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| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: eugenenine on December 31, 2024, 02:04:31 am ---I'm using 22GiB right now, not counting home. I have Libreoffice, KiCAD, VLC, KDEnlive, Viking GPS/Mapping, gmm arm, paspberry pi pico sdk (without visualCrappio), some emulators, couple games, etc. I don't care for any of the "modern" distros where they install a bunch of bloat. I tried a couple and went back to Slackware. --- End quote --- Double that, if you use FPGA tools. |
| langwadt:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on December 31, 2024, 09:51:55 am --- --- Quote from: eugenenine on December 31, 2024, 02:04:31 am ---I'm using 22GiB right now, not counting home. I have Libreoffice, KiCAD, VLC, KDEnlive, Viking GPS/Mapping, gmm arm, paspberry pi pico sdk (without visualCrappio), some emulators, couple games, etc. I don't care for any of the "modern" distros where they install a bunch of bloat. I tried a couple and went back to Slackware. --- End quote --- Double that, if you use FPGA tools. --- End quote --- yeh, Vivado is +40GB, ISE is ~20GB but, a 256GB SSD is like 20€ |
| eugenenine:
--- Quote from: wilfred on December 31, 2024, 02:16:35 am ---More important to me is how easily I can get any software installed and use it. --- End quote --- My most recent use of a "modern" distro. I had picked up a Raspberry Pi 400 on clearance at Micro Center which came with a Rasbian install (debian based). I ran their apt get install whatever for openSCAD and it wouldn't run. troubleshooting I found that it had installed a wrong version of the Opencascade dependency so I had to download it from source and build it myself. Slackware I go to slackbuilds.org and search for openscad and it tells me it needs opencascade and the version and has the slackbuild for it. I download both and run the builds and it works fine the first try and took less time to install than to troubleshoot why debian/rasbian's version didn't work. So Slackware IMHO is easier to get software installed and use. |
| Smokey:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/general-computing/ee-bench-pc-what-os-suggestions/ |
| wilfred:
--- Quote from: eugenenine on December 31, 2024, 11:45:36 pm --- --- Quote from: wilfred on December 31, 2024, 02:16:35 am ---More important to me is how easily I can get any software installed and use it. --- End quote --- My most recent use of a "modern" distro. I had picked up a Raspberry Pi 400 on clearance at Micro Center which came with a Rasbian install (debian based). I ran their apt get install whatever for openSCAD and it wouldn't run. troubleshooting I found that it had installed a wrong version of the Opencascade dependency so I had to download it from source and build it myself. Slackware I go to slackbuilds.org and search for openscad and it tells me it needs opencascade and the version and has the slackbuild for it. I download both and run the builds and it works fine the first try and took less time to install than to troubleshoot why debian/rasbian's version didn't work. So Slackware IMHO is easier to get software installed and use. --- End quote --- Slackware might be easier to install OpenSCAD on is all you can conclude from your example. And I am not here to convert you away from it. I recall trying Slackware out a long time ago, I tried Ygdrassil too and SUSE, Fedora, Redhat, Ubuntu and I've settled on Mint because until it gives me a reason to change I just won't bother anymore. I've spent more than enough time changing Linux Distros when I was younger. You didn't give much info on just where the incorrect dependency error was in the install you did, but on the brief search I did I did not find a rash of reports of it. That is my usual first test to see if it is a common or widespread issue and if there is a likelihood of a fix being already available. I also found out that there is a thing called Pi-Apps which has an install for OpenSCAD. Unlike Windows or whatever the Apple OS is called, Linux with the plethora of different distros available does introduce a bit of uncertainty as a result. It is both good and bad depending on what your motives are in using Linux. If you want the freedom to choose without being tied to a giant corporate overlord then you accept it as a consequence of different developers doing different things. If on the other hand you want to use Linux because it is "free" from cost then you may be less idealistic in accepting the lack of homogeneity that comes with a single monolith OS like Windows. I think choosing Linux is partly a lifestyle choice and it will remain so until it too becomes a single monolith. Which would defeat the purpose for it to even exist. So it is what it is. Linux Mint is near the most popular distro and so it can to some extent straddle the gap between freedom of choice and freedom from choice. But debating which Linux distro is the best is so utterly pointless I don't bother. The list of top distros by popularity is the answer to that question. I just looked at what others were doing and went with that. |
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