L3ft_F13ld!

Thanks for the solid explanation.

As a noob that doesn’t change my distro too often, I never would have thought of something like this.

They had a KDE version for a while. Ended up dropping it since all of their in-house tools and stuff were GTK.

Now they only have 3 GTK DE options.

Just curious, why a script instead of just a bash alias or something like it?

Mint used to be based on the newest versions of Ubuntu.

They only use the LTS as a base now to make development easier. That’s why everything is older.

This probably doesn’t add anything to the conversation, but your comment reminded me of this change a few years ago.

This was my first thought as well.

Be happy you can boot from a USB. Do NOT fuck with the machine unless you want to look for another job.

I think you’re looking for a pomodoro timer of some kind. Search for one on F-droid and see if that works for you.

Personally, as a noob myself, I enjoy reading about others’ experiece when they switch. No idea why. Just fun to read usually.

Why do you say that? Everyone always talks about how old-school it is and how it doesn’t really change.

Gonna agree with the others here.

Stick to Debian. Especially for the stated use. A slow-moving distro with very few surprises is perfect.

I use Mull as well. I think it’s a bit more heavy-handed than Fennec as far as I understand, so I think it comes down to how much convenience you’re willing to give up for privacy/security. Both are a step in the right direction, though.

I know Windows has the option to shake a window and all other windows get minimised. Nothing like shaking the mouse to find the cursor, though.

Not sure if this is proper procedure since I searched around and didn’t find much, but I’ve got an internal drive just for games mounted at /home/games. Haven’t had any issues so far.

It would slow it down a bit depending on USB 2 or 3, HDD or SSD and such. But, allowing each OS to have its own boot partition on its own drive usually prevents Windows from overwriting your linux boot. Solves some big dual boot headaches.

Agreed. I want rolling release so I’m up to date and don’t have to reinstall when a major version upgrade inevitably breaks something. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed gives me that in a reliable little package. It has its quirks, but I’m trying to learn as I go.

Like I said before, it gets you started faster than doing it yourself. If you don’t want to configure every little detail yourself then these are great options to get you going.

You install and it’s lightweight and already customised. If you like it, you’re done. Gets you started much faster than customising from scratch. If you mean performance, then it’s faster because they don’t come with a full desktop environment. They’re just using the Openbox window manager. Once you get used so it it’s perfectly usable.

Absolutely. Just makes it a bit faster to get a slightly customised Debian out of the box.

I’ve always had a soft spot for CrunchBang and its spinoffs, BunsenLabs and CrunchBang++.

Just downloaded it to try. Seems pretty good so far

My example is an old LG netbook.