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(w/ Openbox and Lxpanel. I simply can't get any work done comfortably with rox-filer or jwm 
And no desktop. But this is just a matter of personal taste, not DPupbuster default setting). 
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(but again, being able to get easily the soft I need made me stay in Debian's vicinity 
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blackgatonegro wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 2:35 am I used to like Wary and Racy but nowadays I mostly use Fatdog 64, Someone really should port the radio pup app to it. Or whatever is called, is been a while,
smokey01 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 6:56 am @blackgatonegro Fatdog64 comes with VLC installed and it can do radio.
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blackgatonegro wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 2:35 am I used to like Wary and Racy but nowadays I mostly use Fatdog 64, Someone really should port the radio pup app to it. Or whatever is called, is been a while,
What sort of problems?blackgatonegro wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 7:32 pmsmokey01 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 6:56 am @blackgatonegro Fatdog64 comes with VLC installed and it can do radio.
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blackgatonegro wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 2:35 am I used to like Wary and Racy but nowadays I mostly use Fatdog 64, Someone really should port the radio pup app to it. Or whatever is called, is been a while,
VLC on Linux has problems, I still use it. Also mplayer that works slightly better but needs some technical skill,
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.
I totally agree Mike: ROX is fantastic!
Not only ROX-filer but the pinboard with the icons on the desktop as well.
And we use the panels and apps not nearly often enough.
When I change the window manager on Puppy (sorry jwm, I do), I always take ROX with me for my DE. I never change that.
I consider ROX the second most fantastic essential feature of Puppy, just behind the layered/frugal system.
Tahr to Xenial-era XFCE puplets
I write this too often: I use others and JWM, but XFCE is most user-friendly. The other issues are compatibility and system resources.
You are not alone!
Before Puppy, I was using Classic Mac OS with the Classic Finder, so using ROX felt right at home for me with the window-shade, etc. I think once you change ROX with Thunar, xfe, etc, Puppy just become another random distro, and there is nothing wrong with that. But part of Puppy's charm for me is the combination of ROX/Pinboard/JWM/SeaMonkey. The simplicity, not base on eye-candy, and usefulness is what I like of that combination.
I started using Puppy in version 2.x booting old PCs. I remember using 4.x a lot browsing the net. But Lucid (Lupu) was the real beginning of my love affair with Puppy.
My favorite Puppy right now is FossaPup, but I also was happy with Bionicpup, Xenialpup, Tahrpup, Precise, Lucid, etc. I still use them all, plus others.
that's a good question....
naaah! 
I'm working with my modified version of precise 5.7.1 (precisely_5.8) <--- just a name -- who works perfect in my machine
=== CPU Proccesor ===
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
2gb Memory Ram
=== Distro ===
Puppy Precisely 5.8
JWM v2.3.7
ROX-Filer 2.11-17w
=== video-info ===
2.0 VGA compatible controller:
Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
=== Development ===
Kernel: 5.0.1 (i686)
Bash: 5.0.0
Geany: 1.31
Gtkdialog: 0.8.4
Perl: 5.14.2
Python: 2.7.3
Yad: 0.42.1 (GTK+ 2.24.10)
Java: 1.8.0_172
busybox: 1.31.0
dhcpcd: 6.7.1
Devx GCC: (Ubuntu 9.3.0-10ubuntu2) 9.3.0
Glibc: 2.30
OpenSSL: 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012
wpa_supplicant: 0.7.3
weeeeell not so legacy, even with its known restrictions, it is perfect for navigating with firefox 79 (maximum due to problems with gtk3) and to be used as a basic home system.
for a newest version of puppy... Quickpup-20.06 very fast
and for 64 bit version... fossapup64-9.5 fast enough with some details due my system but most of the time works with a problem
So on my list, there are three, which work perfectly with my mentioned specs ...
Thanks Glad you liked it, Man I really did a lot of work on that one., It was actually the first puppy to have Gtk3 and the only to have GTK1, Gtk2, and Gtk3 all running at once. lol , Why just because I wanted to try it out and see how far I could stretch it out.
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I agree. Rox, once you've used it for a few years is the most handy manager out there. I use a combination of XFE and Rox. When I want to open files, see thumbnails, do quick copies, change permissions, just things that a person does every hour, Rox is lighting fast and stable, and it's integrated with puppy on every level. When I want to organize and see everything laid out so I don't confuse myself, I fire up XFE with a tree and dual panes. But XFE has drawbacks, doesn't display thumbnails, etc. It's a solid file manager though, installs easily and smoothly on every puppy I've tried. Between those two, work gets done efficiently.
XFE is my favorite Filemanager.Almost perfect...aside from not showing Thumbnails.
I also would like to see the Possibility to mount Partitions with Xfe.....but this is not a big Thing.
geo_c wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 4:30 pmI agree. Rox, once you've used it for a few years is the most handy manager out there. I use a combination of XFE and Rox. When I want to open files, see thumbnails, do quick copies, change permissions, just things that a person does every hour, Rox is lighting fast and stable, and it's integrated with puppy on every level. When I want to organize and see everything laid out so I don't confuse myself, I fire up XFE with a tree and dual panes. But XFE has drawbacks, doesn't display thumbnails, etc. It's a solid file manager though, installs easily and smoothly on every puppy I've tried. Between those two, work gets done efficiently.
Only Rox for me. Probably only me but I use one fixed sized window to access all folders. Lots of entries stored under bookmarks for super quick navigating. This, with a good integrated copy/paste application like multicopypaste from SFR works perfectly for me.
And since I'm hi-jacking the thread into file managers, I should add my favorite pup. I haven't used them all, but my first download was 4.3.1 and I was really happy when Lucid came out soon after, because as a Linux newbie Lucid was a lot more user friendly. I just kept upgrading to the latest mainline, so Slacko and Bionic were also in there. Being a musician I used lowt3ch's puppy studio builds, all of them. Now I'm pretty jazzed about puddlemoon's Jackal pup re-master of fossa, because I have mainline fossa fine-tuned and it's as nice as any puppy so far. I'm super happy with fossa and jackal, and I think I can probably get a lot of life out of them, especially if Mike keeps putting out those portable apps!
Not need talk more ^^
