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Geolinux 1 : San-Diego

So this is the first of Geolinux...

If you don't what that is , check this out

Lets dive in!

VM CONFIG


  • RAM : 2048 mb

  • Storage: 35GB virtual

- OS: cutefish os 0.7 beta

Install


There wasn't anything remarkable about the installation , prettstandard branded Calamares . It took a while though.

First look


When I rebooted it looked like this:

Screenshot

Not my favorite look

So:

Customization time !


after some exploring I :

1) made the resolution bigger

2) make everything the medium sized Noto sans mono font

3) changed accent color

4) changed background

5) made dock icons small

after:

After image


Package Management


Pretty standard apt , but I must say … I really prefer Pacman.

Also , -y flag was enabled by default.

A big problem was that standard things like git & curl weren't pre installed.

My Main issue was that the Debian 11 repo which Cutefish uses was extremally outdated . So when I tried to install neovim , I got neovim 4.4 !


Pro's and cons


pro's con's
-nice ux - DE still in development , has it's kinks
- system is nice n' small - debian based
- well intergarted - packages are severly outdated
- nice window management - still in beta
- not great touchscreen / tablet mode support

Overall cutefish still has room for improvement , but still one of my favorite De's.
You'll definitely be seeing more of the cutefish DE in the geolinux series.

Hope you enjoyed reading!

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