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Yeah I installed that one you’re thinking of.
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Tripleboot Debian, fedora and arch.
Things that make people not want to use Linux.
I feel like I’m starting to see it die down some. There’ll always be pockets but it seems when people ask for which distro they just get advice and not flame wars as much
its because people dont know what they want. Linux has the problem that people want different things, ao theres dozens of distros to choose from.
windows is an example of giving little choice, so people begrudgingly “upgrades” because they ultimately dont really know what they want.
tldr, linux can be choice paralysis. single os is like being forced to drink soylent and only soylent, its got what you need but you might not like it.
The web’s dying. The FSF’s dying. Windows 11 is made out of people. Dont you see? It’s people. They’re making our software out of people. Next thing, they’ll be breeding us like cattle for training data. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!
It’s less the choice paralysis than the insufferable superiority complex. Options are great. Wading through a sea of people who think they’re better than everyone is not.
Linux’s problem is that it’s not an OS, and so suggesting people use Linux doesn’t give them much advice.
The next problem is that linux based OSs are generally open source, which means it can be forked any number of times at any point in time.
There’s this super awesome and super confusing think in open software where you don’t have to use the thing you are given. Want to use facebook? Must use their app. Want to use reddit? Pretty much must use their app, etc.
But if you want to use Lemmy or Piefed, there are a dozen good choices, none are the wrong answer. Want to use Jellyfin? Well I connect with Kodi on my TV, Swiftfin on my mother’s, the Android Jellyfin app on my in-laws’ TV, Findroid (movies/TV) or Finamp (music) on my phone, etc. You don’t like an app you can still use the service just try another app or make your own. This is awesome, but super confusing to non-technical people.
Linux distros are the same. There are dozens of popular ones, many of which are based on others, the variety of choices is awesome but for non-technical people they have no idea where to start.
Hannah Montana Linux?
Hell yeah brother
The only correct answer in this thread.
I’ve heard good things
Plan 9 master race
the best distro is the distro you like most out of the ones that work for whatever it is you do on your pc
Debian for my workstation desktops, servers, etc, anything that’s stable.
Arch for playing around with new toys/features.
Debian is what you get if “dad getting off the couch noise” was a Linux distro.
https://socially.drinkingatmy.computer/objects/4df5b6b4-102f-4854-8721-480d56380e0c
Mint is pretty much the de facto recommendation for absolute beginners freshly moving away from Windows right now, but LMDE especially will be subject to dealing with older software.
Otoh, any of the Puppy distros are a great option for genuinely old hardware; think AM2+/775 or older, that a lot of heavier distros may or may not struggle on.
but LMDE especially will be subject to dealing with older software
Are you sure about this? As far as I know, debian modernized their repos quite a bit even compared to ubuntu, that also sparked some controversy from debian long time fans especially because they wanted more dated, stable software. Never used LMDE though, so I’m not sure if it applies
Having Socket 775, Puppy Linux and genuinely old hardware in the sentence shook me.
I still remember being in high school playing Minecraft on those Optiplexes, and even before that playing Poptropica and CoolMathGames…
775 is a 21-year-old platform and AM2+ is 18 years old.
Yeah, I’m not disagreeing with you, more so making a comment on how it never occurred to me they were that old today.
That being said, by the time I was playing with 775 computers they were pretty out of date (2013) and by 2015 all of those machines were replaced at my school. So in a rational sense that explains the time disparity I feel for Socket 775.
The only thing I would like to add to mint is more folder colors.
It’s soo solid, good and stable (as it’s Linux eh), I’m still a recovering windozer.
I dual boot Arch and Arch, and I run an Arch hypervisor as well as an Arch vm in each Arch instance.
I am vaguely aware of Arch.
this guy arches
So what I’m hearing is that you’re a big fan of Windows 11…
I triple boot. Pffh.
More arches than an ‘80s suburban house
Do you use arch containers in the arch VMs?
Surely you run Arch in your containers as well.
Yo dawg…
If you want to emulate the meme, LFS.
In this thread: people proselytizing their favourite distro and telling you how your computer suits their distro – not necessarily the best distro for your computer.
I just want it to work and not spy on me. It’s not part of my self-image, I don’t even own a Tux shirt. It’s just a tool.
I run Mint. It works. I’m happy.
CachyOS is my way
CentOS 3.6
OK but not if you use Fedora
Good analogy by using cars. You can test drive a car. Since a lot (all?) distros have a way to run off a USB, so you can get the general “feel” of it. Then you can go from there. Or if you have room to work with, setting up dual boot isn’t that hard (outside of how Windows acts sometimes about it). Asking a lot of people what flavor ice cream they prefer isn’t going to help you decide your own.
The easiest way would be getting the cheapest SSD (even 30 GB is enough for most distros), swap your current disk with it, play around, and return where you were, if you don’t like anything.
