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Niche Distro Users: Why?
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I wouldn't say it's a full on daily, but Bunsenlabs distros. It started out with Lithium because they had a non PAE build and I needed it for an old Pentium M laptop. I ended up really liking it. It's debian at the end of the day so software support is plentiful. It's super lightweight. It ran on the pentium m laptop (only 1 gb of ram) without much issue. It's also baby's first foray into window managers as it used openbox.
I ended up installing it on my other old laptop that has an 8th gen i7. I've been pretty happy with it as a result.
I.have 2 gripes but idk if it's Bunsenlabs's fault. I had an nvme ssd that refused to play ball with it, a Samsung PM991A nvme ssd. I couldnt work with it at all. Using gparted to format it was a no go as Gparted would just die. I know that line of ssds is problematic in the hackintosh community. Not surprised that it sucks here. Also trying to disable the lid close is impossible. Tried cli, can't find my lid close sensor. It might be because it's a x360 laptop so it's a lot more complex lid detection wise.
Did other NVMe drives work? I wonder if it's using an outdated NVMe driver... Was the kernel old?
I honestly haven't tried any other nvme ssds with it because it's such a pain to install new ones in that computer. It's a motherboard removed procedure. I have an sn850x that Id want to try with it. It was on bookworm so an updated kernel.