If Ubuntu works for you then keep rocking it
prettybunnys 64 points 8 months ago
Denvil 1 point 8 months ago
Switched to Mint recently and had 0 problems, took no effort to make the switch at all. I still have Windows if I need it, but why would I ever need it, Mint isn't all that different from Windows, but better
sem 1 point 3 months ago
One thing that bugs me on Mint is if i drag a URL from a browser onto the desktop, it makes me pick an icon from an atrocious icon pack rather than just giving it a default weblink icon of some kind.
Redacted 12 points 8 months ago
I used to use ubuntu but stopped bc i couldnt really game without dual booting to windows anyway.
Would you recommend ubuntu now? I know linux gaming is in a much better place, it just wasnt user friendly as an OS back in 2010
Randynippletwist 19 points 8 months ago
I switched from win 10 to bazzite the hardest part of the process was remembering my steam password and finding the setting in bios to boot to the usb. Ill never buy another windows pc again.
Luckily im forces to use win 11 at work./s
MidsizedSedan 10 points 8 months ago
Its always fun to go from your smooth Linux work flow over the break, then back to windows for work.
No joke, last year. Day 1 back at work. Pop up notification about an adobe PDF subscription thing.
Emi 8 points 8 months ago
Currently running cachyOS and have almost no problem running games besides having nvidia 1060 3GB so just old hardware not for modern games. But I can probably run anything and what's not for Linux just use wine, that works much better now than I remember. Also I'm very much a noob that just can use a search engine.
caseyweederman 4 points 8 months ago
There's no reason to choose Ubuntu over Debian these days, and plenty of reasons to use Debian over Ubuntu.
For context, Ubuntu is based on Debian, so most of the stuff under the hood is the same, but Ubuntu keeps forcing background decisions about things that are not always in the user's best interests.
As for user interface, if you're used to Ubuntu with Gnome, try Debian with Gnome. If Ubuntu with KDE, try Debian with KDE. That way you get a familiar desktop environment and a sensible base OS.
WiredBrain 4 points 8 months ago
I'm no expert, but here's my working knowledge: If Debian is the engine/frame of the car, KDE and Gnome are different versions of the body/interior. KDE looks more like windows, Gnome looks more like macos or andriod maybe? Standard Ubuntu does aftermarket mods to Debian with Gnome.
NutinButNet 2 points 8 months ago
Debian is your most basic Cheerio cereal. Cereal in a bowl with milk and a spoon. Ready for you to eat.
Ubuntu came along and is all that plus berries, bananas, sugar, and many other toppings. They also give you a fork and knife if you want to eat using those as well as a napkin.
If you like bananas on your Cheerios and nothing else, I mean, sure you can go with Ubuntu and get bananas on your Cheerios with milk and a bowl and spoon, but many people prefer to just go with Debian and then add bananas on top on their own because they don’t want everything else that comes with it. They may not hate it, it’s just going to be a waste of food to get all that extra stuff and have to remove it after the fact.
For some people that only want bananas, they’ll go with Ubuntu because adding bananas on your cereal involves opening the banana and using a knife to cut the banana into slices. Ubuntu may use a machine to cut your bananas into perfect, equal slices, so some people want to go with Ubuntu for those reasons, whether it be because they’ve done the legwork or because they did it in a way that is the most clean method whereas you doing it ended up with you needing to redo the process 3 times and now you have little bits of excess bananas from your past failed attempts and not doing the best job cleaning it up.
TL;DR: Ubuntu took Debian and added a bunch of stuff on top of it for their users. Some people like Ubuntu because of that and it makes it easier because Ubuntu included everything whereas some people want the source Debian because they will add their own stuff on their own the manual way.
highball 4 points 8 months ago
I gamed on it when Proton magically made it so games I bought on Steam worked. Otherwise I just gamed on an Xbox before that. I only recently switched to popos, (still gaming on it). I started on Slackware 3.4 and switched to Ubuntu in 2006-2007. I think as long as you aren't on the LTS version, you should be good. In any case, it's not a permanent decision and seems like every distro is crazy fast at installing these days. Worth a go whatever you try or where ever you land.
Flames5123 2 points 8 months ago
I’m on Kubuntu and loving it. The most I’ve had to go for a game on steam is change a compatibility tool (literally right click and click a checkbox and dropdown). Final Fantasy XIV (MMO) was mostly straightforward, but I had very specific mods and 3rd party tools I wanted, but they all work still after going down a mostly straightforward rabbit hole. Not a lot of weirdness there, just learning how to mod on Linux.
PhobosAnomaly 7 points 8 months ago
Lubuntu brother reppin'
My poor 2011 laptop is begging for the sweet release of death, but not before Linux keeps performing CPR on it.
kittenzrulz123 3 points 8 months ago
That's Linux and I say it counts :3
Codilingus 3 points 8 months ago
Shoots you and rolls you into the pit of bodies.
varjen 2 points 8 months ago
If Ubuntu works for you then that's good. Don't listen to the gatekeeping weenies who shit on people for not using arch or whatever. Most of them haven't built their os from source and are just roleplaying having a unix beard.
Omega_Jimes 2 points 8 months ago
My university had the head of cyber security for a bank over to talk about pen testing, and one of the questions he got was "What Linux distro do you use at home." He said Ubuntu, because he wants a system that's stable and has support. If it works, it works.
varjen 2 points 8 months ago
I think it was the general lack of consistency. Everything felt a bit messy. This was almost 20 years ago and back then the BSDs had some features that were missing in Linux.
sexhaver87 7 points 8 months ago
Keep it simple, stupid!
underscores 2 points 8 months ago
change it just works to "m'lady"
certified_expert 1 point 3 months ago
I'm a normie among the nerds...
AkatsukiLevi 47 points 8 months ago
boot
open librewolf
open neovim
code my silly lil' Dreamcast stuff
close neovim
play quake arena
shutdown
wildbus8979 16 points 8 months ago
What do you code for the Dreamcast?
AkatsukiLevi 20 points 8 months ago
I'm doing a small racing game inspired by Aerogauge(N64)
ATM its a proof-of-concept esque... demo... ish... thing, for the DreamDisc '25 jam But after the jam, do want to continue developing it and make it a full game
moobythegoldensock 43 points 8 months ago
Dad energy. Debian + XFCE. Get off my lawn.
BurntWits 3 points 8 months ago
I’ve been considering this actually.
On my main pc, which I mostly use for gaming, I’m running CachyOS, which was great when I actually had time to play games, but I’ve got a kid now and just got promoted to manager so I don’t really have a lot of time these days. I have a second pc which is technically a laptop but the battery is completely gone (and it’s also somewhat old now) that I’ve been planning on using more for office-y stuff. I’ve currently got it running Mint but I’m heavily considering hopping to Debian.
Maxxie 32 points 8 months ago
I'm the kind of user that spends a whole weekend to fix a driver issue for an obscure 2000s sound card, then proceeds to erase the entire process from memory to repeat it from scratch on a new system next year.
Endymion_Mallorn 28 points 8 months ago
I'm a Mint user, because I don't want to use Windows 11, and I realized that about 95% of what I was doing on Win10 was FOSS. The only thing I miss is Notepad++.
NewOldGuard 11 points 8 months ago
You could try Notepadqq, which is similar and runs natively on Linux
Edit: just learned this isn’t actively maintained anymore :/
Endymion_Mallorn 4 points 8 months ago
Honestly, I think gedit might be the best play.
NewOldGuard 8 points 8 months ago
True, or Kate, definitely solid
Tippon 7 points 8 months ago
I'm using Mint too, and have tried installing Notepadqq and Kate. Notepadqq just crashes immediately even with the fixes I found online.
Kate is really good, just be aware that the version in the Mint repo doesn't save the session automatically. It can save it, but only manually, and only for saved files. It doesn't recover files that haven't been saved yet like Notepad++ does.
Endymion_Mallorn 8 points 8 months ago
The only way I interact with Wine is through Bottles, honestly. It just doesn't seem worth the trouble to go through all that for a text editor.
Australis13 3 points 8 months ago
I have it running with Wine on LMDE6. Only thing that doesn't render properly are the individual document minimise/maximise/close buttons.
Rhaedas 3 points 8 months ago
It works, but it's a lot slower and clunkier. And looks worse. Probably could improve with some tweaking, but I don't use its special features and addons that much, and gedit works quite well for me.
Digit 2 points 8 months ago
good time to go exploring others... e.g. emacs^1^, neovim, mcedit (from mc (midnightcommander)), geany, kate, nano, or even go crazy and write your own (... no kidding. I did, last year. fin)
^1^ probably best avoid emacs, unless you want it to take over your computing and your life.
Endymion_Mallorn 3 points 8 months ago
Writing a good text editor is something to be proud of, so that's awesome!
I don't use any version of Commander on this machine, and I don't plan to. I used the original from Norton back in the day, but when Windows 3 hit, I used Norton Desktop to improve it (basically into what Win95 became), and never looked at a Commander interface again - if I want two side-by-side directories, I have a windowing system. I've tried emacs and vim briefly and they're well beyond what I'm ever looking for. geany is an option, but gedit seems to be doing the job. I've never heard of kate before this thread, I'll have to look it up. Never looked at nano, but I heard of it.
Based on the interface and what I've needed it for, gedit works, and so does Sublime Text. Honestly, Notepad++ was/is my third-most-used text editor on Windows, behind M$ Edit (I have FreeDOS Edit in DOSBox) and M$ Notepad (replaced with xed, except the .LOG function, which is sorely missed). Npp is the one I use for editing HTML/XML, Excel functions, the odd Excel macro; and subtitle files, transcripts, and scripts (where line numbers matter and I need fixed-length lines). FocusWriter is #4 on both OSes.
Digit 3 points 8 months ago
Writing a good text editor is something to be proud of, so that’s awesome!
Well, proud of my accomplishment as I am, ...
I never said it's good.
It's merely usable.
And even that may yet prove debatable. ;)
I don’t use any version of Commander on this machine, and I don’t plan to. I used the original from Norton back in the day, but when Windows 3 hit, I used Norton Desktop to improve it (basically into what Win95 became), and never looked at a Commander interface again - if I want two side-by-side directories, I have a windowing system.
First time I recall anyone responding to my suggestion of mcedit in a way that looks like they know what I'm talking about. :)
gedit seems to be doing the job. I’ve never heard of kate before this thread, I’ll have to look it up.
Kate is to KDE, like gedit is to GNOME. It's been a while since I used gedit, but Kate recently [(well, a couple years ago]) inspired me to add one of it's nice features (the minimap) to my emacs.
Never looked at nano, but I heard of it.
M$ Edit
Just remembered, there's now also M$'s edit (iirc that's the name "edit") available for windows, that's basically notepad for the terminal user interface.
My "fin"'s similar (and simpler ~ because I've yet to get back to padding out its [even basic] features), in that it also uses cua keybind model (ctrl+s = save, etc).
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rustinmyeye 23 points 8 months ago
Would I be immediately shot if the answer is FreeBSD?
machiavellian 11 points 8 months ago
Never! BSD bros are fellow comrades in arms against the corpos.
BSDs get too little love imho. They have more potential of becoming complete, usable and safe OSs than most Linux distros. Wish they would be discovered/talked about as much as Linux this past year.
thethunderwolf 2 points 8 months ago
Nope, BSD is perfectly respectable
It being libre is what matters
gerryflap 22 points 8 months ago
I'm a nightmare for any IT department and software developer. I know enough to do damage, but don't have the patience and knowledge to wield this power. I go around editing shit in random config files in order to "temporarily fix" an issue and then forget that I ever did it, slowly turning and system I touch into a ticking time bomb. This also combined with my unique ability to seemingly break any piece of software by merely interacting with it, especially on Linux, before I even had the chance to install anything. I've installed and used Linux on countless devices and haven't ever had a smooth ride, yet still I'm completely daily driving Linux at this point.
I use Arch by the way :3 (and Fedora, and Ubuntu, and Raspbian, and God knows what else)
drq 11 points 8 months ago
@gerryflap Have you ever considered a career of a QA engineer?
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gustofwind 4 points 8 months ago
fedora for when I want to hit print and see my networked printer automatically
qyron 6 points 8 months ago
Debian is my daily driver and for regular people I help. Comes with a service card saying "it will work and you will like it".
I help for free. If someone does not like it, they can pay to have what they want done. But they don't get to ask for help again.
flameleaf 1 point 8 months ago
Debian is solid as fuck, perfect for work computers, but I like tinkering with bleeding edge software on the AUR in my free time.
When a huge batch of laptops at my workplace that couldn't support Windows 11 stopped receiving updates, I switched them to Mint for a drop-in-replacement that wouldn't scare them too much. Now that they're used to it Debian is probably the next step.
dangrousperson 4 points 8 months ago
same
kittenzrulz123 4 points 8 months ago
Systemd makes perfect sense for Debian, its a stable OS and systemd is objectively stable (its also more usable and easier, additionally its what every other distro uses and has the most support)
Debian is an OS for everyone that anyone can install
Digit 1 point 8 months ago
its what every other distro uses
Nope.
https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/363/
https://distrowatch.com/... (424 results btw).
surrealpartisan 18 points 8 months ago
You know, the kind that insists on using Arch, despite being slightly (or more) below the skill level one should have before using it.
HouseWolf 16 points 8 months ago
Honestly the skill level for Arch is kinda overblown nowadays.
You can use Archinstall and get a full desktop and a pretty hands off experience if you don't go around tweaking any lower level system stuff.
And if you're extra lazy (like me) Endeavour or Cachy makes the minimal setup even more streamlined with good default settings. But you still get the AUR and fast updates, which I assume it what the average user wants more than complete control over how their system is setup.
ozymandias117 5 points 8 months ago
It had an installer back in ~2009 as well.
It was removed for a few years because no one wanted to maintain it
surrealpartisan 4 points 8 months ago
Yes, you are mostly correct. In some sense, it is more a cultural thing. If your Arch breaks, the expectations for your ability to deal with it yourself are a bit higher. There are good instructions and people willing to help, but the latter (both inside and outside of Arch community, I think) may tell you that you shouldn't be using Arch if you don't meet their expectations.
Anyway, another aspect of it is the fact that with my system, I am a bit of a tinkerer.
NannerBanner 3 points 8 months ago
And if you're extra desperate, there's always manjaro. But I love it. My hardware somehow works out of the box with them. Having the AUR is definitely a godsend for some things. One day I'll likely contribute something to it as a tiny tribute back.
Does anyone who installed arch using archinstall actually use the 'i use arch, btw' meme?
klymilark 16 points 8 months ago
- Boot computer
- Steam, emacs, evolution, newsflash, and web browser auto open
- Check email
- Check news
- Cry
- Go to dropout or nebula
- Log onto Wurm Online/FFXIV/Whatever
- Do something obnoxious in emacs that could probably be done elsewhere
- Maybe tweak a config if it needs it. Haven't needed to in a year tbh.
- Shut down
- Realize I forgot to update
- Say I'll do it tomorrow Like I'm on Arch but it's a computer. I do computery things on it. Write my silly little stories that would traumatize a therapist. Do obscene things in video games.
I got really into customizing my system for a while, but now that it works I just leave it be, mostly. Most recent major change was my update command now spits out a list of packages, so if I need to reinstall I can just shove that into pacman
kittenzrulz123 2 points 8 months ago
Believe it or not, immediate execution :3
forkDestroyer 14 points 8 months ago
The kind that pretends he understands the terminal output before entering "Y" after pasting in a decade-old user script suggestion on stack exchange.
moderatecentrist 5 points 8 months ago
Well at least you're not entering "Yes, do as I say!"
Darkenfolk 2 points 8 months ago
Ah, normal computer user then.
NikkiDimes 7 points 8 months ago
Someone legit talking about being a "casual linux user" brings, in the best of ways, a tear to my eye.
CreativeCider 10 points 8 months ago
Mint. Couldn't be arsed to have anything windows like at home, because I am tormented by win11 through my job.
So yeah, mint it is. Runs my slicer, 95% of my games and emby.
I am happy
Bamboodpanda 3 points 8 months ago
I've yet to encounter a problem with mint I haven't been able to solve with some googling and chatgpt. I love it.
pinball_wizard 2 points 8 months ago
Runs... 95% of my games and emby.
Nice! Last year, I would have assumed this was hyperbole!
But I just setup Steam on my new gaming rig recently, and sure enough - at least according to Steam - I have better than 95% compatibility with Linux in my Steam Library.
I'm sure having a SteamDeck for a few years affected this %, of course.
surewhynotlem 10 points 8 months ago
I was Gentoo for a long time. I ran LFS for fun in college. I optimized and over optimized until every bit had purpose.
Now I use mint because kids take up all your time.
Someonelol 9 points 8 months ago
CachyOS based on Arch (btw). I'm somewhat of a noob power user and want the newest software because shiny. I'm not afraid to fuck up the install and start from scratch all over again because I've fucked up a dozen times already.
Bassman1805 4 points 8 months ago
- Neckbeard
- Transfem
end_stage_ligma 3 points 8 months ago
- Newbies
- Gamers
- Developers
- Sys admin
- Daemonologists
- Marxist-Linux-Stallmanists
- The NSA
- Д̶̲̈́͛͂͒р̵̩̳̰͂̐͝у̵̖͕͠г̷̬̬̐͛́
- Femboys and other Arch users
- Hannah Montana
thethunderwolf 9 points 8 months ago
I'm these 2 kinds:
- Cute queer nerd
- Stallman-like privacy and libre software enthusiast and anti-capitalist
i use openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE btw (it just works)
UnderpantsWeevil 8 points 8 months ago
So crazy that this guy built his career on being Matt Damon adjacent.
AstroLightz 6 points 8 months ago
*Matt Daemon
ArmoredThirteen 8 points 8 months ago
I'm the kind that likes to build up a lightweight system instead of tearing down a featured one to get things where I want them to be. I also want to look like a hacker at all times because I find it funny. I don't actually use my computer all that much right now because I'm in school so it's basically a glorified browser that also has games, though I do some small side projects and manage a couple basic servers with it. I may have programmer socks that happen to be blue white and pink for no particular reason I just think the colors look neat
I use arch btw
Digit 1 point 8 months ago
I also want to look like a hacker at all times because I find it funny.
^ & never need a second idiot on your keyboard again.
A_Chilean_Cyborg 8 points 8 months ago
Not that much of a computer person, just switched because the hardware requisites for cities skylines listed for Linux were lower, but with time I really got into it, I love using and ricing Linux and I'm glad I got to skip all the w11 shitfuckstorm.
Still too lazy to learn arch, currently on LMDE.
ArsonButCute 1 point 8 months ago
This kills the alpm
Canonical_Warlock 7 points 8 months ago
My favorite OS is mint because I don't care about my OS beyond it running the programs I want it to run and it staying out of my way. Similarly my favorite car make is whatever I can buy used for the cheapest and my favorite body wash is the stuff I steal from hotels.
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen 4 points 8 months ago
All I remember is not needing swap because I have 64GB of ram. Which is nice.
semperverus 3 points 8 months ago
ANYONE CAUGHT FAILING TO INSTALL THEIR BOOTLOADER BEFORE REBOOTING WILL BE TERMINATED ON SITE!
gustofwind 5 points 8 months ago
arch users just get a tattoo on their face
Zorsith 7 points 8 months ago
shrug Whatever doesn't have Snap. Currently Bazzite gaming rig, kinda want to move it to non-immutable fedora, trying Opensuse Tumbleweed on a laptop in an interest to de-US-ify my computers (1 part paranoia, 1 part fuck IBM).
NewOldGuard 6 points 8 months ago
I’m a NixOS and Sway person, with all my configs and theming set up reproducibly. I have so much confidence to experiment and tweak to my heart’s content when I can roll everything back at any time, or stand up a new system in minutes with the exact same configuration. I’m also mostly CLI based, nvim, ncspot, all of that fun stuff
JingtheMerciless 6 points 8 months ago
- Distro: Void Linux
- Filesystem: Btrfs
- Display Server: Xorg
- Desktop Manager: kde plasma
lemming741 9 points 8 months ago
- Hog: cranked
Jankatarch 5 points 8 months ago
- Thighs: high
end_stage_ligma 4 points 8 months ago
- Kernel: panicked
daggermoon 5 points 8 months ago
Arch Linux with the CachyOS repos.
luciferofastora 5 points 8 months ago
I'm the type to mess around with pipewire, break stuff, fix it, learn nothing from that and fuck it up again. I've got it doing what I want it to, and yet I wanna tinker around and probably mess it up again because I can't seem to really understand the docs or configuration files.
I'm the type to have two OS (Nobara, Ubuntu) on separate disks, then decide to rip the guts out of the second one (Ubuntu) and just use the disk for data storage (without reformatting) but keep forgetting to also delete the boot partition that no longer works anyway (because none of the system directories exist anymore) but occasionally UEFI randomly decides to boot it first and ends up with a fucked up and hopelessly confused GRUB.
I'm the type to put the second disk in fstab, then unplug it and wonder why boot is having issues loading the filesystem.
This is my primary system, so I'm just barely holding back from messing with the system itself, because I know I'll fuck up something and I'd rather still have a working system to either troubleshoot from or at least decide I'll postpone the unfucking and play Satisfactory instead to mess up my factory there.
I'll probably format my third disk again (currently Bazzite, which I never really fully set up to try at length) and try something new on there. Still haven't figured out how to make my GRUB add entries for other disk, but also, I really don't wanna touch my primary boot config.
I can't stop messing with things I don't properly understand, get impatient with trying to understand the Docu and just fly blind, with predictable results. I tell myself half the joy is in fixing it, because the second it works, I forget it all and get to figure it out again next time.
I'm the "incorrigible amateur" type.
juipeltje 5 points 8 months ago
I'd say a tinkerer, somewhat of a control freak, and i like the novelty of trying more obscure things. I really liked NixOS, but i didn't like the systemd part of it. Wanted to stick to Runit-only so went back to Void, but at this point i decided to try GNU Guix. Who knows, i might end up liking Shepherd better than Runit. I think Guix has to be the most obscure distro that i've played with so far. Luckily the documentation is great, cause the community is small so it might be tougher to find help from the community sometimes.
vithigar 5 points 8 months ago
- Luggable gaming rig: CachyOS
- Surface Go 2: Mint
- Old laptop strapped to the underside of the gaming table: Debian
- NUC home server: Ubuntu Server
- Steam Deck: SteamOS
Non-linux:
- Gaming tower: Windows
- Previous gaming tower repurposed as NAS: TrueNAS
massacre 3 points 8 months ago
That's crazy talk right there. After decades of who knows how many Linux distros, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX, AIX (and a splash of FreeBSD), the proper answer is this:
- Mint
- Already correct! >Mint
- Mint
- Mint - hardened if external
- I'll allow it
Non-Linux
- por que!? OOF... this should be Mint or really any Linux is better
- I'll allow it, though I find OMV to be better for various reasons
Not gatekeeping - just having a bit of fun. You do you, but I found it crazy supporting so many distros after all these years. At some point you go for "works great out of the box with minimal tinkering" that covers like 99% of use cases and frees up your time. That being said I'm sure I have a system or two around here still running Ubuntu or Debian or whatever that I just can't be arsed to change.
vithigar 2 points 8 months ago
I do like the dedication to Mint! To be honest it's generally my default pick if I need to slap Linux onto something. I actually tried putting it on the gaming table machine but for reasons I didn't feel like digging into it just did not cooperate, and Debian did.
CachyOS on the luggable gaming machine is mostly just because I hadn't used it before and wanted to give it a spin. So far so good.
As for the Windows machine, it's a gaming rig and at the time it was built, pre-steam deck, Linux wasn't quite yet in as good a position for that as it is now. I just can't be bothered to switch it mid-stream as it were. It's almost certainly going to be the last Windows machine I ever own though.
massacre 2 points 8 months ago
Totally get using others if something isn't working. I've been known to (gasp) throw on another distro to get past a problem until a new kernel release or bug fix comes in, but it's the rarity now. I gotta be honest that I'm surprised it was Debian which solved a corner case for your gaming table. Maybe it was a monitor issue or weird (old) hardware?
Good call on the final pass with Windows. With Steam, you really can't miss on hardly any game these days unless it's bloated with DRM, but who am I to speak - I have XBox that can actively spy on me for those DRMed games... Carry on.
vithigar 2 points 8 months ago
Old hardware is certainly possible. I salvaged it from my parents who were going to throw it out. It's got an A10-8700P and is limping along with a single 4GB DIMM. The thing doesn't even have a second memory slot.
abbiistabbii 5 points 8 months ago
I installed arch thinking it would be hard but worth it, and then I found out it's easier than I thought and now I'm having a bit of an existential crisis that I'm finding the "hard" distro to be easy.
Digit 2 points 8 months ago
Yep.
Many touted as hard, merely require a little reading and patience and following instructions.
Gentoo, GuixSD, CRUX, OpenBSD, KISS/Carbs, Joborun, DecibelLinux, Dragora, etc, aint so hard.
Exherbo though... Many times I've tried make it my daily driver, and failed.
LFS... It's hard getting through the tedium.
gusgalarnyk 1 point 8 months ago
Ya, I think the information around arch's difficulty is still rubber banding slowly. It hasn't caught up with the times tbh. I run into some issues infrequently but like so did I on Windows. It's also almost always proportional to how much I mess with the system. My mom could run Arch today if she wanted to.
thedeadwalking4242 5 points 8 months ago
Nix
The future is now old man
Digit 2 points 8 months ago
I was a rabid distro-hopper, going through several large spools of CD & DVD, before switching to USB pendrives, for countless more distro-hopppings and distro-surfings.... until 2012, when I found Bedrock Linux (at its second alpha release). Didn't need to try to find the one distro any more, able to mix several.
Bassman1805 4 points 8 months ago
sudo pacman -Syu
[No patch notes were read, zero idea what that update will do]
JayleneSlide 4 points 8 months ago
Casual AF. I'm here to get shit done, not take any shit from my OS, not pay permanent rents to run my computers*, and do things my way. Protecting my privacy, fulfilling the promise of general purpose computing, and lack of DRM are just icing on the cake.
*Totally happy to donate on the regular to the open source apps I use!
DonutsRMeh 4 points 8 months ago
Are there options to choose from?
Digit 4 points 8 months ago
a few
https://commons.wikimedia.org/... and more.
https://distrochooser.de/ & https://distrowatch.com/search.php can help choose.
DonutsRMeh 3 points 8 months ago
I appreciate the effort, but I meant for the question “what kind of Linux user are you?”
Kanda 4 points 8 months ago
I run whatever works for me. Been through most of the big variations (Debian, arch, rhel, suse), and a lot of flavours. Every once in a while I run into some issue. Sometimes I manage to fix it, and sometimes I end up reinstalling or distrohopping
otacon239 4 points 8 months ago
I’ve been everywhere from a piecemeal Arch setup with a minimal desktop all the way to a Mint pleb. I’ve pretty much settled on EndeavourOS. It’s really impressed me with its dummy simple setup and OOB experience. Not to mention very few issues getting games to run even with an nVidia card.
ellohir 3 points 8 months ago
I grew up on Ubuntu (started on 4.10), moved to Kubuntu soon after and that was my daily until KDE 4.0 broke everything. I tried GNOME and XFCE but nothing really clicked for me. I got a job, I hated coming home to more sysadmin shenanigans and I moved to Windows.
Finally after I heard that the Steam Deck and Proton working great, and after years of Windows doing bullshit constantly, I came back to Linux. This time Linux Mint because I've been told it's easy to use and has lots of support. I had trouble with the initial setup (Nvidia drivers not working with Safe Boot enabled, it took me two weeks to figure it out) but since then everything has been super smooth.
Anyway don't shoot me, I have kids, they love GCompris and SuperTux!
glorkon 3 points 8 months ago
I just want shit to work. I want to use it as my daily driver so I can get work done, not waste time to get things working. I don't want my installation to become obsolete. I want a nice desktop. I want a lot of nerdy console stuff, but good UI as well, so I can choose the best of both worlds for each use case, so I can work efficiently. I want to play the occasional game.
At the moment, EndeavourOS ticks all those boxes for me. I am aware other distros do as well, CachyOS looks nice. But I'm only gonna switch if it's really worth the effort.
AceFuzzLord 3 points 8 months ago
I'm a boring stable enough guy, which is why I like the distro on my laptop. Also, somewhat of an aesthetics person, so same goes for my KDE set up on that laptop.
Also the type to not like Cinnamon for the lack of customization compared to KDE.
Samsy 1 point 8 months ago
Yeah, reading the introduction-page actually, and got the joke now. Meta-Linux, building a system with components from all. Interesting but to much hassle. If I need something from a different distro there are tools like distrobox.
KeenFlame 2 points 8 months ago
PikaOS. I have surfed around enough to know this is made for me. It's Debian Unstable based and carries optimized builds in their own repo via a package manager that also wraps around apx, and their own tool for firmware, switching the scheduling and well, enough said
herseycokguzelolacak 2 points 8 months ago
I use Arch in my main home server that I use for AI, and Debian Armbian in my Radxa SoC (NFS). Laptop is also Arch.
MIXEDUNIVERS 2 points 8 months ago
Proxmox on my server Fedora on my workstation and Arch on my Surface 4 Pro.
Mein Moms Laptop Linux Mint My old laptop, Linux Mint. Some old laptop for testing, Linux Mint.
unemployedclaquer 2 points 8 months ago
The kind to question all the weird noises from upstairs
Solventbubbles 2 points 8 months ago
Mint on the computers I want working.
Testing Xubuntu on a chromebook that currently has no sound output.
confusedpuppy 2 points 8 months ago
I use Alpine Linux with Sway as my daily driver for browsing, writing scripts and to slowly customize my own work environment.
I have a Linux Mint DE partition that launchs directly to Steam for gaming. Tried Bazzite but the installer failed to find my SSD.
I also have a small partition that has an image of the LMDE .iso. It saves me from needing to grab a USB drive for when I inevitably fuck up the first two partitions and need a live USB environment to fix things.
I keep all my backups, music, work and sensitive data in a separate partition that's encrypted so I can easily get back to work after any fuck ups. I've had of practice fixing my own fuck ups over the past year.
stebator 2 points 8 months ago
Bazzite on my gaming PC, CachyOS on another.
Both systems are amazing! Bazzite, in particular, lets you easily install apps from almost any distribution using Distrobox. Want to install an app that's only available in the Arch AUR? No problem!
WorldsDumbestMan 2 points 8 months ago
I installed LXQt on Termux, Kubuntu on a VM, just so I could try and let an AI agent run amock on it.
t00l 2 points 8 months ago
This kind...
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inzen 2 points 8 months ago
I'm the kind that will try to install Arch from scratch, multiple times if needed and when I get a barely working desktop with Hyprland I switch to cachy os with KDE Plasma. Because that just works and I learned what I wanted from the scratch install. Edit: Anything I host probably runs Debian, anything I have to support(parrents) runs Linux Mint or Ubuntu.
NovaTheFluf 1 point 8 months ago
Kubuntu on desktop, Zorin on ThinkPad, Nyarch on surface (cuz it was funny).
Ran Manjaro for a few years, liked it, but needed something more stable.
biggerbogboy 1 point 8 months ago
I used to use fedora on my first school Thinkpad (since I recieved another when my brother graduated, becoming my second school laptop,) then after I got 2 considerably more powerful laptops for free I switched the thinkpads out of my setup, and to this day they still run windows 11 unfortunately (haven’t gotten around to it and they’re both nvidia MX business machines, so that’s not awfully ideal,) and then I converted the second Thinkpad to a FydeOS machine (basically chrome os with local accounts) to give to my mother as her own laptop, and then put chromeOS flex on a third Thinkpad I bought off a friend for $10 which remains as my occasional-browsing-but-also-throw-around-laptop that has pretty friggin good battery life.
I do plan to switch at least one of the MX laptops to Linux, for which I’m considering Pop!_OS due to driver support and GPU configuration, but I’ve still gotta back some stuff up first.
nek0d3r 1 point 8 months ago
Desktop and Surface Laptop Studio: KDE Neon, because I like when my desktop is pretty and hate when it works sometimes Homelab server: NixOS, because when it dies (for the third time) I have no plans to dispense any time setting it back up.
daggermoon 1 point 8 months ago
I thought it's dead.
Underwaterbob 1 point 8 months ago
Long term casual? I've been using it in some form since the early 00s when I installed Ubuntu 6 on an aging laptop. Currently I've got an HP Stream 13 that only functions thanks to Lubuntu, and Mint is on my work PC. Unfortunately thanks to a music hobby and a bunch of shitty VST vendors who refuse to support Linux I run Windows at home.
I rarely open a terminal.
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen 3 points 8 months ago
Casual? I only play ranked competitive Linux.
Underwaterbob 1 point 8 months ago
Well, 'casual' in that I never did get into the nitty-gritty too much. I had to learn to sling a few terminal commands for this-and-that, but otherwise I almost never touch it. It browses the web, edits documents, prints pdfs, plays audio files, and does a little video editing in Blender just fine.
If there were Linux competitions, I'd definitely be out in the early rounds.
machenni 1 point 8 months ago
@Agent641@lemmy.world openSUSE KDE kinda guy.
John_CalebBradberton 1 point 8 months ago
Bazzite KDE on my gaming rig.
SteamOS on my SteamDeck.
Fedora Gnome on my laptop.
Fedora XFCE on my Jellyfin server
Android on my smartphone though soon to be Murena OS
Would like to tinker with OpenSUSE leap soon too actually, maybe on an old laptop.
Aberration13 1 point 8 months ago
What show/movie is this from?
CrabAndBroom 5 points 8 months ago
Civil War. Pretty good movie IMO that is sadly becoming more relevant as time goes on.
Edit: Not a movie about Linux though lol
Resonosity 1 point 8 months ago
Arch, btw
(Kubuntu rly ;P)
GalacticSushi 1 point 8 months ago
Fedora KDE on my personal devices. Debian on the home server.
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