How widespread is antiX26 in actual day-to-day use?

[Brian MasinickModerator]

olsztyn wrote:

Brian Masinick wrote:

I can run some newer things on 26 that are not available on 23.2, but conversely 23.2 is slightly leaner

Also I found antiX 26 is so much simpler to adapt to my Apple Macbooks with high resolution screens 2880×1800. On antiX 23 I had to change configuration in multiple places and keep track of what and where. I had to keep and maintain a separate image for Macbooks. On antiX 26 it is way simpler – just change dpi. The same image for Macs and non-Macs. Perhaps it Trixie more than antiX that made it possible, but this simplified scaling capability is amazing…

I think that for many things our new release will solve many issues, but on the downside, it’s possible that once again, going from Bullseye to Bookworm and now to Trixie (and for the next release Forky), many features get added but a few get dropped. Given how extensive the number of supported devices and peripherals are, it becomes difficult to maintain current support for devices that very few people still have running. Our antiX does that better than most, and I’d say we probably have one of the broadest ranges of support from old to new, but even our stuff doesn’t support either the VERY NEWEST or the VERY OLDEST. For the oldest stuff you have to go back to earlier releases and understand you’re doing so with quite a few security risks, so you have to use old stuff with extreme caution and the least Internet use you can, otherwise intruders can and will look for any personal information they can find; don’t keep ANY personal information at all on really old systems for anyone who HAS to use them.

I’ve seen people successfully use antiX 23.2 and 26 already on pretty old gear, so most of us should be fine.

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[olsztynMember]

Brian Masinick wrote:

Given how extensive the number of supported devices and peripherals are, it becomes difficult to maintain current support for devices that very few people still have running. Our antiX does that better than most, and I’d say we probably have one of the broadest ranges of support from old to new, but even our stuff doesn’t support either the VERY NEWEST or the VERY OLDEST.

Yes, indeed…
For the oldest hardware I have though (laptops from 2005 and 2008) my experience is in favor of antiX 26. Although true of slightly higher memory footprint, nevertheless it seems more stuff works for me, such as Google Earth now works on my Core2Duo X61, while it did not work on antiX 23. With XLibre it works even better, but this would not be an apple to apple comparison…

• This reply was modified 4 months, 3 weeks ago by olsztyn.

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
http://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[wildstar84Member]

I’ve accumulated many tweaks & tuning fixes over the last decade+ (from Buster thru bookworm, but Debian broke everything in Testing->Trixie for me with their *t64 fiasco, abUsermerge & other changes) since I last did a (dreaded) fresh install. One thing that helped make this transition nearly seemless for me is that I keep a separate home partition, and any config or setup file or script I need to tweak, I always copied the original by appending “.org” onto the filename being copied and chmodded the copy to 400. Most are in /etc but a handful were in /usr/share, and all scripts I wrote were in /usr/local/bin, so they could be copied over. When I got the new system installed & working, I did sudo find / -name *.org” -print on my previous install (bought a new disk for the new one, so still have) & compared each to the current one (on that system). I then repeated for each corresponding still-relevent one on the new system & changed as needed (a few require some slight modifications for the modern system). I also created an installed package list on the old system via apt list –installed | sort >apt.list__installed.packagesyyddmm.txt so I could have a pretty good idea what needed installing (I started w/antiX-26 core and worked from there. All in all, it took a/b 3-4 days to have a shiny fully-customized Trixie on my machine (on a shiny new SSD drive)!

[Xunzi_23Member]

All except one device on 26, New users get 26.

Most popular init. S6-rc

Most common comment, devices especially laptops faster than ever before.

Gaining new users who come from mint.

Change made, XLibre on all devices I help with.

Negatives on 26, now teething troubles are pretty much over, none.

[Brian MasinickModerator]

I believe that I conquered the last of my configuration updates yesterday, completing it on my two most current laptops. I do have two more to add a couple of tweaks, nothing that prevents them from being used, but when I start them up, I’ll want to add the newest kernels as soon as possible and also make one minor adjustment to my PATH, which I’ve done elsewhere already. As far as performance, antiX 26 has been flawless for me, despite the few things *I* want to reconfigure or update.

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