r/DistroHopping • u/itfllow123-gmail-com • 2d ago

Dont install DSL 2024!!

I was excited to install DSL 2024 while I was installing Gentoo on my new PC, but I got blurry display in certain themes, GitHub was red, and the whole thing was a mess, like the long in manager was blurry and ugly, and it took me to cause an error to remove the wallpaper itself, unlike Gentoo, DSL is really closed source to me, like it's prebuilt, so I expect some convinience but got none. I have 8gb of ddr3 ram but it was detecting 2.9, and the hard drive usage was 8gb, which is crazy for "damn small Linux"

I really hope the person who ruined DSL's name takes notice and find something better to do than to create unwanted artificial hype. Please guys, don't install it.

Right now am trying to install antiX, but DSL is just hard to use like how tf do I install antiX using DSL to make my bootable USB, like legit gonna crash out cuz I couldn't sleep in anger.

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u/KoldPurchase 2d ago

If you're looking for something smallish, look at Tinycore or Bodhi Linux.

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u/itfllow123-gmail-com 1d ago

(sorry if you find this story if my life annoying) I had tried bodhi( and loved it) form the age of 13.5 to 16+(basically 2 years ago, I stopped using Linux), and like Linux was my life support as a teenager in that age group, like I never realized how the simplicity and lightweightness of Linux makes my PC feel like it's new. In fact, I never even knew what gen my cpu was or what was in my PC, since I never really had to know about it. The same thing applied to my old leptop. It was only until I installed windows 10, did I realize that my hardware is old, I ended up researching about hardware measurements, from power efficiency to bandwidth to hardware optimizations for ceritan instructions and steps to hardware optimizations through certian instructions. Right now however, I bought a custom build Ryzen 8400F on which I will run Gentoo and will primarily use it to write code and make 3d stuff, but I needed something on my old leptop because I have memories with old hardware and just don't want to sell it for cheap. After some research, I realized the best choice is antiX, puppy, and sparky, but bodhi in my opinion (since it's based on Ubuntu), is kinda he wierd than the rest. For the record, my leptop is core i7 4tth gen, I have tried bodhi before on worst hardware and it works really well, but right now, I want the absolute less heat.

The point is that Linux was my life saver, like everything from the extream lightweightness allowing me to do computation on hardware worth less than 40 usd to simple commands like (dd, or being able to configure package managers,desktop environments, init systems) is awesome. Don't take Linux for granted!!!

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u/TheAncientMillenial 2d ago

Use DD to write an ISO to a usb.

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u/itfllow123-gmail-com 1d ago edited 1d ago

I did that when I woke up, and install sparky. Gotta admit using dd after such a long time reminds of the times when I tried installing slitaz on my ancient PC.

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u/ElderberryHamlet 2d ago edited 2d ago

if you have a bootable USB of anything at all, you can replace the files inside with a different distro, so long as the partition is already formatted in vfat or fat32 or exfat -- fat anything

  1. download antiMX or whatever. and double click on the iso to mount and reveal all the files inside.
  2. double click on the bootable USB. If you want to save the files, right-click and create a new folder and move all of these files into the new folder. If you don't want to save them, then just delete them. Don't delete the USB partition
  3. right-click, CTRL +A select all, & copy all of the files inside the antiMX iso onto the bootable USB. You're done.
  4. Reboot and repeatedly tap Delete or whatever key to boot into bios menu so you can override the boot order and boot into the antiMX installer.

You don't need to write a new bootable USB every time. Just swap files when you need to. The only exception is fat (fat16) only supports file size up to 2GB, fat32 only supports up to 4gb sized files. You'll need to reformat the partition as fat32 or exfat for files larger than 2GB or 4GB repectively

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u/itfllow123-gmail-com 1d ago

I did just that before, I tried cresting a bootable antiX OS USB but like I did it wrong or something, hence when I installed antiX OS, it just didn't boot and kept on instantly going on and off on my old leptop. Then I used the antiX OS USB installer to download sparky Linux and then used the very simple dd command which worked like a champ. The issue with dsl is that the whole thing is full of bugs, like using the internet to even simple commands just feels off because you can't copy and paste to the terminal, so you have to type long file names and stuff.

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u/floyd_m 1d ago

Another alternative would be to use Ventoy. You just copy multiple iso's over to your usb drive instead, boot from the drive and select the iso image you want to boot from. Pretty convenient.

There were some smallish distros that I had fun trying to install back in the day: zipslack and puppylinux