KISSmyOS

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What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop? (kbin.social)

It's an old model (Acer One D257) Processor is Intel Atom. Memory is 1GB DDR3 with 320 GB of HDD. I currently Have MX 21 running on it, but I need to reinstall because I forgot the root password. Since I'm reinstalling the OS, I thought I'd ask here for recommendations for an OS that makes the most of this oldie.

KISSmyOS,

23, the one that is based on Debian Bookworm.
21.3 worked fine.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

www.lilysthings.org/blog/daily-driving-freebsd/

tl/dr: they used github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox

KISSmyOS,

Luckily Xfce exists which gives you back all of the configurability of old Gnome.
Move those panels around, add as many as you like!
Me, I’ve just looked at screenshots of old gnome and can’t remember why I ever thought 2 panels visible at all times were a good idea.
I love current gnome, cause with a single extension I can hide literally all of it until I need to bring it up with the super-button. And then I have my favorite apps, open windows, workspaces, systray, clock and a search field all visible at once.

KISSmyOS,

My dad had a work colleague from the US who was named “Melitta Filter”.

100% vanilla distribution challenge

what does this consist of? Well, it’s easy, whenever you install a new distribution of Linux, don’t customise anything, nothing please!! Out of the box experience, you may install software but that’s all. And if you are already using a customised distro, then delete the .config file and reboot, but please be careful and...

KISSmyOS, (edited )

Oh, it’s you again.
Well then I’ve been doing your challenge on most of my systems for the past 15 years.
I mostly just install Debian with Gnome, the programs I need, and then get on with my life.

KISSmyOS,

That’s a Backronym.

The term definitely comes from looking down on tuned Asian cars (“rice burners”).

KISSmyOS,

But I really want to actually customize like the behaviour of apps

Welcome to FOSS programming as a hobby. But first, let’s rice your IDE!

KISSmyOS,

Run the script again?

KISSmyOS,

They’re great but definitely not for beginners.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

What? Slackware has a menu-driven installer that sets up a usable system out of the box that comes with all the bells and whistles.
Just don’t try to change anything.

Oh, and the bells and whistles are powered by a steam engine, so you better know your way around ancient tech to use them.

Low effort posts

Ask Lemmy is a place to ask thought provoking questions. The mods have been lenient with some of the recent posts on the basis that they must provoke thought for some people, but after seeing two posts essentially saying “what do you think of my stick?”, I believe we can raise the bar a bit on what kind of thoughts we want...

KISSmyOS,

Without moderation, all the trolls who got banned elsewhere will congregate, then everyone else leaves, then the trolls get bored cause there’s no one to troll and leave, too.

KISSmyOS,

Version 12 is xinxXII.
And then someone writes a compatibility wrapper for xfce and calls it XfxinxXII-X11.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I enjoy building out the features and visuals I want in python. It’s fun to have that level of control.

I respect that, but I have different hobbies.

KISSmyOS,

reinstall virtualbox-dkms (from your repo), disable secure boot in BIOS and reboot.
If that doesn’t work, I’m out of ideas.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

And I literally wrote in the comment above yours to install the version in the repo instead, with sudo apt install virtalbox.
NOT sudo apt install virtualbox-7.0

It’s in the Ubuntu repository:
packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/virtualbox

Which Mint 21.2 points to according to the default sources.list:


<span style="color:#323232;">deb http://packages.linuxmint.com victoria main upstream import backport
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ jammy partner
</span>

It’s version 6.1, which is better than having no working Virtualbox.

KISSmyOS,

6.1 is the newest version included in your OS. That’s just how Linux works.
Downloading newer versions from somewhere else is sometimes possible, but can lead to a lot of headaches, especially with packages that interact with the kernel.

If you notice you keep running into this issue and using the newest stuff is important to you, consider switching to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It’s the most beginner-friendly rolling release distro.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I read that you installed a specific version months ago, but now installed it from a .deb file recently.
I’m asking why you don’t just sudo apt install virtualbox now?

KISSmyOS,

Well, alternatives exist: lmms.io/download#linux

KISSmyOS,

If you add a repo from another distro that uses the same package manager, you have no one to blame but yourself.

KISSmyOS,

Slackware isn’t easy on resources. It needs more space than most and defaults to KDE.

Linux on a 2in1 for Uni (lemmy.world)

Hello linix@lemmy, I got fixed on the idea of replacing my iPad with a 2in1 like the thibkpad X13 for uni since I use the keyboard with my iPad a lot. The only time I need to take handwritten notes is in chemistry, mathematics and to annotate PDFs. Does anyone here have experience with convertibles running Linux? What would be...

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I have experience with a Fujitsu Lifebook U9310x.
My general advice would be, if you’re going to use Linux on a convertible, install Fedora. It has the best and newest implementation of Gnome, and Gnome has the best support for convertible, touchscreen and on-screen keyboard support.
On Fedora, the experience was almost as good as on Windows, whereas I had issues with Debian not correctly switching modes when I fold the keyboard back, not popping up the onscreen keyboard and not correctly rotating the screen.

Disclaimer: I haven’t tested Ubuntu because I personally dislike it. But if it’s certified for your hardware, that would be the first thing I’d try.

Hardware advice: Don’t get a Fujitsu Lifebook U for writing. The keyboard sucks badly, to the point where about every 50th keystroke simply doesn’t register. There’s a Lifebook E convertible now which is more budget-friendly and has a better keyboard, but it’s too thick and heavy for use as a tablet.
Thinkpads consistently have the best Linux support, so that’s what I’d have bought if I hadn’t got a 60% discount on the Fujitsu from work.

FOSS alternative to... Sending Spotify links?

This is probably a dumb question but what is a better way to send a link to a song to friends without using Spotify? I don’t use Spotify anymore so I don’t like going back to that website just to copy a song link so people could hear it. I know I could send something like a YouTube link but I’m trying to degoogle so I...

KISSmyOS,

It needs to be running all the time you need its services. If it’s not running it can’t serve you music.
Modern PCs and laptops don’t have an issue with that, even with Windows 10/11.
But a Raspberry Pi with a large HDD (with its own power supply) attached would be perfect IMO.

KISSmyOS,

It’s called Nightly cause you let it compile over night.

KISSmyOS,

This is done to keep employees from sticking in unknown thumb drives that could install malware. Several critical systems on protected networks have been hacked in the past by leveraging human curiosity and placing a compromised thumb drive on the ground in the companies parking lot. Gluing shut the USB ports is a simple defense against that.

KISSmyOS,

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed gets recommended here a lot. Just be aware: It’s an expert distro masquerading as beginner-friendly.
Out of the box, it won’t recognize printers and scanners. Setting them up is a hassle without cups-airprint and sane-airscan which aren’t preinstalled, and the latter is only available through a user’s repo.

Printer setup will also fail unless you add an exception to the built-in firewall. Nothing in the GUI tells you about this.

It also won’t play web videos before you install the codecs. These are available in the packman repo, which will require learning the concept of repo priorities and “vendor-change”, what it does and when to use it. (It can break your system)

The package manager is very sophisticated and complex, but some of its features shouldn’t be used in Tumbleweed. Updating Tumbleweed like you would the normal fixed release system is possible (in fact, if you use the GUI, it’s the default) but it will break your system.

And the system administration tool YAST offers a lot of functionality that is already present in the KDE options. What the differences are? Who knows.

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