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Unity Linux has been having some serious package issues, before their switch to the Mandriva repositories, and I wanted to explore other distributions.
My goals were pretty simple, I thought..
- World of Warcraft under Wine
- With full capability like what I had originally done with Ubuntu and is just "done right" under Unity Linux.
- Including graphics acceleration with no fuss.
- An everyday suite of software, like Firefox, Claws Mail, Geany, Transmission, all installed via a package manager.
- Mumble as my new chat client for future Ruby mentoring.
- Mangler (Ventrilo Clone)
- A "light" distribution.
- [1] Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE)
- The installation mucked up my ability to boot back into Unity Linux.
- The package management is horrific.
- [2] CrunchBang Linux 64bit
- Hackish and unpolished. It feels like I would need to do a lot of work to get everything set up.
- I overwrote my Unity Linux USB installer, making life obnoxious for getting back into my working Unity Linux install. I fucking hate GRUB.
- [3] Mandriva Linux
- Wouldn't boot.
- [4] Mageia
- Pretended to boot, but actually didn't.
- [5] CrunchBang Linux 32bit
- Played around a bit, got to hate Wine some more..
- [6] Lubuntu
- Just a brief attempt, but the copy to USB didn't work. Fuck it.
- Oh hey, unetbootin isn't smart enough to clear the drive before copying? I wonder if leftover files were messing things up for some of the more retarded distributions.
- [7] ArchBang
- A bit too braindead, no dependency resolution..
- [8] CTKArch
- I found some really stupid challenges with package management, which explains the frutrations with ArchBang. I'll probably go check out ArchBang again now..
