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| softwares:niente:neninstall [2026/02/08 19:34] – [1.0 Operating System Support] hjr | softwares:niente:neninstall [2026/02/08 19:35] (current) – [1.0 Operating System Support] hjr |
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| * Tier 1: Used by me daily, on real hardware, extensively tested, guaranteed to work | * Tier 1: Used by me daily, on real hardware, extensively tested, guaranteed to work |
| Tier 2: Used by me infrequently, only in virtual machines, lightly tested, tested extensively in the past, things will almost certainly work | * Tier 2: Used by me infrequently, only in virtual machines, lightly tested, tested extensively in the past, things will almost certainly work |
| Tier 3: Hardly ever used by me and then only in virtual machines. No testing done, unless specific issues are reported, but has worked in the past just fine, so things ought still to work, too | * Tier 3: Hardly ever used by me and then only in virtual machines. No testing done, unless specific issues are reported, but has worked in the past just fine, so things ought still to work, too |
| Tier 4: Thought to work, and tested to work in the past, but you're really on your own. | * Tier 4: Thought to work, and tested to work in the past, but you're really on your own. |
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| Putting specific, named distros into each tier goes as follows: | Putting specific, named distros into each tier goes as follows: |
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| Tier 1: AlmaLinux 9 and 10; Raspberry Pi OS, Fedora, Linux Mint, Apple macOS | * Tier 1: AlmaLinux 9 and 10; Raspberry Pi OS, Fedora, Linux Mint, Apple macOS |
| Tier 2: Debian, EndeavourOS, Ubuntu | * Tier 2: Debian, EndeavourOS, Ubuntu |
| Tier 3: OpenSuse Leap & Tumbleweed, GeckoLinux, Arch, Manjaro, Garuda Linux, Devuan, Linux Mint Debian Edition, Peppermint OS, MX Linux, AntiX Linux, Pop! OS, Linux Lite, Zorin OS, Elementary OS, KDE Neon, Tuxedo OS, Nobara, Ultramarine | * Tier 3: OpenSuse Leap & Tumbleweed, GeckoLinux, Arch, Manjaro, Garuda Linux, Devuan, Linux Mint Debian Edition, Peppermint OS, MX Linux, AntiX Linux, Pop! OS, Linux Lite, Zorin OS, Elementary OS, KDE Neon, Tuxedo OS, Nobara, Ultramarine |
| Tier 4: Windows | * Tier 4: Windows |
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| Every listed distro did run Niente perfectly at some time in the past and, if the distro developers haven't messed around with core libraries too much, they should still work. However, only those distros in Tier 1 will receive extensive real-world testing from Version 4.04 and up. Other distros will receive either light-touch testing to make sure most things seem to work fine (Tier 2), or will only be tested on-demand by users reporting specific problems (Tier 3). I've provided some distro-specific notes and gotchas elsewhere. | Every listed distro did run Niente perfectly at some time in the past and, if the distro developers haven't messed around with core libraries too much, they should still work. However, only those distros in Tier 1 will receive extensive real-world testing from Version 4.04 and up. Other distros will receive either light-touch testing to make sure most things seem to work fine (Tier 2), or will only be tested on-demand by users reporting specific problems (Tier 3). I've provided some distro-specific notes and gotchas elsewhere. |
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| Niente does not work on the Solus Linux distro. | Niente does not work on the Solus Linux distro. |
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| Niente has been extensively tested on the following 'main stream' Linux distros (the links take you to distro-specific installation notes and observations): | |
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| * Arch | |
| * Debian | |
| * Ubuntu | |
| * Fedora | |
| * openSUSE Leap | |
| * openSUSE Tumbleweed | |
| * RaspberryPi OS | |
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| If your chosen distro is based on one of these 'parent' distros, then Niente will likely work on it, too. Thus, in the Arch family, Niente has been tested to work on Manjaro, EndeavourOS, Garuda Linux and Bluestar Linux. In the Debian family, Devuan, Linux Mint Debian Edition, Peppermint OS, MX Linux and Antix Linux have all been confirmed to work. Practically everything based on Ubuntu is known to work: Linux Mint, Pop!OS, Zorin OS, Tuxedo OS and several others have been given the intensive testing treatment. Not many distros are based on Fedora, but Nobara and Ultramarine are all known to be fine. And so on. | |
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| If you are running Windows 10 or 11 on a 64-bit CPU, you can install the **Windows Subsystem for Linux, Version 2** (WSL2) and, within that environment, install a Linux distro of your choice: at that point, though your main OS is Windows, you'll be able to install and run Niente in the context of WSL2 as successfully as if you were running the equivalent Linux distro as your main OS. You will first need to install WSL2, for which [[:semplice:installWSL|this article may be helpful]]. After that, you can follow the standard Niente installation process (see Section 2 below) to get Niente running. You might also want to consult [[:semplice:winsemplice|the Windows-specific installation notes]] for some tweaks and workarounds that will be needed to get Niente working well on this Linux-on-Windows platform. | |
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| I should add that Niente is **technically** unsupported on Windows 11, in the sense that whilst it runs perfectly fine on my various Windows 11 installations, I don't actually own any hardware that is officially supported for running Windows 11 itself. I can't really say I support running Niente on an operating system that I cannot myself get official support for! Nevertheless, I //have// installed it on Windows 11 on officially-unsupported hardware and it ran perfectly well, except for its CD ripping capabilities (which require direct access to the CD drive, which is unavailable in the Linux environment). Whether that will always be the case, I cannot say: you're basically on your own with Windows 11! | |
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| Niente does **not support** running on anything to do with Apple. Neither will it work on the Solus Linux distro. | |
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| ===== 2.0 Installation ===== | ===== 2.0 Installation ===== |