That's a badass cape cloak.

I am sorry, but that notebook is way too modern for a proper Gentoo user. Anything above 500MHz is wasted energy with useless kernel flags

+1 for Dr Pepper
-1 for non Lenovo machine

I resen.... Shit he even has a DrPepper. I guess I need to wash my cloak.

Hoodie, MX Master and Gentoo, that's literally my old stack, except it was a desktop not laptop.

Genuine question: is that cloak yours and how did you make it?

Had gentoo as my daily driver for years, then it turned out that I was worse at optimizing my system than the debian guys who create distros professionally, so I just... stopped.

Spent too much time fiddling with gentoo because it was fun, now I'm on fedora because it just works and is modern enough.

(The amount of time spent fixing my system once I discovered "breakmygentoo" we probably shouldn't talk about)

I just assume that everyone arguing over distros has been using Linux for less than 3 years. If you're an experienced user you're just happy more people joined the cult community.

Same here, except on servers, where I prefer debian.

Because I'm old and tired, and I just want to install and be up and running in as short of a time as possible without dicking around.

Probably why you can sleep like a baby.

Same conclusion for me. Been using Linux for years, Mint is the only distro I've used that #JustWorks in my experience.

I use LMDE as my personal laptop, it's rock stable.

I have yet to encounter a use case where I would need anything other than Mint.

After 20 plus years of Linux I also really love using mint on any machine with a screen. My servers are all Debian based but my desktop and laptop are mint it just works

Also, not sure how using arch is equal to the picture, not sure if that's supposed to be a trans girl, an e girl, or something else. Using arch is more like a mechanic with a car that breaks down every time they change anything.

Yep, been on Linux for 10 or 12 years now, I honestly can't remember. Distro hopped at first, then I found Mint and never saw a need to change.

I'm in an organization that helps people install Linux on their devices, and we collectively decided to install Linux Mint. I never used it myself, and to me, the distribution doesn't matter too much.

However, I was negatively surprised that Linux Mint decided to mix closed-source proprietary software together with open-source software: http://packages.linuxmint.com/search.php?release=alfa&section=import&keyword=

They also advertise them in top positions on their package installers, which also doesn't show the packages licenses anywhere. To me advertising them and mixing them like they are the same is bad... They also don't offer ways to filter them out... So... while I still install LM for others, I'm not a fan....

I installed it last week. If just kinda works, is there supposed to be something bad about it?

NixOS

Speak for yourself, asymmetry is awesome :3

Same. I feel well represented as a Debian user.

The real life Benjamin Button

What a fantastic image!

sparkling arch, sparkling fedora, and diet arch

Yeah. Surprisingly cachyos had the largest userbase om steam after steamos

Migrating my workflow to NixOS right now, and it’s really made me realize just how good Arch Wiki is. NixOS and Nix are a bit disjointed in terms of documentation and learning resources. But Arch Wiki usually helps me gain intuition for which software does what and what traits I’m able to configure.

Non-Arch-Linux Linux users should absolutely consider the Arch Wiki when troubleshooting or learning about the Linux ecosystem! I’m not sure there’s a better broadly-applicable resource out there.

There's dozens of us! Represent!

Beautiful

Same. I feel accurately portrayed.

Give it time...

Hell yeah! Programming socks are overrated.

Maybe zorin OS. I think that mint is still popular with new Linux users though.

Mint is for people doing other things IMO (that fiddling with different os and such). It just works (tm).

I came to say excactly that.

It's pretty underrated, it's like Mint or Pop but with KDE (and therefore better) and better optimization if you buy their hardware.

I use OpenRC btw.

Yeah this is a disservice to Tumbleweed. I would have accepted a double chin, but the triple chin is going too far.

The combination of those three people in the meme would be... Interesting

So you're a trans Fedora wearer with a triple neckbeard?

No, an old person in diapers

Ummm accccctually it’s a trillby.

I wear a fedora, and I've used nearly any and all distros as my daily driver, except fedora.

It's so confusing.

Hats are also just super uncomfy and mess with my hair.

I too am new to Linux and love mint

Hey, how did you take a picture of me 🤨

God I wish

if I use both Fedora and OpenSUSE, does that make me a triple neckbeard in a bunny suit?

Furry.

(It's me I use Bazzite)

Why is everyone always saying I am old and boring. I am not on Slackware????

I think we NixOS users get grouped in with Arch. Same socks, different colors.

And the even more glorious, guix

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. All I see are legs that have never completed a single squat.

Ya my thighs thicc so they just won't stay up

I just switched to debian after the last AUR issues.

I recently decided to set up CachyOS after a long break from Linux. I was kind of astounded at the experience of using an Arch-derivative. I went back to Debian the same day. Sometimes shit just works fine even though it worked fine 20 years ago.

Yeah, well I'm a Mint baby. I have to rely on the Debian users to take me to a Mint baby playdate.

It's upsetting. Maybe I'll go cry about it...

Six feet under

I always felt that the default package situation for Ubuntu was far better than Debian's. Like, no, I don't want to set a root password and then manually install sudo or doas after and then add myself to the relevant group and then remove the root password...

Ken actually uses Debian, at least he said so in an interview a couple of years ago.

Old neck beard with trans socks.

That would explain a lot about me...

squirrel

Mint user and the image is perfect. This is because Mint allows me to rest like a baby that has all their needs met, free from anxiety.

Linux mint user here, I'm using it because I can't be bothered to spend my precious few spare time on fixing things my OS decided to break. I want something that just works, and mint fits the bill, and comes out of the box with most of the things set up how I like.

Debian… Gonna go out on a limb and say nobody uses debian on a personal machine

All of my personal machines run Debian.

EDIT: Well...I have Termux installed on an Android device as well. I guess that could be considered a Linux distro.

Debian is for when the other distros have failed you and you're too old to deal with that shit anymore.

Gonna go out on a limb and say nobody uses debian on a personal machine.

Sending this comment from a Debian desktop system. And it's running oldstable, because that's how I roll!

I was a mint user, a year later I am a void user and am trying other distros on other machines and plan on trying more OSes. First thing I did was learn to customize my cursor with custom icons I had from windows which took me days because I didn't know how to use the terminal. I somehow used flatpak wrong???

I am sure it is different for long term users but it was a good start and fun learning experience. I mean don't get me wrong I am still dumb but a bit less.

@TheGingerNut @cannedtuna ZorinOS user detected

In a cave with a box of scraps and a thousand yard stare.

They were still trying to piece together the camera.

Dancing in the server dungeon.

The arch users are also bottoms.

Don't take it too seriously mate.

Yeah, SUSE is a very competent server distro, basically RHEL/Alma/Rocky for Germans. Neckbeard maybe for Tumbleweed, but that still feels too normie compared to Arch, Void etc.

I almost got void fully installed and working
I just wanted my new replacement laptop up
I gave up 🥹

Did you use the XFCE version? I did so (XFCE musl*) on an old machine, had a bit of trouble with the partitioning at first (had to try the live image a second time because new changes weren't working) but ultimately worked fine. Seems to run fine, then again I wanted XFCE anyway. Install octoxbps and you can use that for installing/updating software as well.

Though post-install I did notice some dependencies being missing when installing some software, and packaging seems weak (like no optional dependencies like Arch has). So I haven't committed to it on my main machine**, though I guess I can test it to see Void's long-term updating experience (though the live image being from ~6-months ago probably says enough).

* because I am actually interested in this for compilation, and it actually is a use-case for an old machine

** outdated Arch... a bit of friction with my non-fiber internet, legacy GPU (1050Ti) drivers on AUR is a no-go for me

well...

source: overweight bearded nerd with glasses using opensuse

I can confirm that with a fresh Zorin install to replace windows 10, I am/will be one of the described persons. So far my qwant searches and AI searches have kept me off the forums, but I know the day will come.

Reminds of the ol' Churchill line... "Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the other types of government."

Behind suse

Yeah OpenSuSE should just be a tumbleweed picture. Aren't we all tumbleweeds at heart?

Yeah this is the first time I've seen this attribution, no idea where it's coming from.

Put the app into a docker container?

I dunno, put it in a VM on a much newer distro?

Im trying to imagine what software is so obscure no one has updated it or ported to another distro, but is important and good enough that you use it for 70% of your comluter time.

Even (often, especily) extremely old programming languages and stuff are still maintained by someone

Distrobox?

I rarely have to troubleshoot. The only issues I've run into lately is the package manager (pacman) refusing to download an updated package. Refreshing the mirrors or a quick internet search is usually enough to fix that.

From my experience, the only times troubleshooting is needed is if you tinker with things or use programs outside of the package manager.

As far as I can tell, the first thing you have to do as an Arch user is convince yourself that you're smarter than the package maintainer.

It isn't an issue. I just left Arch because the AUR seems to be imploding. And without it Arch looses one of its big advantages.

I update weekly ish and very rarely have issues. And if I do it's the usual suspects hyprland, pw, proton and video drivers.

You can either lock these and make them not update as frequently or use more stable software instead.

I personally like the troubleshooting because it means I'm learning something so that helps.

[ps. preface warning: dangerous whimsy here... rtfm... don't dive in eager and blind and then "break" your system and come blame me.]

Debian user here. I want to switch to arch but dont want to troubleshoot my pc after each update. How do u folks deal with that?

I don't [switch]. Instead I [(having already thoroughly read through all the documentation several times)]

• go to https://bedrocklinux.org/
• click on Installation Instructions
• click on the first from here link
• scroll down select the correct line for my architecture, e.g. https://github.com/... and paste it to a terminal as target for wget, wget https://github.com/bedrocklinux/bedrocklinux-userland/releases/download/0.7.31/bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh
• make it executable chmod +x bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh
• run it ./bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh
• run it again remembering the need to add --hijack
• run it again remembering the need to run it as root. (... I know, I could just remember to do sudo and --hijack first time, but I like this silly ritual).
• and type in the "Not reversible!", knowing how non-trivial a change to my operating system is about to happen in an instant.
• reboot
• enjoy seeing the new init select screen after the grub screen (albeit with only one option yet)
• once back at a tty or once back in gui with a terminal emulator (... maybe after some more configuration tweaks, e.g. in /bedrock/etc/bedrock.conf), brl fetch arch
• et viola, done. can do sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade ; sudo pacman -Syu.

... And more likely I'd do brl fetch void ; brl fetch gentoo ; brl fetch -r ceres -n ceres devuan ; brl fetch artix. But ^ that's for if "I want to switch to arch but dont want to troubleshoot my pc after each update."

Could also do frequent brl copy arch arch-fallback-(date) or some such, so then if something goes wrong with an upgrade, you could just carry on unperturbed, or even disable the stratum that had something go wrong, or even delete it, and brl rename arch-fallback-20260806 arch, and carry on with your day, sure it'll resolve the upgrade properly next time tomorrow. ;)

But of course, this is a bit overkill, like starting a huge complex science and production logistics project just to crack a nut.

But it is my honest answer of how I deal with that. ;)

It's got a lot of rough edges on desktop compared to Ubuntu, hence the old joke, Ubuntu is preconfigured Debian

Baby.

The ultra neckbeard has a SUSE logo, there's no gentoo in the pic

I didn't think it even applied to suse