Since people fear parentheses, GNU Guix.
Man, i’m a NixOS user so probably also biased because i got used to the nix language, but legitimately all the parentheses in guix confuse the hell out of me lol
Great, now I’ve got the phonk walk in my head
I honestly don’t think Arch is that bad or complicated. It’s just that you have to go into it knowing that you’re in for some reading, tinkering and following step by step instructions along the way. I’d start with something like Mint or Ubuntu for a first look for sure. But once you’re ready to learn a bit more about how the Linux system works and is put together, Arch would straight up be my first recommendation. Even if it’s something you play with on the side in a virtual machine, for me at least, starting on Arch was when my Linux experience went from clicking at things and copy pasting commands into the terminal to still copying and pasting commands lol, but actually learning why and how and what too.
To scare them? Windows.
It’s the absolute best way to make someone become a Linux user for life.:-)
Neither existed when I installed Linux the first time.
When was this? Arch Linux was initially released in 2002, about a year before I tried knoppix for the first time.
What was your first distro, unless you used Linux before distros, if so what was your first installation experience like?
Around '97, playing with MKLinux.
Wtf reading about this, such a weird system
Linux running on top of a mach micro kernel, kind of like paravirtualized. And then the userspace and xfree86 ran on linux? And FVWM? How was that?
And then you could run Lisa apps?
wow, I forgot knoppix was a thing, memory unlocked
I didn’t use knoppix a lot, but I did use Mandriva more, and then Ubuntu was released and I daily drove it back then
Same!
The nixOS slander in these comments would be valid if nixOS were simply a distro and not a cult…
that’s absurd. cults kill people, and we only ruin marriages.
Good thing I’m not married. Been meaning to try NixOS, glad there’s nothing stopping me :)
Obviously Hannah Montana Linux.
Don’t run Linux, run the OG Unix. Don’t use a desktop, get a mainframe.
Arch is fine… It has good documentation.
NixOS or Gentoo is probably my pick.
Or Linux from scratch
The one you toggle into the switches on a PiDP-11.
No grey in beard? Shame 🤓
Is that a really young Brodie Robertson on the right??
I took picture from https://brodierobertson.xyz/ idk is this fake site or not
Honestly, I can’t tell if it’s not an anime girl avatar anymore.
gnu guix?
Sitting on a broken install of it now. It was working fine for a couple of years, but because I’m just playing with it ATM, I don’t get back to it often enough. The latest
guix pullhas left me with aguix system reconfigure...that errors out :(
Don’t? Arch is less scary and more annoying.
Who TF is scared by Mint?
Did a clean upgrade/install of Mint about 10 hours ago. I’m back to business as usual. Minor tweaks, no tinkering.
I installed mint, and my Linux knowledge (little to none) plateaued because it never breaks. I never have to fix anything. I’m the iPad kid of Linux.
How dare it work!
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