Lol. Arch for desktop, Debian for servers is where it’s at, IMO.
Debian is great for gaming too
I find gentoo to give a very debian like experience in alot of ways, although I suppose it does use a lot of time which is what this is on about.
I only use gentoo on my laptop (where I never leave the tty) so it’s not as big a deal, with the largest package being gcc.
Overall based meme.
I think I’m stupid as I don’t get this at all. I’ve never used a distro that doesn’t work. They all work. Some are more advanced, some are more stable, some are more polished, some even look and behave like Windows, but fundamentally they are work.
You want to get defederated?
Yes
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No time for distrowars
…says the guy that makes a meme shitting on users of every other distro.
While at the same time not even using the meme format correctly.
I see this always get commented, but I don’t get it, what’s the right way to use it?
In this meme template both the lowest and highest IQ should say the same thing
Ahh, makes sense, but is it really wrong? To me it’s just a different kind of joke
I mean… Ubuntu is kinda-sorta just Debian with extra steps.
Right, I think there’s another bell curve meme to be made here
Lmaoo, moar recursion!
goodun
Omegalul
The way memes work, yes it is wrong. Memes have a core structure or theme that variations are made around. Changing that core only really works if making a new meme or if making intentional commentary on the original meme itself. In this case by having nothing more than their preferred ranking of distros the creator has actually made themselves the target that the original meme would be making fun of.
I‘m 14 and this is deep, linux edition. :)
Heh I went straight from Fedora to Debian. I’m 7 months late to this meme in true Debian fashion.
As an Ubuntu weanie why should I swap?
There is nothing wrong with using Ubuntu if it works for you.
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It is okay, just us what you like. There is no need to change your distro just because others are
Ya for sure. Buuut I’m not afraid to hear some passionate opinions about things if anyone has them haha
Non rolling release distros for your desktop makes no sense.
Don’t. It’s good.
I’ve been more of a Kubuntu guy in the past tho.
Most distros really aren’t too different fundamentally, so if you’re happy where you are there isn’t much reason to switch. It can be fun to swap just to see what’s different (and learn what differences are really just skin deep), but you don’t have to. Some distros have more big ideas behind them which can be interesting (like nixos) but mostly they all feel pretty similar.
You don’t need too, Ubuntu is perfectly fine if it works for you.
If it works for you, you shouldn’t
I mean, you’re right.
But….
…… let’s be honest. There’s no reason not to try some variety.
(Yes I have usb keys of All the good ones…)
it can get resource hungry but nothing even close to windows.
But as others said: Try another distro if you like to try new things - otherwise just use what works for you.
Yea that makes sense. I’ve been curious about Arch given how many resources there are for learning it. Weirdly enough I know two people who have tried it, one said it was the easiest setup they’ve ever done and the other said it bricked their laptop.
If you want to try arch I recommend EndeavourOS. It’s as close as you can get to vanilla arch without doing all the compiling yourself.
bricking a laptop with linux is incredibly unlikely.
Making the system unbootable so you need to boot from USB to fix it otoh… not so much.
Remind me what the two on the right are.
4th is Gentoo. 5th is Debian’s logo inverted, so I’m not sure if that’s supposed to be Debian or a derivative that I don’t know off hand because there are so many.
I thought it was the debian logo , mandella effects tho :O
From left to right: Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, Gentoo, Debian
Gentoo and Debian, https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logo_Collage_Linux_Distro.png
The rightmost is Debian, not sure about the other one though.
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Depending on the situation, you could maybe partially adopt. My team at work uses the package manager on macos
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This was me, except I went straight from Ubuntu to Debian. At some point I wondered why I was doing all this manual maintenance. I realized that Ubuntu relies on Debian and so I switched. Haven’t looked back.
My last Ubuntu install would break my shit all the time. Debian is so much more reliable it’s incredible. Haven’t had to mess with anything in almost two years on my debian install whereas Ubuntu required constant maintenance.
It’s a shame Ubuntu’s so popular because Canonical seems to be absolutely awful at testing their package updates compared to any other common desktop distro. I’ve had far fewer issues with Debian, Fedora and SUSE
Interesting. I‘ve installed ubuntu server on my homeserver and added a couple of services like two years ago. I‘m constantly improving stuff and so far, nothing went wrong. I also had a couple ubuntu servers at work, no issues like ever.
I also installed ubuntu desktop recently and it’s a little buggy (my fault as I didn’t use the lts version I suppose).
For me it was Ubuntu straight to CentOS, then settled on RedHat
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redHat is dead to me.
You used CentOS as a desktop? That’s Gentoo level of commitment.
XFCE Debian is my perfect OS. Just does what I need and that’s all. Why look anywhere else?
For some reason my TV could only do 30hz with XFCE but 60hz with GNOME. I never figured out why. If anyone has the answers, feel free to share. I just gave up and used GNOME lol.
x11 vs Wayland?
XFCE was my DE of choice for a long time, it’s very practical.
I did xfce for a long time and really enjoyed it. Then I did some hopping to try out tiling, and found paperwm. For me, its just a much better experiance for the way I work
As a Mint user: What do those symbols even mean? (or: “Distro? What’s a distro?”)
A distro is the distribution you want to use for an OS when it comes to linux such as fedora, Ubuntu, mint, arch etc. the symbols are the icons for the individual OS’s
Wooooooosh
Distro swapping is a rite of passage. The grass is always greener. Until you settle and stopped caring about the OS at all. Which is why I went back to Windows (7 at the time) mainly for gaming compatibility.
Proton got me hnnng tho I’ll definitely be giving either Endeavor or OpenSuse a go when I build my next computer. Rolling distro sounds like a “set it and forget it” thing and I like that.
Yeah but BTW on Arch the grass is always evergreener.
Been trying out EndeavourOS in a VM for a bit. Might be my next home if I don’t fall back to good Ol Reliable Debian.
I’d say EndeavorOS is the way to go. So far I haven’t had nearly as many issues as I had with Manjaro
Installing a new distro feels so good to me, makes me happy. I love messing with the settings and stuff, trying a new desktop environment messing with the native apps. Man I love it.
I’m using OpenSuse’s Gecko with rolling release. It’s beautiful.
That “new distro smell” 😊
New distro smell hahah exactly, that’s perfect.
I started with Arch and loved it but just recently switched to openSUSE and it might be even better.
Garuda linux. I’m running the dragonized gaming distro and have fallen in love with it. A buddy turned me on to it a few months back and it’s perfect. Runs all my steam games through proton like a champ.
I got everything working great in Fedora with Proton, even my nvidia drivers. Then, a buddy had an idea that we all get and play MWII, which can not run in proton, now I’m back to windows
This is where keeping a pocket Windows dual boot is handy. Probably kept just big enough for two games tops.
