The whole point of Sparky is that they keep a metric ton of DE's updated in their repos.... It's great for DE hopping, rather than Distro hopping. There is a bunch of tweaks and package choices under the hood that make DE switching go smoother. And they even put most of the DE's in the graphical app center. Sparky in a VM is perfect if you ever wanted to test out some of the obscure DE's without borking your daily driver. And it specifically runs perfect if you ever wanted to revisit your 1990's UNIX memories, by running CDE, or it's more modern clone of NsCDE.
I still prefer MX Linux. Their snapshot and liveCD remastering tools are amazing. MX and AntiX are my favorite distros for workstation and SB/SOHO server applications for this reason. My favorite DE's are KDE and XFCE, which is super convenient for me, and my next favorite setup is the window manager as DE like with IceWM, Fluxbox, etc. Basically, they're two distros based off one another that between the two of them, have everything I could ever want or need, depending on use case.
6:11 I've got RiseupVPN installed on my Debian machine and you don't have to sign up to anything. That was just a screen asking for voluntary donations. It's also available on other distributions as a snap package BTW.
On Arch or Arch based distros I use the terminal and pacman for all my software updates and installation but in the past before I did I used Octopi. It looks very similar to synaptic and reminds me a lot of it. When I first moved from a Debian based system over to arch about 7 years ago Octopi was comfy being that I was used to Synaptic. It's much nicer then all that gaudy fluff and graphics they slap on top of Pamac. Pamac...It's like shine on a turd.
I love Sparky. I've had much better luck with it that Siduction Linux. Konqueror doubles as an excellent file manager- easier to deal with permissions.
Damn as a riseup VPN user myself, it's nice to see it's included by a distro lol and no it doesn't ask you to login or anything. You just connect to it and that's it
Hey DT would you consider doing a review of ALT linux? its a Russian distro based on Mandrake i think its been around for a while curious what your take is on it. thanks
Thanks for video. But here is a challenge that might actually attract new linux users. Install a few distros and tweaks but you are not allowed to use the terminal. MacOD and Android don't require the use of a terminal and Windows rarely does. I think one of the reasons that scares people from linux is the terminal. So maybe a few videos on installing, tweaking without using the terminals to show how friendly linux can be. Thanks.
What I would really like DT and others to focus on with these kinds of distros is *what is the benefit of using a distro like this over just going with the base distro (Debian in this case) and installing some packages*?
you basically said it yourself: Debain(base) is just a plain install. It would take hours/days/weeks to get all the extra features installed. This already has the many features already added, out of the box, ready to go. Just like when people ask why I use Ubuntu over Debian I tell them: "yes I could get Debian to look/act just like my Ubuntu install, but it normally takes me minutes to delete the dozen features on Ubuntu I don't like, than the weeks it would take me to add the hundreds of features to Debian that I do like with Ubuntu."
Debian with plasma is very snapyyyyyyyy experience, i installed debian minimal with btrf and timeshift with zram enabled, then via terminal installed plasma minimal dam it's fast even on my potato laptop , I tried lot's wm but kde is the snapy and fast experience on a potato pc
Should we view as cautionary the very "buggy" English-language text on their website? I mean, they've apparently created a large varieties of flavors yet haven't bothered to edit the website? I am in general hesitant to depend on folks who often "get out over their skis." Perhaps a founder or 2 has an extensive background to burnish the project reputation; otherwise, "Who are these people asking for handouts and wanting to install on my hardware?!" 😂
Sparky is good for they don't do KDE well and I don't think it's a focus of their developer to be honest. XFCE and LXQT are much better with Sparky in my humble low opinion.
certainly the "Donate to us" button on their site is *one* of the points of this! 😅 I agree totally. good on them for spinning up the project, but I'm not going to invite them inside my LAN! 🤣
@@wanderingwanderer1016 and? I mean, it's not hard to install Debian testing and install KDE on it.... I don't mind different distros, but bring something different to the table instead of just freaking. Doing little tweaks to the ui... Or having a gaming distro and just have pre-installed. Wine staging and steam and mango HUD and go overlay. And call it a day and say look at my new distro
my concern is, someone who wouldn't just do this for themselves ALSO isn't noticing if they are joining a botnet! 🤣 sure, step on all the rakes you like -- but Massively Muliplayer Online Malware Systems is more than a personal choice,. they damage all of us to varying degrees@@pw1187
howdy DT as far as i understand you are privacy conscience what about security ? May be make iptables tutorial ipset apparmor or selinux because new linux users think that linux distro is immutable from malware and viruses which is not quite true
linux distribution dosent matter any more for atleast me now because you can easily change desktop envronments use flatpak to use latest release of applications etc. only thing that matters is method of managing your packages and proprietry apps if any available or not on the base system you are installing.
The whole point of Sparky is that they keep a metric ton of DE's updated in their repos.... It's great for DE hopping, rather than Distro hopping.
There is a bunch of tweaks and package choices under the hood that make DE switching go smoother. And they even put most of the DE's in the graphical app center.
Sparky in a VM is perfect if you ever wanted to test out some of the obscure DE's without borking your daily driver.
And it specifically runs perfect if you ever wanted to revisit your 1990's UNIX memories, by running CDE, or it's more modern clone of NsCDE.
This is one of the better distribution based on Debian.
You are looking good, so best wishes for a healthy and happy New Year. The smile did it - download happening so i can try it on the test bed.
I still prefer MX Linux. Their snapshot and liveCD remastering tools are amazing. MX and AntiX are my favorite distros for workstation and SB/SOHO server applications for this reason. My favorite DE's are KDE and XFCE, which is super convenient for me, and my next favorite setup is the window manager as DE like with IceWM, Fluxbox, etc. Basically, they're two distros based off one another that between the two of them, have everything I could ever want or need, depending on use case.
The devs are antifa scum though.
Have you tried MX Linux Libretto with KDE? It's magnificent
6:11 I've got RiseupVPN installed on my Debian machine and you don't have to sign up to anything. That was just a screen asking for voluntary donations. It's also available on other distributions as a snap package BTW.
Sparky8 and Popcorn Time for the Win!
On Arch or Arch based distros I use the terminal and pacman for all my software updates and installation but in the past before I did I used Octopi. It looks very similar to synaptic and reminds me a lot of it. When I first moved from a Debian based system over to arch about 7 years ago Octopi was comfy being that I was used to Synaptic. It's much nicer then all that gaudy fluff and graphics they slap on top of Pamac. Pamac...It's like shine on a turd.
I love Sparky. I've had much better luck with it that Siduction Linux. Konqueror doubles as an excellent file manager- easier to deal with permissions.
Neat little OS. I was surprised that there are 32bit versions. i686 intresting to try on old 32bit hardware.
Synaptic is good, but I prefer Octopi. Similar look, but better for KDE, the desktop king.
I favor Arch & vanilla Debian [in that order]... But I've got a special place in my heart for Sparky! 👍
@UpupbbFunclub I will never understand the mindset of people who go into English-speaking YT comment sections and post in another language.
Damn as a riseup VPN user myself, it's nice to see it's included by a distro lol and no it doesn't ask you to login or anything. You just connect to it and that's it
why is every other linux just so damn blue? i am sick and tired of blue as the default color for operating systems
That said, even though I really like AntiX and MX Linux, I have been curious about Sparky's semi-rolling respin for quite some time.
So, it's just Debian 12 with KDE? What's the point?
They have their own repos with additional packages, 20 different DEs, and special editions for gaming, multimedia, etc.
and no one who cares to edit the website copy! 😂@@flow5718
what else don't they care about???
would you be willing to do a vid on kate?
i like it but couldnt get basic python code to actually run in the konsole when i pressed the run command =(
Hey DT would you consider doing a review of ALT linux? its a Russian distro based on Mandrake i think its been around for a while curious what your take is on it. thanks
Thanks for video. But here is a challenge that might actually attract new linux users. Install a few distros and tweaks but you are not allowed to use the terminal. MacOD and Android don't require the use of a terminal and Windows rarely does. I think one of the reasons that scares people from linux is the terminal. So maybe a few videos on installing, tweaking without using the terminals to show how friendly linux can be. Thanks.
also mx linux does a great debian based distro.
What I would really like DT and others to focus on with these kinds of distros is *what is the benefit of using a distro like this over just going with the base distro (Debian in this case) and installing some packages*?
There is no benefit. Just install Debian.
you basically said it yourself: Debain(base) is just a plain install. It would take hours/days/weeks to get all the extra features installed. This already has the many features already added, out of the box, ready to go. Just like when people ask why I use Ubuntu over Debian I tell them: "yes I could get Debian to look/act just like my Ubuntu install, but it normally takes me minutes to delete the dozen features on Ubuntu I don't like, than the weeks it would take me to add the hundreds of features to Debian that I do like with Ubuntu."
@@helloimatapirMore userfriendly Debian.
Debian with plasma is very snapyyyyyyyy experience, i installed debian minimal with btrf and timeshift with zram enabled, then via terminal installed plasma minimal dam it's fast even on my potato laptop , I tried lot's wm but kde is the snapy and fast experience on a potato pc
Idk i find tiling window manager work nicely on potato hardware... but the real one is icewm for making your potato snappy
Future video request - Arcan i think its a wayland alternative, not entirely sure.
Wow, I remember when I was first getting back into Linux and one of the Distros I looked at was Sparky. I honestly thought it was no longer around
I honestly think Sparky/MxLinux will be around long after Mint/others fade away.
Does the Sparky installer create @ and @home Subvolumes when choosing btrfs?
Should we view as cautionary the very "buggy" English-language text on their website? I mean, they've apparently created a large varieties of flavors yet haven't bothered to edit the website? I am in general hesitant to depend on folks who often "get out over their skis." Perhaps a founder or 2 has an extensive background to burnish the project reputation; otherwise, "Who are these people asking for handouts and wanting to install on my hardware?!" 😂
Sparky is good for they don't do KDE well and I don't think it's a focus of their developer to be honest. XFCE and LXQT are much better with Sparky in my humble low opinion.
What's the point of this I mean I could just install Debian with KDE seriously?
They want to piss you off specifically
certainly the "Donate to us" button on their site is *one* of the points of this! 😅
I agree totally. good on them for spinning up the project, but I'm not going to invite them inside my LAN! 🤣
it's based on Debian Testing making it a (semi) rolling release.
@@wanderingwanderer1016 and? I mean, it's not hard to install Debian testing and install KDE on it....
I don't mind different distros, but bring something different to the table instead of just freaking. Doing little tweaks to the ui...
Or having a gaming distro and just have pre-installed. Wine staging and steam and mango HUD and go overlay. And call it a day and say look at my new distro
my concern is, someone who wouldn't just do this for themselves ALSO isn't noticing if they are joining a botnet! 🤣 sure, step on all the rakes you like -- but Massively Muliplayer Online Malware Systems is more than a personal choice,. they damage all of us to varying degrees@@pw1187
Synaptic package is a must
I recently installed that as a 32 bit version available for my old Acer One netbook. Used the face desktop as pretty sure that is very lightweight.
😄 👍 👌....
KDE and Sid...can't go wrong.
Anyone here have used spiral linux ?
howdy DT as far as i understand you are privacy conscience what about security ? May be make iptables tutorial ipset apparmor or selinux because new linux users think that linux distro is immutable from malware and viruses which is not quite true
This was my favorite Debian distribution for a while. Then Tuxedo showed up in my life.
Sparky and Emmabuntus are refreshing, as they are Debian-based but not Ubuntu-based.
linux distribution dosent matter any more for atleast me now because you can easily change desktop envronments use flatpak to use latest release of applications etc.
only thing that matters is method of managing your packages and proprietry apps if any available or not on the base system you are installing.
man let's install the sleep circle first