• Zink@programming.dev
    6·
    30 minutes ago

    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!

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
      2·
      18 minutes ago

      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”.

  • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    14 minutes ago

    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.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    16 minutes ago

    I’ve settled on fedora atomic and distros based on it, but still not set on my servers. Currently trying atomic server also but I’m not sure if I’m staying with it. I also have some talos nodes but I haven’t gotten around to playing with that yet.

  • Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org
    28·
    4 hours ago

    Man… I just fucking love CachyOS. I switched from Win11 a few weeks ago and up until now it is just a great experience.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 hour ago

    For me it’s Pop. It was my first real foray into Linux years ago. Now I’ve hopped a lot on side systems and use Arch on both my laptops. My gaming rig stays with Pop because It Just Works™.

    The new Cosmic desktop has been fun though.

  • mikerr@programming.dev
    7·
    3 hours ago

    Mint forever, Ubuntu without the snaps, and It generally is fuss free.

    Shout-out to antiX though, revived many a “useless” old laptop with that.

  • Affidavit@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Yep, this is me. I’m currently using an old Nobara kernel… Because the latest kernel install (w/dependencies) completely fucked up everything and I honestly cba wasting any more time troubleshooting (tldr Wayland is NOT ready for production).

    Just waiting till the motivation hits so I can do a complete rebuild. Mint is at the top of my list—it just works.

    Edit: should add, one good thing Nobara does is that it keeps previous kernels installed, so that if they fuck things up (and they do), you can just select a previous kernel when booting.

    • Strider@lemmy.world
      1·
      27 minutes ago

      From the bottom of my heart fuck rolling releases. Never worked for me (nobody get worked up please, ymmv).

      • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        12 minutes ago

        lol it’s funny how proactively defensive everyone is about their distro choices

        I use a Mac for my server 🤓

    • satanmat@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Kinoite Ride or die

      FOR ME it does the things I need it to do; and it works; and hasn’t blown up my house yet so 🤞

    • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      3 hours ago

      I’ve been living with fedora (ultramarine) kde for a while now because people praised fedora so much, but i think mint still wins. and i chose ultramarine because am a noob, don’t sue me.

      there are many little things that just don’t work and i seriously can’t figure out. here’s a few: discover fails to update the system and i always have to do it manually from the terminal. wine is broken, it literally can’t run anything i throw at it that worked on mint. plasma theme customization is somewhat broken (also custom themes prevent updating…). using alt key in games run with wine causes some annoying notification sound (not in system keyboard shortcuts). often keyboard leds stay on when system suspended, system can’t be woken up from keyboard. can’t use flameshot with kb shortcut.

      this isn’t a hate comment though, a lot of things are better than i had with mint cinnamon. i do like how it’s a lot faster than mint when under heavy load, autosuspend actually works, no issues with screen not waking up. currently my media pc with mint can’t update because all sources are unavailable and it has some conflict with python3 which it won’t let me uninstall (which i suspect would be unwise, idk)

      • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 hours ago

        I can only recommend regular Fedora because I have a feeling you just wouldn’t have those issues but I am not a doctor.

  • Emi@ani.social
    8·
    4 hours ago

    I tried CachyOS and so far it’s been alright besides having bit difficulty finding software so I have stuff from multiple sources.

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      3 hours ago

      Hmm? The AUR is one of the biggest pros of Arch and derivatives imo

      If the software you need is available as .deb or .rpm, you can use Distrobox. For everything else, AppImages and Flatpaks

  • Brusque@lemmy.world
    12·
    5 hours ago

    Just switched from Mint to CachyOS due to some upgraded hardware and it’s been pretty nice so far. Mint will stay on all my other devices though.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 hour ago

      I’m surprised you didn’t stick with NixOS. After spending tens of hours learning how to use it, the sunk cost fallacy is strong.

      • girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        48 minutes ago

        Just delete the configuration.nix file along with all backups of it and its easy to not look back. At least that did it for me since my system needed specific boot settings to even work and relearning all that wasn’t worth it.