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PPC
Hi just found out about DahliaOS, you can read about it here: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/02/a-quick-look-at-dahliaos-pangolin-desktop and also search youtube for videos about it.
It’s a nice looking OS that runs on about 400MB of RAM…So, can it replace antiX on old machines? Nope- antiX runs on about a quarter of that idle RAM.
Does DahliaOS look nice? It sure does! But install antiX 21, install and enable ft10-transformation, choose the Tiled menu (and then select to disable the Tiles), select a dark theme in Control Centre and, for example, Fluxbox with the Numix style and you’ll that DahliaOS looks like a carbon copy of FT10’s toolbar and main main… with the added “plus” that it runs on about a quarter of DahliaOS’ RAM resources, even if you enable all FT10’s extras, like Compton’s Visual effects, system notifications (with Dunst) and the Calendar Alarms… So I’m quite pleased that, thanks to the trend of UI convergence, antiX users can have what looks like the System that will probably replace ChromeOS/Android in the future…P.
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rokytnji
A super-thin OS designed around web apps (that can run Linux apps in containers) — heck it sounds like modern Chrome OS, but done right, full in the open, with low barriers to entry.
I think my chromebook is as far as I will go.
I don’t think many developers are into what our goals are.It was hard enough for me to just learn how home in Puppy Linux works. Let alone learn about pointing installer at usb drive instead of cd drive when asking where the puppy files were during the installaton process.
I wish the younger generation good luck with this.
Nice find PPC.Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
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LikkMii
There really is no “replacement” for Antix
I have 3 ssds with a mesh of #!++ 2021,Antix21, Lilidog,Sparky Noir and Mabox…see a trend here ?
Antix smokes the others…IF you spend a whole 2 hours sorting it all out and getting it your way
I haven’t run ArcoB/Icewm yet..I will…but,,,but
I doubt it can fight with antix
I’ve run most anything you can name since 1997
Antix rox( replaced with thunar)
Hey. I said, your way 😉
Brian Masinick
I agree; there’s nothing in the lean, efficient use category anymore (if there ever WAS) that complements or comes close to equaling antiX. I’ve had success in the past with Puppy, but to me, even though it has a lot of flexibility, it’s not as clean or as well organized, and I can’t even get networking up any more on some of my hardware, so to me, if anything, it has regressed. Absolute Linux, a Slackware derivative, has been a nice effort, but with the infrequency of Slackware releases, it’s been very difficult for Absolute to “keep up”; it was one I enjoyed using, but again, finding a version that works on various systems has become a challenge. I don’t know what else to even consider; the closest “alternative” to antiX in my view is MX Linux. The AHS variation of MX Linux DID come in handy when I couldn’t get antiX working on newer hardware, but any MX release, though enjoyable, is still in a different “classification”. I use it as a handy light-middle weight distribution, but it’s not as “light” or “lean” as antiX.
There ARE a LOT of very good distributions. They’re just not as efficient or usable on aging hardware. That’s where, at least in my opinion antiX is in a class of its own.
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