wendy-lebaron
Active Member
NOTE: Read this notice before posting to react to it! Better not post and avoid if you don't like it, if you're not a moderator, period. This is just for fun, and I'm revealing a bit of my life. I'm not a troll nor spammer, I'm not here to cause flamewars, not here to take things that come from the rear, even if they could be spoken, or any of that. I could be friendly, but not with people who want to argue what is better while I don't care. This is yet another unnecessary list, just for fun.
List of distros on hand:
ArcoLinux (9)
Bunsen Labs Beryllium
Clonezilla (18)
Debian XFCE "Bookworm" (1)
Debian XFCE "Bullseye" v11.7
EndeavourOS MATE/GNOME/KDE/LXQt
Fedora v36 MATE (7)
Freespire LTS v20.04 (7)
KolibriOS (not Linux but still LOL)
Kubuntu LTS v22.04.2
Manjaro KDE (6) / XFCE
NeptuneOS "Faye" or "Ada" (7)
Pardus
Porteus Cinnamon
PorteuX MATE
Q4OS "Gemini"
Slackel v7.6 OpenBox (3)
Slackware v15 KDE 32-bit
Spiral KDE/GNOME (4)
Zephix
past list:
ALT Linux MATE
Archbang (5)
Devuan MATE / Gnuinos
easyOS
Fatdog64
Fedora 36 XFCE (19)
MX Linux "Respin" (8)
Solus MATE
EndeavourOS XFCE (2)
Gecko Linux GNOME/KDE/XFCE
Knoppix (20)
Manjaro Cinnamon
NomadBSD (14)
Nutyx KDE (12)
Redcore (11)
ROSA (13)
Salix
Sparky Linux MATE ("Bookworm") / KDE ("Bullseye")
Spiral Budgie/LXQt (10)
Ubuntu Studio LTS v22.04
Void Linux XFCE
didn't try to install and never investigated:
Arch (21)
Big Linux (17)
Bluestar
Calculate (desired long ridiculous password besides entire disk at least 64GB)
elementary OS
Emmabuntus
EndeavourOS Budgie/i3
4M Linux
Garuda MATE (can never do 460 on my computer LOL)
Loc OS (LOL like this guy's sense of humor)
Peropesis
Puppy Linux (based on Slackware, before the Dec-2022 release)
RebornOS GNOME
Rocky Linux (8GB ISO!)
Slackware "Liveslak DAW"
Ubuntu Unity
ZorinOS (I'll never try this LOL especially now they might force Snaps)
bombed:
Archcraft
CachyOS
Crunchbang++
Fedora 38 MATE
GParted (the distro)
LegacyOS (newer one)
Mabox (17)
Mageia v8 / v9 "Cauldron" Alpha
Manjaro GNOME/i3
NixOS
OpenMandriva "ROME"
PCLinuxOS MATE/XFCE (16)
Pop! OS
RebornOS KDE/Trinity/XFCE
siduction (15)
Spiral Cinnamon (16)
Triskel (Trisquel with KDE)
Xubuntu
wattOS
(1) this was from a weekly ISO from Dec-2022 not "DI-Alpha" nor release-candidate or any of that trash that couldn't install successfully while I desperately tried to get KDE out of it. Not using it much, I dislike "new" XFCE now because it's irritating.
(2) while "Cassini" became effective for two weeks or so, I "went back in time" to get the last "Artemis" ISO. Lost it last week in an update, it was the last time I had something that started blinding fast compared to other gluttons I have now.
(3) Many thanks to "djemos" for his valuable assistance, because of it I didn't give up although I tried installing five times at least, and once I had to try again because it didn't do the full-system update correctly. I wish I could put full "multilib" with Wine on this thing.
(4) I have three different installations of Spiral KDE version, one shares daily driver status with EndeavourOS MATE. Another is on a computer I'm not using very much anymore. THANK YOU "GeckoLinux" for this and for Gecko Linux, without Spiral I would have remained lost about Debian and miserable because I'm still needing some Windows software.
(5) This was a darned good and small one but was forced to move on from it, maybe because I had to install Pulse Audio to do something about the poor sound while into a music-creation application. The app had an equalizer which alleviated the problem for the most part but it also affected the exported WAV file of the song project. :/
(6) Manjaro gets so much hate, but the OS itself embraced me. Solus should have been my very first with KDE Plasma, instead it was Manjaro. IMHO Manjaro is best with KDE, even named my log-in account after X-23 this year LOL. Had to reinstall it six times in total, once thanks to buggy and ponderous Clonezilla, the last time it was because it had a funny issue with the ESP (16-bit FAT instead of "fat32") and I only wanted to get up to speed with v22.0 "Sikaris". Tried GNOME but was intolerably slow, tried "i3" but it blotched while doing full-system update and didn't let me back in. Before EndeavourOS MATE I had Manjaro MATE for six months, reliable but slow (but that was the HDD).
(7) Will not update, this is on purpose.
(8) I found the ISO on Sourceforge by a Japanese engineer. Took it off because it set the system time how it felt like without leaving me any control of it and XFCE date-time plug-in was really retarded about it. Nice desktop, picking the XFCE v4.18 despite based on "Bullseye" but "I want predictable results" over "nice desktop".
(9) This was restored from backup two months back, eventually I decided it was better to reinstall it. They recently put out an ISO but dislike how bloated they are and how confusingly they present information so the user "needs" to go into one of those sites, have to fumble getting a phone only to create an account with one of those sites. Thank you "linux-dot-org" for not forcing me to do that... I understand the security concerns though. Great distro but with too many programs I would never use (such as "Desktop Thrasher"), don't like their KDE which ignores theme settings, and now my installation with XFCE has over 430 thousand files! To compare, Bunsen Labs Beryllium in my presence struggled to reach 200 thousand. Only because I had installed Wine, Archbang hit 90 thousand, should have been less.
(10) LXQt was easily the weakest of the Spiral rolls. Also used to have Debian LXDE but erased it, was never comfortable with it. Spiral is the only OS I ever tried with Budgie because Ubuntu Budgie was one of the worst things I had to try in my life. Spiral is also one that eased my dislike for GNOME while I became less favored with LXQt and XFCE.
(11) Could never get something based on Gentoo because I'm too lazy to learn. Sisyphus program was frustrating to use, crashed when I tried to install
(12) Liked this one but it's also not for slow Internet connections and for people who don't like editing certain system configuration files. That said, it's ridiculously easy to install.
(13) Really wanted to like this one but it was too weird (GNOME session to log in, for half-broken KDE), and was very slow updating with
(14) This is the only Linux "cousin" I was willing to try, was successful only on the second try after waiting for six months before they put out an ISO last November. It's OK but somewhat CPU intensive, my computer was running hotter with it, with the same OpenBox as Slackel for example. I should have gone further with it.
(15) This sucked so very hard I resolved to keep away from Debian "unstable". It was the release before "Masters of War".
(16) This with MATE, and Linux Mint were fugly to me, and XFCE version refused to register my changing the desktop keystroke shortcuts. I need to change those shortcuts for a favorite application that makes heavy use of the [CONTROL] key. Spiral Cinnamon blundered with this too which was a shame, the [CONTROL] key was totally dead with that one for some reason.
(17) Why try anything based on Manjaro? Mabox was too bloated to tolerate the pretty look. Because Big Linux insisted on "btrfs" as much as Fedora and Garuda do, I declined.
(18) With Debian Linux kernel v5.10.21. This bombed one assignment I gave it, refused to restore to a smaller destination disk. Otherwise this is too slow to tolerate with restoration, and does unnecessary ESP housekeeping, wish I could turn it off.
(19) Became mad they delayed v37 by a month, and later it kept bombing to install the mess of a bootloader it has because it's hard-coded to accept only "btrfs" not "ext4" as main partition. I cannot have terabytes of memory to accept what they like and otherwise I must make the choices they must commit, or else. Dislike Anaconda installer and anything else that suddenly stops with "stack traceback", happened to me with
(20) This distro I think is special. Had to abandon it because it worked somewhat slowly on the disk I had loaded it on. I built a program on it but to my dismay the system did it in 32-bit even though existed 64-bit g++, libraries and other stuff, it was useless. I made the dumb mistake of trying to update it for over 1500 packages and it failed the fifth or sixth time trying to update "initramfs", just like Sparky Linux based on "Bullseye".
(21) Tried twice, with the second time I bombed by not writing correctly the
List of distros on hand:
ArcoLinux (9)
Bunsen Labs Beryllium
Clonezilla (18)
Debian XFCE "Bookworm" (1)
Debian XFCE "Bullseye" v11.7
EndeavourOS MATE/GNOME/KDE/LXQt
Fedora v36 MATE (7)
Freespire LTS v20.04 (7)
KolibriOS (not Linux but still LOL)
Kubuntu LTS v22.04.2
Manjaro KDE (6) / XFCE
NeptuneOS "Faye" or "Ada" (7)
Pardus
Porteus Cinnamon
PorteuX MATE
Q4OS "Gemini"
Slackel v7.6 OpenBox (3)
Slackware v15 KDE 32-bit
Spiral KDE/GNOME (4)
Zephix
past list:
ALT Linux MATE
Archbang (5)
Devuan MATE / Gnuinos
easyOS
Fatdog64
Fedora 36 XFCE (19)
MX Linux "Respin" (8)
Solus MATE
EndeavourOS XFCE (2)
Gecko Linux GNOME/KDE/XFCE
Knoppix (20)
Manjaro Cinnamon
NomadBSD (14)
Nutyx KDE (12)
Redcore (11)
ROSA (13)
Salix
Sparky Linux MATE ("Bookworm") / KDE ("Bullseye")
Spiral Budgie/LXQt (10)
Ubuntu Studio LTS v22.04
Void Linux XFCE
didn't try to install and never investigated:
Arch (21)
Big Linux (17)
Bluestar
Calculate (desired long ridiculous password besides entire disk at least 64GB)
elementary OS
Emmabuntus
EndeavourOS Budgie/i3
4M Linux
Garuda MATE (can never do 460 on my computer LOL)
Loc OS (LOL like this guy's sense of humor)
Peropesis
Puppy Linux (based on Slackware, before the Dec-2022 release)
RebornOS GNOME
Rocky Linux (8GB ISO!)
Slackware "Liveslak DAW"
Ubuntu Unity
ZorinOS (I'll never try this LOL especially now they might force Snaps)
bombed:
Archcraft
CachyOS
Crunchbang++
Fedora 38 MATE
GParted (the distro)
LegacyOS (newer one)
Mabox (17)
Mageia v8 / v9 "Cauldron" Alpha
Manjaro GNOME/i3
NixOS
OpenMandriva "ROME"
PCLinuxOS MATE/XFCE (16)
Pop! OS
RebornOS KDE/Trinity/XFCE
siduction (15)
Spiral Cinnamon (16)
Triskel (Trisquel with KDE)
Xubuntu
wattOS
(1) this was from a weekly ISO from Dec-2022 not "DI-Alpha" nor release-candidate or any of that trash that couldn't install successfully while I desperately tried to get KDE out of it. Not using it much, I dislike "new" XFCE now because it's irritating.
(2) while "Cassini" became effective for two weeks or so, I "went back in time" to get the last "Artemis" ISO. Lost it last week in an update, it was the last time I had something that started blinding fast compared to other gluttons I have now.
(3) Many thanks to "djemos" for his valuable assistance, because of it I didn't give up although I tried installing five times at least, and once I had to try again because it didn't do the full-system update correctly. I wish I could put full "multilib" with Wine on this thing.
(4) I have three different installations of Spiral KDE version, one shares daily driver status with EndeavourOS MATE. Another is on a computer I'm not using very much anymore. THANK YOU "GeckoLinux" for this and for Gecko Linux, without Spiral I would have remained lost about Debian and miserable because I'm still needing some Windows software.
(5) This was a darned good and small one but was forced to move on from it, maybe because I had to install Pulse Audio to do something about the poor sound while into a music-creation application. The app had an equalizer which alleviated the problem for the most part but it also affected the exported WAV file of the song project. :/
(6) Manjaro gets so much hate, but the OS itself embraced me. Solus should have been my very first with KDE Plasma, instead it was Manjaro. IMHO Manjaro is best with KDE, even named my log-in account after X-23 this year LOL. Had to reinstall it six times in total, once thanks to buggy and ponderous Clonezilla, the last time it was because it had a funny issue with the ESP (16-bit FAT instead of "fat32") and I only wanted to get up to speed with v22.0 "Sikaris". Tried GNOME but was intolerably slow, tried "i3" but it blotched while doing full-system update and didn't let me back in. Before EndeavourOS MATE I had Manjaro MATE for six months, reliable but slow (but that was the HDD).
(7) Will not update, this is on purpose.
(8) I found the ISO on Sourceforge by a Japanese engineer. Took it off because it set the system time how it felt like without leaving me any control of it and XFCE date-time plug-in was really retarded about it. Nice desktop, picking the XFCE v4.18 despite based on "Bullseye" but "I want predictable results" over "nice desktop".
(9) This was restored from backup two months back, eventually I decided it was better to reinstall it. They recently put out an ISO but dislike how bloated they are and how confusingly they present information so the user "needs" to go into one of those sites, have to fumble getting a phone only to create an account with one of those sites. Thank you "linux-dot-org" for not forcing me to do that... I understand the security concerns though. Great distro but with too many programs I would never use (such as "Desktop Thrasher"), don't like their KDE which ignores theme settings, and now my installation with XFCE has over 430 thousand files! To compare, Bunsen Labs Beryllium in my presence struggled to reach 200 thousand. Only because I had installed Wine, Archbang hit 90 thousand, should have been less.
(10) LXQt was easily the weakest of the Spiral rolls. Also used to have Debian LXDE but erased it, was never comfortable with it. Spiral is the only OS I ever tried with Budgie because Ubuntu Budgie was one of the worst things I had to try in my life. Spiral is also one that eased my dislike for GNOME while I became less favored with LXQt and XFCE.
(11) Could never get something based on Gentoo because I'm too lazy to learn. Sisyphus program was frustrating to use, crashed when I tried to install
neofetch
and only that, after installing the OS successfully from "Sirius" ISO. This requires a faster Internet connection than I could purchase. Sorry don't believe in using any Linux "only" with Flatpaks, tried to do that with Nutyx but got really mad with Bottles, memory-hogging incapable.(12) Liked this one but it's also not for slow Internet connections and for people who don't like editing certain system configuration files. That said, it's ridiculously easy to install.
(13) Really wanted to like this one but it was too weird (GNOME session to log in, for half-broken KDE), and was very slow updating with
dnf
at terminal. It was the only way to update because the GUI program provided was awful and unfriendly like FL-Cards on Nutyx and Sisyphus on Redcore. Installed Wine but had problems with sound because there must have been too many services loaded into memory consuming CPU.(14) This is the only Linux "cousin" I was willing to try, was successful only on the second try after waiting for six months before they put out an ISO last November. It's OK but somewhat CPU intensive, my computer was running hotter with it, with the same OpenBox as Slackel for example. I should have gone further with it.
(15) This sucked so very hard I resolved to keep away from Debian "unstable". It was the release before "Masters of War".
(16) This with MATE, and Linux Mint were fugly to me, and XFCE version refused to register my changing the desktop keystroke shortcuts. I need to change those shortcuts for a favorite application that makes heavy use of the [CONTROL] key. Spiral Cinnamon blundered with this too which was a shame, the [CONTROL] key was totally dead with that one for some reason.
(17) Why try anything based on Manjaro? Mabox was too bloated to tolerate the pretty look. Because Big Linux insisted on "btrfs" as much as Fedora and Garuda do, I declined.
(18) With Debian Linux kernel v5.10.21. This bombed one assignment I gave it, refused to restore to a smaller destination disk. Otherwise this is too slow to tolerate with restoration, and does unnecessary ESP housekeeping, wish I could turn it off.
(19) Became mad they delayed v37 by a month, and later it kept bombing to install the mess of a bootloader it has because it's hard-coded to accept only "btrfs" not "ext4" as main partition. I cannot have terabytes of memory to accept what they like and otherwise I must make the choices they must commit, or else. Dislike Anaconda installer and anything else that suddenly stops with "stack traceback", happened to me with
archinstall
script too. Generally I dislike all RPM-based distros because Fedora, of all of them having many mutated pretentious members, decided to fail me this year.(20) This distro I think is special. Had to abandon it because it worked somewhat slowly on the disk I had loaded it on. I built a program on it but to my dismay the system did it in 32-bit even though existed 64-bit g++, libraries and other stuff, it was useless. I made the dumb mistake of trying to update it for over 1500 packages and it failed the fifth or sixth time trying to update "initramfs", just like Sparky Linux based on "Bullseye".
(21) Tried twice, with the second time I bombed by not writing correctly the
pacstrap
line to load the "base" packages. There's no need thanks to the Low Countries and Archbang!