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Re: Chimaera First Impressions

dummy@example.com (berni51) — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 07:12:30 +0000

OK - I tried it on 2 Pi 4 (8GB), and it works fine. But you are right: It was much more fun than installing Chimaera onto an AMD64 machine.

Re: Chimaera First Impressions

dummy@example.com (samhain) — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 13:19:11 +0000

You should get a RPi 3 and try to get chimera running. Fun guaranteed

Re: Chimaera First Impressions

dummy@example.com (berni51) — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 07:50:15 +0000

Poor guy! I have the same problem on 6 machines, all running chimaera.

Chimaera First Impressions

dummy@example.com (PrimeSuspect) — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 06:46:25 +0000

I installed Chimaera + KDE using the net iso last week onto a Dell OptiPlex without any issues whatsoever. The only additions I had to make were two manually installed dependencies for the Slack desktop. Surely this can’t be right especially for an alpha status product? Why can’t I have a black screen at boot, the panel disappearing, programs refusing to launch or better still the whole system wiped out after an update?

Not to be deterred I then installed using the same method onto my Dell Vostro which has multiple drives including a Kingston M.2 NVMe. I thought this is bound to break something and I tried to help it by installing themes and programs at the same time while transferring large amounts of data between the drives. Nothing. So there it is. I’m now stuck with two boring Linux installations and all they do is work. Just no fun at all.