user friendly?

Garthhh

Looking at vsido as noob, I haven't found much about how many hoops I'll have to jump through to do everyday tasks?
I need a new community
I'm using mageia, but I've torqued off, one of the principle workhorses on the forum
While it's nice that one can go to the cli & fuss around with the guts, give me a GUI thank you very much...

Sector11

#1
Hey Garthhh - Welcome to VSIDO.

Yes, VSIDO is user friendly, use the XFCE4 session.  VastOne made it look and feel great!

It comes fully loaded and we're here to help.

↓↓↓ we even have our own jedi!
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jedi

Garthhh,
I'm Jedi welcome to VSIDO!!!  We are a pretty tight nit community here and quite easy going and easy to get along with.  This is the perfect Linux distribution for anyone!  A very simple and quick install, great forum with plenty of folks to ask questions of, and of course, VSIDO comes with a GUI.  Two as a matter of fact.  You can choose from Xfce, or OpenBox, both of which are easy to config, and very pleasing to the eye!  If your into eye-candy, there is also plenty of that to go with it as well.  VSIDO is based on Debian, which will celebrate 20 years this August, so a very stable and dependable base to start off with.  If you have trouble installing or getting something to work just make a post here in the forums with enough info for one of us to help you.  May take a little while for someone to get back to you, but there is usually someone in here all the time!

Again, welcome to VSIDO!

Jedi
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falldown

#3
Welcome Garthhh.

VSIDO will be just as difficult as you want it to be.
You can boot it up and not touch a thing, yet be productive.
Or
You can boot it up and tweak every aspect of the system to your liking.

No hoop jumping here..  ;D
We have a very good community here full of linux lovers that will help you with any issue you may have.

VastOne

Hey Garthh and welcome to VSIDO!  ;D

Just one question, have I ever let you down before?

Xfce 4.10 or OB... I have tweaked OB to be a lot like Xfce, I can go days in OB and not even realize I was in it

Let us know what you need and we will do our best to get you there, as you can see you have a line of great folks ready to assist
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Garthhh

What can I do about my 32 bit machines?

VastOne

Nothing with VSIDO, it remains to be seen if 32bit will be built.

I have spent the last several days rebuilding my 'design pit' and all of my dev machines and I hope this gives me a better chance..

The issue is 32 bit dependencies in a sid environment.  In the debian 32 bit netinstall I did every thing was fine until I needed to add all the packages that make up VSIDO, at that point it puked Exorcist green slime
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falldown

Just for reference..
##THIS IS PUKE GREEN##  :-X

Garthhh

#8
I really don't want to have to use a terminal /text  editor to do set up stuff
I get open box/xfce
That being said
I do have a 64 bit lappy without a hdd to play around with

The community, looks fine, no tyrants in evidence.  :D

Garthhh

I do know VastOne & Sector11 from other stuff
VSIDO is a direct descendant of Debian?
I don't see a torrent as such?

VastOne

This link pretty much sums it up

V SID O = Vast Sid One = Debian SID

I have not been able to find a successful tracker to broadcast the torrents from.  I have tried linuxtracker.org but have not received confirmation yet
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Sector11

Get that lappy a hummin' garthhh - you'll be just fine here.

If the GUI app you want isn't here - synaptic will get it for you.

We're all here to help.
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Garthhh

The pm system here has decided I must decifer, add & such for every message

VastOne

I do not understand what you mean.  Are you saying it is asking for captcha and the same questions as when you signed up for the first time here on the forums?
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Garthhh

#14
yes capcha & such
after I sent the1st pm, worked as expected now
wierd
maybe I need to add a pole/poll

;D