Egee’s Hobbies

Tag: hobby linux

  • What Happened to Egee’s Hobby Linux Distro?

    What Happened to Egee’s Hobby Linux Distro?

    Discussing Hobby Linux over Daggerfall Unity gameplay footage

    It’s been a year since I’ve talked about my Linux distribution, Hobby Linux. I’m using it on my workstation! While it is technically still in development, it’s on hiatus mode at the moment because of life and other related things.

    In 2024 I had a smol distribution of Linux that built during downtime while job searching. I called it Hobby Linux. I wanted to hark back to when technology was a hobby and not a lifestyle the way it is today.

    The overall design of Hobby Linux is practically the same as several other DIY Linux distributions out there. Gentoo, Slackware, and of course Arch Linux comes to mind.

    So, what made Hobby Linux unique? Because it’s mine! Maybe I should have called it EgeeOS (internally, I did for a while)…

    The story of Hobby Linux probably ends here though. Arch Linux is so darn good, there’s nothing for me to “develop”; Arch has it all already!

    If you’d like to follow the project in case I start it again, follow or give it a star on Github!

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  • I’m Switching from Xfce to KDE on Arch Linux

    I’m Switching from Xfce to KDE on Arch Linux

    Hey Hobbyists! I’ve been running vanilla Arch Linux since last year but I’ve cycled through a number of GTK desktops. After a buggy experience with Xfce, I decided to switch back to Qt land.

    My days of reinstalling and distro-hopping are over. Just regular ole Arch Linux is so good, I’ve all but dropped my aspirations to develop Hobby Linux. I’ll talk about that another time…

    Xfce 4.20 was very buggy for me

    I don’t know what exactly the issue was but the desktop in Xfce 4.20 simply stopped working. It happened after plugging my TV in via HDMI. Another annoyance is having to enable “presentation mode” to disable Xfce’s screen saving features while watching a movie. On every other desktop, VLC being full-screened is enough.

    Switching to KDE Plasma was truly the right move.

    Update to 6.3 was flawless
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