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    [–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

    I feel this way about hyprland....

    [–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 points 18 hours ago

    Well you can just install that alongside your DE and try it out

    [–] roserose56@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    I was thinking install KDE because of its theme modifications, still went with fedora because everyone works fine on my setup and I like the interface, it's so different.

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    [–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    You can have your cake and eat it too! Just install Arch in a VM to play around with without jeopardizing the stability of your main machine. Once you feel comfortable, you can make the switch. Or not. Having choices is great.

    [–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

    I feel a lot of people really forget that virtual machines exist.

    [–] CosmicSurgeon@lemmy.ml 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

    I have the same problem with NixOS and Debian.

    Currently every family computer and server in the house runs Debian 12 as a base. But the urge to convert everything to Nix one day still tickles me, who knows someday...

    [–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

    I tried three times. Failed 3 times.

    And I started with Slackware in the 90s. I can handle jank.

    But Nix really needs to take a clue from Arch on the documentation front…

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    [–] davidagain@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    If everything is the way you like it, you are winning. Keep on winning.

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    [–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 82 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    The literal ArchWiki says you may not want to use Arch if you are happy with your current OS.

    [–] devilish666@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    This is good, i hope somebody printed this and hand it over to Arch Linux cult

    Same thing happens to me but with Gentoo. It's like rekindling a doomed to fail relationship over and over again.

    [–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 day ago (9 children)

    Unpopular opinion: I love Ubuntu. No, I don't use snaps at all. I have an Nvidia GPU and it's literally the only OS working out of the box. Yes I tried Debian, I'm too busy to fiddle with drivers. No, I can't get rid of the GPU, I depend on it for critical workflows. I love the minimalism of Gnome. Never liked KDE/Cinnamon honestly, they're too busy for my tastes. For 15 years I've tried other distros and I'm always back on Ubuntu. I'll ride the purple penguin to my grave.

    Downvotes only please.

    [–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago

    Joke's on you, downvotes aren't a thing on my instance, you'll take my upvote and you'll like it

    [–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    It certainly seems like public opinion changed the tast ten years or so. As an ubuntu user, could you confirm or deny these claims I've seen? One is that firefox is a snap even if you try to install it with apt. Another is that they show ads to get paid ubuntu in the terminal output?

    [–] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    If you really like Ubuntu, Linux mint Ubuntu version comes with the snap defaults removed.

    [–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I really liked Ubuntu back when the color scheme was more brown/orange, it seemed so friendly. The last ten years I've been on Debian though, but LMDE seems interesting.

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    [–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

    You got me there, firefox is the only snap I really use. Probably can be removed and replaced with apt version but honestly I don't care much. I tend to clean reinstall frequently and I leave as much in the default setup as I can.

    If it works, it works. But it does cause me to have another step to update everything, which is slightly annoying. And yes I don't like Canonical's insistence on snaps. I just try to avoid them really.

    Ads, certainly never seen them.

    [–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I can confirm them both. I'm considering moving to Debian because of this.

    You can uninstall snap and use flatpak for those apps but it was a slap in the face when Firefox suddenly was replaced by a snap through apt

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    Nobara works ootb too if you ever want to try a fedora spin. they even have a separate installer for nvidia users.

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    [–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Almost every interaction with a boomer involving their computer/phone

    [–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    It's dumb as hell to most here, but ordinary users their own ideas on what a desktop should look like that often doesn't agree with the intelligentsia. Just let them have it.

    [–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 19 hours ago

    The computer in the picture is infected with adware

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    [–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

    sighs

    Welp. Once more, with feeling.

    $ ./clears-throat.sh

    Use whatever the fuck you want, you weirdo cultists.

    spoilerI use Kubuntu (--minimal-install to avoid snap fuckery). Truly, an "S-Tier" computing experience.

    [–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 108 points 1 day ago (13 children)

    I don't even notice Debian, which is exactly how an operating system should work.

    And yet...

    [–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I was a fedora boy until I met endeavoros and kde.

    Now I'm a straight up hoe.

    [–] seralth@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    But are you a well loved and taken care of hoe? Cause you deserve to be.

    [–] untorquer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

    Taking care of your hoes is an essential regular maintenance task for a healthy garden.

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