I'm on kubuntu. I can just Google questions with ubuntu attached to the query and it tells me a gui solution if it's available. Bonus, there's far less people telling me I'm doing it wrong, they just assume I'm a newbie.
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Use NixOS
There is a lot of propaganda for Fedora these days. Something I see much less frequently for Arch and its derivatives. Isn't that meme based on old facts?
It's not propaganda. Fedora's just that good. Been using it since 2019 myself. Never felt the need to distrohop after.
Opposite experience from me. I feel at home with Debian and Arch but there was always something wrong with Fedora.
Install Guix
Guix's FOSS stance is cool, but Nix is much more mature
Guix's FOSS stance is... cool... I guess... but can be very impractical. The main channel only ships linux-libre which will give you problems on most modern hardware. I immediately had to add nonguix to get my laptop working.
No, the reason I went with Guix is because their tools and APIs seem/feel a bit more polished than Nix. I also feel better about learning Guile Scheme because it's a more general-purpose language than Nixlang and I just personally found it more intuitive.
But yeah Nix is definitely more mature, has more packages, and has more documentation scattered about. Also, Guix uses GNU Shepherd instead of systemd... which... I don't know how I feel about that yet...
I've been running cachyOS for the last few months....
i've heard a bunch of people talking about cachyos
i use endeavour os, and when i get my pc back (i moved and haven't been able to build it yet) i'm planning on installing base arch
so, what are the upsides to cachyos?
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The funny thing for me is I swapped to fedora after my last attempt to use arch failed spectacularly.
I've found I'm at a point where I just want my device to work and work well
Just means your over 25
/me a 42 year old that uses Arch
I take that personally.
/me adjusts my knee high socks.
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If it works, don't try to fix it
The literal ArchWiki says you may not want to use Arch if you are happy with your current OS.
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I moved to fedora after a decade on Arch.
Feels like home.
I donβt get distro hopping
There are better uses for your time
But hey, do as you want
Yeah at some point they are all the same to me it's just the different package manager. Pacman, apt, yum or whatever they are calling it now a days.
Most use systemd.
I started using Arch flavors because when you have brand new hardware the latest kernel can be important. After the machine is a couple years old it doesn't really matter.
Also Endeavouros is where it's at (but don't tell the vanilla Arch people, they won't help me with my problems if they find out)
they are all the same
If anyone is interested in something different, I could recommend Guix. No systemd. The package manager works different than your typical apt.
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First Linux experience beyond retro station. I love bazzite. Super fucking easy!
install mint
When I started using Linux again, I used Linux Mint :3
Still happy with Fedora.
If everything is the way you like it, you are winning. Keep on winning.
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