As someone who builds a computer, installs whatever seems like the most stable LTS distro at the time with the longest support period, and only switches to a new one when the current LTS expires, Iβd like to thank all of you for being my beta testers. Your support means the world.
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you're welcome mr debian user
This guy runs debian (btw)
We've got to come up with a different acronym. What says old and stable?
"I use Debian, lol (lots of love)"
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I once heard someone say that Debian is like the sound Dads make when getting off the couch. Iβve never felt so seen.
(I absolutely run Debian, lol)
I installed the latest version of Pop and was shocked when like a third of the shit I wanted to find was missing. The settings page is barren. Zero VNC support out of the box, and most VNC software doesnβt even WORK! The shop is much better and faster than Pop shopβ¦ when it isnβt freezing all the time.
Reverted back to 22.x before cosmic and all the stuff I need is back, VNC is built-in, and the slower Pop Shop never freezes. Nothing freezes, itβs perfectly stable.
Cosmic looks nice but damn, the latest version of Pop is NOT there yet.
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I use Arch BTW full-time for work and personal for about 3 years now and haven't had any issues at all.
I worked with someone who uses arch on his work laptop
One day it just died and he had to spend a day or two setting it all up again
I mean, its not common, but it happens
Yeah, I ran arch through college, it broke 3 times over 4 years, basically each time because Nvidia updated. Now that I don't have the time to fuss with spending a couple of hours chrooting in and fixing Nvidia stuff, I just swapped to endeavorOS sway community edition (and made sure none of my PCs have Nvidia anything in them) and haven't had an issue yet.
Yep, the only time things have broken in Arch for me has been with Nvidia driver updates.
Yep. Funnily enough, never really had any issues with the drivers on a desktop, only on mobile, mostly switching between integrated and discrete. But after messing with them on my laptop for a few years, you better bet my laptop was only running Intel integrated and my desktop runs on amd.
I used to do much distro hopping coming from gentoo and settling down with endeavour. My tip for all of you: use lvm for everything outside boot, root and swap (vms, home, games). That way a complete reinstall just takes minutes.
That doesn't happen. When it breaks, it's always recoverable, and it very very very rarely breaks (>10 years Arch user here, never lost sleep about it)
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been using Artix and Arch for two years, for work and play, no issues
I think bleeding edge linux is probably more stable than windows
Around 10 years here. Some issues, but much less time wasted in total than if I had done βdist-upgradeβs the whole time.
One huge advantage of a rolling distro is that generally only one thing can break at a time :)
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Yeah, people like to think that bleeding edge means "untested". As if your OS was directly receiving the dev's git push...
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The only issue I ever had was Arch ARM changing the naming convention for network devices and making me have to plug the first Raspberry Pi that I upgraded into a monitor to debug what was going on.
This was annoying for sure, but less annoying than using a 6 year old Python version like the Red Hat Enterprise Linux at work...
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I like Fedora for my desktop. Close enough to upstream to get the latest features, but not so bleeding edge that it's unstable.
And it's Linus's distro of choice.
Yeah, but he has stated that he really doesn't have an opinion. He just happened to install Fedora on the family PC a long time ago and now he neither wants to deal with two separate distros, nor switch the whole household over.
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Obligatory reference to NixOS.
Step 1: ah so glad this setup is complete and fully tweaked. So letβs leave it as is.
Step 2: but then again maybe I should try out this little extra thing I just found online that might not workβ¦
It turns out you love installing and configuring software, not actually using it.
I'm in this post and I don't like it
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This but new Linux users. They get attracted to the worse newbies distros every time
What's the best one, apart from Mint?
The typical advice is:
- Mint
- ElementryOS
- Fedora
- Pop!
- Ubuntu (unpopular with Extremely Online people, but is pretty good at the Just Works for normies)
- Debian Stable for older hardware
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Min- oh.
I don't really know a bunch of distros, but I helped convert some normies so here's a list of pain points I rather not have as a first experience
- No rolling distro. While some people may never see an issue in their life, some may see it right away. Bad first impression (Someone insisted on starting on fedora, then noticed the hard way that the current Nvidia drivers were incompatible with the shipped kernel)
- easy Nvidia driver install (only for gamers on Nvidia)
- Has a gui app store
- has a common package manager that is often shown in tutorials (like apt. You always see exemple apt commands)
- sudo is configured
- doesn't have a DE that tries to revolutionize UX
New users are dumb, so it needs to be easy for them
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Just use nyarch /s
Pop was mine,
Yep I outgrew it and moved on to better and worse distros. But pop helped me kick windows to the kerb
yo you can just turn a choice into a meme and the crowd will go crazy
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Used to be me. I ran Debian Unstable for years. Got tired of it breaking. I installed Stable probably 7 or 8 years ago and never looked back.
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I have many other things I'd rather do on my computer, than mess around with the OS. I just want one that works and stays out of my way. Oh, and doesn't spy on me.
Pop/cosmic letβs go!
Well, if you're okay using 3+ years old versions of various software...
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If you want up-to-date rolling release packages without living dangerously, I recommend openSUSE Tumbleweed. It breaks way less than most other rolling distros such as Arch. I don't know how they achieve it but they do.
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