Anybody not using Arch, by the way, must wear an arm band with the logo of their distro.
Windows users, hop in the truck!
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
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)
What are the kinds of Linux users?
It’s a bucket list item to someday have a pull request merged into a branch of the Linux kernel.
I was once the first to report a bug in the kernel. I’m still pretty proud of it.
Debian
Enough said.
Debian on my production servers, Arch Linux as my daily driver, Linux Mint on the devices I manage for normies.
Fedora on my servers, fedora as my daily driver, fedora on the devices I manage for normies.
Debian is my daily driver and for regular people I help. Comes with a service card saying “it will work and you will like it”.
I help for free. If someone does not like it, they can pay to have what they want done. But they don’t get to ask for help again.
same
Devuan seems more pure Debian.
Debian took a turn from a bad vote, and kept the name, while being a different thing.
Systemd makes perfect sense for Debian, its a stable OS and systemd is objectively stable (its also more usable and easier, additionally its what every other distro uses and has the most support)
Debian is an OS for everyone that anyone can install
So crazy that this guy built his career on being Matt Damon adjacent.
*Matt Daemon
May have started that way, but he’s legit a good actor in his own right
I just want shit to work. I want to use it as my daily driver so I can get work done, not waste time to get things working. I don’t want my installation to become obsolete. I want a nice desktop. I want a lot of nerdy console stuff, but good UI as well, so I can choose the best of both worlds for each use case, so I can work efficiently. I want to play the occasional game.
At the moment, EndeavourOS ticks all those boxes for me. I am aware other distros do as well, CachyOS looks nice. But I’m only gonna switch if it’s really worth the effort.
Linux Mint runs my laptop. I do some light 3d modeling and slicing, maybe a little photo editing. I guess that makes me a pretty casual user.
Someone legit talking about being a “casual linux user” brings, in the best of ways, a tear to my eye.
Almost 3 years and the only thing that has argued with me is Mint wouldn’t talk to my ancient audio interface. When I feel like recording again I’ll get a compliant one.
I am still a chronic distro hopper.
I was a rabid distro-hopper, going through several large spools of CD & DVD, before switching to USB pendrives, for countless more distro-hopppings and distro-surfings… until 2012, when I found Bedrock Linux (at its second alpha release). Didn’t need to try to find the one distro any more, able to mix several.
All of the above. Since you know all commands on apt, dnf or pacman
the skynix is the limit.“All of the above” = BedrockLinux ?
… “Since you know all commands”
Okay, tbh, never heard about it.
It’s not for everyone.
Takes a fair bit of reading to understand.
Makes file paths longer.
Likely requires already knowing several distros.
Yeah, reading the introduction-page actually, and got the joke now. Meta-Linux, building a system with components from all. Interesting but to much hassle. If I need something from a different distro there are tools like distrobox.
whats’s a distro? :3 My UI looks like Windows 95 and i have cute cats in my terminal :3 i can text my friends, play games, surf the internet and do arts :3 what else does a girl need? :)
I actually want this as a distro
This is as it should be
What show/movie is this from?
Alex Garland’s Civil War
Civial war, can recommend
Civil War. Pretty good movie IMO that is sadly becoming more relevant as time goes on.
Edit: Not a movie about Linux though lol
You know, the kind that insists on using Arch, despite being slightly (or more) below the skill level one should have before using it.
Honestly the skill level for Arch is kinda overblown nowadays.
You can use Archinstall and get a full desktop and a pretty hands off experience if you don’t go around tweaking any lower level system stuff.
And if you’re extra lazy (like me) Endeavour or Cachy makes the minimal setup even more streamlined with good default settings. But you still get the AUR and fast updates, which I assume it what the average user wants more than complete control over how their system is setup.
It had an installer back in ~2009 as well.
It was removed for a few years because no one wanted to maintain it
And if you’re extra desperate, there’s always manjaro. But I love it. My hardware somehow works out of the box with them. Having the AUR is definitely a godsend for some things. One day I’ll likely contribute something to it as a tiny tribute back.
Does anyone who installed arch using archinstall actually use the ‘i use arch, btw’ meme?
or any of a dozen or more other arch based respins, many with their own easy installers.
Yes, you are mostly correct. In some sense, it is more a cultural thing. If your Arch breaks, the expectations for your ability to deal with it yourself are a bit higher. There are good instructions and people willing to help, but the latter (both inside and outside of Arch community, I think) may tell you that you shouldn’t be using Arch if you don’t meet their expectations.
Anyway, another aspect of it is the fact that with my system, I am a bit of a tinkerer.
Are there options to choose from?
a few
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg and more.
https://distrochooser.de/ & https://distrowatch.com/search.php can help choose.
