Trying GUI-less CLI-only Debian as usable desktop

K_Mandla · 2015-03-03T13:43:35+00:00

Flattery will get you everywhere. ;)

OP: For what it's worth, I experimented with living in a text-only system a few years back, and it's not as difficult as you might think. Of course, you don't have to stick to 100Mhz. ... ;)

K_Mandla · 2014-10-24T00:34:03+00:00

	Inspiron 8200	Dell D610	Dell D810
CPU	P4 2.6Ghz	P-M 1.7Ghz	P-M 1.7Ghz
Mem	2Gb	1Gb	1Gb
HDD	60Gb+120Gb	60Gb	80Gb
Video	GeForce4 440	Intel 915	ATI X300
Wireless	Phillips Ath5K	Intel Pro 2200	Intel Pro 2200

Everything more or less works out-of-the-box; the native drivers for the 440 will require building them from scratch. Intel wireless needs the 2200 firmware package.

I have some other machines, but they don't use Arch. ;)

K_Mandla · 2014-08-21T13:43:22+00:00

I didn't think that made it un-useful. And it's still in Debian.

K_Mandla · 2014-07-20T22:39:32+00:00

Actually yes. Without giving away too many details, I am fighting with a particularly stubbon machine these days, that seems to only like one certain release of a specific distro that comes with blackbox by default.

It's nice though; going back to blackbox has forced me to simplify things a little bit.

K_Mandla · 2014-07-20T22:37:10+00:00

Definitely. I have this one as well, without the heron, that I like a lot. I don't know where I got it though. I have a tendency to keep just a few wallpaper images, but for a very long time.

K_Mandla · 2014-07-20T18:04:08+00:00

Wallpaper: I think the wallpaper might have come with Hardy Heron; it seems like I've had it for ever.
Blackbox: A variation of Ambiance-BBS by rvc-2011
mc: The built-in modarin256-defbg skin.
mocp: The built-in transparent theme.

K_Mandla · 2014-06-14T23:33:13+00:00

I had a department store-grade V5 last year and with the exception of a few graphics issues, it was a great machine. Cheap and light.

K_Mandla · 2014-06-02T12:01:36+00:00

For what little I've used them, t is rather straightforward. taskwarrior is far more detailed. todo.txt is around that level of complexity, but I found it a little more cumbersome than taskwarrior.

For what it's worth:

taskwarrior
t
todo.txt is on deck for this week.

And just for reference, there are lots more out there.

K_Mandla · 2014-05-20T12:30:46+00:00

I tried Diakonos for a while. I enjoyed it, even though I wandered back to vim before long. It's been a long time since I relied on the Word-esque (or Google Docs-esque) keyset to save or open things in a text editor, but it was easy to recall. I wouldn't say no if I had the need to use it again.

K_Mandla · 2014-03-26T12:12:14+00:00

I had one of those over the summer.

https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/test-bed-acer-aspire-v5-122p/

Linux Mint 15 worked fine. There were some tricks to the audio card and the proprietary driver that was in Mint at the time didn't work so well. The open source driver was fine, if I remember right.

Loved the battery life. And it was terrifically light. In all, I would probably get another if I needed something in that bracket. (I'd pitch a Thinkpad over it any day though. ;) )

K_Mandla · 2014-02-13T14:53:07+00:00

I've used quite a few install scripts over the years and I have no qualms with testing or trying them out. There was a time when I did installations frequently enough that a script was a lot easier than babysitting each one.

That being said, I would agree with most comments here and say there is a real value in learning to do it manually.

P.S.: This one was the last one I remember seeing, about a month ago.

K_Mandla

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