Antix-21 and Trinity.

[Member olsztyn]

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anticapitalista wrote:

PClinuxOS uses sysVinit not systemd

I stand corrected. Good there is some company in this gradually vanishing niche, while mainstream blindly adopting dictatorship of systemd…

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It always come down to personal preferences and what we like. I also “prefer” the Windows XP/Windows 7 interface. And Q4OS does allow me to use that interface better than any other Linux distro. But I keep coming back to antiX because it is just easier for me to configure in Linux. (Windows is easier for me but Q4OS is not Windows, it is Linux, and somewhat proprietary at that). antiX is almost pure Debian for me so it is just easier for me to understand as I have chosen to learn Debian. (I used to try to learn Slackware and RedHat but I just found that for me personally Debian was a better fit).

antiX cannot be everything to everybody. But the fact that you can put Trinity on it is amazing. That’s probably due to it being Debian underneath. And even though I like Trinity and the old KDE paradigm, I stay with antiX and IceWM because it works for me and I don’t have to spend time trying to get some other interface to work, like Trinity. the antiX devs have done a great job with IceWM and zzzfm. I like it enough to stay with antiX just the way it provided out of the box. But that’s just me. I get that others want to do something else, like shoehorn in a “real” desktop environment like Trinity or LXDE or XFCE, whatever. For me, that’s unneeded since the antiX “desktops” work great for me.

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seaken64 wrote:

I also “prefer” the Windows XP/Windows 7 interface

Hi seaken64 – my advice is trying out my ft10-transformation package- it allows you to activate FT10’s toolbar and menu. You can choose the “Categories” menu (the other option is a menu with pseudo “Tiles”), from the activation window and you get an antiX that still runs IceWM but with an interface that’s more similar to Windows 7 (it has a search field in the menu) and some little extras (like weather app, via Wttr.in, a News app, a brand new calendar and costume scripts- based in Toolbar Icon Manager- to easily manage Menu and Toolbar items…). If you don’t like simply disable FT10 from the Preferences menu, and you’ll get the default Icewm back (the extra scripts are accessible from the menu, even if you don’t activate the FT10 interface).
It’s not a “real” D.E., but acts and feels like one, particularly when used with IceWM or Fluxbox (my usual choice of W.M.). It’s about as light as the default IceWM antiX setup… The intire thing takes about half dozen mbs of hard drive.

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• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by PPC.

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Thank you @PPC, I have been reading your posts about ft10. I will try it out.

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seaken64 wrote:

antiX is almost pure Debian for me

I am really curious about this…
My impression is very different, but it is subjective. No measurements to quantify and to support this my conjecture. I just see a very large number modules (programs and libs) that are antiX specific modifications of Debian ones. Some examples driving those departures from Debian versions:
– Modified to make them non-systemd versions
– Modified to make them independent from elogind and liblogind0. These are both system specific and end-user apps, such as VLC. New antiX version is using seatd, not elogind, so many apps need to be modified.
– Runit entails further departure from Debian.
Again, this is just my subjective impression… Perhaps some antiX experts could weigh in on this…
Thanks and Regards…

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

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Hi olsztyn, I suspect it has to do with my own peculiar view of Debian. I do not dig very deep into the inner workings of the GUN/Linux software underlying Linux distros. I only use it for my own purposes. And I do not support anyone else. All I can say is that antiX has made it easier to run Debian on my computer systems. It is not Debian. But I can use the apt system almost interchangabley and what I learn in antiX can be applied to Debian and most visa-versa. I have come close to being able to build my own Debian system from scratch (the minimum install) by following along with antiX. But I am not a developer and I do not have the skills that the antiX or MX team have. Still, I do not any more rely on antiX or MX if I don’t want to. I can use Debian directly if I choose to. I do choose to use antiX and MX because they do a very nice job of curating the Debian GNU/Linux system for a desktop user. But if I need to I can now use Debian whereas before antiX I was lost. I was trying to use Slackware but not making progress. Debian has been different for me and it is largely due to my finding and using antiX instead of a Slackware based system.

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Thank you @seaken64 for such interesting perspective. Greatly appreciate…
Regards.

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

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