Installation Routine Choosing A Desktop

[speden]

Basic info:

I'm not a new Linux user but not an expert either. I'm currently using Mageia Linux on a daily basis. This is more of a summery of my experience using Anarchy for the first time.

Anarchy version:
v1.0.5

Installation method (VM/Host):
Installed to HDD separate partition, using the ISO on thumb drive.

System specifications (Processor, GPU, RAM ...):
Dell Optiplex 760, Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB ram

What you expected would happen

Since this is my first time trying it, I installed on a partition (/dev/sda8) instead of the whole HDD. I wanted to try the Openbox Edition.

What actually happened

Once I booted and went through all procedures up to choosing environment, I picked OB but then needed to choose Back to check something before continuing. Once I continued with the installation and rebooted, for some strange reason, I was in the Budgie Edition instead of Openbox Edition. After noticing it was not Openbox, I decided to continue to use Budgie, since it is a very nice desktop setup.
After updating the repos and adding my personal touches to it. Once I did my first reboot, which was the next day after installing, I received the "Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover.
Please log out and try again."
I'm not able to troubleshoot and solve it at this point. But using OB I'm able to log into the system with no issues. It is not the OB Edition but what I installed manually.

Also doing installation and when it get to the grub portion, is there a way to have it notice another distro is installed and ask the user if he/she wants to install Grub or Skip it. I was able to get back into Mageia and reinstall it's grub as the main bootloader.
I did check online and other support sites but nothing to help me figure out my issues.

Thanks for the time and I am still enjoying using Anarchy with Openbox.

[erazemk]

I'll look into the first issue, but regarding the checking for an existing bootloader, Anarchy does check for and supports dualbooting with Windows (using os-prober), but I'll have to check if os-prober supports other Linux distros and how we can configure it as such.

[speden]

Thanks for the reply. I do not use Windows on this machine. During the grub installation, it did pick up my other distros installed and added them to the menu. But I did not want to use Anarchy's grub bootloader. If possible, give the user the choice to either install grub or do not install it.

One odd thing I saw with Anarchy's boot menu, it listed Anarchy as Arch Linux. Once I switched back to Mageia's boot menu, it was listed as Anarchy.

[tyway9]

I faced the same issue twice today with Budgie. I was installing Anarchy latest and choosing Budgie - I tried both full version and the plain version. The installation goes through but when trying to log in with user id and password I get the above error as mentioned.

[FredBezies]

I faced the same issue twice today with Budgie. I was installing Anarchy latest and choosing Budgie - I tried both full version and the plain version. The installation goes through but when trying to log in with user id and password I get the above error as mentioned.

Known issue. Budgie is busted with gnome 3.34. You have to wait for a fix from Solus coders.

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63849

[speden]

I would like to remove Budgie and install Xfce4. How do I install xfce4 anarchy edition from the commandline? Also, maybe you could add a notice on the website mentioning for new users not to choose Budgie at this time. Just a thought.

[erazemk]

You can download the git repo and manually move the dot files from extra/Desktop/Anarchy-xfce.

Also most users don't check the website or readme before downloading and installing Anarchy, so that wouldn't do much good. I'll hide the option to install Budgie and we'll try and release a new version soon.

[speden]

Sorry for my inexperience but I'm new to git. I know how to clone the git repo but not sure on installing xfce from it. To do this do I installed xfce first with pacman and then DL the git repo and copy the dotfiles to ~/.config?

[erazemk]

Once you have cloned the repo, go into the Anarchy-xfce folder from before and you'll find a .tar.gz file in there.

Use any program to extract the file and then press "Ctrl+h" to see hidden files (inside your file manager). You should see a .config folder. Go into that folder and move all the files/folders inside it to your ~/.config/ directory.

So yeah, you pretty much do what you wrote, you just have to extract the tar.gz file first.