Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

mikewalsh wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 8:41 pm

Y'know, I don't know whether to be "amused" at this or to just say, "Hey! whatever floats your boat..."

I see post after post, week in/month out, declaring loud & clear that the poster simply cannot "get on" with JWM/ROX-filer, and "can't get anything done" with it.

This, like so much else in Linux, is a very personal choice.

I never was that happy with Windows File Explorer. When I moved to Linux, during my mainstream distro-hopping phase, 'twas the same story; I still wasn't really satisfied.....but at least the mode of operation was familiar! And then came the initial trial of Puppy... Like all noobs, ROX-filer was a bit of a shock; I asked several questions about its operation over the course of the first couple of weeks, and, as time went by, gradually became more familiar with it. One thing I'd originally liked the sound of in Windows was the "drag'n'drop" thing, yet it never seemed to function quite how I envisaged it ought to.....it just seemed "awkward", somehow.

Drag'n'drop works perfectly in ROX!

In the intervening 7 years, I've tried out several other Linux distros; some 'mainstream', others.....not so much. But one thing they all have in common.....and that's a 'conventional' file-manager which, after ROX, seem so clunky, awkward and just downright sluggish now. For me, it's the opposite tale; I've got SO handy with ROX over the last several years, I simply cannot see myself ever returning to a conventional FM again. I may have moved a LONG way beyond Puppy, hardware-wise, this last year, but I value an ultra-light, 'speedy' file-manager more than ever.

The only one that made me think twice was AntiX.....and that was due to ROX being one of the built-in, 'selectable' options by default. Summat I was used to.....but I eventually became dissuaded/disillusioned by the Synaptic package manager crap (yet again!)

To me, conventional file managers no longer make sense any more. They seem to be designed by masochists.....for other masochists..!!

Am I the only one who feels like this about ROX?

Mike.

No.
Rox is eccentric freak at first. But once you have learnt it, everything else is lame.

enjoying fossapup64 at the moment.

My first spin up was 4.21, but I really got into Lucid 5.28. Now, I have 2 sticks that I use. A triple boot one with Bionic, Fossa and Xenial with room to experiment with other distros. The second drive has Bionic64 only and it’s my daily user. This stick is teaching me things and is drawing me further and further away from windows. I’m beginning to be able to do things in Puppy that I could have only previously done in the windows install.

Slight change for me. After Ozsouth whipped-up a wireless driver module for me - this HP tower has a weird wireless/Bluetooth combo chip - I'm finally using, and spending a lot of time in, Bionicpup64.

Ethernet has been a complete PITA here in Bionic; conversely, using the wireless for connection on here is an absolute breeze. Bionic is the ONLY one with this "issue", strangely.....but at long last, this is fast becoming my "daily driver".

Still can't get used to connecting a desktop via wireless, though..!

However, having pretty well straightened-out my personal, customized Slacko 5.6.0, it now runs quite sweetly from a 2 GB SD card in a USB-to-SD adapter. And running with almost all 'portables', the necessarily small (for me!) save-file is NOT proving to be an issue.

Mike.

@mikewalsh which kernel are you running in the Bionic on your desktop?

rockedge wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 12:31 am

@mikewalsh which kernel are you running in the Bionic on your desktop?

@rockedge :-

ATM, back with the bog-standard k4.19.23. I tried Xenial64's k4.9.58, but my Logitech c920 webcam quit working, for some unknown reason! Yet it's quite happy under that same kernel in Xenial itself.

I gave Fossapup64's kernel a try, but something else started playing-up - I forget what it was, now - so I returned to the default one. Oz had put together that wireless driver module for me, so I use that instead. Not too many desktops have multiple connection options; I'm lucky with this one.

Mike.

I use Slacko 7 on my old EEE PC notebook.

I've been using a very tweaked puppy 4.10 on my multimedia server since it came out (2008?).
minidlna
gnump3d
mpd/icecast music streaming
edna music file server
ftp file access
droopy for file uploads
ssh
DNS static ip
xitami web server

Date:
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