• stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The more time I spend with Linux the more I realize that Distro doesn’t matter, GUI doesn’t matter, experience doesn’t matter.

    Distro doesn’t matter because you will inevitably come across something that you need that doesn’t work on your distribution.

    GUI doesn’t matter because no matter what you do you will %100 have to use the terminal and if you can do it once you can do it again.

    Experience doesn’t matter because if you’re inexperienced you have to go outside your Comfort zone, if you’re experienced you got there because you like going outside your comfort zone and you will constantly stay in that state.

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      4 months ago

      Yes and no for me

      Distro doesn’t matter because they only differ in package manager and initial configuration, you can always compile things if you really need it.

      GUI doesn’t matter because you’ll end up with all KDE and gnome dependencies installed anyway because your applications need it.

      Experience probably matters, but if it doesn’t, it may be because there is just so much there to know.

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      5 months ago

      WTF are you guys doing with your PCs??? I’ve been running Mint for over a year now and the only time I’ve used the terminal was to open a port for Chromecast. I browse, I game, I watch shows, etc. maybe I’m just really lucky, idk, it’s been nothing but smooth sailing.

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        5 months ago

        I personally use it to run a headless docker on fedora 40 server with containers holding jellyfin, filebrowser, pia, qBittorrent a desktop in noVNC a pfsense server, and probably some stuff I forgot.

        Why is that not a standard use case?

        But in all seriousness I guess I get your point.