Yeah, i was trying to game and screencast witthout stutters in all that time. I gave up and put mx on. No problems then 👍

Will do matey, you too. Have a great one!

Ah, the point is keeping it real surely? Did you go for the m4 mini? Proper bargain that is. I was sorely tempted myself if I'm honest. Anyway matey have a great Christmas and new year. All the best ;)

@stationsixtyseven67 I got the M2 mini with 16GB RAM.

@stationsixtyseven67 Merry Christmas 🎄🎁🎅

Yeah and with the Dell reliability as well. Cost me a grand in a black friday sale (30% off) just over a year ago but it has been worth it :)

It works just fine for my needs on 535.183, no complaints here. Merry Chistmas matey :)

@stationsixtyseven67 You too, merry Christmas!

Morning matey. No problem ;)

Yeah and it was from 'Round the Horne'. Well spotted :)

Cheers GC! All the best to you and yours too mate

There really is a heap of hatred around these days matey. Seems like the world is going to hell fast. All the more reason to wish you well matey, have a great Xmas and New Year! ;)

You too Ghosty😉

Sorry I'm a tad later replying to this matey. Yeah I did download it a while back just for a look-see at it. I don't think I would consider installing it for myself just yet as it's still based on Debian 'old stable' and not Bookworm. I did dig around a bit over the last couple of days and note that the dev(s?) are working really really diligently to make this Linux distro as functional and 'Windows user' friendly as they can, creating good thoughtful in-depth functionality that is something of rarity in many 'friendly' distros recently (such as Vanilla, Zorin, Elementary and Pop!). For a distro designed to appeal to disgruntled Windows users who long for the good old days of Windows 7 this could be a serious contender considering it goes that extra mile beyond just 'the look'. I'd be tempted to try it again when it has a more up-to-date base though. There is also a KZbin channel showcasing the development as it moves along, so I'll be keeping an eye on that. ;)

For me it's MX out of the two because it's been mu go-to for ten years now. It suits machines of all strengths and configurations where perhaps LMDE might struggle on some older less powerful rigs. LMDE looks fantastic but is initially limited to Cinnamon which can be heavy. Andalucia? You lucky man :)

@stationsixtyseven67 We have been living here for 12 years, so used to it by now! 😉 Couldn't agree more about the "scalability" of MX/antiX (but the Rox Filer just does my Swede in). Perhaps I might give MX Fluxbox a try, KDE D.E. is very pretty but overly complex for a lazy so and do like me.

@@billfawcett3691 WRT to Antix and Rox, you should have a gander at the most recent build: No Rox by default, it runs JWM and zzzFM desktop (zzzFM replaces SpaceFM). It's a pleasure to use :)

I see you Sloeye matey. Keep commenting, And bless ya. :)

Well it is of course yes :)

Yeah that's what drew me to it eight years back. Fond memories of Hardy Heron and Lucid Lynx. The good old days:)

Often been tempted by ghostbsd and even tried it in the distant past for about a day. Whats it like with wifi and battery life?

I've had no problems with either out of box Nigel. But both nidia and Intel cards do need some after install work. It's not difficult, just need to rtfm.... Be safe mate.

Shouldn't be a problem on a laptop then... Not sure if I want to ditch my antix though and I want to get at least a year on the buntu laptops before I consider a change. Might try it on the dell or lenovo desktops though at some point. Cheers for the info matey and stay warm up there.

Have you seen the latest Led by donkeys video?

It's one of the default AntiX wallpapers. Not sure where else it's available I'm afraid sorry.

@@stationsixtyseven67 Okay, no problem. Thank you so much! 😊

The Boutique and Welcome screen are GONE now. At least that's a couple less snaps to be burdened by ;) Oh, and all the green is easily side-stepped by selecting one of the dark Yaru themes (as I do in the video).

Cheers matey :)

I agree. 24.04 is a surprise to me, a fantastic release all in all. Thanks for watching :)

New playlist. If I can pull my finger out there will be lots of doodling, both digital and analogue to come :)

It was the letter sent to the police that coined the name of 'Jack the Ripper' in 1888 ;)

I think a lot of the hate Ubuntu gets is from when they initially introduced mandatory snaps (and maybe some lingering distaste from the Amazon search debacle from before then). Snaps were slow and untidy back then. Things have changed as they often do and it's pretty seamless now - though developer scrutiny still needs to be tightened up a lot. I agree with your policy of avoiding snaps as far as is possible. Thanks for watching :)

'Why should constantly using only one distro be an exercise?' because my immediate peer group are notorious distro-hoppers and I myself have been pretty reactionary when Canonical drop new 'innovations' from time to time. This exercise was to see if I had overreacted to such things. My conclusion to that is 'yes I have', and what I take away from this exercise is that GNU/Linux users waste far too much time sweating the details and not enough time accepting that we are all one group, whether on Arch, Gentoo, Debian, Slackware etc. We are all in a place that we should celebrate rather than wasting time and energy in-fighting. :)

Thank you for the tip, I'll have a look at it :)

24.10>lts and opensuse is quite reliable.

Honestly, I'd opt for the LTS for the longer support cycle. I recall reading somewhere that the 24.10 is problematic WRT the build of Plasma it uses. Could have been on Distrowatch?

​@bhargavjitbhuyan9394 i was hoping openSUSE Slowroll would have been out in time. However, it doesn't look like that will be the case.

​@stationsixtyseven67 okay, I'll just go safe with the LTS then. I heard they will be getting kernel 6.11 by January. So at least there is that.

I bought a new machine a year ago and the first thing I did (after wrestling with Win 11 for a month or so) was to buy a new NVMe SSD and swapped it for the Win 11 one, put MX Linux on it and I haven't looked back since :) I still have the Win 11 one but it's just sitting in a drawer now doing nothing. A spare drive.

@@stationsixtyseven67 I have Ubuntu 24.10 on my slower SSD pcie 3.0 but my faster SSD is PCIE 4.0 with Win11 on it and they cost a fair amount for 2 TB.

@@cybernit3 I'm Still on 500GB NVMe with 1TB spinning rust storage. I have another SSD slot that I could maybe put the original drive in (and blank it) but so far I don't need the extra space ;)

BIOS/UEFI problems?

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Plasma man? ;) I honestly don't mind it now. Hated it when it first landed though.

@@jimw7916 I never managed to get comfortable in KDE/Plasma. Kinda did in the end with Gnome, but I mostly prefer XFCE or Openbox WM to be completely honest.

Seems about the same to me as a .deb instance of Firefox on MX quite honestly. I was expecting lag on startup but haven't noticed any slowdown at all.

Cheers James, always good to hear from you matey ;)

Hiya matey! Yep still got the monitor, it serves my desktop pc (with MX23) very well indeed. How long has it been now? Must be four years? Hope you're keeping well my friend and still rocking linux :)

Agreed. Regarding Gnome, I wasn't a fan when they first switched from the two panel layout to Shell, but it's improved a lot over the years and I really like it now.

Cheers matey :)

No. I did try one for a while but prefer to use keyboard and mouse.

@@stationsixtyseven67 thank you. I'm gonna give this a try I think. Not much of a gamer though.

STILL rocking MX on my main rig Johan :) Well over a year by now - and I've never broken it either. This buntu is on a different machine, a laptop ;)

Yeah it's great. Like Clementine without all the add-on radio and streaming stuff. Stripped down with just the stuff you need for playing your local files. I think you can add all the other doodads later if you want, but this way you get to choose just the ones you want? 'I think' anyway, that's not something I've wanted to look into. It's a great browser/player for local audio by default.

Hello Dan. I've been using strawberry across builds. It's excellent, building upon the clementine model..... Be safe.

@@stationsixtyseven67 I use MOCP by the way! 🙄🤣

@@billfawcett3691 😅💪

@@metafile001 Thanks Jim!!! I think I'll go ahead and pull trigger with your input and Nigel's! ...if I can get my mouse to behave. It took me literally about one minute to be able to hit reply. My mouse is having a nervous-jerkdown...

Crazy huh? :)

Was it the snap OBS or the .deb matey?

Tried Snap, Flatpak, and deb. When i would play ATS without OBS is ran fantastic and beautiful. When I would go to record it tanked the fps. I fiddled with a ton of settings in each. My gamer is Ryzen 5 2600 X, 16gb ddr 4, and GTX 1650. It should be able to handle recording at 720p.

Wayland session or X11 matey? I know I have problems under Wayland, but I don't game on these laptops.

@@stationsixtyseven67 If I remember correctly... When you install the proprietary Nvidia driver the session defaults to X11. Yeah and that's the conclusion I came to. It's probably something between the driver and OBS. Not recording, it ran fantastic. 24.04 will find its home on one of the many other PC's I have without Nvidia.

I agree matey, but look at us: first, we kicked back against pulseaudio and most likely we're using it now (or even pipewire), then it was systemd and we're mostly using it now, then it was sandboxed programs - or was it? was it just snaps? ...the thing is, as much as we fight it change just happens anyway ;) I still love my Debian and MX the bestest though.

@@stationsixtyseven67 I have no problems using Flatpaks.

​@@GManWritesAnd I'll happily use appimages. Theyre more like portable apps were back on windows to my mind.

Never fancied a bit of MATE? I was all over it in the 16.04 days but with GTK 3 it all seemed to go downhill.

Could well be but I was hoping to access it from the UI for demo purposes.

The only station that wouldn't get a copyright strike ;)

@@stationsixtyseven67 hello Nigel. Tbh, a strike, or ban, or even worse threat os irrelevant to me. I know I've said it before, but I'm close to the end with my channel. Looking after our land at 68 is more tiring than five years ago, andit gets harder as time passes. Splitting logs for winter during first half of this year, well, until last month, was quite an effort this time round. As they say, flesh is NOT so willing of late!! Be safe.

A little small for the money I thought, but I'm hunting down the pretty bits. I'll bet our mate Sloeye knows exactly where to look though, seeing as it's his neck of the woods :)