[ale] Suggestion for a Good Linux/Desktop

[David Jackson]

Void looks like an interesting distro.  My main drawback is that in reading
the website, there's a snow flurry in the background, and I happen to have
some "floaties" in my eye balls anyway, so I can't tell sometimes whether
the snow flakes are on the page or whether I need to see the opthamologist
or whether they're part of the artistic expression of the web designer!
Oye, it sucks to get old!

But I gather that Void does a lot that is original and that it's not
derived from another distro.  That it uses the xbps packaging system, that
it's a "stable rolling release" distro, that it uses the runit init system
rather than systemd, and that it uses both the gnuc and musl c libraries to
compile against.

I gather that you like the distro a lot.  Can you give any idea on how many
users the distro has?

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:03 AM Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 20:50:05 -0500
> Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
> > As huge and bloated as it is, I use Gnome. For remote sessions I use
> > XCFE. But my laptop has ram so it's gnome.
>
> Due to a problem with Jitsi on Chromium on my beloved Void Linux, I
> dual booted Ubuntu 20.04, which uses Gnome. I was surprised to find
> that Gnome isn't that bad, if you add dmenu to the mix like I do with
> my normal Openbox.
>
> One thing I like about Gnome is the ability to increase or decrease the
> magnification with a keystroke. I don't think Openbox can do that. If
> Gnome didn't require systemd, I just might consider it for my Void
> Linux daily driver, although I'm very pleased with my
> Openbox/dmenu/UMENU2 interface.
>
> SteveT
>
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