AV Linux... continue with Openbox, or not?

[manyroads]

As a fan of Openbox (ob), I am sad to see that it is really getting 'long in the teeth' (old) like me. I have pretty much converted everything over to i3-wm (not gaps) for my day to day use. Because I, prefer using ob with added (scripted) tiling features, the i3wm fits my needs nicely. Sadly the follow-up ob wm successors I have tried do not seem to be progressing very rapidly.

EDIT: One innovative ob 'distro' worth exploring though is Lildog (https://lilidog.org/) and another (manjaro based) worthy of close inspection is mabox (https://maboxlinux.org/).

[handy]

Courtesy of @Buck Fankers who suggested EndeavourOS, to me in this thread a while back. Note: it wasn't this thread it was the what other OS do you use thread, sorry about that.

I've yesterday downloaded the EndeavourOS install .iso which is Arch based & apparently (haven't looked at it yet) uses the Calamares installer which offers you a number of Community editions to install - one of which is an Openbox (no DE underneath) install. (Reminds me of the CrunchBang days. That was the easiest way for anyone to install Arch, back than.)

I'll check it out in the near future. Likely stick it on my Lenovo for starters. If it looks any good then I'll customise it & then clone it onto the Clevo.

If my old brain is still happy to deal with Arch & rolling release package management, then that should keep me away from taking the easy way out (Apple OS) for hopefully, an extended period.

[Buck Fankers]

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Courtesy of @Buck Fankers who suggested EndeavourOS, to me in this thread a while back. Note: it wasn't this thread it was the what other OS do you use thread, sorry about that.

Many former Manjaro users moved over to Endeavour. If you check their forum, you will recognize many names. Super friendly and helpful forum. I like Endeavour much better than Manjaro. I'm sure you will too. It is more stable than Manjaro. I only used it, because I couldn't get something installed on MX. Now that all that I need works on MX, I ditched Endeavour, since I only want to use one distro. I'm too old for distro hopping, I'm a simple man lol

But what I came here to say is, if I wouldn't use MX, Endeavor would be my next choice.

[handy]

@Buck Fankers , thanks. :) I noticed Jonathon, Ringo & such when I had a quick scan of the forum over there.

I'm too old for distro hopping these days too. This may be (when I finally muster up the enthusiasm to actually do it!) my last time... (It would be much easier if I could just be content with the way these OS's are when they install. I've been making much the same fundamental modifications to different distros, BSD, whatever that I install for ~15 years. It has become a costly habit/addiction... lol )

[Aceediq]

are you planning on using the latest kernels to make the ISO builds? if not, how does this affect the ISO builds if you use kernels earlier tha 5.19?

It's not imperative that I have the very latest Kernel but this ISO will probably not be updated again for a while so if possible and if the ISO build tools can be modified to work with the new Liquorix changes I am hoping to provide an up to date 6.X Kernel

has liquorix been able to reso\ve the issue with their kernels?

[AVLinux]

has liquorix been able to reso\ve the issue with their kernels?

The issue has been resolved by the MX developers, it was more of a change than an issue or fault. Liquorix started to use compression on the Kernel modules and the antiX/MX ISO tools were not written to handle that so they made the necessary adjustments. I have built and tested a few ISO's and all is now working.. I am now held up by applications that are not ready.. Ardour (and Harrison Mixbus) which are the DAW applications that AVL is built around are in heavy development and the new Ardour 7 is experiencing teething problems that have plagued both Ardour 7.0 and 7.1, they are working on a 7.2 release very soon and I am now waiting for that.. Showcasing apps that have known issues doesn't benefit anybody, on the plus side this delay allowed Reaper with new CLAP Plugin support to get added...

[Boone777]

has liquorix been able to reso\ve the issue with their kernels?

The issue has been resolved by the MX developers, it was more of a change than an issue or fault. Liquorix started to use compression on the Kernel modules and the antiX/MX ISO tools were not written to handle that so they made the necessary adjustments. I have built and tested a few ISO's and all is now working.. I am now held up by applications that are not ready.. Ardour (and Harrison Mixbus) which are the DAW applications that AVL is built around are in heavy development and the new Ardour 7 is experiencing teething problems that have plagued both Ardour 7.0 and 7.1, they are working on a 7.2 release very soon and I am now waiting for that.. Showcasing apps that have known issues doesn't benefit anybody, on the plus side this delay allowed Reaper with new CLAP Plugin support to get added...

Now that the GUI bug has been fixed in Reaper for the extra GxPlugins from brummer10 will you implement them as well ?

[AVLinux]

Now that the GUI bug has been fixed in Reaper for the extra GxPlugins from brummer10 will you implement them as well ?

Hi,

I understand that 'who does what' is kind of confusing with AV Linux.. I'm not really a packager in any official capacity but because of the high degree of customization in AV Linux I kind of step in where MX ends and I try to focus on only packaging AV Linux specific utilities, Appimages for certain cases, Software demos and developer-supported binary applications like Ardour, Reaper and Mixbus, special theming, Audio Plugins that are unavailable elsewhere or have licensing issues that prevent them from being in an 'official' Repository and those kinds of things. Something like the GX Plugins should just be part of the MX Repos like the other Audio apps so they can be enjoyed by all MX Users not just AV Linux Users.

I have made a Package request here, you and anyone else interested in the GX Plugins might want to add your voice to the request to give the MX Packagers an indication that this is not simply a one person request:
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 70#p704670

[AVLinux]

Almost there...

Back to 100% XFCE4, SLiM is gone replaced with lightDM, AV Linux Assistant is now morphed into more generic tools for AV, MXDE and beyond... Liquorix 6.0 Kernel. Too much to list it all here, wait for the Release Announcement. Waiting on the release of Ardour 7.2..

AVL-MXE-2022.12.7-thumb.png

Full size here:
http://bandshed.net/images/screenshots/ ... 2.12.7.png

[Aceediq]

Almost there...

Back to 100% XFCE4, SLiM is gone replaced with lightDM, AV Linux Assistant is now morphed into more generic tools for AV, MXDE and beyond... Liquorix 6.0 Kernel. Too much to list it all here, wait for the Release Announcement. Waiting on the release of Ardour 7.2..
AVL-MXE-2022.12.7-thumb.png

Full size here:
http://bandshed.net/images/screenshots/ ... 2.12.7.png

I hope Ardour Devs do the needful with a quick but stable release, the suspense on downloading this ISO is high at my end