I stumbled in to this distro Soplos Linux and i Installed it yesterday its based on Debian Testing and there is 3 different versions Kde plasma which i chose and there is a Gnome and xfce versions to. i must say so far i realy like it and it was easy to install and update the only thing which is a bit weird is that every time i logg in and my vpn starts i need to logg in again as root otherwise the vpn wont start. but exccept for that i realy do like it.
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It has a Plymouth Manager ⌠and Plymouth itself is a boot manager.
One might ask why a manager would need to be managed?
Is this perhaps an example of bloat.?
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yeah it sounds very strange i have asked in their forum why and will see what they have to say. Thank you Neville
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Think I will just stay with Gentoo!!
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That way you will stay in control.
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If it uses Debian Testing, that makes it a sort of a rolling release Debian.
You might watch its updates and see how stable it is
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Looks interesting. I may fire it up in a VM and test it out. The âExclusive Soplos Applicationsâ is intriguing.
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I like it very much so far except that i need to logg in to use my vpn other than that i realy like it. If you tire it let me know what you think. And i also installed Steam and played a game and so far it works very well.
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Debian based so I think you could open a terminal with command journalctl -f and then start you VPN. You should see something in the terminal at the point you need to give the password. Something saying polkit, networkmanager/similar (they start likely org.freedesktop.policykit/networkmanager). There should be a ID also.
You need to make a polkit rule next. Paste the info here and we can make a polkit rule, we need the ID for that.
Iâm not on my computer this weekend but others will help or you can ask AI to give you a polkit rule for the VPN app to start without your root password.
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ok. Thank you ihasama. and also when i did an system update i hade to once again logg my root password for rebooting and apply the update,its to much logg in as a root for my liking its a shame other than that its realy good
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Trying it out now on my ThinkPad T14. Liking it so far. No issues updating; all seems fine. Iâll dig deeper over the weekend.
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Iâm an Arch user on my main PC. Well, EndeavourOS (Arch-based). I havenât tinkered with any Debian-testing-based distros in a very long time. This should be interesting.
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If you need password for reboot / poweroff itâs just the ânormal wayâ but you can adjust your userâs sudo privileges to allow your user to reboot/shutdown without the password. This is a traditional unix thing because the computer might have other users logged in when you power off. Home computers donât usually have this âproblemâ.
Search: how to reboot linux without sudo/password
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I just did sudo visudo and added username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot, /sbin/shutdown to the bottom. Then added alias r='reboot' and alias s='shutdownâ to .zshrc
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Easy 
like all in Linux if you just have patience and arenât afraid of cli
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Some people actually prefer to use a root login and to do away with polkit configuration.
Using root when you want to do something to the system seems natural to me.
I dont like sudo either .
It seems unnecessary in a one-user computer, where you can just become root and do whatever you want.
It has some use in a multi-user system.
OK, I know I am a reactionary.
but I dont go as far as a friend of mine who operated as root all the time and ignored users altogether.
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Why is it called Soplos?
Does the word have a meaning?
In Latin soplos means sighs ⌠but âLinux of Sighsâ does not sound very encouraging? I doubt if that is it.
Apparently âSoplos Linuxâ can be translated as âLinux Breathesâ. That sounds more like it.
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I found this. Soplo in Spanish = breath, so the idea might be a Linux Distro that breathes (or gives) new life to old hardware.
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Makes sense ⌠its country of origin is Spain
A living breathing Linux. ⌠I like it.
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