large number of packages are proposed to be removed. Danger, Will Robinson! Stop, abort and wait. Last weeks Plasma 5.13 upgrade meant the system wasn't upgradeable for a few days. All good now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 I was wondering about the default sources, and I see that siduction (by default) uses its own repos rather than sid sources directly. The debian.list in siduction contains the standard Debian sid repos from which 98% of packages come. The only siduction packages come from extra.list and fixes.list which are siduction's repo and mainly have kernel upgrades and a small handful of utilities. The fixes.list is rarely used where siduction devs find a bug in a sid package and fix it before the Debian devs do. The fixed packages regularly are contributed and become the Debian packages. Guess I'm misunderstanding this part, then: All siduction ISOs use the following sources as default: #Freie Universität Berlin/ spline (Student Project LInux NEtwork), Deutschland ftp://ftp.spline.de/pub/siduction/iso rsync://ftp.spline.de/siduction/iso deb ftp://ftp.spline.de/pub/siduction/base unstable main deb ftp://ftp.spline.de/pub/siduction/fixes unstable main deb-src ftp://ftp.spline.de/pub/siduction/base unstable main deb-src ftp://ftp.spline.de/pub/siduction/fixes unstable main Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhbell Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 [ I have Siduction LXQt in a VM and I LOVE it! It's the most polished version of a LXQt desktop that I have experienced, and I've checked out all of them, except Redcore (haven't had a chance yet). I'm so impressed with Siduction LXQt that I'd like to make it my daily driver, but my daily driver is also a production machine and the Siduction devs warn against doing that. So I won't...but I really, really want to! If you're interested in LXQt, let me encourage you to check it out. I think you'll be impressed?! Well I am happy with Siduction LXQT. It boots on my computer in 10-12 sec flat. Debian stretch 9.4 is not far behind with cinnamon DE. I am seriously thinking of switching from Mint which has been my main OS from its inception. For some reason Mint now takes a long time booting up sometimes as long as 2 minutes. Even windows 10 is faster at about 15 sec. Once up and running Mint is very stable Never had problems with it before. clean installs same problem. Maybe it is the kernal. Will have to see about going back to a older one.Mel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 Guess I'm misunderstanding this part, then: You're understanding it correctly. It's just that the manual hasn't had much love lately so is incorrect and the bases repo hasn't been used for 3 years.Current siduction repos are (from inxi -r): Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 1: deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/extra.list 1: deb https://packages.siduction.org/extra unstable main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/fixes.list 1: deb https://packages.siduction.org/fixes unstable main contrib non-free 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 (edited) Thank you, sunrat! Well, it did occur to me that the info there might have been incorrect, and that perhaps I should have downloaded the iso and checked for myself, but then I decided that maybe it was a reading comprehension issue on my part! I really appreciate your clearing that up. If I had taken the time to scroll down to the bottom of the page, I would have seen: Page last revised 015/01/2012 1200 UTC That right there explains a lot. Wow. Edited July 8, 2018 by saturnian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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