• Reliant1087@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Except for Manjaro with their expired certs and DDoSing AUR. Or niche remixes that don’t patch stuff and don’t have a warning saying that our stuff is old, don’t use it if you care about that.

  • snor10@lemm.ee
    4·
    1 year ago

    Ahh yes, Good Guy Greg. Just like the good old days, I’m loving the nostalgia of these vintage memes.

  • Kullback@lemmy.world
    41·
    1 year ago

    Everytime I mention Linux in the outside world, people’s brains freeze and then I get questions. I need a better social circle.

  • Leyla :)@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    First time installing Linux? What the fuck is this Ubuntu shit, that distro sucks. You really should try out Gentoo as your first distro.

    Can’t believe I fell for that as a kid. Wasn’t even my first distro, but Gentoo for beginners is just hilarious

    • MashingBundle@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Gentoo is the final boss of Linux installs. (Linux From Scratch is the raid boss)

      I installed it last year. After watching it compile for half an hour, I decided that a source-based distro was something I have no interest in daily-driving.

      • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
        01·
        1 year ago

        Learn a dynamic lazy functional programming language first and then start building a flake without much help or documentation because that’s what you should be doing and the default installation doesn’t use that mechanism. The docs you find will assume you understand category theory already.

        About few years later you are a god and there is no way you’re going to use anything else ever again.

        Source: been a user for the past four years.

        • Hizeh@hizeh.com
          2·
          1 year ago

          I understood maybe three things in your reply so NixOS probably not for me.

  • caephi@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    i’m about to take my first peek into linux on mint. i’m not completely put off learning some new things but being able to do that in a desktop that is familar makes everything a lot easier to pick up on. who knows, if it all goes smoothly maybe next week i’ll be running arch (i won’t)

    • Venomnik0@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Mint is honestly the best one to go for really especially since everything just works there almost.

      • caephi@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        just works “almost” is pretty funny but i know what you mean. i wasn’t having much trouble with it testing it with a virtual machine. the nice thing is a lot of the applications i use on windows are already free software that im realizing are a lot of the go to’s for people running linux, so really a lot should “just work”

        • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
          11·
          1 year ago

          I’ve been using Linux on and off for ~15 years and I run Mint on my main desktop PC just because it’s so intuitive and stable. I want my gaming PC to “just work” and not need any tweaking, so Mint is perfect.

    • Camelbeard@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I used mint for a long time, the only reason I switched is that my Nvidia card was preventing mint to boot/install on my new laptop. I didn’t want to spent hours on it tried a few distros until one worked (Manjaro). I like Manjaro now, but might have to try mint again (laptop is a few years old so it will probably work now).

    • Gotoro@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      Arch is easy enough to install. If you ever get tired of overhead, ala all the apps on the OS which you never use, just start from scratch. It’s not hard to install the base, desktop envo + a browser and start from there. The cleanest desktop you can imagine and probably the resulting OS too

      • caephi@lemmy.world
        0·
        1 year ago

        arch is interesting to me and i’m not too worried about the install, the rolling releases and stability of the system are what i think would snag me in using it. though the minute regular updates are probably more an issue for people who delve into the system more to get the absolute most out of it. it’ll be more stable, works out of the box-type distros for me while i get a grasp of things like the file system and using the terminal. but i do think the setups people post of their riced out installs look pretty cool ngl

        • Gotoro@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          The rolling release being unstable is wrong. You don’t get the “dev” version of update with bugs and instability, you get a proper update, just in small increments usually. A lot of people who actually run arch will tell you the same, sometimes it’s even more stable than the major release type systems.

  • Randy_Bobandy@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    I know enough about Linux to be able to install most distros and use them, but I don’t know enough about them to criticizes others for their choice.