• BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Knoppix! I forgot that existed. Wow, what a blast from the past. I remember trying that out in high school. 3.2 or 3.3. Something like that. I just knew it took a long time to download via dial-up.

      • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Em espírito, eu concordo contigo

        Olhando lógicamente, não teria sentido, já existem tantas Distros, metade das quais são só forks de Debian e/ou Ubuntu que mudam quase nada. :S

    • Entitle9294@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Former. Migrated to linux 20+ years ago because of…Flash support. Didn’t realize back then how quickly Flash would disappear and FreeBSD only supported it via its linux binary compatibility, which stopped working at that time.

  • Labna@lemmy.world
    15·
    13 hours ago

    Gentoo obviously :
    To install, easy just get this iso, with no GUI, then whip your hard drive, create partition, copy the Linux core, config your core based on the hardware technical details of every components you have and will use, compile it, add extra core drivers, compile them, add all the software you’ll use to get a GUI (Desktop environment), compile them,. Now you can finally restart without usb stick! Add all the software, configure and compile them. And for every update of every software you may check the details to be sure it doesn’t break your config.
    Easy no? It just took you a month to get all the steps right!

    • xycu@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Gentoo is a little easier nowadays. It has binary packages and you can use any old Linux live CD you prefer to do the install :)

  • dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    7·
    14 hours ago

    Ya there’s Arch. There’s NixOS. There’s still Slackware.
    But have you heard of 9front?
    9front is useless. You won’t be gaming or working with it.
    Mostly, you’d learn how operating systems are constructed.

    Or DoomOS or DoomLinux. It’s a basic linux system where DOOM is the shell.
    I forked this and tried to get it running. Learned some interesting things. Still doesn’t work for me. :]
    https://github.com/fl64/DoomLinux

    • gwilikers@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 hour ago

      Using DoomLinux to mess with someone would be hilarious. Plug the USB into the back of their computer then alter the boot order so it prioritises USB. Each time they start their computer it boots into DOOM.

      • dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        We used to do this back in the day with Win95.
        You could change their shell to Notepad or something, and then that’s all the computer would run.
        It was a slightly moar advanced trick than stealing their mouse ball.

      • mittorn@masturbated.one
        1·
        1 hour ago

        @gwilikers @dbtng but it will not boot because of missing csm/mbr support. Need EFI version (basicly you may run doom on pure EFI without OS, as it supports everything needed and even more)

        • dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
          1·
          56 minutes ago

          I think what you are saying is that the project I linked won’t work for USB boot on a new EFI system. I imagine your assessment about EFI is correct, but I’m mostly interested in virtualized systems.

          Their are several DOOM linux things out there. The version I’m working on builds out with busybox.
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asnXWOUKhTA

          My eventual intent is to use DOOM agents as a load tester.
          I’d like the ISO to boot, look for a local game, and join a bot to deathmatch.
          And then the testing metric would be a simple count. How many dooms can it run?
          I have lots of projects. I might finish that one some day.

  • HouseWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
    85·
    1 day ago

    When I was first looking into Linux I asked the only friend I knew who used it and he unironically recommended me Arch…

    A year later I actually gave Arch a try, but by then he apparently hated Arch and switched to Gentoo and I stopped asking him for advice at that point.

    • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Honestly the only thing you should probably understand before going with arch is how to properly use the CLI, then the wiki is a breeze

    • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      1 day ago

      I have been using Arch for a half a decade at this point and its worked out well for me. I like how its very stable despite being bleeding edge (relatively speaking). It’s made gaming a lot easier, and I was pleasantly surprised when Valve announced SteamOS was switching to it as a base.

      A lot of people have varying levels of purism when it comes to linux, and it sounds like your friend dipped his toes in with Arch and realized “not pure enough” and then jumped in on the deep end with Gentoo. At the end of the day, Linux is Linux no matter which distro you pick, but each distro highlights different strengths and weaknesses of it. Its all about the package managers, the repository contents, and the maintainers. Occasionally, technical support might matter.

      So, pick whichever distro you like, move around a bit to see what has the least papercuts for you, and then stick with that until you can’t anymore.

      • Lucy :3@feddit.org
        5·
        21 hours ago

        very stable despite being bleeding edge

        Try testing. And be just as amazed as me on how stable even that is. It literally runs on my main server. The one that, if it goes down, everything of me is down. Yet, I never had problems, for years.

    • TwilightKiddy@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      23 hours ago

      I switched from Arch to Gentoo, for me it’s just the next step of taking advantage of every last bit of my hardware. But unless you are seriously invested, I would never recommend Gentoo to someone. If you just want something that’s up to date, go with Fedora. If you have some spare time, go with Arch. If you have no hobbies at all, go with Gentoo.

      • ragas@lemmy.ml
        2·
        21 hours ago

        I dunno, apart from compile times, Gentoo is the simplest distribution ever. I have way more problems with my Arch or Ubuntu (Neon) installations.

        • TwilightKiddy@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          That depends on what your goals are. And with Gentoo you can have a lot more elaborate goals than with other distros. Mine, for example, was to get rid of initramfs. I spent a week compiling and recompiling the kernel with different configurations before I was able to see a TTY for the first time.

          Of course you can grab your distribution kernel and get default and perfectly safe use flags for everything, but, I would still be an Arch user if that was my jam.

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
    31·
    1 day ago

    To scare them? Windows.

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    It’s the absolute best way to make someone become a Linux user for life.:-)

    • ziggurat@lemmy.world
      3·
      23 hours ago

      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?