This morning, continuing to test out new #linux distros with #vagrant
Updated my VagrantFile for multiple boxes and mounting my host home directory documents/source code.
Now, I've got it set up for:
- Mint (Cinnamon) 18.04
- Ubuntu Bionic
- Kubuntu Bionic
Just need to provision each to play with interchangeably. If I have time, I'll make a new Mint 19 box to replace 18.04.
Initial impressions of KDE:
Like Cinnamon, it does that annoying thing of having the window menus on a different line then the window title which eats up 1em of screen real estate. Starting to think Unity is the only one that doesn't do this.
My starting impression is to not like konsole, but that might because I'm more familiar with gnome-terminal.
At this rate, I'll end up back on Ubuntu, although I'm afraid I won't like whatever the new desktop looks like.
@lordbowlich the separate-menu-from-title 1em consumption's been a tired and true thing even Windows apps used be guilty of.
@lordbowlich Add MX Linux to your list. Why all the Ubuntu derivatives when you can just install a new desktop environment instead and switch at login?
@TheOuterLinux I'll add it to the list.
Ultimately, my goal is to make my entire desktop environment idempotent via Ansible.
The reason that I'm not going with picking one distro and then installing a new desktop environment is that adds additional layers that I would need to implement in the Ansible playbooks. If I can find a build that is closest to my starting point it eliminates several steps.
@TheOuterLinux This also creates the constraint that whatever derivative I go with needs to in some way derive from Debian since I've already written out the playbooks for installing all of my base packages and don't want to swap them over to a different package manager.
Ansible fails on an initial run for my Kubuntu box because systemd immediately starts apt.systemd.daily when the box boots up. Which locks the vagrant out from provisioning. :(