• @OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
    50•2 months ago

    A few months ago I finished building my system and commented that I’d installed Mint and had been enjoying it for a week. Some guy felt that he needed to suggest a different distro to me (and actually got some upvotes from people agreeing with it).

    I had JUST switched from Windows to Linux and had only been running for a week! CAN I RUN WITH ONE DISTRO FOR ONE FUCKING WEEK WITHOUT HOPPING ALL OVER THE DISTRO-SPHERE?! Holy shit. Just let me enjoy my system for 7 days without telling me I should change again.

    I was shocked someone could be so obnoxious.

    • @Darkraisisi@feddit.nl
      3•2 months ago

      I switched to linux 3 years ago. And started and stayed with pop_os. Why? Because Anthony at the time from Linus tech tips recommend it to me. Am I gonna switch? No. I use Nvidia btw.

    • JelloeaterEnglish
      2•2 months ago

      NGL sometimes you can only find the software you want as a snap, it sucks, but it’s the price you pay for not using Windows or Mac. At the end of the day, it’s Windows 11, OSX or Ubuntu for most folks outside of Lemmy. I really want to swap to Mint w Debian, but they don’t have support for MATE out of the box. Maybe in a year or two. Hoping 24.04 LTS works well.

      • WFHEnglish
        6•2 months ago

        Debian has had MATE since forever. It’s as simple as typing

        sudo apt install mate-desktop-environment

        Honestly you don’t even need Ubuntu if you absolutely need snaps. You can install snapd on a lot of apt distros, or you can spin an Ubuntu container in Distrobox in a few seconds.

      • Steal Wool
        English
        2•2 months ago

        Im a total noob, just started using Linux, dual booting with mint and I’ve already learned to use snap

  • @graphito@sopuli.xyz
    43•2 months ago

    Time to upload gentoo installation video on pornhub. The actor has to look like she’s enjoying the process. Any volunteers?

  • Eskuero
    16•2 months ago

    I use arch linux btw, the rest of you just add to fragmentation

    • JelloeaterEnglish
      7•2 months ago

      Most of the .world Linux users are chill… Folks from other servers, hit or miss…

      • @asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
        2•2 months ago

        Good to know! Any recommendations of where I could post? I’m trying to update an old 2013 Mac so it can play robox and minecraft. I have a portable HDD to work with as well. And Mac is pretty damn foreign to me and it’s so old. But damn for 10 years old it’s fantastic and most of the specs were better than modern macs (dedicated graphics card for one)

    • @CuttingBoard@sopuli.xyz
      2•2 months ago

      I gave up on tumbleweed recently. I bought Suse at Best Buy back in the day, and have always had it on a second PC around the house. I love the chameleon, but a few different showstoppers led me to remove it from my laptop. I miss it, but the last snapshot booted so slowly, and I couldn’t get past it. I’m sure I’ll put it back on there, but I like being able to diagnose it and I just couldn’t this time.

  • @iopq@lemmy.world
    8•2 months ago

    Don’t install NixOS. You won’t distrhop anymore because you can easily keep switching DEs/WMs and all the other packages

    • @DriftinGrifter
      1•2 months ago

      nixos sucks in a lot of ways sadly all non declerative os are automatically worse

      • @iopq@lemmy.world
        1•2 months ago

        But it sucks in ways you can always find a solution for. You’re never like “oh so these two packages have incompatible dependencies and I can’t have both”

  • Justas🇱🇹
    6•2 months ago

    I don’t want you to download Manjaro, but I had one partition as root and another as home and Manjaro just asked me to install itself in root, to replace my previous borked Ubuntu installation and use old home without data loss, instead of making me set everything myself again, like Ubuntu does.

  • @ace_garp@lemmy.world
    5•2 months ago

    No chance of overwriting your bootloader when you distrohop using LiveUSBs and LiveCDs.

    • But srsly, Trisquel GNU/Linux is a distro that provides Ubuntu with all the non-free and contrib removed. Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is Arch with all the nonfree packages removed. Worth a look if you support software freedom and transparency.
    • Johanno
      2•2 months ago

      Or learn a whole new system and try nixos

      WARNING: you probably should try it out in a virtual machine first.

      • @DriftinGrifter
        2•2 months ago

        as a nix on bare metal from start user i can only second this