"CentOS, just like your pappy."
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Arch, btw
(Kubuntu rly ;P)
Ubuntu 8.10-12.04 Ubuntu MATE 14.04 Debian 8-13 with GNOME
I've played around on a lot of other distros, but Debian with Gnome (set up like Gnome 2) has been my home for a while.
Nix
The future is now old man
Fedora, simple, consistent, versatile, up to date.
I tried Ubuntu, Mint, CachyOS, PopOS, Manjaro, Bazzite and Nobara. I stuck with Nobara.
- Luggable gaming rig: CachyOS
- Surface Go 2: Mint
- Old laptop strapped to the underside of the gaming table: Debian
- NUC home server: Ubuntu Server
- Steam Deck: SteamOS
Non-linux:
- Gaming tower: Windows
- Previous gaming tower repurposed as NAS: TrueNAS
That's crazy talk right there. After decades of who knows how many Linux distros, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX, AIX (and a splash of FreeBSD), the proper answer is this:
- Mint
- Already correct! >Mint
- Mint
- Mint - hardened if external
- I'll allow it
Non-Linux
- por que!? OOF... this should be Mint or really any Linux is better
- I'll allow it, though I find OMV to be better for various reasons
Not gatekeeping - just having a bit of fun. You do you, but I found it crazy supporting so many distros after all these years. At some point you go for "works great out of the box with minimal tinkering" that covers like 99% of use cases and frees up your time. That being said I'm sure I have a system or two around here still running Ubuntu or Debian or whatever that I just can't be arsed to change.
I do like the dedication to Mint! To be honest it's generally my default pick if I need to slap Linux onto something. I actually tried putting it on the gaming table machine but for reasons I didn't feel like digging into it just did not cooperate, and Debian did.
CachyOS on the luggable gaming machine is mostly just because I hadn't used it before and wanted to give it a spin. So far so good.
As for the Windows machine, it's a gaming rig and at the time it was built, pre-steam deck, Linux wasn't quite yet in as good a position for that as it is now. I just can't be bothered to switch it mid-stream as it were. It's almost certainly going to be the last Windows machine I ever own though.
Totally get using others if something isn't working. I've been known to (gasp) throw on another distro to get past a problem until a new kernel release or bug fix comes in, but it's the rarity now. I gotta be honest that I'm surprised it was Debian which solved a corner case for your gaming table. Maybe it was a monitor issue or weird (old) hardware?
Good call on the final pass with Windows. With Steam, you really can't miss on hardly any game these days unless it's bloated with DRM, but who am I to speak - I have XBox that can actively spy on me for those DRMed games... Carry on.
Old hardware is certainly possible. I salvaged it from my parents who were going to throw it out. It's got an A10-8700P and is limping along with a single 4GB DIMM. The thing doesn't even have a second memory slot.
Serious .ML vibes going on with this meme
PikaOS. I have surfed around enough to know this is made for me. It's Debian Unstable based and carries optimized builds in their own repo via a package manager that also wraps around apx, and their own tool for firmware, switching the scheduling and well, enough said
I'm these 2 kinds:
- Cute queer nerd
- Stallman-like privacy and libre software enthusiast and anti-capitalist
i use openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE btw (it just works)
Casu
What are the kinds of Linux users?
I run whatever works for me. Been through most of the big variations (Debian, arch, rhel, suse), and a lot of flavours. Every once in a while I run into some issue. Sometimes I manage to fix it, and sometimes I end up reinstalling or distrohopping
WSL
So crazy that this guy built his career on being Matt Damon adjacent.
May have started that way, but he's legit a good actor in his own right
He's unsettling in all his roles and that's a mark of a good actor. If you feel uncomfortable just because they are present in the scene, then they are doing their job.
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Bazzite KDE on my gaming rig.
SteamOS on my SteamDeck.
Fedora Gnome on my laptop.
Fedora XFCE on my Jellyfin server
Android on my smartphone though soon to be Murena OS
Would like to tinker with OpenSUSE leap soon too actually, maybe on an old laptop.
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