Sunday, February 22, 2026

REBORN OS UPDATE

REBORN OS latest has all the Dedktops, KDE, Cosmic and Catfish but when I tried Enlightenment Desktop it went into /var partition full mode with lot of space avaible in / root partition. This /var partition saga which in not there in Debian GNOME bit of a pain. I think I gave at least 10GB for /var and I am going to jack it up.
I believe all the additional desktops are accommodated in / var an CINNAMON takes about 1200MB and that is one reason I shun CINNAMON as a Desktop which include Linux Mint.
I am so used GNOME Desktop and rest are becoming antithesis and I am Installing them as an academic exercise.
By the way, I got BlueStar Linux in one/ root partition and it has GNOME in addition. I won't try CINNAMON on it.
Currently, Debian GNOME has a huge UPDATE. Debian is devoid of Blender and hope the Developers look in to what problems it has with Forky Edition.
I want to finish editing my books.

BlueStar Linux UPDATE

BlueStar Linux 
I installed the latest Image of BlueStar Linux. One of the images has a problem with UEFI (Warning).
One should configure the WiFi or Ethernet before installing.
One should install the basic (AVOID the Desktop) and use OCTOPI to install what one prefers.
OCTOPI is the best ARCH Package Manger.
I stared with 
BlueFish 
AbiWord 
Vivaldi
Octopi and finally Gnome Desktop and used SDDM Plymouth to mount.
By the way, BlueStar Linux has the most beautiful KDE Desktop.
I started learning ARCH through BlueStar Linux and its GRUB is as good as REBORN OS which has become my favourite after Debian GNOME.
If you are new to LINUX I advice you to try BlueStar Linux because it has ton of application including Blender.

THANK You, guys and girls of Developer Team of BlueStar Linux.
You beat Linux Mint (Cinnamon Desktop) by many a mile. I have got GNOME on Mint Desktop using Synaptic Package Manager. I had to install Synatic using FLATpak. Mint has its own application store and I do not like Sandboxed applications since they duplicate and consume more resorces.
PackagevMangers are:

1. APT of Debian which I love.

2. SNAP of UBUNTU (I do not use UBUNTU but nevertheless test it. It has a good GRUB). Packages are installed in /var and make sure you have at least 20GB in /var partition or esle let UBUNTU usebone big /root partition.

3. FLATpak is platform independent.
Debian GNOME integrates FLATpak with the system utilities.

4. App Images which I never used. 
No need in my case.