• @[email protected]
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    12 years ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    122 years ago

    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.

  • Eochaid
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    No time for distrowars

    …says the guy that makes a meme shitting on users of every other distro.

  • ian
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    Heh I went straight from Fedora to Debian. I’m 7 months late to this meme in true Debian fashion.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      22 years ago

      It is okay, just us what you like. There is no need to change your distro just because others are

      • DreamButt
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        32 years ago

        Ya for sure. Buuut I’m not afraid to hear some passionate opinions about things if anyone has them haha

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      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.

      • FuglyDuck
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        72 years ago

        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…)

    • @[email protected]
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      112 years ago

      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.

      • DreamButt
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        82 years ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 years ago

          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.

        • @[email protected]
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          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.

  • @[email protected]
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    202 years ago

    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.

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      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

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        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).

  • WetFerret
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    XFCE Debian is my perfect OS. Just does what I need and that’s all. Why look anywhere else?

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      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.

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      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

    • @[email protected]
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      142 years ago

      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

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

    • andrew
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      72 years ago

      Yeah but BTW on Arch the grass is always evergreener.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        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.

        • Corroded
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          32 years ago

          I’d say EndeavorOS is the way to go. So far I haven’t had nearly as many issues as I had with Manjaro

    • Fernando-678
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      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      I started with Arch and loved it but just recently switched to openSUSE and it might be even better.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      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.

    • Loudambiance
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      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

      • @[email protected]
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        This is where keeping a pocket Windows dual boot is handy. Probably kept just big enough for two games tops.