I have a dream – antiX 22 Full 64 Bits + Gnome

[Member Wallon]

Dear users,

I don’t have much time because it’s very late and I know the antiX community doesn’t like Gnome.
It’s very easy to install.
I have never worked in this environment and I am a bit lost with Gnome.
I have kept everything and have not lost anything from my antiX 22 Full 64bits.
If several people show interest in the Gnome environment with antiX 22, I will do some screenshoots.
It’s so fast, it’s so beautiful…
Here is a picture made with my smartphone of the login screen.

Best regards,
Wallon

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[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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Go ahead and post screenshots. It is your thread. Here is hoping you used the package installer to install gnome in antiX instead of synaptic.

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Just kidding 🙂

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[Member Wallon]

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Dear users,

1) A few people have come to the forum asking for help installing Gnome. I found that there was not much support for this desktop environment. I show in this thread that it is possible to install Gnome with antiX.

2) I’ve noticed that on many French-speaking forums, people say that antiX is for old computers. It’s true, I admit it, I have trouble working on my desktop with two screens. The windows are difficult to drag from one screen to the other. But I’ve found a little trick with iceWM to help me out. I also admit that I prefer to use MX Linux to manage my screens to do translations with my Google searches, my dictionaries and Transifex open. That’s a lot of windows to manage at the same time. I was always told to install a real desktop environment that can handle all the windows.

3) I also admit that I am not comfortable with Gnome, it is an environment I am discovering. There are lots of windows like in another well known operating system!

4) I discovered some functions in Gnome that are really interesting, especially for window management. It’s a shock for me to have so much ease in dragging windows using antiX. There is a kind of magnet that attracts windows to the left or to the right. You can easily split your screen in two and use two programs or two tabs at the same time in Firefox ESR for example.

5) I have no screen tearing with Gnome Xorg. This is incredible, I have never experienced this with other desktop environments. I hear it’s even better in Wayland but it’s not available in Debian.

6) I did my whole installation in one go. Incredible for me, I didn’t think I could do it. I used the command line in a terminal or I used Synaptic to do the whole installation.

7) After my experience, I think that antiX can have the n°1 place on “Distrowatch” with this environment. I really think so. A good ssd with 8GB Ram and let’s go… Don’t ask me to give times for booting my machine, I used an old USB stick that I used with Vista and that is completely worn out.

8) I am not a computer engineer or developer. A specialist will go away with a basic antiX and install the necessary packages. I don’t know what to do to remove the other 3 environments and leave Gnome alone. I am happy at my level because all the antiX software works very well after installing Gnome.

9) I don’t usually like to make changes to the style, theme, colours. I take the basic and basta! So, if you think it’s not good enough, it’s up to you to do what you want on your machine.

10) Gnome is much heavier than antiX but it is 6 times lighter than Windows 10/11. So, it can be a good solution for mid-range computers too. You have to have an open mind…

With all due respect to the antiX community.

Wallon

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Neofetch

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The desk

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[Member Wallon]

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Shortcut to settings
Settings panel

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[Member Wallon]

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I never knew how to make my bluetooth work with antiX. Gnome recognized my bluetooth headset after several tries. It’s comfortable not to disturb others….

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[Member Wallon]

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Sound panel with pulseaudio

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Easy to disable my touchpad and manage my mouse.

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I’m changing the date format in zzzFM for Belgium. How beautiful zzzFM is!

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[Member PPC]

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Hi! I thought that I would not contribute to this thread… but hey, I could not resist, after Wallon’s posts:

1) and 6) Installing Gnome was always possible – its available in our Package Installer in 2 version- Gnome and Gnome-core. I think I never tried to install it, but if Packainstaller does not misfire (as it does sometimes in antiX 21) it should be a piece of cake to install any of these 2 versions…
4) Yep some window management tasks are easier in D.E.’s (like Gnome, KDE, XFCE) than in W.M. (like ICewm/jwm/fluxbox)- I like the “auto snap” feature you mentioned, but IceWM is not that far behind, just not as user friendly (Right click the Window’s title > Tiling > select where you want to place the Window) or antiX’s very own psedo-tiling features ( ctrl + shift + 1 or 2 places the window on the left half or the right half of the screen… so same effect, different way to get there… Check out all the tiling options!

5) No screen tearing – thankfully I never had that problem in antiX- but running a screen compositor (like compton or picom) “should” fix it, costing a few hundreds of kb of free RAM…

As for the rest of Wallon’s conclusions- the beauty if Open Source OS, like antiX is how flexible it is… Currently FT10 is an attempt to offer some of the “bells ans whistles” D.E’s have, all from antiX default Window Managers, (even saving a little RAM or spending a couple hundred of kb more than some of antiX’s default desktops)- it offers easy configuration of a compositor too, real time window previews, etc- one thing that I could not be implemented was the “auto snaping” of Windows- but keyboard savyy users can get the same result with the keybingings and less keyboard prone users, with right clicking the title bar and using the Tiling menu- yes, it’s a couple more of extra steps, but you save a lot on system resources!

To be honest my desktop computers (1 at home, 1 at my office) both run antiX- but with 4 and 3 gig of RAM I could run most any other Linux OS…
If antiX with Gnome or KDE work for any user and you enough system resources, go for it! Be happy and/or productive with your choices!

PS: I tried Enlightenment in antiX a while ago- very beautiful interface and ease of use… but I still like antiX IceWM + FT10 better …

P.

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antiX package installer works very well.

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[Member Wallon]

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Gnome terminal on the left
Rox terminal on the right

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antiX system config printer works very well.

• This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by Wallon.
• This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by Wallon.

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