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Title: Playing with the Budgie and other bored notes
Post by: cheiron on February 03, 2019, 12:48:39 PM
So i've been having a bit of a play with the new 19.04 edition of Budgie, which is one of the ubuntu flavours and despite the fact its only 64 bit now.. I must admit, I've been impressed by its speed and ease of use. Up against, Xubuntu and Lubuntu .. I much prefer  This version of Ubuntu.


On the "bored" note...... I dropped a new OS on my spare lappy to compare against WattOS the other week.. This OS was the quirky and unusual Elive OS which is based on Deb and uses Enlightenment.
Elive was born in Belgium prior to 2005 as a private experiment by its founder to customize a Knoppix Live CD running the Enlightenment and with the designs based in the Evil Entity distro, it was called Tezcatlipotix.


Do i like it.... not sure to be honest.. I've never been a fan of enlightenment (bodhi especially) but i must admit, Elive has caused me to sit back and have a second think.... It wont be a replacement though for me against the much simpler to use WattOS.


So.. thats my thoughts for the week....
Title: Re: Playing with the Budgie and other bored notes
Post by: ulisseskat on February 03, 2019, 03:03:46 PM
I tried lots of OS and always come back to wattOS.
Title: Re: Playing with the Budgie and other bored notes
Post by: cheiron on February 03, 2019, 03:11:48 PM
Quote from: ulisseskat on February 03, 2019, 03:03:46 PM
I tried lots of OS and always come back to wattOS.


Oh i totally agree with you there... I'd be quite happy to see a version of Watt spun off from either Budgie or Elive.. provided that darn elightenment was got rid of lol...  the problem.. is the 32 bit side
Title: Re: Playing with the Budgie and other bored notes
Post by: leenie on February 03, 2019, 03:43:53 PM
You do realize you can get 32 bit with mini iso?
Title: Re: Playing with the Budgie and other bored notes
Post by: cheiron on February 03, 2019, 07:38:40 PM
I do yes Leenie.. It was just a reference to the overall OS that was all!
Title: Re: Playing with the Budgie and other bored notes
Post by: herndon.jeffreys on February 22, 2019, 12:26:35 AM
Has anyone played around with Sparky Linux?  Looks interesting, but I am a little leery of rolling releases.  My guess is that some rolling releases are more stable than others....
Title: Re: Playing with the Budgie and other bored notes
Post by: cheiron on February 24, 2019, 08:33:35 AM
Quote from: herndon.jeffreys on February 22, 2019, 12:26:35 AM
Has anyone played around with Sparky Linux?  Looks interesting, but I am a little leery of rolling releases.  My guess is that some rolling releases are more stable than others....


Sparky is ok i guess, but in relation to beginners to linux.. sparky is not ideal in any way, whereas the likes of WattOS tend to be alot more favourable. with over 20 different "desktops" available with sparky.. i found it a bit overkill.. but yeah its not a bad distro and was ok to use.  :)