Exe Linux (distro): a waste of time
Posted by brainrot_award@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 11 comments
As I couldn't find any post about this distribution pretty much anywhere, I've decided to make one here, just so that other people could be aware of what's wrong with Exe Linux.
So, the reason why I tested it, as will probably be the case with most people that end up trying it out, was that I wanted a Trinity Desktop Environment-based distro. Exe is indeed TDE and it works fine.
However, from the start I found a huge problem: no GCC and no Clang. And a hell lot of other important packages also aren't available. It doesn't seem to share a package repository with Devuan, for some reason. Exe doesn't support btrfs/xfs either, and when I tried to see if the devs had any forum or community, I found out that the webpage is literally just the about section, and that's it. No community, no forums, no docs, no nothing.
Don't waste your time.
elatllat@reddit
Why not just do this:
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Debian_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Instructions
brainrot_award@reddit (OP)
I had some issues with debian.
mofomeat@reddit
Sounds like you had more issues with Exe.
brainrot_award@reddit (OP)
well, to be fair, not being able to conventionally install compilers is a more specific problem due to what I needed to do with it. with debian it was a sort of other more serious problems related to the use of the system itself. I found out that opensuse had a trinity package and it's what I ended up using.
mofomeat@reddit
Glad you found one that works. Just curious, what `serious problems' were you running into with Debian?
hispanicman15@reddit
If you want to use Trinity DE, I recommend Q4OS instead. I ran it as my main for months and it worked well.
Ak1ra23@reddit
Never heard, even OP doesnt give any link or source. So i assume this distro is just OP’s imaginary distro.
brainrot_award@reddit (OP)
https://exegnulinux.net/
mommy didn't teach you how to search for stuff?
Ak1ra23@reddit
Nah, your mom did not. She teach other things.
involution@reddit
Someone with more knowledge might just drop official llvm binaries in /opt and compile the packages they want rather than rant about them not being available via a package manager. Distribution provided packages are a convenience, not a necessity.
It sounds like this distribution doesn't meet your expectations, and likely isn't a waste of time
Tannenzaepfchen@reddit
I didn't even heard of that before