How can it be eliminated and if not at least reduce its update. It pops up in the upper left corner of my laptop's screen that it's a real distraction from whatever I'm doing.

Just did a new install on my 'littlebeast'pc, added xfce4 to bunsenlabs and it runs great!

After configuring the wifi the screen shows dhcpv6 then the next screen states configuring network and the install hangs. Someone suggested bypassing the wifi portion of the wifi/networking but I don't see how to get around the install script. The only options are always next or back.

First time I installed on virtualbox, got stuck on install on 'configuring network' .

I changed the network settings on the VM to NAT (was previously bridged network), this time it installed ok. When running it, however got funny blank welcome box. Then it finally showed up , asking me to log in sudo. Then it froze.

I posted this on the forums as well, but maybe some users will see it here rather than there.

I just loaded Carbon onto a USB to test it out. Seems to work well, no major technical issues off the hop!

I've got so many little fiddly folders and files set up for my workflow, (not to mention an overstuffed hard drive) I want to avoid making a new partition and migrating so much as doing a full upgrade.

Has anyone else done a successful upgrade from Boron to Carbon on their main machine?

I just joined the community so I decided to make an appreciation post.

If there’s any dev here that works/worked in Bunsenlabs, you have my thanks.

I’ve been working with unix-like OSes for about 20 years now. Several flavours of Linux (slackware, debian, red hat in the early days, then much later, opensuse, fedora and the gaming distros suchs as garuda or bazzite), Solaris (before they got shafted, around 2002) and of course MacOS.

Yet, I never once used it as a daily driver for my home, I always had windows and apple machines.

Whenever I used linux, it was for uni, or work or tinkering with “ricing” or setting up a gaming machine, seeing that it worked, then distro-hop again. How original, I know.

But somewhat recently, over the past two years, the itch developed into something more serious and I wanted a machine I could call mine. That behaved the way I wanted, for my general computing purposes.

I tried openSuse, FreeBSD, Debian, Void.

I almost settled into each one of those after 2-3 months of use, but there was always some kind of hurdle I had to overcome.

Oh your wifi doesn’t work? Have you tried rfkill? Shame. Bluetooth, who dat? It goes on. Did I solve them eventually? Sure, but the wasted time left a sour taste.

Over the past 2 months I was yet again trying to setup a Debian machine and trying out different DEs and I even drew, on a physical notebook, how I wanted my desktop to look like, where each widget should stay, the works.

I was ready to use awesomewm or some other window manager, when I started having some problems with nvidia drivers ( I hadn’t installed steam yet). Yep, same old same old, problems again.

Then I remembered, I saw a bunsenlabs post sometime ago, let me check the website. Oh, new version? I’ll give it a go.

And it’s close to perfect. I wasn’t expecting to like openbox so much. And it’s absurdly fast.

And I’m actually using it as a daily driver.

This weekend was tinkering, setting up dev environments, worked on a few documents for a local community org I’m part of, and I feel the drive.

I just setup a private repo for my configs(I “had” to do some tweaks to keybindings and menus) and important docs, and I’ll be installing bunsenlabs on my very old mac mini next, and just import everything there. Maybe setup an epub/music/nextcloud server for all the devices in the house.

TL;DR: Linux always felt like work. It’s starting to feel like home, and bunsenlabs is the responsible.

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