Meh, the #OpenSuse

[eliteamdgamer@mastodon.social]

@Natanox if you have to use arch check out carchyos or depending on if you want a candy Garuda KDE 

[natanox@chaos.social]

@eliteamdgamer On the contrary, I need a minimalist system.

[eliteamdgamer@mastodon.social]

@Natanox then definitelymaybe lxqt or xfce. Puppy Linux is also an option. Note if it’s 32bit system your options are becoming very small on Linux. But bsd it’s still supporting it for the most part 

[natanox@chaos.social]

@eliteamdgamer I don't need a GUI at all, haha.

[momo@social.linux.pizza]

@Natanox
How much RAM does it have? I remember running in trouble when I tried to install OpenSUSE on VMs with 1G and lower. I had to set it up to 2G during the installation. Afterwards I lowered it back to 1G or 512M and it worked fine. But the installer is hungry and I don't get why!

[natanox@chaos.social]

@momo 2G, however .5G are used for the IGP. I slowly raised that limit from 32M, however didn't make a difference at some point.

[johanneskastl@digitalcourage.social]

@Natanox I have #MicroOS running on three different Futro devices (720, 920) without issues. What is the error you are getting?

[natanox@chaos.social]

@johanneskastl The installer doesn't boot. Screen turns off after hardware initialization.
I can get into the installer shell, however the GUI can't start. To be fair, I didn't check the log files.

[hankb@fosstodon.org]

@Natanox I recently installed Debian on a J1900 with 4GB RAM with no difficulty.

I probably used the netinst installer in text mode.

[natanox@chaos.social]

@HankB Debian does work, the partition manager doesn't give me the necessary freedom though. I'll probably just use Arch at this point.

[dj3ei@mastodon.radio]

Interesting! I thought the Debian installer gives you the option to define partitions whatever way you want. What's missing?

@Natanox @HankB

[hankb@fosstodon.org]

@dj3ei @Natanox

> Debian installer gives you the option to define partitions

I'm pretty sure it does, but I'm not sure how obvious/easy it is to use. Definitely an advanced kind of thing.

I usually choose default partitioning (and maybe /home on a different partition) or I'm installing with root on ZFS which is not a typical installation.

[natanox@chaos.social]

@HankB @dj3ei I tried to install the system inside LUKS2, however the installer didn't give me proper control over what's inside the LUKS partition. It seemed like it expected me to only encrypt whole disks, not partitions.
The experience with it honestly was rather bad in general.