I am a Debian unstable user who used to use Gentoo, the reason I stopped using Gentoo is revdep-rebuild. Do not want to do another revdep-rebuild ever again.
That’s mostly replaced by
emerge @preserved-rebuildnow.Slackware was my first distro more 25 years ago! Good times.
Me too! Well, technically Yellow Dog Linux, but that lasted all of two weeks.
Real men use Slackware. Obviously.
Fedora with AUR would be ideal for me. I’ve had too many random issues running Ubuntu and ubuntu-based OSs and while I like the simplicity of Debian, its too… little? for what I’m looking for. Arch and arch-based works great, but most are KDE and I would need to make a lot of changes out of the box before I can start using it (the default pdf viewer for KDE is nicer that Evince (the pdf viewer packaged with most gnome DEs) but I can’t print off some pages in e-books whereas Evince allows that)
Fedora server be Ballin tho
What do you mean “most are KDE”? Arch doesn’t even include a DE when you install it. If you don’t install one during install, then you’re greeted by a terminal when you reboot. I’ve been using Gnome on Arch for 2 years without issue.
My bad, arch-based distros.
Quick attack users of the most popular distro before normal people start using Linux! We can’t allow a good, stable and perfectly usable distro to get popular, we need to bully everyone back to windows or terrible things might happen like the year of they Linux desktop!!
Quick Attack? Like the pokeymun move?
It’s not very effective.
XD
Debian is for people who have shit to get done and don’t care about a neon colored wallpaper, mostly don’t have a wallpaper at all.
Real Chads don’t use a DE.
It’s a lot harder to get Nvidia drivers working on Debian than any other distro I’ve tried including Arch. Every issue besides that one I’ve ever had in Debian, I was able to fix.
How so? If you have non-free enabled, shouldn’t
apt install nvidia-driverwork?I’m about to get a chance to try it on a different pc (M5A am3 with a Titan X), but on a x79 motherboard and a 1080ti, that doesn’t work. After installing that, I do get the Nvidia x server but when I open the program, it’s an empty window and something is obviously broken. I installed Arch on the same pc and it was even easier to get Nvidia drivers working than on Ubuntu.
Default wallpaper FTW
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
Artix for desktop, Alpine for servers.
Now you made me look up Artix. Which is 81 in the top 100 in Distrowatch. Oh, it’s a fork of Manjaro/Arch. I liked Manjaro on my ARM Laptop. Most software I use is easier to install from .deb or .rpm though so I tend to stick to Debian-based. https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20210308#artix
Artix is a fork of Arch that uses different initialization systems such as Open-RC instead of SystemD. Artix exists because people believe that SystemD is bloated, which it arguably is. And that SystemD doesn’t respect the Unix philosophy.
Yeah, I grew up with SystemV init in AT&T System V in the 80s and variants. The needed to learn systemd which I now understand.
What are the consequences of systemD being bloated ?
Increased memory usage, increased CPU usage, it might get in the way if you’re trying to set something up too. General consequences of ‘bloat’.
The only benefit you’ll really notice with other systems is much faster boot time, the memory is only like 30MB maybe.
Do you mean the increased memory/CPU usage is for the entire session ?
The memory usage is as Systemd has lots of daemons and services running the background. The CPU usage uplift is mainly during boot, as Systemd is sorting itself out.
I see ! Is this a concrete issue, as in does your system stall easily ? or is it more ideological ? Sometimes it’s difficult to make sense of that as a layman
How is Gentoo keeping it simple?
I think the insinuation of the gigantic brain is that it’s not
Simple is unfortunately the negation for complicated and complex, which are slightly different things. Ubuntu is not complicated, but complex. Gentoo is complicated, but not as complex (at least it can be).
lol aren’t complicated and complex synonyms (as adjective)?
No, there’s a pretty important difference.
For me it was Ubuntu straight to CentOS, then settled on RedHat
You used CentOS as a desktop? That’s Gentoo level of commitment.
redHat is dead to me.
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I’m on Ubuntu. A week ago I had to look up how to use a python script. I wouldn’t even hide porn that much.
Mint: wait, what district are you using?
Mint Cookies :)
Linux from scratch users : 🫣🤪🥵🤯😭😭😭☠️👹
Usually we fall into the arch (btw) category
I spend more and more time after each new fedora install to get it perfect. There are so many small tweaks i gotta do that I might just learn NixOS
Is this the best this sub can do? Just rehashed “I use x btw” memes ?
Please don’t be a Reddit user here. this is just a joke :)
Debian: “I’m a Docker container”
