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As I noted in another post, I've been away (I'm a distro-hopper with a tendency to rove), but I'm back, and I love the new release. Not enough credit goes to the developers who not only bring the distro out, but make it as easy as possible to get around without the use of non-free software. Kudos and thanks. I've been roving less of late. I've spent the last few months with fedora (Blagg is coming out with new release based on Fedora 20), so maybe I'll be around a bit longer than usual. I can't promise anything because I find it difficult to predict my own behavior. But again, Kudos to the developers.
Ah, I remember my early weeks of Linux. I too was a distro-hopper! :D
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Unfortunately this disorder I have isn't based on my newness to linux. I've been a gnu/linux user since 2005. It's more a case of immaturity. I'm only 61 years old. Who knows, some day I might grow up. I used to be a Blag user, back when Jeff Moe (Jebba) was running it. I think he got burned out from running it by himself. Fedora makes it easy now to create your own spins, so hopefully Blag will stay more current.
As an infant (55) with a mere 17 years of GNU/Linux use I still find myself doing things like 'checking out Parabola' [on a spare machine] just to see what it's like. And, of course, when Gnome made its big change like lots of people I tried loadsa desktops to find what was the best desktop for me. The answer is any of them. Because I can use shell, Emacs, QuodLibet and a browser with much the same lack of fuss in any DE.
Which leads me to ask are you too a Terminal Recidivist?
Anyway distro hopping teaches the primary skills of an alpha or beta tester. So if you ever retire from hopping I suggest you take up testing as a hobby.
"I need my shiny stuff." - Cat, Red Dwarf. :-)
Ok, well if a 49 year old is embryonic, I don't want to know what my 31 year old self is. On that note, I have played only with Ubuntu, Slackware, and now Trisquel. I guess I'm not as adventurous, or don't find the time for 'distro-hopping'. I like to just think I found the perfect fit with Trisquel for my use. It has a lot of the out-of-box ease of use the basic user in me likes, but is powerful enough for my advanced side to become adventurous.
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Yes, I've heard that many people use their computers to do things other than installing distros. Curious...
Like many males when under stress I favour what psychologists call the
'distraction as an avoidance strategy' and installing GNU/Linux is my favourite
vehicle for that. So e.g. the installs I did in the late beta,
early RC phases of Belenos were more to do with my Father getting to
the stage where he no longer recognises family than anything else.
For a three month spell last year I re-installed Trisquel changing the
DE every week after phoning a lifetime friend to discuss how his chemo
was going.
Sometimes it's a different distro, then I'm back to the freedom of
Trisquel within a few days out of principle, not stress. Or maybe a
couple of weeks play if it's a free distro. That's why I keep *the*
spare machine, my previous desktop.
I'm not sure whether that makes me a distro hopper or not. Frankly I
don't care as it's a lot cheaper and healthier than either more booze
than is wise or comfort eating both of which appear to be much more
popular habits for the same thing (not that they're always that).
Therefore, since it's mostly a matter of re-installing Trisquel with a
different DE on the spare machine, perhaps I should say 'Trisquel is
good for your health.' :-)
Perhaps I should just learn to cry like a real man. :-)
My distro hopping got cut a bit short when I moved to Free systems (hopping between 7-10 distros including Fedora and Debian most of which I'll never use (i.e. Dragora)?). But if all distros out there were free I'd certainly be the distro hopper I was just before I settled with Manjaro (and then Trisquel). If only I'd tries Salix and by then.....
Waiting for someone to go out and do a Libre CentOS.........
(And if 49 is embryonic, 31 is a zygote :) and 15 is......split in the 2 parents?)
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An interesting CentOS desktop effort is Stella. I've been trying it off and on for a couple of years now. It's amazing what's possible with such an old kernel.
That because a kernel is irrelevant to what a desktop graphically does!
There's a reason we refuse to name the OS after the kernel and the kernel only.
Distrohopping is not a disease, nor a sign of immaturity.
It can take a long time to settle down and besides, just after you've settled down some bright spark goes and releases something even more attractive and you're off again.
Squirrel!
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I used ubuntu,lubuntu,xubuntu,debian,mint; tried lxle,puppy and gnewsense
I switched to Trisquel a month ago and have been using it quite intensively since then - have to say - Trisquel is one shiny gem!!
We're the richer from your unintentional 'coming out.' And you're
right about this weekend - from school age to 61 and mentions of 80
somethings, able bodied and not, and global. A far cry from the
programmer cult the likes of ESR would have others believe we are.
Instead an actual free software *community.*
When I was a kid
I used Solaris
then I Moved to gnu/linux
I started with Mandrake (Mandriva)
I've found difficult
Because Mandrake has bad Screen reader(I am blind)
then I Moved to Trisquel
Ubuntu MATE is worth a look...
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I use glasses and with them on I see perfectly. I thought orca was pretty annoying when i installed trisquel 'cause the vast majority of people are not going to use it. But then on second thought i reckoned it was a good thing, a very good thing indeed, for it is very simple for me to remove orca or to disable it but it is not simple for a non-sighted person to deal with trisquel without it.
Hence one big "respect bro!!" for that implementation to the trisquel developers!!
for me, Without orca My life becomes difficult
It gives me the ability to control computer
BTW, In this day I used parabola
I installed
http://talkingarch.tk/
then I follow these instructions
https://wiki.parabola.nu/Migration
> for me, Without orca My life becomes difficult
> It gives me the ability to control computer
> BTW, In this day I used parabola
> I installed
> http://talkingarch.tk/
>
> then I follow these instructions
> https://wiki.parabola.nu/Migration
Good stuff! How about putting a suggestion on the Parabola mailing
list that they do a TalkArch derivative install CD themselves?
AsA - Leny
yes In this day I put a suggestion on the Parabola mailing list
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