What are the kinds of Linux users?
It’s a bucket list item to someday have a pull request merged into a branch of the Linux kernel.
I was once the first to report a bug in the kernel. I’m still pretty proud of it.
Debian
Enough said.
Devuan seems more pure Debian.
Debian took a turn from a bad vote, and kept the name, while being a different thing.
Debian on my production servers, Arch Linux as my daily driver, Linux Mint on the devices I manage for normies.
Fedora on my servers, fedora as my daily driver, fedora on the devices I manage for normies.
Debian is my daily driver and for regular people I help. Comes with a service card saying “it will work and you will like it”.
I help for free. If someone does not like it, they can pay to have what they want done. But they don’t get to ask for help again.
same
So crazy that this guy built his career on being Matt Damon adjacent.
May have started that way, but he’s legit a good actor in his own right
*Matt Daemon
I just want shit to work. I want to use it as my daily driver so I can get work done, not waste time to get things working. I don’t want my installation to become obsolete. I want a nice desktop. I want a lot of nerdy console stuff, but good UI as well, so I can choose the best of both worlds for each use case, so I can work efficiently. I want to play the occasional game.
At the moment, EndeavourOS ticks all those boxes for me. I am aware other distros do as well, CachyOS looks nice. But I’m only gonna switch if it’s really worth the effort.
I am still a chronic distro hopper.
I was a rabid distro-hopper, going through several large spools of CD & DVD, before switching to USB pendrives, for countless more distro-hopppings and distro-surfings… until 2012, when I found Bedrock Linux (at its second alpha release). Didn’t need to try to find the one distro any more, able to mix several.
Linux Mint runs my laptop. I do some light 3d modeling and slicing, maybe a little photo editing. I guess that makes me a pretty casual user.
What show/movie is this from?
Alex Garland’s Civil War
Civial war, can recommend
Civil War. Pretty good movie IMO that is sadly becoming more relevant as time goes on.
Edit: Not a movie about Linux though lol
All of the above. Since you know all commands on apt, dnf or pacman
the skynix is the limit.“All of the above” = BedrockLinux ?
… “Since you know all commands”
whats’s a distro? :3 My UI looks like Windows 95 and i have cute cats in my terminal :3 i can text my friends, play games, surf the internet and do arts :3 what else does a girl need? :)
I actually want this as a distro
This is as it should be
I used to use fedora on my first school Thinkpad (since I recieved another when my brother graduated, becoming my second school laptop,) then after I got 2 considerably more powerful laptops for free I switched the thinkpads out of my setup, and to this day they still run windows 11 unfortunately (haven’t gotten around to it and they’re both nvidia MX business machines, so that’s not awfully ideal,) and then I converted the second Thinkpad to a FydeOS machine (basically chrome os with local accounts) to give to my mother as her own laptop, and then put chromeOS flex on a third Thinkpad I bought off a friend for $10 which remains as my occasional-browsing-but-also-throw-around-laptop that has pretty friggin good battery life.
I do plan to switch at least one of the MX laptops to Linux, for which I’m considering Pop!_OS due to driver support and GPU configuration, but I’ve still gotta back some stuff up first.
Ubuntu on WSL2
I’d love to go full Nobara, if all my peripherials worked properly.
You know, the kind that insists on using Arch, despite being slightly (or more) below the skill level one should have before using it.
Honestly the skill level for Arch is kinda overblown nowadays.
You can use Archinstall and get a full desktop and a pretty hands off experience if you don’t go around tweaking any lower level system stuff.
And if you’re extra lazy (like me) Endeavour or Cachy makes the minimal setup even more streamlined with good default settings. But you still get the AUR and fast updates, which I assume it what the average user wants more than complete control over how their system is setup.
It had an installer back in ~2009 as well.
It was removed for a few years because no one wanted to maintain it
And if you’re extra desperate, there’s always manjaro. But I love it. My hardware somehow works out of the box with them. Having the AUR is definitely a godsend for some things. One day I’ll likely contribute something to it as a tiny tribute back.
Does anyone who installed arch using archinstall actually use the ‘i use arch, btw’ meme?
or any of a dozen or more other arch based respins, many with their own easy installers.
Yes, you are mostly correct. In some sense, it is more a cultural thing. If your Arch breaks, the expectations for your ability to deal with it yourself are a bit higher. There are good instructions and people willing to help, but the latter (both inside and outside of Arch community, I think) may tell you that you shouldn’t be using Arch if you don’t meet their expectations.
Anyway, another aspect of it is the fact that with my system, I am a bit of a tinkerer.
Are there options to choose from?
a few
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg and more.
https://distrochooser.de/ & https://distrowatch.com/search.php can help choose.
I use Alpine Linux with Sway as my daily driver for browsing, writing scripts and to slowly customize my own work environment.
I have a Linux Mint DE partition that launchs directly to Steam for gaming. Tried Bazzite but the installer failed to find my SSD.
I also have a small partition that has an image of the LMDE .iso. It saves me from needing to grab a USB drive for when I inevitably fuck up the first two partitions and need a live USB environment to fix things.
I keep all my backups, music, work and sensitive data in a separate partition that’s encrypted so I can easily get back to work after any fuck ups. I’ve had of practice fixing my own fuck ups over the past year.
