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XLibre Linux Distro?

edward78

edward78

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Any good user friendly secure stable ones also rolling, I don't want to have to reinstall a .iso every x years, also a nice DE would be SonicDE (KDE fork for Xlibre). I have Manjaro now, so that, but Xlibre/SonicDE.
 
A bit of a tall order, asking for all these features: user friendly, secure, stable, and rolling, using XLibre as default! But by asking for XLibre, I discern you like to live in the fringes, so you might consider leaving Penguin land and embrace the Daemon, giving GhostBSD a shot. I personally take the more challenging route of pure FreeBSD, but haven't jumped to XLibre yet, though many have reported good success. GhostBSD has switched to using it as default, so that would probably be an easier entry point.

As far as not having to reinstall .iso's regularly, I've not re-installed my main FreeBSD installations in years, covering versions at least from 11.0 - 15.1, and that is even surviving some major hardware changes!
 
Here is a confusing one, from the Garuda forum. What??? That reason sounds like a reason TO use it... I do have Mate GhostBSD trying to figure out a way to get net working, on the new DE Gershwin.
Need to add these to loader.conf
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edward78 said:
Here is a confusing one, from the Garuda forum. What??? That reason sounds like a reason TO use it... I do have Mate GhostBSD trying to figure out a way to get net working, on the new DE Gershwin.
Need to add these to loader.conf
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The main issue as I understand it is xlibre breaks a ton of stuff.
A ton of stuff that developers are simply NOT going to fix for xlibre.

X is Dead. People need to move on frankly. Too many projects are simply not going to bother fixing bugs for Xlibre. I get some people want to continue X development. The issue is simple. X was developed by the industry not users. Linux has a lot of user development happening... however on the big core projects like X. The vast majority of the work was done by industry. Developers being paid to work on it. All of that paid development has moved to wayland. Xlibre is a dead end... anyone can fork a dead project and say it continues. That doesn't bring back the 100s of thousands of dollars in development it had before it was killed for Wayland.

Xlibre is a cool project for dedicated Linux heads that want to tinker. If you are seriously asking for a distro that has it pre baked then I'm sorry its not a project you should be using.

If you really really want xlibre. Run arch. Use it, its there and if you want to squash bugs all the time, editing config files, and probably rebuilding software from source to make it work. It can be done, but I don't see the point other then tinkering.

Serious question. What don't you like about Wayland? Is there a X feature you don't have with Wayland?
 
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