Dreamin'

Well...

Yeah...

In the name of doing something completely unnecessary, I downloaded and burned an .ISO for Simplicity Linux "Desktop" 13.4, yet another fork off the Puppy tree.  (This time from Carolina Linux, et al.)

And it's cool.  A bit heavy on the eye-candy, running Xfce as the interface with a pre-installed Conky and VERY Mac-like Cairo Dock. 

I do have to say, Simplicity is quite nice.  It's fairly light (the download is 432 MB, big for a Puppy variant), and it runs fast on this older AMD processor.  And it's just nice to look at.  The Conky is well thought out, and the Cairo-Dock does it's job well.

So, I've had the desktop here running off of a liveboot for the past, oh...  3 days.  My defacto desktop has become Simplicity, running off CD.  I'm just far too lazy back up all my data under Mint, and just do an install...  Now, if that isn't sad...


There are a few odd quirks, most notably the top Xfce menu bar, which is pops down whenever you run the mouse across the top of the screen.  If you have an application ope (like FireFox), and have it full screen, the menu bar will cover the top bar of the program.  You have to be careful if you go to minimize the program window, as you might tap on something on the Xfce bar...  Odd, but tolerable...

The only thing that really concerns me is the use of the "Portable Apps Platform", rather than just direct installing LibreOffice.  But I really haven't played with it enough to make a decision one way or another.  (I'd like to hear from the creator of this distro, but I can't find any comments...)

We'll see where this leads.  I'm eying this on the Thinkpad T400, if/when it comes back from the Computer-Shop-Across-The-River, where it's currently residing with what I hope are only hard drive issues...

In other useless news, I found myself eying MidnightBSD...

Be afraid.  Be very afraid...