I would never criticise someone’s distro. As long as it was arch built without any scripts.
This pleb didn’t even write his own kernel.
If you don’t use Linux From Scratch, why do you even bother?
I’d rather be waterboarded
Deal!
Just did that for the first time today and the second, third and ,fourth time aswell
Everytime I mention Linux in the outside world, people’s brains freeze and then I get questions. I need a better social circle.
Amogos is the best just saying🙄
sus
AmongOS is dead 😭😭😭
Distros are like Kinks. I have my own and you have yours, I won’t judge.
Except for Manjaro with their expired certs and DDoSing AUR. Or niche remixes that don’t patch stuff and don’t have a warning saying that our stuff is old, don’t use it if you care about that.
Ubuntu 🤮 if I wanted to be tracked by Amazon, I would have a registered address.
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And doesnt tell you to “just google it”
Ah “just google it” also excellent for making a hostile work environment too.
i’m about to take my first peek into linux on mint. i’m not completely put off learning some new things but being able to do that in a desktop that is familar makes everything a lot easier to pick up on. who knows, if it all goes smoothly maybe next week i’ll be running arch (i won’t)
Getting the damn thing to install was a total nightmare for me .
The instructions on their site had nothing step by step, -still no idea how to work checksums- so I had to figure out how to get an ISO onto a flash drive (turns out it needs additional software), how to get it onto the hdd without bios access (thanks Windows 10), then fight through tpm errors.
Hell, even having to torrent the file in the first place was a pain since the machine I was installing on didn’t want to download the ISO.
Took me all morning, but could’ve been worse in my mental fog, I guess
Mint is honestly the best one to go for really especially since everything just works there almost.
just works “almost” is pretty funny but i know what you mean. i wasn’t having much trouble with it testing it with a virtual machine. the nice thing is a lot of the applications i use on windows are already free software that im realizing are a lot of the go to’s for people running linux, so really a lot should “just work”
I’ve been using Linux on and off for ~15 years and I run Mint on my main desktop PC just because it’s so intuitive and stable. I want my gaming PC to “just work” and not need any tweaking, so Mint is perfect.
I used mint for a long time, the only reason I switched is that my Nvidia card was preventing mint to boot/install on my new laptop. I didn’t want to spent hours on it tried a few distros until one worked (Manjaro). I like Manjaro now, but might have to try mint again (laptop is a few years old so it will probably work now).
If you want a EAVEN more windows like distro I will recomend nobara. The official version is a windows 7 styled gnome and it is based on fedora.
Arch is easy enough to install. If you ever get tired of overhead, ala all the apps on the OS which you never use, just start from scratch. It’s not hard to install the base, desktop envo + a browser and start from there. The cleanest desktop you can imagine and probably the resulting OS too
arch is interesting to me and i’m not too worried about the install, the rolling releases and stability of the system are what i think would snag me in using it. though the minute regular updates are probably more an issue for people who delve into the system more to get the absolute most out of it. it’ll be more stable, works out of the box-type distros for me while i get a grasp of things like the file system and using the terminal. but i do think the setups people post of their riced out installs look pretty cool ngl
The rolling release being unstable is wrong. You don’t get the “dev” version of update with bugs and instability, you get a proper update, just in small increments usually. A lot of people who actually run arch will tell you the same, sometimes it’s even more stable than the major release type systems.
Ahh yes, Good Guy Greg. Just like the good old days, I’m loving the nostalgia of these vintage memes.
bro in a world of scumbag steves it feels good to see a ggg
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Yeah, Lemmy right now reminds me a bit of that era of the internet. It’s strangley nostalgic.
It’s mostly all Debian based, so it matters little.
I will, however, warn them about Manjaro, fuck it.
I’ve seen many comments about Manjaro, what’s the deal with it? I used it shortly a few years ago but I didn’t liked it
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My wife and I haven’t had any issues with it, they’re just easy to paint as the bad distro because it’s supposed to uncomplicate Arch for your average user, but has had some certs fall through the cracks and they had kind of an asshole response to address it (thank God Gnome and Linux devs are never contentious folks), and apparently people don’t read the warnings about enabling AUR in the package manager. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not the perfect distro, but it doesn’t deserve nearly as much hate as it gets. It’s not Canonical, pushing Amazon and telemetry by default 😆 besides, it’s got some cool features out of the box like one of the better default dualboot grubs I’ve seen by default, the ability to have multiple kernels installed simultaneously from multiple streams, and while it’s common anymore, was one of the early adopters of providing Nvidia drivers on install. Lots of people have strong opinions on what distro is best, and Manjaro manages to be an easy one to point fingers at.
There are legitimate criticisms of Manjaro, and these days there are better options like Archinstall or EndeavorOS, but yeah it’s mostly just become a popular distro to shit on.
Canonical deserves way more hate than the Manjaro devs tbh.
Manjaro piggybacks off of Arch and some Arch users want to be obnoxious about it.
There’s nothing wrong with the distro, itself.
The maintainers have done some inconsequential noob-ish things with the site’s website, and the in-house package manager (pamac) had a bug that took down the AUR once and Arch users that couldn’t host their own website if they wanted to like to point fingers and troll.
I use Arch btw.
How do you know when someone is a
veganArch user?Iusearchlinux.fyi
There’s HUNDREDS of us! HUNDREDS!
Just read the news feed, folks
I thought Lemmy was another excuse to never do research on my own. Please explain so I don’t have to leave Lemmy
The arch wizard who introduced me to ubuntu
Arch linux is the gateway drug that leads to NixOS
How is Nixos? Are there clear advantages over a traditional Linux distro?
Learn a dynamic lazy functional programming language first and then start building a flake without much help or documentation because that’s what you should be doing and the default installation doesn’t use that mechanism. The docs you find will assume you understand category theory already.
About few years later you are a god and there is no way you’re going to use anything else ever again.
Source: been a user for the past four years.
I understood maybe three things in your reply so NixOS probably not for me.
First time installing Linux? What the fuck is this Ubuntu shit, that distro sucks. You really should try out Gentoo as your first distro.
Can’t believe I fell for that as a kid. Wasn’t even my first distro, but Gentoo for beginners is just hilarious
Gentoo is the final boss of Linux installs. (Linux From Scratch is the raid boss)
I installed it last year. After watching it compile for half an hour, I decided that a source-based distro was something I have no interest in daily-driving.
Y’all should call your friends out on this sort of stuff but jabbing at each other is a useless practice that only serves to ruin trust, add frustrations and is just a generally douchey behavior to encourage. Nobody likes being harassed for their choices, esp. when they’re subjective
Do y’all Linux people have a lot of friends?
