Re: What distros have you been testing recently?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:42 pm
I've really enjoyed Endeavour myself. Currently have it installed on 2 systems. My fastest laptop, the Thinkpad T14 Gen2 AMD, and my newest (until my K14 arrives), the Latitude 5420 (which is my next to lowest performance despite how new it is, shows how bad Intels mobile looked for a while). Runs near flawlessly on both of them, easy to keep updated, and just runs smoothly nowadays. My only Fedora currently is my VM at work, which is on my bad side, as the shared clipboard doesn't work every boot, so often I need to reboot the VM in the middle of the day to get my shared clipboard to work. That annoys me.
Been using Q4OS again a lot recently since I now have bare metal to install it on again (T495 thanks to the K14 coming in). It's not perfect, but they do have a lot of tweaks that make it nicer than a pure Trinity (ability to switch the menu to categories view so it flattens it, debonaire theme, etc.).
Also still testing OpenSUSE a lot. I have the bare metal install of Tumbleweed that's currently setting on my desk awaiting the K14 to put it in. I have a VM of Tumbleweed on my Inspiron 7415, and I have a VM of LEAP 15.4 on my desktop.
At this point I've migrated all my Debian installs to the ultra-franken-debian so that they're Debian bullseye, with all available backports packages, KDE Plasma from experimental, and all the packages that experimental relies upon from sid (along with a few other packages that got affected by having libraries installed from Sid). It works great, but who knows how long it's going to maintainable before it explodes. But I've been using Debian longer than any other base distro, so I have gotten fairly knowledgeable in how to fix it after causing it to explode.
Been using Q4OS again a lot recently since I now have bare metal to install it on again (T495 thanks to the K14 coming in). It's not perfect, but they do have a lot of tweaks that make it nicer than a pure Trinity (ability to switch the menu to categories view so it flattens it, debonaire theme, etc.).
Also still testing OpenSUSE a lot. I have the bare metal install of Tumbleweed that's currently setting on my desk awaiting the K14 to put it in. I have a VM of Tumbleweed on my Inspiron 7415, and I have a VM of LEAP 15.4 on my desktop.
At this point I've migrated all my Debian installs to the ultra-franken-debian so that they're Debian bullseye, with all available backports packages, KDE Plasma from experimental, and all the packages that experimental relies upon from sid (along with a few other packages that got affected by having libraries installed from Sid). It works great, but who knows how long it's going to maintainable before it explodes. But I've been using Debian longer than any other base distro, so I have gotten fairly knowledgeable in how to fix it after causing it to explode.