What did yall end up settling on?
Am I the only one here that uses their computer instead of fucking with it?
When I was a kid I just fucked with it and had a great time, now I’m too old for that
I mean… uh… no comment.
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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.
Yes
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 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
Aren’t mint users supposed to reinstall when it’s time for a major version update, anyway?
Last time I think it updated through the update manager. Might have reinstalled itself in that process.
I don’t think that’s how that works Ü
I think one of the whole reasons the mint team stick with Ubuntu is it grants them the ability to use the kernel manager which makes these things more seamless.
Sure, but that’s not what “reinstalling the OS” means in general use. I’m talking specifically about the kind of reinstall that overwrites everything on your root partition, and doing that for major updates seems to be a fairly common recommendation for certain kinds of distros; MX Linux says to do it like that, too.
Yes
The seventy-tooth
I can’t tell whether this is hilarious or I’m exhausted, because I’m crying from laughter
Debian for the 72fth time.
Ubuntu 7.04 -> 7.10 -> 8.04 -> 8.10 -> 9.04 -> 9.10 -> 10.04 -> 12.04 -> 14.04 -> 16.04 -> 18.04 -> 20.04 -> 22.04 -> 24.04 -> Fedora J/K Ubuntu 26.04
I like how sh.itjust.works
Haha, I feel that switch to LTS only releases. I was upgrading to every release in the beginning as well but it started to get old real fast. I run Mint nowdays. In the early days I loved testing new distros and tweaking around with my system, but after over a decade working in tech the last thing I want to do in my free time is have to fix my own computer.
Hell yeah! I was using Ubuntu 10-14 in college and now back on the train with 24, 25 and 26. Everything just works every time and all the professional apps I need are first class citizens and well supported.
Ubuntu Server, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are my server distros of choice as well. FreeBSD for a NAS. Gotta pick the right tools for the job!
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.
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.
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.Since when has apt had ads? That’s horrendous. How have I never heard of this?!
Since at least 3 years and 9 months ago.
The message I recall was different though, it was advertising Ubuntu Pro for better security updates. All it did was make me feel like I’m using an insecure system.
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
I 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.
Arch. Would love to find something better but I can’t.
same. not having those big version updates and having control over everything i want from the start just feels so good
and how incredible stable it is
ubuntu > fedora > manjaro > endeavor > arch > fedora > arch > nixos.
started in 2015 with ubuntu, started distrohopping in 2019 when i upgraded from laptop to desktop, but ended with nixos 3 years ago
CachyOS. Everytime I stray away from Arch, it always finds a way to pull me back in.
At least we can distro-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.
I’m a gamer who recently switched to Cachy and honnestly it is by far my favourite yet. It runs so smoothly without feeling bloated and it’s perfect for someone like me who feels too noob to try pure Arch.
Pure arch is fine, don’t let internet idiots scare you. Just archinstall it, you don’t have to do a manual install. I reckon have a crack at a manual install for learning purposes if your curious.
I had a look at cachy in a VM it seems very similar to me. I used that Shelly gui thing I kind of like it but every now and then I like to manually install the vulnerabilities directly from AUR and npm.
I have this handy little bash function, I think you should use it.
get-english-ordinal-ending() { case "$1" in *11 | *12 | *13) printf 'th' ;; *1) printf 'st' ;; *2) printf 'nd' ;; *3) printf 'rd' ;; *) printf 'th' ;; esac }This gets it wrong for the seventy-secoth item.
The urge to downvote something you really shouldn’t have never been so strong.
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
Why settle? Software is a continually evolving ecosystem and grafting yourself to a certain distribution model or distribution team doesn’t really make sense when you consider that. Some distribution might have the best things for you, today. Tomorrow, another may come along and do it better, or your current distribution may shift to not be to your liking anymore. Be flexible, but don’t change for the sake of change. Change for a good reason.
