Installation and experience

General
1

Absolutely freaking fantastic!

As a Bluefin user on 4 machines at home, 2 of them on my wife’s PC and Laptop!, I wanted to test this, specifically for the design goals, which is exactly what I was looking for a long time. Nothing wrong with Bluefin, but StillOS shines specifically on it’s base, which has a very long term support. That even beats Bluefin’s LTS model.

Everything work, except my printer, a Canon PIXMA TS3722, but that was to be expected because I tried Almalinux and couldn’t get it working there either, as it’s the same base.

Other than that, everything works.

I wish the filesystem could be BTRFS instead of EXT4, due to the advanced features it has (BITROT protection, compression, all files checksummed, etc.) but I guess because Almalinux is set up that way, StillOS inherits that.

The GUI customizations are WONDERFUL!, and yes, this system can be set up for a mommas and papas as a set and forget, with the auto updates, so this is fantastic.

So, go go go, Cameron! you’re on the perfect track!!!

-Karl

1 Like
2

Hello, AlmaLinux is preinstalled with XFS and supports BTRFS. XFS isn’t great on a desktop, and BTRFS has always been slower for me, and I have also had BTRFS installs randomly break multiple times. These breaks were recoverable, but I don’t want new Linux users to have to deal with that. That’s why we use EXT4; it’s mostly just extra stability. That said, you should be able to change it in Anaconda.

Thanks so much for the support. Let me know if you have any more feedback. I saw the Tailscale suggestion on Discord.