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MacPup has blown my mind

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Arkitech

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I've been through about 10-15 distros these week, just getting a feel for what's out there and seeing what I'm comfortable with. Out of the bunch I played around with, I would say that Puppy stood out for the speed and number of packages on hand, Tiny Core is also small and speedy and Lubuntu won me over on overall feel and appearance. However tonight I decided to try Mac Pup, the screenshots never blew me away although I've heard people on many sites praise it.

Right off the bat, the Enlightment screen that loaded up grabbed my attention. From there it only got better, I love the menu system and the overall look of the distro. It's simply beautiful and I've yet to even tweak anything. I'm only about 20 minutes into the live cd and I've already decided to do a full install. So anyway just had to throw out my initial impressions on this one. I'll definitely be back with more comments as I dig into Mac Pup a little further.
 
Having had a second hard drive die this month, I am temporarily without a hard drive, so I've been booting MacPup for the past three days and will probably be using it for another week. It is making this otherwise difficult time much more tolerable.
 
I started out using MacPup Opera which I downloaded sometime last year, but just today switched to 5.25. Macpup 5.25 is slightly better, though I still (installed and) primarily use the Opera browser. Both versions are great. :thumbsup:
 
I've been running Enlightenment on Debian for years. It's funny how back in the last 90s it was considered slow and pretty, but now it's one of the more lightweight WMs available. At least E16 is, E17 can feel kinda heavy at times.

Periodically I try a full Gnome desktop out but just can't do it, too many little things don't work the way I like them.
 
MacPup's a groovy little distro. I have it on a usb drive, and I play with it every so often. I like Enlightenment, but getting it setup is a little daunting. I'll try it on Debian at some point, but I haven't found the motivation as of yet.
 
lxskllr said:
MacPup's a groovy little distro. I have it on a usb drive, and I play with it every so often. I like Enlightenment, but getting it setup is a little daunting. I'll try it on Debian at some point, but I haven't found the motivation as of yet.
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What's daunting about it? The first time you login it runs through a wizard, which could probably be better, and then you have a settings control panel. All I really change is the number of virtual desktops, enable sloppy mouse and adjust some of the effects.
 
Nothinman said:
What's daunting about it? The first time you login it runs through a wizard, which could probably be better, and then you have a settings control panel. All I really change is the number of virtual desktops, enable sloppy mouse and adjust some of the effects.
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I installed E16 on Ubuntu awhile ago, and all I got was an absolutely blank desktop. Through some method of mouse clicking I got windows to appear, but I'm not sure exactly what I was doing. I was under the impression you had to basically write config files to get it setup the way you wanted. I didn't spend a lot of time with it, so I could very well be wrong, but I definitely didn't get any kind of wizard at startup.
 
lxskllr said:
I installed E16 on Ubuntu awhile ago, and all I got was an absolutely blank desktop. Through some method of mouse clicking I got windows to appear, but I'm not sure exactly what I was doing. I was under the impression you had to basically write config files to get it setup the way you wanted. I didn't spend a lot of time with it, so I could very well be wrong, but I definitely didn't get any kind of wizard at startup.
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I would say something was missing from that install then because you should've gotten a usable desktop from the start and just clicking in the background should give you a programs menu. E16 didn't have the wizard I mentioned though, just E17.
 
Maybe I'll try E17 on my Debian install. It's just a BS install anyway. If something gets boogered up, it isn't a big tragedy.
 
lxskllr said:
Maybe I'll try E17 on my Debian install. It's just a BS install anyway. If something gets boogered up, it isn't a big tragedy.
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E shouldn't have an affect on anything else so you can just remove it if you want and GDM will let you pick any WM you have installed so you shouldn't get stuck.
 
I got E17 installed. As you said, it had a simple wizard, and everything went smoothly. I was thinking about abandoning the Debian install for now due to lack of use, but this'll give me a reason to keep it. I'll see what I can do to trick out E17, and maybe consider using it full time. So far it feels really foreign. I'm used to the Gnome/Xfce style, but I do like the look of Enlightenment.
 
lxskllr said:
I got E17 installed. As you said, it had a simple wizard, and everything went smoothly. I was thinking about abandoning the Debian install for now due to lack of use, but this'll give me a reason to keep it. I'll see what I can do to trick out E17, and maybe consider using it full time. So far it feels really foreign. I'm used to the Gnome/Xfce style, but I do like the look of Enlightenment.
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I like it because it mostly keeps out of the way, I have the pager and gkrellm running and that's it, the rest is just whatever app(s) I'm running on that desktop. I like the fact that I can drag windows around in the pager, alt+click a window and then switch desktops and it takes that window to the desktop too, etc. It's window memory is awesome too, it can remember virtually all attributes about a window and restore them all on login. Just alt+right click on a window and hit More->Remember. It doesn't work as well with apps with multiple windows though.

I rarely look at the menus and just run everything from a shell, I've recently installed guake and started using that for my shells, with screen of course. =)
 
can you post a picture of your desktop? i'm still running gnome and i realized finally it reminded me of my early days with our family computer and using dos and win 3.1 and eventually 95.
 
themillak said:
can you post a picture of your desktop? i'm still running gnome and i realized finally it reminded me of my early days with our family computer and using dos and win 3.1 and eventually 95.
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This is what I have so far, but it isn't close to the way I want it yet...

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