Transparent shell might look nice, but is useless for work.
That level of transparency, yes. However, my terminal emulator is set to 35% opacity, and I like it and can use it just fine; I use it frequently, too, multiple times per day.
Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro
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Re: Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes and this is great. I have felt Ubuntu to be way too bloated ( last time I checked it had many python scripts running by default on startup ) and Debian is hard to use on the desktop ( "stable" is too slow, "testing" is too unstable ). Arch will make a better foundation distro IMO.
I've found debian and ubuntu to be the best QA'd distros available. Followed by Fedora. After trying Arch and running into too many irritating bugs that I didn't have the patience to fix I gave up on it. Plus this didn't give me a good impression of the community's professionalism either: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Manjaro-Devs-Fix-Embarrassing...
They did blow it bad on this one, but apparently they manned-up since.
Re: Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro
#43I use this and have found it excellent. Even got me back into gnome shell after recoiling in disgust initially with all the changes from gnome 2.
Re: Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nix the package manager is for getting deep control and hard guarantees about your dependencies. NixOS uses Nix, but also gives you ways to 1) specify your system's configuration declaratively from the beginning* and 2) reliably get that configuration running on another machine without having to worry about, say, conflicts with existing dependencies. Or at least that's the theory. In practice I'm mostly still trying…
That means I'll have to rewrite all my (Arch) packages for Nix in order for that to work, right? How does it deal with install scripts (inside upstream packages that you have no control over) that install stuff imperatively?
packages are namespaced in a directory for each package/version, like this:
/nix/store/b6gvzjyb2pg0kjfwrjmg1vfhh54ad73z-firefox-33.1/
Re: Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro
#45An Arch system with defaults is not an Arch system. The beauty of Arch is that you set it up from head to toe, so you only have the things you need most. And if something breaks, you're more likely to be able to fix it. Accept no substitute. Vanilla Arch forever. (I accept that some people don't care about how the sausages are made. In that case, use Fedora or Debian or Ubuntu, in order of similarity to Arch.)
Not sure why this downvoted? This is precisely the reason I went with Arch too: it is nothing more than a package system, systemd and a huge wiki that lets you grok how everything works. For everybody else there's a huge amount of distros that does the job fine (better?) without having the hassle of having to know how things are configured and what not...
I see those "distros" for certain kind of people. They installed Arch manually once or twice, liked the result and got comfortable with it. Now they want to get the install part out of their way and just get to the usable system. This "you're using it wrong" in Linux environment baffles me.
> without having the hassle of having to know how things are configured and what not
Really ? User doesn't need to know how to set and fix things on Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian ? Now that's a bold statement.
Re: Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro
#46An Arch system with defaults is not an Arch system. The beauty of Arch is that you set it up from head to toe, so you only have the things you need most. And if something breaks, you're more likely to be able to fix it. Accept no substitute. Vanilla Arch forever. (I accept that some people don't care about how the sausages are made. In that case, use Fedora or Debian or Ubuntu, in order of similarity to Arch.)
I like Arch. I would love to have it installed on my laptop, but then I don't want to spend the time actually installing and configuring it. I got fed up with that stuff using linux 15 years ago. I remember the days when you had to write your own device drivers. I don't long for them. In fact, I still cry a bit when I think about that day my RedHat 6 install configured eth0 for me. Imagine: Plugging a network cable i…
Out of curiosity: What do you have installed on your laptop instead?
Re: Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro
#47Eh, new defaults configurations do NOT merit a new distro. I've long believed this, and since I discovered NixOS it is now clear that there is away to avoid it.
You don't even need NixOS for that. Just use Ansible or Puppet to manage your Arch Linux configuration.
Re: Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes and this is great. I have felt Ubuntu to be way too bloated ( last time I checked it had many python scripts running by default on startup ) and Debian is hard to use on the desktop ( "stable" is too slow, "testing" is too unstable ). Arch will make a better foundation distro IMO.
There's always Fedora which has gotten better and better the last couple releases. But I like Arch too. I just switched away from it because I got tired of things breaking if I wasn't religiously upgrading.
Fedora is the only real alternative if you want more stability.
Re: Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro
#49Strange that they include Pushbullet, and advertise it so prominently, which is not a free service anymore and was the subject of a huge controversy when they cut features.
It's indeed strange and definitely against the spirit.
There's an excellent open source project which does this and much more: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdecon...
Re: Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro
#50An Arch system with defaults is not an Arch system. The beauty of Arch is that you set it up from head to toe, so you only have the things you need most. And if something breaks, you're more likely to be able to fix it. Accept no substitute. Vanilla Arch forever. (I accept that some people don't care about how the sausages are made. In that case, use Fedora or Debian or Ubuntu, in order of similarity to Arch.)
I like Arch. I would love to have it installed on my laptop, but then I don't want to spend the time actually installing and configuring it. I got fed up with that stuff using linux 15 years ago. I remember the days when you had to write your own device drivers. I don't long for them. In fact, I still cry a bit when I think about that day my RedHat 6 install configured eth0 for me. Imagine: Plugging a network cable i…
There's Antergos for this.