Just booted up #pureos for the first time!
Coming from an aging Debian install on an old desktop running #i3wm, I have to say gnome has gotten jaw-droppingly pretty since I last looked at it.
Not enough exploring to say much about the deeper experience, but the first impression #purism gives is quite polished.
I was especially impressed to see #nextcloud supported as part of the new user setup. This small nicety got much of my productive life (calendar, contacts) up and running quickly.
Curious...What made you decide to switch away from pureos?
@RussSharek I had a bit of trouble finding packages for the apps I use, even had to add a third party repo for Firefox.
It seems like there's also less documentation available, I did a system update and grub got in a funky state where it would try to mount the volume before asking for the password, couldn't really find any help with that.
I got things mostly working the way I wanted eventually, but figured I might as well try Manjaro before I settle and ended up liking it better.
From what I understand it's Debian testing, so I didn't need a lot of new documentation to get comfortable.
How much manual configuring did Manjaro require?
@RussSharek yeah I ended up going through Debian docs for the most part. I pretty much didn't do any manual config with manjaro, everything just worked. It even comes with nice touches like night mode out of the box.
I recommend trying it out from a USB stick to see how you like it compared to pureos.
Cool! I might put it on the list for after I'm done poking at pureos.
Got a link to the usb?
@RussSharek I used this image to try it out https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro/storage/gnome/17.1.10/
@RussSharek Is PureOS a rolling release?
@RussSharek I mean what kernel version do you have there?
@RussSharek
You can "cat /etc/apt/sources.list" and see what repos it uses.
@maecah
For the curious:
uname -a
Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.15.11-1 (2018-03-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb https://repo.puri.sm/pureos green main
@RussSharek @maecah
Are there any other repos on /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ ? If #purism are keeping their own separate repos that seems either redundant (if it's a clone of the entire debian repos) or crippled (if it's only some of it)...
@RussSharek @eladhen Uhm, that’s how I understand it too, that it comforts to the libre philosophy entirely. Which is what makes it interesting.
@RussSharek @eladhen Thanks for the info, much appreciated!
I'll give it a spin soon myself.
@RussSharek just got a Purism laptop last week as well. PureOS works fairly reasonably, but I ended up moving to Manjaro and it runs really nicely as well.
Gnome really has come a long way, I moved from a mac, and I really don't miss anything about it already.