Why bother with distro hopping when you can desktop hop?Β
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Went back to Mint a few times but ultimately I like Plasma over Cinnamon, so Debian it is!
You do know that you don't have to change distros to change DE right?
Limewire?
Linux Mint
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Yup, I do regular distrofuckery on my spare pc but Mint is just a rock solid option for me, great distro, feels good.
Mint has been glazed since the beginning of time. Not a single laptop or computer I have ever owned has worked out of the box with it. As opposed to alternatives like Ubuntu or Fedora. I must be the single most unlucky person in the history of Linux.
I've had the exact same experience.
Iβve had the opposite experience. Mint has just worked on literally every piece of hardware Iβve ever owned.
Is it always a new laptop/computer?
I'd be suspicious of Mint on anything brand new (and hence only recently fixed in a lot of packages).
Is there any company out there that sells PCs with Linux pre-installed? I make a ton of money selling custom built PCs that have Linux pre-installed and tested.
Several. System76 (the cosmic dev) is a major one, literally making the distro just for their laptops.
Theyβre mostly white boxes though. I donβt any and manufacture their own hardware (except Framework possibly???)
You can find Linux models from dell lenovo and I think even hp but you gotta search for them
There are also some specialty companies that make Linux desktops and laptops but you also gotta really seek them out
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I never left!
I think I'm just old enough, have fiddled with my PC enough times in the past, have enough other shit to do, and get enough coding and troubleshooting experience at work that I look at the quest to find my spirit distro and think "that's a youngster's game."
Or, you know, maybe Mint is already my spirit distro and I am experienced enough to not fix what isn't broken!
Ah that explains it, I no longer understand a single thing about computers or what people do with them anymore. You've explained it perfectly.
And here's the thing: I don't even want to know. It's not like I'm trying to understand but can't, I just don't care. I don't get it.
People with 100TB home servers, people with 3D printers and boxes filled with trash, endless upgrades for no visible change, etc
I don't have a single need or want that ends with "I need a new computer".
I completely understand the sentiment!
I am still into some tech and "new computer" type stuff. I am about to install a bigger/faster drive in my PC and set up my Home Assistant server. That PC is already my Jellyfin server. I am also in the middle of building a brand new PC for my kid, which will also run Mint, lol.
But I spend time only on the things that I've learned really matter to me, and not on all the things you're "supposed to" mess with in your home lab that you obviously have.
You know the meme (or meme category) where it's a resume or linkedin profile where the recent work history goes something like Senior Network Architect, then Goose Farmer?
I may literally have a 3D printer still in the box, and PC & networking parts all over the house, but my daily routine is embedded linux C/C++ sr developer by day and animal tender on the evenings and weekends, lol.
Tumbleweed
Fedora for me tbh
Mint is decent too though
Arch is pretty reliable
It's super reliable
Neckbeard here. I run Arch btw.
The second sentence was superfluous.
Man... I just fucking love CachyOS. I switched from Win11 a few weeks ago and up until now it is just a great experience.
Ditto had it on two computers, works great
I tried twice to install it- a ryzen 360 was stopped dead by this bug: https://old.reddit.com/r/cachyos/comments/1pag639/rdseed32_error_and_sddm_fails_to_start/
Figured that out and ran into the touchpad not working after sleep.
A 9300H+1650 never made it past this: https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/the-installation-of-cachyos-always-aborts-due-to-chwd-error/16754/3
0/2, cannot recommend
@ekZepp For me, it's Debian. It always just works.
Same. It's like coming home.
Switched my gaming PC over to Arch a little while back but the server's always going to be Debian.
I've been running sid on my personal laptops for more than a decade. Can't imagine doing anything else
Thats what LMDE is for, Linux Mint Debian Edition. Been my daily driver for years. Otherwise I use vanilla Debian for all my server and headless stuff.
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Fedora
From the bottom of my heart fuck rolling releases. Never worked for me (nobody get worked up please, ymmv).
lol itβs funny how proactively defensive everyone is about their distro choices
I use a Mac for my server π€
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Finding a distro that worked with my ancient Nvidia was a challenge.
Ancient NVidia should be supported by Nouveau by now, no?
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