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I was in AlmaLinux, I like it for the security ( I am absolutely pulling your leg, or not )

Alma Linux has the task bar stuck at top and no way to change it to bottom by default settings, not a bad, just if you like it you ok, if not you are stuck with it.

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After updating everything in the base release, it is good.

Few adjustments here and there. I am in a VM so no real life usage. I feel like I would use it over the 10 year old Linux of yesteryear, does this make since.



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Alma Linux has the task bar stuck at top and no way to change it to bottom by default settings, not a bad, just if you like it you ok, if not you are stuck with it.

LM is a good start ( Linux Mint, Cinnamon, etc.. ) for me, as it says in the description, good for linux starters. Now the other 100 distro's that is released, again, is a whole new world.
 
That is what I was saying about gnome, it's not what I like, KDE is ok but I find it crashes from time to time (more often than cinnamon does)XFCE is too minimal for me and is pretty ugly. Mate is good but also a little ugly. Budgie isn't feature complete and pretty much abandoned. Cosmos is in alpha and feature incomplete and LXQt is ugly.

That leaves Cinnamon. It just feels like explorer and I am happy with it. It is fairly stable, nice to look at, feature complete and apart from the stupid file dialog, it's perfect for me.

Wayland isn't feature complete and causes many issues, I am able to set my store to open on x11 on Wayland for now, so I make do (the installer sets this option by default for links it makes. But as Mint still uses x11, I prefer it to other Distros that moved to wayland.

Mint also has USB disk's set to executable by default, so you can just double click on a program (like LLStore) and it'll run. It also doesn't go overboard with having to type in your password, you can mount an internal drive without typing it in, the timeout is 5 minutes for mint, so once you unlock Sudo it doesn't relock itself after 30 seconds like most other Distros. I set it to 30 minutes in LastOSLinux as when you close the calling Sudo it relocks instantly anyway. So unless you get a malware script running in your Linux, it won't have access, I understand why they do it, if you had a public or office PC then you would want it to lock after 40 seconds, save someone plug in a USB stick that runs a script that captures your passwords, browser sessions etc. but for a home user, is that required?

Just simple quality of life things like that make mint a lot more enjoyable to use
 
Any way to make your own personal distro/base image ? Like with windows 'system prep' , any way I could make a slimmer image from what is already created, or is it a start from base ? This is NOOb questions :)
 
In a VM in Cinnamon, and it is better than XFce. Will poke around for a few more minutes, I installed Chrome from root of .iso ( google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb ) by way of package manage ? I think LOL. ANYWAYS I will continue on this endeavor tomorrow. Have fun you say, HMM.
 
You can easily remove packages from their store/package manager

I use sudo apt remove -y transmission

Which would suck if it were a car, but I include qbittorrent so don't need 2.

Once you've done that you can install penguins eggs to capture either with or without the users and home folders. It's the only project that still does what we want, you can do it all from scratch as you say, but why? Mint is good, just needs "more" to make it feel homely and have the runtimes things need, including wine.

I am yet to make the penguins eggs package for my store, but it's on the list, as he uses common folders I should be able to make it an overlay, the only issue is getting all the package dependencies it needs on, nodejs is the trickiest one to do, but I think I can do it for most Distros that he supports.

Linux has had squishfs/squashfs a lot longer than windows has had wim and ESD files. It even had them bootable to a LiveOS first. It makes use of the skel folder and allows setting bootable scripts from in there too, then you just detect the live OS user name and you can customise the LiveOS wallpaper etc or use the same script to customise the installed OS, skel gets copied to all new users (like default user in windows), even the live user.

I scripted the whole process in LastOSLinux and I am 3/4 of the way to converting the script contents to the LLStore as Selectable items that work on any Distro. This will mean once I get penguins eggs built, I can capture the install I customise with LLStore with eggs and release it as an ISO file someone can install, no need to pre-install a bunch of apps, they are online in the LLStore that can easily be included. But you have the choice.

I've enjoyed bringing my years of LastOS building over to Linux, I just miss bouncing ideas of others doing the same. So if you find it as interesting and fun as I do, we'll have stuff to try and things to talk about.
 
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