Reccomend me a cyberpunkish distro

Hello Lains! I was wondering if any of you can reccomend me a cyberpunkish distro.Prefrences: Ubuntu/Debian based. USB Boot support. So far I have tried and liked : KNOPPIX, Mint, WattOS (using it right now). ZevenOS looks nice too. I didn't like Revenge OS. Thanks in advance!

>>5834 P.S I like how GoboLinux and Puppy Linux(slacko) look. By cyberpunkish I mean that it should look like these two, and just generally looking cyberpunkish.

>>5834 The difference between Linux distros is more about how you install and upgrade software. Different distros have different default themes but it's all the same software. LXDE on Ubuntu is the same as LXDE on Arch. It is you the user who makes it look cool not the distro.

>>5836 Sure, I am a bit new into Linux, however. I can do basic stuff in the terminal, but that's it. Maybe you could recommend me where to start? (making it look nice). I have tried i3, but I don't like it, because it's all keyboard shortcut based and yeah

You could look around on r/unixporn/ a bit, posts there could point you in the direction of a desktop environment that looks the way you like. As John said, the underlying distro doesn't matter much, it's up to you to customize it according to your preferences. Mint is probably the best for beginners. Also: Check out Pywal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es79N_9BblE

>>5834 >>5835 >>5837 You could have asked your question in any of these threads : >>3391, >>2692, >>1740. You also didn't quite specify what "looking cyberpunkish" means, I took a look at screenshots of their default install and I didn't see anything cyberpunk about it. I'd even argue that cyberpunk has different meanings to different people. Some will argue that it's about looking pretty with dark and neon colors, I'd argue that on the contrary it's about functionality and that distracting flashy colors are a bad idea ; I'd even add that there's nothing cyberpunk about spending hours ricing a desktop, it's just a waste of time. Of course I'm not saying that I'm right to disregard appearances and you're wrong for caring about them, just that the word has a different meaning for different people and that you should have been more precise in your OP. To me, it looks like it breaks Rule 4 (the same rule >>1740 was warned for).

>>5834 this >>5849 also, heads up: people are going to give you soykaf (or at the very least think you're a bit of a chump) if you actually use the name/email fields on here. When I think "cyb distro" I guess I'd think of Arch, Gentoo, Void, Slackware, Debian... idk man without knowing what you're looking for I'm just playing word association. >>5837 i love i3 personally, but maybe start with xfce. it's nice and lean but works like you'd probably expect it to (i.e. not tiling).

Gentoo maybe?

>>5834 ubuntu 16.04 with unity. i know, canonical killed off unity just when it got gud, but if you think about it, it's a great distro. >LTS for the next few years >comfy wm you can be sure about they won't JUST it like GNOME >it just werks and if you need to, you can rice it to look more cyb for your taste. distros like gentoo or arch are fine, if you can waste the time to build a system that does what a "normal person" distro does after 20 minutes of installation time, only you can boast on the internet how your meme distro takes 100MB out of 16GB RAM less than stock fedora.

>>5858 >distros like gentoo or arch are fine, if you can waste the time to build a system that does what a "normal person" distro does after 20 minutes of installation time, only you can boast on the internet how your meme distro takes 100MB out of 16GB RAM less than stock fedora. This is a profoundly ignorant opinion for a /tech/ poster to hold. Most people are not 12 years old and use Arch and Gentoo for more profound reasons than just bragging.

I'll steer a bit away from the core topic, since my question isn't worth starting an entire new thread, and i don't see any kind of "simple questions general" where i could ask it. So I'm also looking for a Linux distribution, except i need something geared towards older computers from Pentium 4 era (and a half GiB RAM) I don't have much experience with Linux, except having a general grasp of it and being reasonably comfortable with using everyday CLI programs (wget, curl, sed, grep, cmus, dd, mount, whatever), so i'd like to avoid recommendations like Gentoo/Funtoo and other hard-to-setup ones. I'm rather looking for something that just works, but also offers a decent possibilities of configuration to own liking, once installed. So far i've considered Devuan, Puppy Linux, and Void, but i'm sure you can add better options to this list (also i'd like to avoid Ubuntu) Also, it needs not to take much HDD space after install (say, up to 3GiBs) and doesn't need to ba packed with preconfigured applications, since i prefer to install what i like myself.

>>5869 Forgot to add - it's gonna be a dual boot with existing Windows installation

>>5849 > I'd even add that there's nothing cyberpunk about spending hours ricing a desktop, I agree with you thinking of people who really care too much for ricing, or go with options that are ultimately just a waste of resources... and actually other problematic practices as well. But ricing, in essence, can have a very cyberpunk nature, I believe. A huge part of the mentality deals with the idea that the way you interact with machines has a specific effect on your mind and how you see the world. That goes from logical ways of thinking being shaped by the architechure of systems, to how things like rhythm or pattern of ideas are shaped by workflows and methods. But also comes to neurological or analogical responses to colors, shapes, organization of menus, etc. And systems are designed with that in mind. When the interfaces for a Microsoft software, or a Google website are made, there are behavioural researches at play deciding its looks. And it's how tendencies are set, by these big players, which standard looks for DEs for example, even the FOSS ones, tend to obey. So in a world where Facebook makes researches using their users, and try to either cheer them or depress hem just to see if they can, and Microsoft bases their design and functionality on childish concepts so the user will feel powerful and with the world at their hands, and Apple makes you feel like their products are worth paying much more than their reasonable value just by looking posh... I would say in that world, making your system look just the way you want, taking into account how it makes you respond in terms of workflow, environment awareness, and several other factors, can be very, very cyberpunk.

>>5869 From what you're describing I can't imagine any reason to look further than Debian (or Devuan if you prefer). It fits all the criteria you're asking and there's nothing to be said against it. If you want to go even leaner, I'd say Arch but then it wouldn't have the ease of installation you're after. Unless you used a script that would automate it, but good chances that wouldn't work.

>>5865 95% of the tasks you have to do you can do with stock debian/ubuntu/fedora/suse. it's not ignorant, it's practical. gentoo/arch are fine systems if you want to archieve a deeper understanding of how unixoid systems work (don't get me wrong, i've had my gentoo stage 1 back in 2003), but the risks of bricking something outweights the benefits of optimization if you have to administrate/use a reliable machine. many consider ubuntu etc als "babbys first linux" until they go full circle and realize that it's nothing wrong with it.

>>5858 Why are you even here? Isn't Tech about appreciating technical superiority?

>>5886 I've found that back when I was using Ubuntu (12.x-era), updating to the new version of the distribution would always break my whole system, forcing me to reinstall everything. I also had problems with outdated versions of packages (mainly the packaged versions of c++ libraries). This is what I personally like about Arch. There won't be any breaking updates to the system (at least there haven't been any since I've been using it) and you can pretty much always install even niche software through the AUR (for example I was required to install a certain SAT-solver for a lecture and it was readily packaged and available there).

>>5886 >gentoo/arch are fine systems if you want to archieve a deeper understanding of how unixoid What goes with understanding is control. Not just running a black box system someone else build to be as generic and universally appealing as possible, >unixoid What planet are you from? >but the risks of bricking something Don't project your own incompetence onto everyone else. >many consider ubuntu etc als "babbys first linux" You are just full of retarded opinions aren't you. Where do you get this stuff? I don't think we want your dumb memes here. >until they go full circle and realize that it's nothing wrong with it. Until your Ubuntu system breaks and you find so many layers of complexity hidden behind the pretty abstractions that you realize a simple Gentoo system you build yourself actually is more maintainable. Assuming you have any level of tech skill.

>>5890 this is a good answer to my post, for the record. yeah, before 14.xx it was kinda risky to do version upgrades, but they fixed it so far that i never had a problem with it on several systems. i can't speak for post-16.04-installs since i refuse to switch away from unity and use LTS actually because of the LTS, but so far i've heard nothing bad about it. AUR is indeed a great tool but i would never recommend arch as a "to go"-distro for desktop users. >>5892 this on the other hand is "I am angry" - the posting.

>>5899 >this on the other hand is "I am angry" - the posting. That's a weird way of saying "sorry I was wrong I bow to your intellectual superiority". But I'll take it.

>>5834 >cyberpunk sigh. do you mean "it looks black and blue" That's not the damn distro. Start with debian and then check out the ricing thread to see what dm, wm, font, and themes you like. Honestly? Just fuarrrking download void, install it IN A VM FIRST to know if you can do it right, then install it on your pc. Use bspwm and polybar, with a good sxhkd.

>>5834 Welcome to lainchan! Come back when you're 18 though.

>>5924 >visiting lainchan when you're over 18 grown-up people have work and family and other important things to do

>>5924 Is being 17 really that unacceptable?

>>5930 >you're actually under 18 and you just admitted it, knowing that it's against the rules to be under 18. I wonder if admin will tempban you lol to be honest i don't care I was just making a joke. I'm not surprised if I was right though. So long as you aren't making stupid posts when there's already a thread for it, feel welcome to join the conversation. Anyways, if you're looking for a cyberpunk "feel", head to /λ/ and look for the beginners thread. Start with something easy like python, haskell, or lisp. Don't waste time on java and read SICP.

>>5940 alright, thanks for the advice. yeah, I wonder too.

what's a good font for my terminal? looking for something without antialiasing, pixelated to pair with a retro rice and that can be upsized >8px

>>7392 I've been trying to find this font for forever but I'm in love with it.

>>7392 Biwidth, but Im not telling you where to get it because you imply pixels="retro". Your hint is that its a japanese bitmap font.

Idk about cyberpunk, perhaps be a bit more specific in the style that you are going after? Not to reiterate what everyone else here has said, but distro literally doesn't matter unless the look of that distro is something that cannot be obtained reasonably elsewhere. Use Debian or Arch (if you can deal with setup). They both have active communities that can help you out with the problems you will encounter. Arch has awesome documentation. If you want retro, cyber-looking, I'd go for Window Maker. Xfce for a utilitarian look that is fairly customisable, i3 for minimalism. Beyond that, you can customise to your liking. >>7416 This is beautiful, someone please chime in the name.

Kali, all the way. I've been running it since it was backtrack 2.0. It's all over mr robot and full of fun hacking tools.

>>5834 Install gentoo

>>7423 > new to *nix > install gentoo Normally I wouldn't suggest that a person almost completely new to *nix attempt to install gentoo...

>>7420 I did some looking yesterday for it. This definitely is not the font, but it's somewhat similar. The font is uw-ttyp0

OpenBSD, because its paranoid by default. Default toolchain is excellent, base system is written very cleanly and clearly, which cannot be said for much of GNU. Also, I believe the blowfish is in a couple Lainchan header images :)

>>5869 >>5870 I recently got pic related up and running in a usable state - it has some very limited hardware by today's standards. A Transmeta Crusoe CPU, 256MB RAM, and a 20GB HDD. For me, finding a distro that worked well with it was a matter of finding one that didn't have Xorg completely broken by default. The graphics card in it is very old and very uncommon - ATI Mobility Radeon M6. Only old Xorg drivers work properly with it so I settled on using VESA graphics. Some distros also simply wouldn't boot to the installer because it failed to probe some of the other hardware (USB ports, PC card slot, etc) I usually prefer BSD, and FreeBSD was the only thing that had enough hardware support to boot the installer. However, the base system + Xorg consumed ~120MB RAM while idle. I gave antiX a shot, a Debian-based distro targeted toward low-end and old hardware. The base install is a hell of a lot larger than FreeBSD, but through some wizardry it only uses 60MB RAM with Xorg while idle. It was an adventure to get usable software on this little guy but antiX absolutely worked some magic.

>>7416 This looks extremely similar to Kappa 20, can be found at http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/efont/japanese/

>>7438 I have a old netbook with 512MB of RAM and a 900mhz CPU at my moms house that I use when I am there. I ended up installing LXLE on it and now it flies. http://www.lxle.net/

>>5834 My nig, your heart is in the wrong place. You can get any distro to look like anything you want if you mess around long enough with DEs / WMs. Does it matter? I guess for me it's different because I'm employed and I also work on linux, and I also have it at home... I want it to not just look "cool", but pleasant, because I stare at it most of the day AND have to get some work done. Take it as food for thought if you want. Previous job I worked on SLES, now I work on CentOS, and I have openSuse at home

>>7443 giggle

>>5834 >cyberpunk TempleOS?

>>7721 Holy soykaf why is there a discord cliente for this piece of soykaf? Is nothing sacred anymore?

>cyberpunkish distro this is really autistic. first of all, in the cyberpunk world, people don't use things like 'keyboards' or 'desktops' or any of that obsolete stuff. The cpu and internet components are augmented directly into your neurons which allow you to search the web or do calculations with a mere thought, there is NO DESKTOP. Anything external is usually voice activated with AI and usually found in things like vehicles or shopping terminals. Another thing about living in the cyberpunk world is that everything is connected and there is no escape. Your thoughts, dreams, and even what you are experiencing atm gets broadcasted to the world, theres no such thing as privacy, using rogue tech like linux is probably illegal. Every line of code must be signed and authorized by the government to prevent hacking. look kid, theres nothing cyberpunk about using a linux distro. That is the equivilent of wearing a mlp t-shirt cause you like mlp. You might as well put up a Blade Runner wallpaper on your windows 10 gaming pc and call it a day.

gentoo or one of the BSDs

>>7727 congrats on the most autistic post of this thread

>>7746 Any advice for a linux noob trying to install gentoo?

>>7749 follow the handbook. installing gentoo is just following instructions and having some attention span/patience. its not as difficult as its memed to be. I recommend installing on a virtual machine first if youre really inexperienced, but if you installed arch or debian before you can install gentoo just fine

>>7727 OW THE EDGE Nothing personell... kid.

The most "punk" distro would be your choice of any of the libre ones that can run on Librebooted hardware. So Trisquel, Hyperbola, Parabola, Debian, PureOS, and a couple others I can't remember.

>>7749 Read the handbook. Try to understand what you're doing. It's a lot easier to fix a mistake if you don't have to start the entire installation over.

Recommend me a cyberpunk-ish gtk theme.

>>7751 I don’t understand why people say debian is hard to install, isn’t it just a standard gui install or am I missing something?

>>7841 I moved from ubuntu to debian yesterday. The installation was super easy with the GUI. The hardest part was choosing where to install GRUB and you have to understand what /dev/sdc1 means, aside from that I think even my mom could do it.