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« Thread Started on May 13, 2012, 12:40am » | |
I'm a new SalineOS user (v 1.6). I've been moving away from the 'buntus in the last year and have not yet settled on a Debian-based distro I can call "home".
What I like about Saline so far: Installation was a snap including my Nvidia card driver which was auto-magically installed on reboot - I like it. It's fast and responsive (I've had slowness issues with later versions of Thunar in other distros). My peripherals, especially my Brother MFC, work like a charm. It includes some solid software and runs very light.
What I didn't like (which may get changed in the upcoming 2.0 version and some of which is totally out of Anthony's hands): The default desktop needs some polishing in terms of the overall look. Chromium even in its current version is getting scary invasive. And maybe some of the software that gets installed should be optional like LibreOffice.
Overall, SalineOS is a very promising distro...everything works out of the box...and fast! I look forward to version 2.
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« Reply #1 on May 13, 2012, 2:57am » | |
Welcome to the Saline community jordan
I think you'll enjoy your stay.
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« Reply #2 on May 13, 2012, 3:32am » | |
Welcome to the forums 
The installer is getting even easier, more flexible and straight forward for 2.0. A whole new installer was written from scratch using yet another dialog for user interaction.
You will be happy to hear that Chromium is being replaced with Midori and there are whole new icon and gtk themes for 2.0. I have even coded up a nifty little Xfce panel plugin of sorts for Midori, more information here http://www.salinelinux.proboards.com/ind....play&thread=582 . As for LibreOffice and some of the other applications, the only thing having them installed costs is hard disk space. Considering the size and availability of hard disk space on even relatively old machines, there really isn't a point to trying to preserve it. SalineOS follows the general idea that most people shouldn't have to even open a package manager to do any common tasks. People who want to fine tune a system from scratch have plenty of high quality options, Gentoo, Arch and Debian netinst for example.
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jordan
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« Reply #3 on May 13, 2012, 11:09am » | |
Thanks for the welcome Anthony and ukbrian.
@Anthony
I understand your point about not having to sort through Synaptic to install LibreOffice or some other common app.
I was overjoyed to actually have my Nvidia drivers automatically install without errors using magix. Sgfxi/smxi usually works fine (sometimes the driver itself is flaky because it's the latest) but it can't beat a one click/reboot install process like magix that is easy for anyone to do.
I'm really looking forward to the new themes in 2.0 as I'm very particular about how my desktop looks (and functions). I see you're working hard over at github and appreciate your efforts.
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« Reply #4 on May 19, 2012, 5:15am » | |
Posting here on Bodhi. 1.4. Midori will be the future......I hope.
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