The kind that pretends he understands the terminal output before entering “Y” after pasting in a decade-old user script suggestion on stack exchange.
Well at least you’re not entering “Yes, do as I say!”
lol … i still cant believe LTT did that.
Ah, normal computer user then.
I use Termux on android just to have some console experience.
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
I’ve yet to encounter a problem with mint I haven’t been able to solve with some googling and chatgpt. I love it.
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.
I know you’re not impressed that I use Ubuntu but it’s not Windows, and I can’t be bothered to learn a damn thing about how to operate a system.
If Ubuntu works for you then keep rocking it
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.
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
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.Could you translate this to stupid please
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.
That’s pretty good.
I’m gonna piggyback your analogy:Ubuntu is like an aftermarket car company that put in their own engine. They’ve started putting locks onto things, and when you ask them to install certain options, they say “yes, here you go” but secretly put in a worse version of that thing that only they can fix.
Then you take it to a shop and say “please fix this part, it’s one of these” and they say “that’s clearly not what’s in here, you’re on your own”.KDE and Gnome are like different consoles and steering wheel, if you could bring those with you into your next car. If you’re used to where the buttons and knobs are, you have the option to bring the whole thing over into a different car.
So if im most used to windows i should try debian with the kde stuff? Whats wine in this metaphor? Is that the same thing as kde?
Not sure this metaphor can be stretched enough to shoehorn wine into it.
Wine is just an application and it’ll work in any desktop environment (KDE, Gnome, etc), and it allows you to run Windows applications. Think of it as an application that lets your system pretend it’s actually Windows
(and for the pedantic neckbeards: yes I know this sounds like I’m calling wine an emulator, which it isn’t)
I’d say Debian with KDE would perfectly fit your use case and level of experience.
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.
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.
That’s Linux and I say it counts :3
Lubuntu brother reppin’
My poor 2011 laptop is begging for the sweet release of death, but not before Linux keeps performing CPR on it.
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.
See? That’s that I’m talking about. Good ol’ red-blooded Linux user.
You’re not meant to operate the system. That’s what the operating system is for, silly
insanely based
Shoots you and rolls you into the pit of bodies.
Why is nobody saying opensuse… I’m afraid
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.
Mint is a noob distro. I’m a linux user for nearly 30 years. I run Mint (on my desktop), because I can’t be arsed fixing something that works.
This is the most accurate chart I have seen so far; I can relate to all of them except NixOS, because I have tested it only briefly in a container.
I first settled on Ubuntu and than moved from that along the chart and I am know in the Debian phase for my main distro after ~10 years with Gentoo.
For others I recommend Fedora or Debian depending on their needs and skill. Arch has no place for me anymore. I can live with Ubuntu on servers, if someone else had it already installed, but I would never use it on a desktop. But Debian is a default on servers/VMs for me, too. And: I can see, why people choose rocky on servers. I am partly responsible for some rocky servers and they seem to behave nicely.
Add a 3rd Dimensions and you will find BSD chads laughing at us from their jail’s
They should laugh. When I switched from FreeBSD to Linux felt it like such a downgrade.
Im curious what you felt was a downgreade. I think its much better designed but I feel it lacks so many more features vs modern Linux
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.
ah yeah that makes sense
change it just works to “m’lady”
ssh root@host rm -rf /
Fedora, simple, consistent, versatile, up to date.
Servers - Debian
Daily driver - Fedora
Right?
I use Gentoo on my mail server because I’m too lazy to learn a new distro.
Debian
Enough said.
Debian on my production servers, Arch Linux as my daily driver, Linux Mint on the devices I manage for normies.
Fedora on my servers, fedora as my daily driver, fedora on the devices I manage for normies.
fedora for when I want to hit print and see my networked printer automatically
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.
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.
same
EndeavourOS cause I wanted to instantly hop arch from windows but am also lazy 🦥
Dad energy. Debian + XFCE. Get off my lawn.
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.
EndeavourOS is home for me. 💜
It’s a bucket list item to someday have a pull request merged into a branch of the Linux kernel.
I was once the first to report a bug in the kernel. I’m still pretty proud of it.
