Yes continually going over the same ground is a characteristic of lunacy. They do go round and round (mentally), like the moon, and that is where the term lunatic is derived from.
Unfortunately I am tending to become like that. Old age is difficult.
But itās not for sissies.
I hardly ever distro hop on ābare metalāā¦
I mostly just Ubuntu LTS on hardwareā¦
But I do āhoardā distrosā¦ i.e. ISO images (and some IMG files for Single Board Computers - e.g. Pi) on my NASā¦
---- AIX ----
9.0G AIX
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---- Banyan VINES NOS 8.5 (3.5).7z ----
2.6M Banyan VINES NOS 8.5 (3.5).7z
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---- BSD ----
23G BSD
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---- Linux ----
770G Linux
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---- SiliconGraphics ----
1.4G SiliconGraphics
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---- Sun ----
54G Sun
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Thatās nearly a terabyte, and most of it is Linux for x86_64ā¦
I do keep old EOL ISO images - never know when I might need one - even if its just to run up a VM in KVM / QEMU to test something before I attempt it on a serverā¦ e.g. āif I try this on Oracle Linux 7, will it break stuff?ā.
And most of the VMs I run up on KVM / QEMU are headless with no DE or GUIā¦
That Sun folder has SunOS (4.3.x) for Sparc, and Solaris (SunOS 5.x) for both x86 and Sparcā¦ I do have Sparc boxes lying aroundā¦ I also have a pair of Silicon Graphics Indysā¦
Somewhere Iāve got ISO disks of Solaris too, and SCO āOpenServerā and DG-UX for x86ā¦
There seems to be no way to opt out. I have to carry my cross.
My late father when he was advanced in years, had a botched operation, and suffered, I asked him, āHow do you do it?ā He replied, āWhatās the alternative?ā If I didnāt have faith, (and a PC hobby) being 80 in a matter of weeks would be tougher. Little Feat said it all in their āOld Folks Boogieā: Your mind gives an order your body canāt fill. Dad was an Electrical engineer, I didnāt inherit the math part, he would say to my asking for homework help, āYou donāt understand that? But I did get the tinkering with electronics, hooking up stereo, building PCs.
Only the Arch based distros (maybe Arch itself on one) do I install another .iso over one of my 12 flash drives.
Is Zorin named after that Bond villain played by Christopher Walken?
No one has mentioned Slackware15!!
Yes, I cant keep up with my thoughts. The answer seems to be hand my thoughts in to others.
No. It is actually named after the 2 brothers who founded it. Artyom and Kyrill Zorin.
Such a shame it is not.
Bit like HAL in 2001. Named after IBM. (Or rather before) perhaps another topic, where do names come from
It is kind of a shame - in another thread - you mentioned about Alzheimers - interestingly - Christopher Walkenās name is one of my mental exercises - because I remember an instance where I couldnāt remember his name!
So when that happens in my head :
- Christopher Walken
- Helen Mirren
- Kirsten Dunst
- Robert De Niro (yeah I forgot his name once)
I NEVER have a problem remembering what year something happened though!
Anyway - I digressed - I was going to grab Zorin 18.1 to take a test drive (in KVM / QEMU / VirtManager) - but - $80 USD for the āproā version?
Yeaā¦ Nahā¦
To me - that price seems pretty steepā¦ Yeah - thereās the āliteā version - but the comparison table shows that the ālooks like MacOSā or ālooks like elementaryā theming is not available in āliteāā¦
I probably know enough about XFCE and theming to figure that out for myselfā¦ But I really couldnāt be arsed - so Iāll stick with Ubuntuā¦
I really kinda like how Zorin is pretty much XFCE these daysā¦ Iām guessing with all the GTK libraries installedā¦
One thing Iāve nearly always hated about theming on Linux (Gnome, XFCE, LMDE, Mate, Pantheon [elementary]) - is WHERE TO PUT THE THEMES?
Sometimes they go in
/usr/share/themes
Sometimes you can plonk them in
$HOME/.themes,
or
$HOME/.config
And icons and cursors :
/usr/share/icons
or
$HOME/.icons
or
$HOME/.config/icons
I quite often end up using ALL 3 (or 6) of thoseā¦ Plonk icon pack in /usr/share/icons - but it doesnāt show up - so I plonk it in ~/.icons - hmmm - still not showing so ~/.config/iconsā¦
Several distros default to Xfce, including Void.
I saw a package somewhere that customizes Xfce ā¦ I will search
Note : I just spun up a VM with Zorin OS 18.0 āproā - and it seems to be ALL Gnomeā¦
If theyāe going to distribute a new release and completely revamp the DE - I reckon they should have gone a version or two higher - e.g. Zorin OS 19, or 20ā¦
Although I have installed mint with xfce I was disappointed with its look and feel, felt like lubuntu with not much control. I wanted to modifier the menu adding and removing but could not find it, I wanted to do updates again not easy and package manager did not exist. Ok its 2 years ago and only one client who had a underpowered netbook he wanted to sauvage for his daughter. He no longer works here so not seen him since he moved away.
Xfce in MX is better than that.
Sure, you may need time to get used to how to configure Xfce, but it is highly configurable.
If you want to try xfce, try it in a distro that comes with it default and configured.
Linux mint xfce is a default but still struggled to do some things. Like edit the menu without a third party app
I suppose Mint has 3 defaults. Their flagship Cinnamon, Xfce, and Mate. I am stuck on Cinnamon which I like a lot. But I also have no problem with Xfce under MX, my second OS.
Lmde OK that is cinammon desktop so 4
Practice, practice, practice.
The easier it is , the less you learn.