wendy-lebaron
Well-Known Member
i have tried porteux 2.6. which was released right at the end of february 2026. i chose the iso for mate desktop.
i would like to deeply thank. the porteux developers. for continuing to offer the "devel" and "multilib" modules. because of "multilib" module. i could continue using the wine 8 appimage. instead of the version 10. which is less friendly with drag-and-drop. in the two or three windows programs. i still insist on using. although the emulation of "syswow64" works wonders. but i choose to do without it in certain situations.
i had tried porteux with lxqt desktop before. (this was the 1.7 released in october 2025.) but it doesn't seem to matter which desktop. it keeps crashing every other time at startup. i set up an "autostart" script on lxqt. to take care of the screen brightness. because it's not done automatically. when the panel comes on. the session manager doesn't seem to like my script. it's done correctly one time i fire up the system. then the next time i try to fire it up. it brings a dialog saying, "panel crashed too many times." then i get no panel and no wallpaper. i only get the context menu. where i have to open a terminal. to shut down the computer. or to do anything else. except correct this problem.
with mate desktop? it messes up something with "libpam" or other. so it refuses to reset the screen brightness. this one time the session is started. in the next time. it could decide to get it right.
wait there's more. the panel in mate is still buggy! i want to move whatever is "system monitor". to have more room for launchers. but the "system monitor" disappears. even worse sometimes when i start a session. the battery widget plays hide-and-seek. this is for mate 1.28 which shouldn't have this problem anymore. that i suffered on debian "bullseye" with mate 1.24. basically the user cannot ask for the panel widgets to be locked into positions. because it could mess it up.
i had to give up on sparky linux also with this desktop. because i don't want the clock hogging the bottom-right corner of the screen. if i put the "show desktop" widget as the last item instead. upon the next session. it goes right back and puts the clock instead. but that had mate 1.26.
the mate terminal is buggy too. had it crash a couple of times. after visiting the keystroke configuration dialog.
it was really a shame. opensuse "tumbleweed" totally crapped out on me. in the summer of last year. had to get the big iso. install it with xfce desktop. to then request mate desktop instead. i got mate 1.28. which was working very well. behaved itself although i didn't test. to see if the problems with the panel persisted. it looked great too. something close to "menta" theme. not like the sparky linux "ghosty white" themes. that cannot be used anymore with gimp 3.
back to porteux. discovered something else depressing about this product. the "porteux store" was never changed from its first version! from there download a web browser. and a handful of other programs. in case the user missed those "devel" and "multilib" modules. that "store" is the place to request to download them. i desired, for example geany 2.1. instead i have to get the "deb" package for debian "forky testing." and see if it could work via "rootcopy" trick.
i don't want to use "gslapt" ever again. i had mixed experiences with that. using slackel for several months a few years ago. this was while i still had an unlimited internet connection. a bit faster than what i could afford now. otherwise i have to recourse with "slackbuilds." but i have had build failures with debian as well as slackware. generally whatever uses only "c" language. compiles successfully for me these days.
i have to rely on appimages more than ever. otherwise install "flathub" mechanism. which wastes a serious amount of diskspace. it has other issues so i refuse. i wanted to benefit from nixos package manager. but that has complications i don't want to go into right now.
the main reason to use porteux 2.6. is because it comes with "glibc" 2.43. two versions ahead of debian "trixie". some programs are getting too high. for me to run on debian "bookworm." which doesn't justify the higher library requirements. because they are clunky. or have some other problem. but because most of them are virtual music instruments. alternatively something like the latest version of "lla". which raises eyebrows. because it's a terminal-only program.
i only wanted to reveal some of my experiences lately. also to thank the porteux developers. for offering a highly accessible alternative to slackware. which is "dirt cheap", not being said as an insult. but the user will deal with its limitations.
i would like to deeply thank. the porteux developers. for continuing to offer the "devel" and "multilib" modules. because of "multilib" module. i could continue using the wine 8 appimage. instead of the version 10. which is less friendly with drag-and-drop. in the two or three windows programs. i still insist on using. although the emulation of "syswow64" works wonders. but i choose to do without it in certain situations.
i had tried porteux with lxqt desktop before. (this was the 1.7 released in october 2025.) but it doesn't seem to matter which desktop. it keeps crashing every other time at startup. i set up an "autostart" script on lxqt. to take care of the screen brightness. because it's not done automatically. when the panel comes on. the session manager doesn't seem to like my script. it's done correctly one time i fire up the system. then the next time i try to fire it up. it brings a dialog saying, "panel crashed too many times." then i get no panel and no wallpaper. i only get the context menu. where i have to open a terminal. to shut down the computer. or to do anything else. except correct this problem.
with mate desktop? it messes up something with "libpam" or other. so it refuses to reset the screen brightness. this one time the session is started. in the next time. it could decide to get it right.
wait there's more. the panel in mate is still buggy! i want to move whatever is "system monitor". to have more room for launchers. but the "system monitor" disappears. even worse sometimes when i start a session. the battery widget plays hide-and-seek. this is for mate 1.28 which shouldn't have this problem anymore. that i suffered on debian "bullseye" with mate 1.24. basically the user cannot ask for the panel widgets to be locked into positions. because it could mess it up.
i had to give up on sparky linux also with this desktop. because i don't want the clock hogging the bottom-right corner of the screen. if i put the "show desktop" widget as the last item instead. upon the next session. it goes right back and puts the clock instead. but that had mate 1.26.
the mate terminal is buggy too. had it crash a couple of times. after visiting the keystroke configuration dialog.
it was really a shame. opensuse "tumbleweed" totally crapped out on me. in the summer of last year. had to get the big iso. install it with xfce desktop. to then request mate desktop instead. i got mate 1.28. which was working very well. behaved itself although i didn't test. to see if the problems with the panel persisted. it looked great too. something close to "menta" theme. not like the sparky linux "ghosty white" themes. that cannot be used anymore with gimp 3.
back to porteux. discovered something else depressing about this product. the "porteux store" was never changed from its first version! from there download a web browser. and a handful of other programs. in case the user missed those "devel" and "multilib" modules. that "store" is the place to request to download them. i desired, for example geany 2.1. instead i have to get the "deb" package for debian "forky testing." and see if it could work via "rootcopy" trick.
i don't want to use "gslapt" ever again. i had mixed experiences with that. using slackel for several months a few years ago. this was while i still had an unlimited internet connection. a bit faster than what i could afford now. otherwise i have to recourse with "slackbuilds." but i have had build failures with debian as well as slackware. generally whatever uses only "c" language. compiles successfully for me these days.
i have to rely on appimages more than ever. otherwise install "flathub" mechanism. which wastes a serious amount of diskspace. it has other issues so i refuse. i wanted to benefit from nixos package manager. but that has complications i don't want to go into right now.
the main reason to use porteux 2.6. is because it comes with "glibc" 2.43. two versions ahead of debian "trixie". some programs are getting too high. for me to run on debian "bookworm." which doesn't justify the higher library requirements. because they are clunky. or have some other problem. but because most of them are virtual music instruments. alternatively something like the latest version of "lla". which raises eyebrows. because it's a terminal-only program.
i only wanted to reveal some of my experiences lately. also to thank the porteux developers. for offering a highly accessible alternative to slackware. which is "dirt cheap", not being said as an insult. but the user will deal with its limitations.
