Who's your bleeding edge?

[entity]

netrunner 5 enigma
KDE Development Platform: 4.10.5

[tek_heretik]

Bleeding edge? Wuzzat? A cut on your eyebrow? Kidding, of course I know what it means, and I think I've come to the conclusion that hardcore nerds like to break things on purpose so they have something to do, lol. I could PPA my brains out too but meh, my computer works just fine, thank you very much.

Edit: I didn't arrive at Kubuntu by accident, it's the best of all worlds as far as I'm concerned, KDE with Ubuntu under the hood and all the support in the world. My last 'hurdle' (and there were many) going completely Linux was a hassle free install to RAID 0, so AFAIC, THIS is the bleeding edge to me, even if it is boring old fart LTS.

[SteveRiley]

Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I mis-quoted myself. I should have said I want a non-X distro.

Ah, now your earlier statement makes much more sense.

[verndog]

You said you wanted a "X" distro (presumably you meant one that boots with an X Window manager of some kind) that boots fast. I was replying with data about how fast my Kubuntu system boots

Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I mis-quoted myself. I should have said I want a non-X distro.

[dmeyer]

My system boots on average in about 6.2 seconds.

systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 3627ms (kernel) + 2572ms (userspace) = 6199ms

[SteveRiley]

What's this response have to do with anything?!

You said you wanted a "X" distro (presumably you meant one that boots with an X Window manager of some kind) that boots fast. I was replying with data about how fast my Kubuntu system boots

[verndog]

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Power-up to login on my T520 running Kubuntu is 12 seconds. What's yer problem?

What's this response have to do with anything?!

[SteveRiley]

You don't need Aptitude. Pacman can do everything that Aptitude can do.

It's not so much the capabilities of the tools...I know both are powerful. What I like about Aptitude is it's curses-based interface:



You can very quickly search for packages, navigate up and down dependency trees, test multiple solver possibilities, and just get a better overall feel for how packages are put together. I've not seen anything like this for Arch.

I wish there existed a curses-based interface to Pacman. I like Aptitude quite a lot. The way you can explore up and down a dependency tree is unmatched by anything else I've seen. Arch could benefit from a tool like this, I think.

You don't need Aptitude. Pacman can do everything that Aptitude can do. You can learn to use pacman here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman

[SteveRiley]

Pacman GUI? What heresy is this!!!

I wish there existed a curses-based interface to Pacman. I like Aptitude quite a lot. The way you can explore up and down a dependency tree is unmatched by anything else I've seen. Arch could benefit from a tool like this, I think.

Wha I would like is a on X distro that boots fast

Power-up to login on my T520 running Kubuntu is 12 seconds. What's yer problem?

[jpenguin]

Bedrock Linux looks fascinating too.

Think I'll wait on that one; it does look interesting though. Installed Bridge on second partition, think I'll stick with Manjaro though

[dmeyer]

I think I'll try BridgeLinux KDE

Bedrock Linux looks fascinating too.

[jpenguin]

I think I'll try BridgeLinux KDE

[verndog]

What about ArchBang? I read this weeks Distrowatch article and it sounds interesting. I have installed Arch in the past, but at the time ,in the end it wasn't any faster or "better" than Ubuntu. I've been tempted to try Arch again, but my memory is coming back, and in the end...so what?!
All that time invested so you can lay claim...I now know Linux. I can make that claim now, without it.

What I would like is a on non-X distro that boots fast, so I can put my cli scripts and commands to good use. Arch may fill that bill.

[dequire]

Chakra is no longer binary compatible with Arch so you lose the massive package repos.

I was unaware of this. Seems like a silly move to me if that's the case. Having said that, like most here (I suspect), I prefer Debian-based distros for innumerable reasons.