Good friend

I would never criticise someone’s distro. As long as it was arch built without any scripts.

If you don't use Linux From Scratch, why do you even bother?
- I'd rather be waterboarded
This pleb didn't even write his own kernel.
Just did that for the first time today and the second, third and ,fourth time aswell

Distros are like Kinks. I have my own and you have yours, I won't judge.

Except for Manjaro with their expired certs and DDoSing AUR. Or niche remixes that don't patch stuff and don't have a warning saying that our stuff is old, don't use it if you care about that.

Amogos is the best just saying🙄

Ubuntu 🤮 if I wanted to be tracked by Amazon, I would have a registered address.

Everytime I mention Linux in the outside world, people's brains freeze and then I get questions. I need a better social circle.

Ahh yes, Good Guy Greg. Just like the good old days, I'm loving the nostalgia of these vintage memes.

bro in a world of scumbag steves it feels good to see a ggg

And doesnt tell you to "just google it"

Ah "just google it" also excellent for making a hostile work environment too.

First time installing Linux? What the fuck is this Ubuntu shit, that distro sucks. You really should try out Gentoo as your first distro.

Can't believe I fell for that as a kid. Wasn't even my first distro, but Gentoo for beginners is just hilarious

Gentoo is the final boss of Linux installs. (Linux From Scratch is the raid boss)
I installed it last year. After watching it compile for half an hour, I decided that a source-based distro was something I have no interest in daily-driving.

I know enough about Linux to be able to install most distros and use them, but I don't know enough about them to criticizes others for their choice.

Arch linux is the gateway drug that leads to NixOS

How is Nixos? Are there clear advantages over a traditional Linux distro?
- Learn a dynamic lazy functional programming language first and then start building a flake without much help or documentation because that's what you should be doing and the default installation doesn't use that mechanism. The docs you find will assume you understand category theory already.
  About few years later you are a god and there is no way you're going to use anything else ever again.
  Source: been a user for the past four years.

I will, however, warn them about Manjaro, fuck it.

I've seen many comments about Manjaro, what's the deal with it? I used it shortly a few years ago but I didn't liked it
- here
- My wife and I haven't had any issues with it, they're just easy to paint as the bad distro because it's supposed to uncomplicate Arch for your average user, but has had some certs fall through the cracks and they had kind of an asshole response to address it (thank God Gnome and Linux devs are never contentious folks), and apparently people don't read the warnings about enabling AUR in the package manager. Don't get me wrong, it's not the perfect distro, but it doesn't deserve nearly as much hate as it gets. It's not Canonical, pushing Amazon and telemetry by default 😆 besides, it's got some cool features out of the box like one of the better default dualboot grubs I've seen by default, the ability to have multiple kernels installed simultaneously from multiple streams, and while it's common anymore, was one of the early adopters of providing Nvidia drivers on install. Lots of people have strong opinions on what distro is best, and Manjaro manages to be an easy one to point fingers at.
- Manjaro piggybacks off of Arch and some Arch users want to be obnoxious about it.
  There's nothing wrong with the distro, itself.
  The maintainers have done some inconsequential noob-ish things with the site's website, and the in-house package manager (pamac) had a bug that took down the AUR once and Arch users that couldn't host their own website if they wanted to like to point fingers and troll.

I use Arch btw.

How do you know when someone is a ~~vegan~~ Arch user?
- Iusearchlinux.fyi
  There's HUNDREDS of us! HUNDREDS!
Just read the news feed, folks
- I thought Lemmy was another excuse to never do research on my own. Please explain so I don't have to leave Lemmy

i'm about to take my first peek into linux on mint. i'm not completely put off learning some new things but being able to do that in a desktop that is familar makes everything a lot easier to pick up on. who knows, if it all goes smoothly maybe next week i'll be running arch (i won't)

Mint is honestly the best one to go for really especially since everything just works there almost.
- just works "almost" is pretty funny but i know what you mean. i wasn't having much trouble with it testing it with a virtual machine. the nice thing is a lot of the applications i use on windows are already free software that im realizing are a lot of the go to's for people running linux, so really a lot should "just work"
I used mint for a long time, the only reason I switched is that my Nvidia card was preventing mint to boot/install on my new laptop. I didn't want to spent hours on it tried a few distros until one worked (Manjaro). I like Manjaro now, but might have to try mint again (laptop is a few years old so it will probably work now).
Arch is easy enough to install. If you ever get tired of overhead, ala all the apps on the OS which you never use, just start from scratch. It's not hard to install the base, desktop envo + a browser and start from there. The cleanest desktop you can imagine and probably the resulting OS too
- arch is interesting to me and i'm not too worried about the install, the rolling releases and stability of the system are what i think would snag me in using it. though the minute regular updates are probably more an issue for people who delve into the system more to get the absolute most out of it. it'll be more stable, works out of the box-type distros for me while i get a grasp of things like the file system and using the terminal. but i do think the setups people post of their riced out installs look pretty cool ngl

The arch wizard who introduced me to ubuntu

It's mostly all Debian based, so it matters little.

I use ArseLinux btw

Y’all should call your friends out on this sort of stuff but jabbing at each other is a useless practice that only serves to ruin trust, add frustrations and is just a generally douchey behavior to encourage. Nobody likes being harassed for their choices, esp. when they’re subjective

Do y'all Linux people have a lot of friends?

There's no wrong distro.

There is a wrong DE tho.

https://media.tenor.com/0UZgl-4-q9IAAAAd/james-mcavoy-filth.gif

Yeah but fuck Ubuntu though.

bsd from scratch btw

Which isn't a Linux. And here I am criticising someone's choice of Unix/Linux system...
- im kidding lol. bsd is bloat. i rewrote templeos in rust for my daily driver

I swear that when I was a student, my department had a good mix of distros.

Most students were on Ubuntu and Mint VMs.
Students in system or HPC labs had to learn CentOS. However, my entry condition to my lab was to install FreeBSD as a guest on VMWare ESXi. Everything must be specifically partitioned and must be done in one sitting. (This happened illegally in the server room. I could not exit and hope to reenter, hence the rule.)
Enthusiasts learn Debian.
I don't know what happened to SlackWare people.

Kids these days? WSL or Mac.

Is Slackware even still around?
I'm in the WSL camp at home, and Red Hat at work
- Slackware 15 came out like late last year/early this year. I want to try it tbh (religious reasons), only really used Fedora so far.

Except openSUSE. Fuck that, it breaks with the smallest thing and is just odd. But this was like 5y ago on Tumbleweed, so maybe it’s changed.

No way! Opensuse has always been perfect for me, I do usually use leap though.
- I believe you, given how many people love it. Maybe I’ll try it again sometime. I love its KDE for some reason (and the boot animation beats other distros easily).

I got started there too. Then I moved to Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Mint, with Ubuntu sprinkled throughout.

Open Suse Tumbleweed is the way to go. Fight me.

It's a way to go at least for rolling release. However, tw is looking less and less interesting than it used to 5 years ago now that all these shiny new immutable distros are coming out.
I will not fight you as I also use Tubleweed. Fantastic distro.

Ain't nothin wrong with Ubuntu (is Ubuntu still around?)

It was once great, back in the glory days. Gnome 2 and Compiz, baby! It's still OK too, but not my preferred choice.
- Out of interest, what's your preferred choice nowadays? I've always preferred to stick with Debian-derived distros so I don't need to learn a different package manager (silly, I know).
  I guess I like the comfort/predictably of Ubuntu - I know what to expect, and how to fix it if things go wrong. But maybe I shouldn't be limiting myself.

That's damn right, however, Debian is the only right choice.

I agree with you on principle but I'm typing this from Crunchbang++. On servers I go with Debian every time though.

Am I the only one around here that uses MX Linux?

MX Linux is awesome! I do a bit of development on it here and there. The project owners are cool!

Can install that on this can of garbage beer and this AMD chip?