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I'd say that using a system's existing mechanisms for credential storing is better practice than reinventing the wheel for a single application. After all, what's the point of having a standardized system if nothing will use it?
I did some light searching and found this: https://sparkylinux.org/forum/index.php?topic=4234.0
You can switch to Chrome's fallback credential storing method with a simple flag.
https://sparkylinux.org/wiki/doku.php/sparky_gameover
Debian with LXDE, a few games preinstalled and some gaming tools like the Steam client, Itch.io client, WINE, a tool for easily installing various emulators.
As others have said, smaller distros are always somewhat of a risk. They could ship malware, intentionally or not, and it would probably take some time before anyone noticed.
And with that in mind, for anyone with basic Linux knowledge, installing this stuff yourself is going to take a few hours at most. And you get to choose what you actually want to have installed.
So, for many people that's just not worth it. Maybe if it had almost exactly the games and tools that I want, I would install it.
But that's with me liking LXDE and having heard of SparkyLinux before. Many others will be more cautious, because they've never heard of it before, which means it could easily be someone trying to distribute malware.
In my install (18.10) you do this:
1) Right-click any open space on the task (bottom) bar.
2) select Configure Panel
3) select the 'Widgets' item on the left pane
4) select the 'Quick Launch' item (3rd from the top on mine)
5) say "What the fuck?" when the gear icon fails to do anything.
6) curse LXQt
7) do a quick google search for 'lxqt configure quick launch'
8) try the things on this page.
9) curse more.
10) realize that you can just drag-and-drop a program shortcut from the 'start' menu into that task bar.
11) curse more, because why the fuck even have a configure panel option if you can't use it to configure the blasted panel?!?
Introductory step-by-step guides seem to be anathema within the debian community...nice work op!
Another simple path is an iso from SparkyLinux originally based on debian testing and now includes a stable issue along with unstable inclusions where necessary to install just about anything.
I was able to find couple video game focused distros which have Wine preinstalled: Ubuntu gamepack as Ubuntu spinoff and Sparky Linux GameOver Debian spinoff. Seems like preinstalled Wine is associated with gaming. Both of them have also native Steam preinstalled.
Me too. I recently experimented with Lubuntu. It's one of most lightweight distros. On top of full UI it comes with (LXDE) also has option to toggle Openbox. Openbox removes alot UI and leaves you with this simple menu. As it was, LXDE that Lubuntu (2018 version) defaulted to, used around 250MB when idling. When I used Openbox it reduced memory usage 100MB more.
It may be a barebone UI but it is very usable experience for simple tasks like banking and surfing web. And in lowering resource old or older laptops will run better, extending their use. Windows 10 on same laptop was noticeably slower, louder and ran hotter.
>32 bit
It's game over with what ever Ubuntu flavor or derivative.
Go with Debian or one in its derivative, sparkylinux is a good one, I would pick the 5.14 LXqt iso.
The reason why the computer is so slow when in diep is because it doesn't have chrome as a high-intensity application(which it isn't most of the time), but it does become more graphics-intensive when you're playing diep. When you turn on your screen recorder, the computer sees that as high-intensity and fires up whatever graphics card you have. Even with a sucky graphics card, the game runs perfectly smoothly because of how light it is on the cpu. The graphics, which are more easily run by the graphics card, become a non-problem and the computer runs fine. I remember seeing a post on here about how to tell your graphics card to enable when using chrome, but I can't find it. I'll be back soon with a link to a guide(or not if I'm too lazy, forget, or both). Edit: Here ya go!
I just open steam and play the game. First install just check the box for compatibility, and use proton experimental. Steam got the messing around down to 3 mouse clicks. 1 of 8 games so far I have had to go back to the setting and try a different proton version (portal 2 needed an earlier version).
I run installed gentoo, so I'm not checking this out myself. But its supposed to be a live distro that includes steam. Game over idition it looks like. So if you have a big thumb drive its a good way to take it for a test drive. Follow install to USB drive directions, reboot and boot to USB device. No install necessary.
I does however use the xfce desktop, which is very minimal. I tried to find out if gnome or KDE (plasma) was most like windows, but it seems windows is taking their ideas more and more ideas for windows 11. I think gnome is probably closer to windows experience, buts its honestly been 15 years since I used gnome. It's support for 3d accelerated desktop back then was lacking compared to KDE.
Sorry for amp
Parrot, Kali and some more distros are there that utilize Debian's "testing" branch. It is not a release branch and is solely a development branch. It means that Debian uses "testing" and "sid/unstable" for development purposes for its "stable" branch (which is not rolling and obviously has old packages). So using Parrot, Kali or other "testing" based distributions, you are still not using a release quality distribution. Arch and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed are the true rolling releases. They are intended for being used by end users.
But anyways, if you want to give it a shot, I would recommend "testing" based distributions over "sid/unstable" based distributions. SparkyLinux is totally what you would want to use in this case. It has also got KDE edition. Link: https://sparkylinux.org/download/rolling/
if you want a lightweight ubuntu experiance
debian:
or try any other distro (linux mint , xubuntu) and change the desktop to openbox(xorg) or
sway(wayland) i recommand wayland enviremonts for smooth experiance
Hey! I didn't know much about SparkyLinux before... But now that I've read up on it, I see that they also offer a Semi-Rolling version which is based on Debian Testing instead of Debian Stable.
You could try live booting that and installing alsa-ucm-conf from its repositories. If that's all that's required to fix the sound on your hardware, you can either install alsa-ucm-conf on your Stable installation from the Semi-Rolling repositories OR you can switch your whole installation over to Semi-Rolling.
Has toys like MX, has a minimal ISO with Openbox, has one click installs of many WMs and DE's (including CDE and NvCDE), and is based on Debian Testing (Bullseye). Also has one click installs of Liquorix and Xanmod kernels. It does have SystemD, but if I were to use a Debian based distro that doesn't, it's AntiX, a RAM stingy distro that runs great on older hardware and great on newer hardware.
Idk why Xubuntu would be slow, nor do I use virtualbox. All my physical machines run Manjaro, but I don't think I've tried running it in a VM -- I use EndeavorOS for that.
Just remembered hearing Chris Fisher (guy who does a bunch of Linux podcasts) recommending Sparky, but I've never tried it.
I don't have fix for this but, I wouldn't really use puppy linux since it's bearly usable and almost most of the packages are out-dated. If you're looking for a very lite linux distro then look into bodhi or sparky. Both are based on debian and ubuntu. Good luck. The wifi card should work out of the box in either of those linux distro.
For Linux, you might need to take a look at its forked/clone version of CDE, this might work...
https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE
Also, there's a guide on installing on Ubuntu Linux here, just install straight up from its repository: https://sparkylinux.org/nscde/
I honestly think you're running low on ram, these are symptoms of a computer that is not having enough ram. I took a look at your PC and you have 4GB of DDR3 ram, which is VERY slow.
I recommend you to try sparky linux, I use it everyday as a bootable pendrive at my computer science class, and it has never failed me. I highly recommend you to give it a try, and see it if solves your problem :)
You should try SparkyLinux. It has a MinimalGUI edition that runs on about 200MB of RAM on my PC.
I use it as a backup on a bootable pendrive, and it has been an amazing experience this far. It's debian-based, so you have access to the ubuntu repositores and can download things using apt.
Sparky Linux Testing (Semi-Rolling) based on Debian. it's a really good distro. I'm using it on my main machine right now. No issues at all. packages are fresh and the repos are full and divers. give it a try.
SparkyLinux (if THAT won't work, then Ubuntu 18.04 but going towards 20.04 next year) - Intel i7 870 x64 - The computer is a straight out of the box Dell Studio XPS (removed the wireless card to put in the ElGato)
ElGato HD60 Pro is a PCIe x1 Game Capture Card - not currently officially supported by Corsair (parent company) through Linux [which is why I am turning towards VM'ing Windows 10 64-bit just so I could use the program, even though there MIGHT be a chance of doing it through Ubuntu]
I personally deeply hate photoshop's layer-based animation system and am very grateful for krita's animation interface.
I consider layers and time to be two different things that should be kept separate, on different axis, like krita does.
It may be, like for the others, simply habit, but I went to an animation school and everyone who had tried it hated photoshop's animation system. The main software we used, tvpaint animation, has (like krita) one time axis and one layer axis, as does the simple one (forgot its name, sorry) we used to scan hand-drawn animations, and as do, judging from the screenshots, toonboom (as seen here), which I know is used in the industry, and the recently released one studio ghibli uses, opentoonz (seen here and here).
I would usually argue that just because other people do it doesn't necessarily mean you should, but just why would you use the same system to manage both time and depth? Say you have a complex scene with tens of layers, why add to that complexity with your dozen, maybe hundreds of frames of animation? How do you even manage two animations that don't have the same tempo with this system?
(I didn't try very hard to like it, and it was a few years ago, so mayyybe photoshop manages animation better now; still, from what I know, photoshop's system is not, by far, the most used one)
Take a look at SparkyLinux GameOver edition. I don't use it myself but it looks to be focused at gamers.
https://sparkylinux.org/download/rolling/
"GameOver Edition features a very large number of preinstalled games, useful tools and scripts. It’s targeted to gamers." - https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-5-1-special-editions/
Re-installed W10 to a Toshiba Tecra earlier today using a downloaded ISO from microsoft burnt to DVD by K3B using SparkyLinuxKDE ...I've never been able to install W10 to USB from linux...no worries with linux live.
Not your set up, but points to look out for-
Change bios in the laptop to boot from UEFI
Use the same machine type -- 64bit to burn the DVD-USB ...64bit to 64bit....or 32 to 32
I've just finished installing linux over xp ...I'll quickly give you the steps. Which distro you use is up to you and Ubuntu has the easiest install path but this is for the one I used- SparkyLinuxKDE.
Download Live ISO and burn to DVD as a image or to a 4GB USB.
Change the pc's boot options in setup to boot from cdrom or usb and then run the dvd, or usb, to begin the live session of linux....go from there!
I installed Chrome from within Aptus Extra that comes with the various SparkyLinux distributions of debian testing to watch netflix plus whatever I've used chrome for since....v2 on w98?
Recently I installed Sparky linux lxde on a friend's old machine, it is an installable livecd based on debian testing:
https://sparkylinux.org/download/
I would recommend it, it installed alot of codecs and proprietary software that you normally need to dick around and install manually on debian due to free software zealotry. From now on instead of installing Debian testing, I will install Sparky and dist-upgrade from there to save time. It is essentially debian testing just packaged better for home users who don't care about Stallman style zealotry(the vast majority of humanity).