• snor10@lemm.ee
    24·
    1 year ago

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

  • Randy_Bobandy@lemmy.ml
    18·
    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.

  • Kullback@lemmy.world
    161·
    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.

      • Ricaz@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I thought Lemmy was another excuse to never do research on my own. Please explain so I don’t have to leave Lemmy

        • Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          It’s usually recommended to read the Arch news before doing an update because if there are any known issues they will be reported there. However, I’ve been using Arch now for a few years and I’ve never encountered any issues during updates (I know that others have not been so lucky. There was an update that caused grub to break for many that I recall, but I wasn’t affected by it.)

          • Ricaz@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            Ah lol totally missed what you meant. Yeah I used Arch since 2010, so I went through the big ones like switching to systemd, moving to /usr/bin, etc.

            Never had any issues that couldn’t be easily repaired from an archiso, and you learn from them every time!

            Also there are tools to warn you when updating after a news article has been posted, but I enjoy living on the edge.

            • Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ml
              1·
              1 year ago

              Ah lol totally missed what you meant.

              Oh, I wasn’t the person you were originally responding to. Just someone that came by later and had an answer to what I thought the question was you were asking.

  • lunaticneko@lemmy.ml
    14·
    1 year ago

    I swear that when I was a student, my department had a good mix of distros.

    • Most students were on Ubuntu and Mint VMs.
    • Students in system or HPC labs had to learn CentOS. However, my entry condition to my lab was to install FreeBSD as a guest on VMWare ESXi. Everything must be specifically partitioned and must be done in one sitting. (This happened illegally in the server room. I could not exit and hope to reenter, hence the rule.)
    • Enthusiasts learn Debian.
    • I don’t know what happened to SlackWare people.

    Kids these days? WSL or Mac.

    • Shinra_K@kbin.social
      11·
      1 year ago

      I’ve seen many comments about Manjaro, what’s the deal with it? I used it shortly a few years ago but I didn’t liked it

      • Nyanix@lemmy.ca
        81·
        1 year ago

        My wife and I haven’t had any issues with it, they’re just easy to paint as the bad distro because it’s supposed to uncomplicate Arch for your average user, but has had some certs fall through the cracks and they had kind of an asshole response to address it (thank God Gnome and Linux devs are never contentious folks), and apparently people don’t read the warnings about enabling AUR in the package manager. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not the perfect distro, but it doesn’t deserve nearly as much hate as it gets. It’s not Canonical, pushing Amazon and telemetry by default 😆 besides, it’s got some cool features out of the box like one of the better default dualboot grubs I’ve seen by default, the ability to have multiple kernels installed simultaneously from multiple streams, and while it’s common anymore, was one of the early adopters of providing Nvidia drivers on install. Lots of people have strong opinions on what distro is best, and Manjaro manages to be an easy one to point fingers at.

      • s_s@lemmy.oneEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Manjaro piggybacks off of Arch and some Arch users want to be obnoxious about it.

        There’s nothing wrong with the distro, itself.

        The maintainers have done some inconsequential noob-ish things with the site’s website, and the in-house package manager (pamac) had a bug that took down the AUR once and Arch users that couldn’t host their own website if they wanted to like to point fingers and troll.

  • caephi@lemmy.world
    13·
    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
      8·
      1 year ago

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

      • caephi@lemmy.world
        4·
        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
          1·
          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.

    • Lotsen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      41·
      1 year ago

      If you want a EAVEN more windows like distro I will recomend nobara. The official version is a windows 7 styled gnome and it is based on fedora.

      • caephi@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        i havent really looked into that, been mostly researching debian based distros specifically ubuntu and it’s bunch since a lot of recommendations go to it. nobara looks interesting for the big gaming spin it has though i’m still iffy on being at home with linux for games, but from the outside looking in things like proton seem to be doing a lot of good in that space recently.

        • phar@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I started with Mint and then moved on. Honestly I think Debian based ones are not nearly as good as Redhat or Arch based. You can get easy to use versions such as Fedora or Manjaro without being a headache at all, and their systems are superior to PPAs (which in itself is far superior to windows updating). Obviously my opinion is not the end all, but I highly recommend branching out a bit and trying things with the different base systems. I thought Debian was the bees knees, then tried the others and really haven’t looked back.

    • Gotoro@lemmy.world
      2·
      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
        2·
        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

        • Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          It is a common misconception that rolling release distros are inherently less stable than other distros. My experience has been exactly the opposite. I’ve used, for extended periods, Ubuntu, Manjaro and Arch. Both Manjaro and Arch were far more stable than my experience with Ubuntu. With ubuntu, every time I had to do a full system upgrade it was a crapshoot about whether or not I would be spending the next day or two fixing my system. But with Manjaro and Arch, it’s never a full system upgrade, as long as you are doing updates regularly, they tend to remain small and manageable.

          I’ve never had an update brick my system on Arch and have never felt the need to restart from scratch because an update went to shit. But that was an experience I was getting used to on Ubuntu.

          Disclaimer, this is just my experience, and your own mileage may vary.

        • 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.

    • kryllic@vlemmy.net
      2·
      1 year ago

      Using Mint right now, started off with Kubuntu but decided to stick with the Gnome desktop environment for a bit, at least until KDE works out some of its kinks lol. I will say, KDE worked better with my drawing tablet than Gnome so…

    • DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Getting the damn thing to install was a total nightmare for me .

      The instructions on their site had nothing step by step, -still no idea how to work checksums- so I had to figure out how to get an ISO onto a flash drive (turns out it needs additional software), how to get it onto the hdd without bios access (thanks Windows 10), then fight through tpm errors.

      Hell, even having to torrent the file in the first place was a pain since the machine I was installing on didn’t want to download the ISO.

      Took me all morning, but could’ve been worse in my mental fog, I guess

    • 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).

    • 10issues@lemmy.world
      41·
      1 year ago

      Bro, I spent so many hours a few years ago getting a hannah montana stick up to date so I could prank a co-worker… I was second shift and watched the first shifters roll in. I know this is a joke but man I learned a lot that night.

  • zmej420blazeit@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 year ago

    I don’t criticize, I just give fair warnings. I want people to enjoy Linux like I do, not call me every other week because something is “broken”

    • ManaBuilt@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’d say unless you’re an advanced user looking for something specific, it’s between Ununtu and Red Hat, and even then I’d argue that Red Hat is more for business and Ubuntu is great for home / casual use, but they’re both excellent!

  • Relax4939@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    1 year ago

    How cheap can i build a linux pc if i dont want to game on it? Just browsing, maybe play some videos from youtube every now and then. Mostly browsing and using excel etc for work, no gaming at all.