What did yall end up settling on?
Am I the only one here that uses their computer instead of fucking with it?
I settled years ago on a setup I like, but until that point I bounced around like a rubber ball. That said, my current setup is built on Ubuntu and I think it’s about time to switch to Debian to get rid of the corporate bullshit.
Yeah I’m a mint guy and I might switch to lmde, but not anytime soon
Yes
Ubuntu -> Mint.
Mint works for me. So, I use Mint.
I suppose it’s partly because I’m old and have built something like nine PCs for myself over the years, and the novelty of all that wore off long ago. I just want something that works.
I’m a big fan of boring, tbh. It works. What more could I need.
I used to distros hop a bunch, not so much anymore.
Not really much point for me these days, arch based distros are so well documented that I can change basically anything I want without reinstalling the os, and Debian is similar for my homelab servers.
I mean… uh… no comment.
Found ninajirachi’s alt account
When I was a kid I just fucked with it and had a great time, now I’m too old for that
Yes
The seventy-tooth
I can’t tell whether this is hilarious or I’m exhausted, because I’m crying from laughter
CachyOS. Everytime I stray away from Arch, it always finds a way to pull me back in.
Debian for the 72fth time.
Went back to Ubuntu after laying off of it for a while. Now that I’m used to not using Windows, I feel like trying either Arch or Cachy though everyone keeps raving about Bazzite.
Man, I don’t miss windows. My laptop works better without it. Idk what the hell windows does but my internal wifi works better than it did with windows. A 750mbps USB adapter was needed and my 1200mbps internal wasn’t able to capture my 5G internet from 2 rooms away from the router.
I install Ubuntu and I can use my laptop in the shitter/3 rooms away for the router. All or most of the streaming is 720hd or 1080hd and it loads. IT ACTUALLY FUCKIN’ LOADS.
So far my personal favourite is manjaro. I always liked Arch based distros and Manjaro has done a great job at pre configuring everything. Manjaro also came with zsh as the default shell and I really liked that.
On servers: Red Hat -> Debian (with a brief detour through Ubuntu Server for a couple of years).
On desktop: Red Hat -> Ubuntu -> Manjaro.
Switched away from Red Hat around 2004 after RHL was discontinued and split into RHEL and Fedora. You may think Fedora would’ve been a more obvious choice but it was still new in 2004 while Debian had 10 years under its belt. We also migrated the servers at work to Debian around that time and I had used Debian at school in the '90s so it made a lot of sense to use it at home.
Ubuntu on desktop was a fucking revelation when it came out (on CDs shipped free to your home 😃) in 2004. Early days Ubuntu was soooo good that I stayed with it until 2020, long after the magic was gone.
I mean I would’ve probably left eventually anyway given the whole snap and privacy and so on debacles but what really put me off was how it would almost never upgrade cleanly once you’ve added a bunch of 3rd party repos (which you wanted to do all the time on a desktop PC). Eventually I got so sick of it that I was determined to find a rolling distro where upgrades would never be a problem.
Tried a bunch of them during stay at home during the pandemic and settled on Manjaro + XFCE on the desktop and a fresh install of Debian stable + Docker on the server as a happy medium between “hands off” and “up to date”. I’m at a point where I like my Linux machines to just work and to need zero maintenance so I can put the time into other things instead.
I didn’t realize WHAT the problem was, assumed it was just Linux in general. But that’s my experience with Ubuntu, too.
Been with it since the beginning, it was one of my earlier introductions to Linux. But I could NEVER upgrade cleanly. I was always reinstalling. And yeah there are easier ways to do that too but for a noob I struggled.
That kept me dual booting Windows, or for a good number of years running mainly Windows.
But last year I went atomic fedora bluefin on my new laptop, and I love it. Slightly more restricted, and a couple issues with flatpaks, but the stability is top tier.
I still run Debian on my prox VMs, and I keep a win 10 ltsc VM on there too for the rare program that doesn’t play nice, but otherwise I’m all Linux now.
My first Linux experience was Ubuntu 10.04 32 bit I got from a CD out of a magazine from barnes and noble and it blew my mind. I had so much fun learning everything about Linux and I think I even got oblivion running on WINE, which was a nightmare compared to how easy games run on proton nowadays.
Those were the glory years for sure. Now I run Arch and want a “just werks” experience. It’s why I use unRAID for my server.
How is Unraid? I’ve been meaning to build a backup PC for my folks out of spare parts and I’ve been wondering what I should install on it.
I’d like it to start with a couple of mirrored HDDs, and have two writable Samba shares. One for random stuff and discardable stuff like music and movies, and one for important files where they’d put their photos and documents and which would get incremental backups with something like borg.
I can set this up on Debian ofc but it’s not a bad idea for it to be an OS that doesn’t need arcane knowledge to add/replace HDDs when needed.
Distro hopping sounds like too much work. I went from mint and was happy on that for years, then I went to Debian and I’m happy here. I’m curious about Fedora but not curious enough to be bothered with a new install.
I’ll live vicariously through others
Debian (for 2 days because I broke it) -> Mint -> Arch (for an hour) -> CachyOS. I like Cachy and it has been half a year. With the package optimization I don’t really see myself switching to anything else.
Arch. Would love to find something better but I can’t.
At least we can district-hop. Different needs, different preferences, and we can choose what works best for us. Heck, you can even go hardcore with Yocto and create your own distro!
Compare that to the poor sods on the Apple and Windows side of the fence. They have to cope with whatever some bigwig thought was best for them. A mediocre one size fits all solution, stuffed to the brim with whatever they fancy. Including ads, malware, and AI everywhere.
Ubuntu -> Mint -> Arch -> NixOS
Ubuntu really drove me away for some time. Only when I got to Mint, I felt that Linux could be a daily driver. Arch made me strangely reinstall it every few days. Not by not working but by having the feeling of dirtying the machine on use.
NixOS is really what I want to use the rest of my life. Very complicated on first use but definitly worth it (for me).
Yeah, I bounced off NixOS for a couple months before it stuck. I would switch again but it would have to be like Nix but better
Fedora ended that for me. It has mostly what I want and is just kinda comfy to use.
Same. But I went atomic, bluefin.
For a stable every day driver? It’s gonna take a lot to get me to switch away.
Still Debian for my proxmox VMs though
distros i have been distrohopping on so far:
TailsOS (somewhat for the LuLs,multiple times),Linux Mint(twice, i think),NixOS,Arch (twice),CachyOS (or Distros based on ARCH),OpenSUSE(Twice)
i stuck to CachyOSI started with like, nothing, linux 0.99 on 8 floppies and X11 on like 12 floppies… then some kind of LFS, then Debian, then Ubuntu, then Mint, then MX with Xfce (since almost 10 years)
I’d forgotten about LFS. Not sure if it should even count, for me at least, it’s not like I actually used it to daily drive. But I did use the knowledge from it to make a mini bootable “rescue” distro that I would put on backup disks so they’d be self-sufficient.
Mint > Ubuntu > Lubuntu > Arch (desktop) / Debian (server)
I switched away from Canonical the first time I saw an ad when running
apt update & apt upgrade, fuck them forever.I’m sticking to Arch because its easier to install something myself than to rip apart something prepackaged.
I’m curious about trying Void.
That’s exactly what I ended up with, Arch on my gaming laptop, Debian on the server.
It is weird not having a desktop computer, but the laptop plays all the games and the server does all the rest.You might find Void too barebones but it’s nice like that. When you finish void-installer for the first time, you get a system with 144 packages only.
