This Is About CatchyOS an ARCH Derivative

 This Is About CatchyOS an ARCH Derivative

This one of the best ARCH derivatives, which I am currently installing on my NUC. 

Little note about ManjaroOS which is failing to recognize my partition table with 28 partitions and I am ditching it now from my top five distributions.

Its place is taken over by this CatchyOS.

There nothing bad about it.

1. WiFi configuration is smooth.

2. One can install the KDE version off line or choose  your choice of desktop.

3. I choose Gnome and Openbox.

One can choose several if one needs.

 I have no space for many.

 4. It has its Catchy browser which does not point to its home site.

No interference to privacy. Probably derives from Firefox.

5. Installation is fast. 

6. It has Gparted.

7. It is similar to MX Linux but much better and lighter.

8. recognize my partition table and I can go on with instlling straight awy.

However, I did take some space out of /root and created a /opt and /var partiton for my liking

9. It has Synaptic Package Manager. 

10. No LibreOffice but one can add other office pages.

Installation is over and I need to add my favorite applications.

 Only downside it did not recognize my GRUB Bootloader.

I need to reinstall Gnome for the umpteenth time.

It is hard to Find Gnome Based Isos

 It is hard to Find Gnome Based Isos

Yes, Except for Pardus, Garuda Linux and Debian it is hard to find a Gnome based distribution. 

However, there are plenty of KDE based distributions.

BunsenLabs Linux

Bunsel Lab Linux is active and is a pretty good Light weight distribution.

I think it has a derivative called Beryllium Linux.

BunsenLabs Linux is a distribution offering a light-weight and easily customizable Openbox desktop. The BunsenLabs distribution is based on Debian's Stable branch and is a community continuation of the CrunchBang Linux distribution.

 Using BunsenLabs Linux. I liked the look and feel of this distribution as soon as I booted it and saw the no-frills Openbox windows manager. You will see no annoying translucent windows or CPU-bogging animations with this distribution. The task bar is translucent, but I can live with that.21June, 2024

I have decided to quit Elive after 6 months.

Yes, I am quitting Enlightenment and Elive.

Enlightenment does not add to my productivity.

Even installing AbiWord through Software was a pain.

I hate SNAP packages sandboxed.

Main reason for quitting is, it does not have Synaptic Package Manager. I shun any distribution without Synaptic. 

It has enormous FREE Software Collection.

I am currently promoting ARCH Linux and I use my spare Gnome Instance to install BlueStar Linux and without it (Spare Gnome), I cannot experiment on new applications.

My workhorse is in partition-2 and I do not want to sacrifice it for testing but leave it as it is for True Stability.

It takes over an hour to install and configure Elive.

Before I could finish this peace with one finger typing Gnome installation is over.

Just under 20 minutes.

I do not want unnecessary packages like Firefox and LibreOffice bloting my work space with 2GB of software.

I need to add enough space for /var or variable partition for extra applications.

Partition Schedule goes like this.

/root 7.7GB full when installed

/boot

/home

/tmp

/opt

/var

Others like

/usr for server edition

/src for allocation of serviced users are not necessary for a single user computer.

Installation is over and need to add few applications, I regularly use Stacer and Notepadq and Gparted tops the list.

Good Bye Elive.

Instead of Elive I am installing Enlightenment Desktop which takes 400MB for minimal display of Enlightenment Effects.

I am going and Wayland and Compiz,too.

First time round I am gond to look at

Haskell programming languages and it's window stacks.

Of course in this process I get Emac,too.

No Gambas and Lyx.

Emac is Richard Stallman creation and was a simple text editor.

It now has a graphical (GUI)editor, Client and a Terminal.

Xmonad and Wayfire do not have log out script and one has to reboot the computer which is to say the least is annoying.

Need keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Alt+ F1.

Since, I did use keyboard shortcuts for 30 years ago, I have to lookout for additional keyboard keys.

Windows Key was not in existent, then which is a pain in my neck.

FVwm3 is a new but elegant window manager.

IveWM is my love.

Window Manager was the beginning.

By the way, Xmonad and Wayfire are not supported by Gnome. May be I am missing some libraries.

My the way, I use gdm and not sddm.

I am going to use even ratpoison which I think is keyboard driven (no mouse use) window manager.

Cinnamon and Nemo are IN.

Base installation is about 8GB and with all the utilities added it amounted to about another 4GB and I have 6GB left in the /root folder of 18GB, allocated at partitioning 

So leaving 20GB for /root folder is more than adequate BUT have a huge /var partition, if you add lot of applications outside Gnome, say from KDE.

I have do far used only 2GB of 8GB /var partition.

By the way except for Falkon and Konqueror from KDE I have nothing from KDE. 

Both are browsers, by the way.