• @hardcoreufo@lemmy.world
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    31 year ago

    Started on the 'buntu in 2005 or 2006. Distro hopped for a decade until I found Solus. That had some dark times a few years ago but seems to be back now but I moved to Debian anyway. Feels right.

  • @captainnapalm83@lemmy.ca
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    21 year ago

    Fedora on lappy 486, Nobara dual boot on compy 386.

    Might pick something else for compy though. Don’t really game on it with Linux since my games are Windoze only (iRacing)

  • Chemical Wonka
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    1 year ago

    I’m using Arch Linux as my daily driver, my previous distro was Void for quite a while. After Void I tried out Fedora but I hated . Right now I’m testing Guix on a virtual machine too

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        Endeavour has basically all the pros of Arch without the challenges. Most times I just want to do some gaming with minimal fuss so for me it’s perfect. I can still tinker when I want to.

        I think they’ve standardized on KDE Plasma and Wayland (though I still recommend X11 for stability) as the default but last I knew they offered current builds for almost every DE, which again just saves hassle if you prefer another.

        I used Manjaro previously but it seemed too disconnected from Arch / the AUR, so it felt like a crapshoot on whether certain package versions would work or whether the Arch wiki was relevant.

  • @HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    21 year ago

    I started with some UMSDOS-based “full X11 desktop in 5 floppies” distro on a 486, then went through Slackware, RedHat 5 with glibc breakage, actually bought a SuSE boxed set in the 7.x era, mostly stuck with Slackware unril I realized I wanted stuff like Steam and perhaps some degree of dependency resolution is nice. Bounced off of Arch (the AUR is a terrible concept IMO) and ended up on Void, which gives me Slackware-like vibes, but a little more built for broadband instead of CD images. Been trying Debian Sid latrly, just because I put it on my new laptop and I figured I’d go consistent, but I’m not sure I’m sold. Everything works, but even for an “unstable”, the packages are dated and I dislike systemd on principle.

    • @bitwaba@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      What is it you don’t like about the AUR?

      I run Arch but don’t install anything from the AUR unless absolutely necessary (or if it is dead simple enough for me to understand). I find the pacman-only experience makes a great stable low effort stable PC with all the latest bells and whistles. System updates on the weekend, once a week. No problems.

      • @HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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        11 year ago

        I guess I was startled when I went for my go-to desktop (fvwm) and it wasn’t in the main repo, but the AUR.

        It feels like it means they’re not actually maintaining a lot of their package pool, just tossing it off on third parties.

        • @bitwaba@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          Interesting. It looks like there’s a couple criteria to get something into the Extra repository, but the primary one looks to be a ready and willing package maintainer. Sounds like that hasn’t happened yet for fvwm.

  • @luciferofastora@lemmy.zip
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    61 year ago

    I’m far from OG, unless you count my dad’s SUSE that I “used” as a child for a while. I fondly remember SuperTux. But I didn’t really interact with the system much beyond starting games or a browser.

    Later (about six years ago, I think) I started dual-booting Ubuntu as a side piece for productive stuff while gaming on Windows. Gradually tried gaming on Linux too, then made the jump to Linux (Ubuntu) exclusive late 2021.

    Since a recent PC upgrade, I’ve used an additional disk to try Nobara and am happy with it so far. I’ve now got a spare disk and more time to try new distros, so I plan to explore the distroverse some more, but all in all I’d consider myself more of a newcomer or at best a resident than an OG.