![]() *BSDs! And that is how I can tell that even the assumedly "lightweight" MX Linux (with Xfce) has already become too greedy 4 years ago, whereas the last Devuan (with LXQt) works quite fine.ĭespite this seemingly almost pure Linuxian curriculum, as far as I remember, as soon as I had became aware of what I will call the GPSS, the "Great Proprietary Software Swindle" (and that goes especially for Microsoft, but also for Apple and for the accomplice hardware industry, quite happy that the consumers buy a new machine every five years to run more and more resource-consuming systems), I turned my eyes on *BSDs. (Hence, a very good test machine for lightweight and efficient systems, provided there is a 32-bit version, which is still the case of Void, Devuan, MX, Haiku and. Very more recently, one week ago, I have installed Devuan Daedalus ("testing") on a 32-bit laptop (my dear Samsung N140 netbook), the most problematic of my computers to install anything on not to work toooo slowly. More lately, I also run Manjaro, MX, Void, even some "Slackies", and many others, -the most remarkable of all having been Obarun, some gem of a Linux distro that allows its user regain and embrace the power and versatility of Arch and pacman without systemd. I had also tried and run other *buntus like PinguyOS, Linux Mint, ElementaryOS. I was not daring enough to install it from the ground up, but then appeared Archbang, that, to put it in a few words, was to Arch what CrunchBang was to Debian. (Typical newcomer fatal mistake.) Then I heard about a confidential distro called Arch, rolling-release and equipped with a powerful cli-package-manager called pacman. Quite logically, I broke it in no time by messing with the source-list, mixing stable and testing repositories. But when the Gnome guys went insane and berserk with Gnome3, I switched to Debian-based lightweight (OpenBox) CrunchBang ( #!). During several years, I was a happy user. Like most people who switched from Windows to GNU/Linux in the 2000s, I started my journey with Ubuntu. Previously, I have of course tried other operating systems: Haiku and many Linuces -and I do mean many! What's interesting with old hardware is that it lets you notice the difference! (It was in the thread of CultBSD that I have posted my very 1st message yesterday.) For a desktop-oriented " distribution" -yes, I know: GNU/Linux terminology, not the same meaning as in the D of BSD- for an eye-candy desktop-oriented distribution, says I, CultBSD is blazing fast! On my 2009 laptop, it flies swifter from usb than the host (Linux) OS installed on the hard drive. Now, there is a gem that is being developed, named CultBSD, that some of you may have heard about. But TrueOS never worked well on any of my laptops. Some years ago (I think it was in 2016), on a spare Dell laptop I was given, I have installed TrueOS, a system that I had been following from afar when it was still called PC-BSD. Yet, his helloSystem is not ready for production, I mean for an end-user like me: for instance, the wireless won't work, at least on my Lenovo ThinkPad X230.- That is why I also tried (again) NomadBSD, GhostBSD and Co. Plus his refutations of the (bad) choices of most desktops is both hilarious and highly relevant. Reading his papers on is always refreshing and good food for thought. Probono's helloSystem is much promising and I quite like his UX approach. Recently I have tried (via usb live sessions) the now well-known GhostBSD, the niche NomadBSD, helloSystem and its predecessor LiveStep, and also Airyx and CultBSD. ![]() Because, basically, I use a computer to write, period. (For now, please, just mark it.) I have not had any desktop computer for years, nor do I have a landline internet connection. I have read the rules before writing my first post -this is the second.) The word laptop is important, I'll explain why further. ![]() (And, yes, I know: I won't ask in the FreeBSD forum any support for something not quite FreeBSD. I am not (yet) running vanilla FreeBSD but thought I could drop a line here, because I feel I am on the verge of installing a FreeBSD based-system on one of my laptops. ![]() I will tell my story of getting interested by FreeBSD sort of backwards.
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