First Look At Rhino Linux With The Unicorn Desktop
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- I'm taking a quick first look at Rhino Linux, which just released it's first ISO. Rhino Linux is a rolling release Ubuntu-based distro that features a beautiful Xfce-based desktop. It also contains its own package manager wrapper that can install packages from apt, flatpak, snap or pacstall (an AUR-styled community repo for Ubuntu/Debian).
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AJ Here. Desktop Lead for Rhino Linux.
So two key things I want to mention: You installed the Distrotube-dmenu package and had issues, unfortunately that package was not updated on Pacstall for a while but the lead developer of Pacstall seems to have sorted it now.
As for the Linux kernel version update. We actually shipped that recently and so when you started recording you likely didn’t have a package update, and then we shipped it and you got it immediately which is quite good timing 🎉
Great video as always ❤
Many thanks,
AJ
Awesome. Keep up the great work!
@@DistroTube Awesome with the Awesome WM
Really like what you are doing with this distro. The stale packages has always been a pain in Ubuntu and managing tons of ppa's is prone to error. If your pkg manager does a good job of maintaining stability, I would def. consider this over Arch or Fedora for my work machines.
@@Thaleios Glad to hear it and thank you for your words of support. If you want to trial our distribution before making the switch then please feel free to try it in a virtual machine.
If you are utilising it on a work machine please keep note of our bug tracker and news feed to ensure you do not encounter any issues.
Nice to see XFCE get some love, great looking desktop and that Pacstall wrapper is brilliant. Great work!
really wish Nala came by default on distros instead of apt. Looks so much better and I believe it even handled package downloading/installing a lot more efficiently?
Nala is very buggy, tested it 3 Times on separate installs, and unfortunately messed up repos bad
The top panel in Xfce is used for worskpaces, so on small screens (i.e. laptops) the top bar is not enough for quick launch content: openned windows and busy workspaces eat it uo pretty quickly. There is also option at Xfce to automatically hide dock on mouse leave.
This.
Obie Wan Derek… can you explain why so many Ubuntu derivatives write only Ubuntu into the boot menu and some will write the actual Distros name ? This kills me because I am a compulsive Distros hopper! Thank you for your great videos !
These sort of things excite me, but then once I get into their repos to try and install stuff and hit all sorts of problems, well then I'm not so excited anymore. OTOH, as shown here, there are quite a number of aspects of this new distro that look worth trying. So I'm going to try it on a fairly new Intel NUC mini-pc.
Would love to hear any and all feedback
-dev packages don't need to be installed for programs to run, so you can safely remove them after building your package.
I might have to give this one a go, especially with how they're managing package installs, etc... It'll also give me a good excuse to play with Xfce again, as I haven't used that DE for a good while.
Would love to hear your opinions about it on our contact channels!
@@rhinolinux I'll let you know, though, I'm trying to figure out how to install it onto my PineBook Pro. 🤔
@@toranshaw4029 Should work the same as it would any other laptop. Use an ARM64 ISO since it seems to me, through a quick google search, that Pinebooks use ARM cpus.
I installed in my main distro now i'll keep learn it in the futur and i love this distro actually 💎💙
Thank you ♥
Dark theme, dark wallpaper for me.
Oh, yay. Another DE, Linux absolutely needed that. The same people wondering when the year of the Linux desktop will be are the same people keeping the masses away. But whatever, so excited for another disto, I was getting bored with the hundreds I'll never touch.
Wish this was more debian based than ubuntu, but i think i will give this a try!
Tbh we use the Ubuntu repositories but that's where the resemblance ends. Great for devs who work with Ubuntu systems.
You're amazing man, I hope you get more subs.
The fact that the run launcher is Super+S makes a lot of sense to me, actually. That's what I use to open rofi.
Why?
1. S for Search. I'm searching for the app to launch
2. It's on one side purposefully. I can do it easily with one hand which is useful if I'm doing something with the mouse but want to suddenly open a new window
One handed convenience cannot be understated. It's why I close windows with Super+X too. So much faster.
That’s exactly why we used Super+S.
i just use super and typing with gnome, idk why you'd need another keybind
@@raidev_ I do prefer the gnome style of searching for apps by hitting super and typing, but next best thing would be Super+S for me as well. Immediately thought the S would be for Search.
I prefer the super and typing, but I also don't use GNOME. I use window managers, and bc those are shortcut based rather than adding shortcuts after the fact, they aren't designed to allow a single Super press. In i3 I can't make rofi launch on Super, so I have to use something else
Interesting, never heard of this distro before (which doesn't seem to happen very often)
Well we released pretty recently but we had an extensive open-beta period which got some news coverage by journals such as itsfoss. Either way, glad to have you on board now!
I regret that while this Linux version was created by serious developers, I will have to skip its installation on my computer. Let me explain.
Ubuntu is a distribution that is based on Debian. From my recent installation of Debian 12, which is the mother of a great many others, I have xfce therein.
I do use Debian's xfce and it works for me.
My using xfce is for my heavy use of terminal mode for writing and compiling code.
There are many good features provided by Rhino. If I have to reinstall Linux, following your presentation listing the interesting useful features you demonstrated I will install Rhino.
Thanks DT
You can change the network settings in VirtualBox to "bridged adapter" (VM seen by router) or "NAT Network" (basically a subnet of VMs). C'mon DT, making real IT practices an everyday activity is the Linux Community's whole MO lol
So, at least in my experience, RhinoDrop doesn't care and will still work and recognises it as part of your local network. Now i'm not using virtualbox, I use UTM, so there may be a difference in settings there.
Those were dev packages usually they are not required at runtime. They are just required to build softwares that depends on them.
Hey DT, give Bedrock a try. It lets you try different package managers in the same distro.
That sounds like a recipe for disaster. lol
@@sharkuel it's not, Bedrock manages packages from different distros efficiently through "strata". It also enables you to run the same package on different distros, using `strata ubuntu neofetch` and `strata arch neofetch`; the default stratum installed is your host distro's stratum.
I tried out Rhino Linux and it shows some promise and Im looking forward to seeing them grow. However I could do without all the purple theming. I would prefer closer to a vanilla theme to allow the users to theme out according to taste. Way to purple for me.
This made XFCE look just like GNOME. Got me fooled. Neat.
I encountered a problem with connecting to the internet through Wi-Fi while installing Rhino Linux live boot from usb, so the installation keeps failing. I’m using the MacBook Air 2015. Can anyone help me with this?
I'm not gunna lie... this looks good. As much as I hate ubuntu... this looks good. and it's rolling? I really like their theming as well, since their colorway naturally matches my desktop setup. I use XFCE on my laptop, so I'm already down for it. I'm curious though... is that dock latte? I'd probably swap ulauncher for Albert though, albert is faster & more extensible. Rhino will definitely get a VM turn from me, and, most likely, a bare metal turn too.
Well, as DT shows, the Dock is actually Plank.
@@starsetknight thanks. I was watching while working and clearly missed that part
@@TActually Yeah we use uLauncher and we remove a lot of the issues that we personal have with Ubuntu as users. I'm glad you like the desktop as that's what I (AJ) personally develop for Rhino Linux.
Many thanks,
AJ - Desktop Lead.
Nice, if i ever go back to Debian-base i may try Rhino Linux + Regolith desktop
Would love to hear your thoughts!
10:15 - The keybinding for ulauncher is shown in a popup every time you log in to the machine.
Who knew xfce can be this pretty :p
This may be a stupid question but is there a graphical way to install apps or is it only through rhino-pkg? I looked for a graphical way but I may have missed it.
Right now the only way is through rhino-pkg, however we are working on rhino-pkg-gui for the future.
@@rhinolinux Thanks for letting me know
@@rhinolinux Not having a GUI package manager is a big pass for me recommending it to anyone who doesn't like spending time in the terminal if they don't have too, is too tech illiterate that they would screw something up in the terminal, and/or get frustrated, and give up. Also for some people like myself who have vision issues that color scheme started to give me a headache after looking at it longer than a minute at a time.
@@CommodoreFan64 You are able to change the colour scheme, we apologise about not having a graphical package manager at this time, and while we could ship GNOME software it would lead to more UX issues than improvements, due to the fact most of our distribution packages are handled via pacstall and gnome-software lacks that.
We are working on a graphical package manager, it is coming.
@@CommodoreFan64 I fnd that very ironic "Tech illerate" along with "color schemes issues" statement coming from someone with the name commodore64 fan. lol
Man they're really just making up names now. This actually sounds great though I love to see projects like these to make rolling distros more accessible.
At 12:14 is an easy way to tell its xfce, open the file manager and the window decoration gets rendered first and then the contents of the window gets filled in afterwards, very sloppy looking in my opinion.
I cculdn't login to github in the preinstalled vscode implementaion, kinda weird. Do I have to do something special for that?
Can you please help me what the password is to login.
I can boot up the system onto a USB but it loads up to login and I don't know the password.
Can anyone please help me out?
Already tried this in vm, love the rolling release model, but i dont see any reason of this will replace my main os (opensuse tumbleweed), and also the default theme is just bad.
i love the colours
Thank you, our system's lead Oren Klopfer worked hard on the colour scheme
Nice destro
The dock should be able to be disabled entirely. It's always able to interrupt full screen or maximized window applications, and overlays itself on top of those. Really hard to play games, when the stupid thing pops up under your mouse WHILE PLAYING A GAME.
If I am not wrong the so called strong and complicated password is always "dt"
18:10 - 19:00 Imagine you are from the year 1923 and somebody gave you an audio record from the future, you literally cannot understand 99% of things which was said in a whole minute of that record, weird.
it said super+s before u installed it
Regarding your panels comment... Because it wouldn't look like Apple without the tray and top bar. That's why.
👀We may have taken a few design ideas from Apple
Strong and complicated password joke never fails to amuse me.
hai
Hello :)
i use super +d
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system.
I'd just like to interject for a moment, what you're referring to as GNU/Linux is, in fact, the GNU operating system with Linux added.
I’d just like to interject for a moment. *says random factoid*
I would like to interject for a moment, no one cares about stupid technicalities. People are just gonna call things what they call things ain’t nothing you can do about it.
No one gives a damn. Everyone says linux.
No one cares
If snap is there then this is not for me
You're not forced to use snap package manager, it is up to you if you want to use it or not
@@alksonalex186 let's see I will wait for few isos then I will try this
Snap is not preinstalled on the distribution by default, nor will it ever be. You have the option to enable it graphically through our setup wizard, as some people may choose to use them, but you are not forced to by any means. No snaps are preinstalled.
@@rhinolinux😄
@@rhinolinux good job I don't like a company forcing something on users like snaps and that flatpac drama cups replaceing with a snap ubuntu introduce so much peoples to Linux landscape but now it is a total crap
rhino-pkg is something murky compared to pacman
Why ?
@@deathlife2414 'Cause even dt got lost in all these number choices... Choose an option from 0 to 13.
@@mdm8547 No different to flatpak though
@@rhinolinux I thought pacman have always have been like. When I used manjaro and install applications with it was like that. rhino-pkg handle it well
you need therapy bud
Not another distro please. Oh God no. Please no.
Imagine getting pinned, i mean it won't right?
U have some freaky kinks
I think we took that spot, sorry 😎
@@rhinolinux wow is that rhinolinux F getting pinned, W replied by the developer
2:52 i cried tears of joy as the 50 millionth distro review with a graphic live environment that I've seen done didn't involve immediately changing the screen resolution lol.
We pride ourselves on UX so this was actually a no-brainer.
It actually came about unintentionally by one of our developers (100% not me 👀👀👀) accidentally forcing 1920x1080p for VMs while working on some dotfiles. We kept it in.
Many thanks,
AJ - Desktop Lead
@@rhinolinux that's certainly a good move, especially for people who'd want to try this new disto in a VM first!
Oh for sure @@toranshaw4029
@@rhinolinux I'm kind of curious what'd happen with that setting on my lower res screen but I can't say I would mind it lol.
Man, I've been looking for something Like rhino-pkg, now I know it can actually exist in a good state, I hope someone does something similar for Arch.
Glad you like our software! Feel free to try the full experience in a virtual machine or on your own hardware if you want to
Yay isn't similar?
The *-dev packages on Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions are not the main dependencies themselves, but the stuff needed to compile against those dependencies, such as headers and other related stuff. On Arch these are usually included in the main package. I'm quite curious why Debian/Ubuntu has it like this
in such oses it is assumed that the user doesn't install a package as a compilation dependency, I actually quite like this as it's less cluttered
Looks good, I wish the default look was a bit more neutral. That harsh neon purple icons are a bit eye-burning
We apologise if you do not like our default look and would love to hear more.
cool stuff. might have to check this one out and go through it in a VM.
That would be amazing, we have a very active discord and matrix community if you ever need a hand
3:35 as a mac user that actually makes me feel right at home with both a status bar type thing at the top that only holds constantly used items like the current date/time, and a uh like fatter bar that's either near the bottom or one of the sides that holds basically the favorited apps. but really, i'd rather have just the status bar at the top, completely get rid of the other bar, and have something like dmenu or rofi, with stylings/functionality closer to the Spotlight Search on mac. (which i might add is quite nice.. thoe definitely something *faster* than that would be nice though lol the spotlight indexer is so friggin slow.)
9:28 ...exactly like the "U launcher" right there lol... wow XD.
@@GiovanniCKC It's almost as if 2/6 of our development team daily drive macOS
- AJ, Desktop Lead (and yes I daily drive all 3 oses including macOS)
@@rhinolinux that would explain it, lol-- appreciation from the mac users then XD
Why do Americans pronounce the word aesthetic, as "Ass Tet ick"? It's "Ass THet ick". The "th" is sounded like it would be in the word "Thin" or "Theft"
A fellow brit?
- AJ, Desktop Lead & Brit
How do you pronounce the word 'asthma'? Do you pronounce the th sound? LOL. The canonical pronunciation of aesthetic does indeed have a th sound. But th after s is problematic in real speech, so you might hear alternation to a t sound. I believe such a pronunciation would be canonical for much of Irish English anyway. Why do you get uptight over such small and universal aspects of world Englishes?
@@cejannuzi Tbh in the uk we pronounce it assma
gonna spin this up and give it a go. the default de options is my main gripe with ubuntu this looks lovely. I've been using stable debian/ubuntu based distros for years and having to keep compiling things from source gets annoying. if I like it as much as I expect will install it on my new pc
hey beautiful people. how in this linux called “rhino” to find the store of programs you want to install ? maybe only the console works here ? thx.
Will it run Celeron processor with 2 to 4 gb ram?
Only ext4 by default kek
17:34 "Could not enter into the downloaded archive." Rhino cannot extract .git files. Probably need some specific decompression.
wow they even have a pi4 version I own a pi4 I might give it a try.
I would consider this distro if there was a release with Plasma. No disrespect to Xfce, I just really like KDE and Plasma.
We have a handful of reasons on why we chose XFCE as the base for Unicorn, if you wish to install another desktop environment you can install Rhino Linux and then run "pacstall -PI rhino-server-core" to remove the Unicorn Desktop environment, and then build from there.
Why do we ship Unicorn by default, and not provide other builds?
We have a specific vision for the desktop we want to push, and chose a base with the most foundations to provide a non-breaking experience on the devel branch.
Bug fixing every issue that occurs on every DE is way too much for our small dev team.
Packaging GNOME, KDE, etc to be compatible with our current customisations and core packaging, or creating alternative packaging for it, would be a pain.
my Ubuntu is only stable for 6 months
i like it. might spin up a vm and test it out.
Not going to lie when I saw it, oh great, another Ubuntu clone...with just a different ui, oh goody...
No. actually what I saw they did a bang up job.and it's not another Ubuntu clone, I'm actually going to install this on my hardware since I have an addiction to distro hopping.
Wow! Thank you for your kind words. We try to stand out for sure, but a lot of the changes we made were because we were fed up of issues we found on Linux ourselves.
Is this needed we already have opensuse tumbleweed as a super nice rolling release distribution, and we also have distributions like vanilla os which allows us to use the actual aur itself.
why do you care if this is needed or not. Someone might prefer this over Vanilla which is buggy as hell.
@@nikoraasu6929 Thank you for your comment. Although VanillaOS is a great distribution, and i'm on great terms with the developer, some people may prefer a non-immutable distribution. As for why, a lot of developers seem to love the idea of a rolling release Ubuntu, myself and Oren Klopfer included, and so we made it a reality.
@@rhinolinux Brother all power to you, love what you guys are doing and if I were not an avid Arch Linux user then I would for sure consider using your distro because it really seems great! I appreciate everyone who decides to create their own distribution, especially that one day I want to create my own distro too, and I think that questions like "why, what for" are stupid, after all, this is linux, it's for us users to experiment and create new amazing things.
@@nikoraasu6929 Thank you for your kind words, you are free to use Rhino Linux in a virtual machine of course if you are happy with the current system you are using. I wish you all the best
Only adrenaline junkies use rolling releases i aint that crazy.
Um, Rhino GNU Linux.
tbh, this never old hahah 5:25