I switched from Arch to Fedora recently and so far I like it. Faster than any distro I've ever run on this laptop.
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Artix really needs an archinstall like script though. Setting it up more than once is really tiring.
artix mentioned!!!
as an artix/gentoo user, where would you place gentoo?
I "tried" installing gentoo once but i didn't know what a tarball was at the time so i can't really rate it. the documentation did help me a lot with OpenRC on artix though.
i did hear nixOS is also source-based in a way, but i'm not sure on the details.
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Why did you try so many different distros? For me it was RedHat first, then I switched to Debian(because "no corporations" sentiment, technically RH was ok) somewhere 20 years ago and use it since then.
I thought this was pretty normal for Linux nerds. Iβve tried loads but I keep coming back to openSUSE.
It's absolutely normal and should resolve itself eventually.
Why do hikers travel to different mountains to conquer?
Because hiking is the goal for hikers, changing scenery is just to make things less tedious.
What's the reason for changing distros? (Except of course for the distros that offer completely different approach like switching Debian-Gentoo-LFS might be of some interest)
I think for some its fun, and they get to see different ways things can be set up
I was curious
Everyone has different needs and preferences. Finding something early on and being able to stick with it is great, but many don't find that right away, or things change with their needs or the distro.
Plus it depends also on how long you stick around each time. I know I dipped in and out of dual booting for a long time, only now in the past year settling in well. And each time I tried Linux again, lots had changed so I couldn't just go back to what I used before.
Isn't part of being in the Linux culture to experiment with things, even if it's just the window manager, settings, or particular apps?
Isnβt part of being in the Linux culture to experiment with things, even if itβs just the window manager, settings, or particular apps?
Actually no. We proud that we can not to reinstall OS in decades. That we have /etc and ~/.config dirs. Linux from the user standpoint is very conservative. Everything that worked 20 years ago, still works. Just some things became more trivial in setup.
Of course we have some "civil wars" here and there, like PulseAusio, X Window, etc, but those are few and not very interesting to the end-user.
So you're saying diversity is a bad thing? That seems very anti-Linux. The very fact that you can choose not to change for so long instead of being forced to accept the next version is diversity itself.
I am not saying that. I am saying that diversity for the sake of diversity is done by a tiny amount of crazy kids. Only extremely rare "alternatives" are staying alive. Most people respect stability and use soft that is decades old(not old versions, but soft that was founded decades ago).
That goes back to my point, that there's choices out there with Linux, from the OS distro on up to the applications. That's not being different just to be different, it's trying to fill niches where there are needs. And things change, even the tried and true sometimes go obsolete for newer approaches. Stagnation is a killer. But if it works for the needed purpose, then great.
I just don't get the internal arguing within Linux. Embrace even the "crazy kids", after all that's where Linux came from.
I wish I was competent enough to install and maintain void π₯²
Maybe someday
Void has an install script
What about LMDE?
Why is debian S tier, and Arch A tier? They both use systemd. For me I would switch Artix and Arch tbh. I had lots of issues with the artix repo because of hidden systemd dependencies. Void, probably was the smoothest experience I ever had. Shout out to Luke Smith back in the days who had great rice for void.
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Very nice. I would rank down debian because it has weird defaults like not having /sbin in the user PATH but other than that I agree
I tried Mint and Bazzite on my laptop, installed Bazzite on my Desktop, wasn't happy with the atomic style (wanted to install a lot of stuff and switch to the low-latency-kernel for music production),
switched to OpenSuse Tumbleweed and stayed there. I got a second Desktop PC for cheap from a friend, took out the GPU, installed Debian on it and run Game Servers (Minecraft, Satisfactory, TF2) on it now.
Very happy with both Tumbleweed (as a daily driver) and Debian (for my server).
Out of curiosity, what is it you like about openSUSE? It's been forever since I've messed around with it and was considering switching to it from Mint (having some graphics stability issue possibly coming from my bizarre monitor layout giving X11 headaches while using KDE, which Mint doesn't really optimize for)
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Hot take
Void for low power desktop/laptop
Fedora for regular desktop/laptop
Ubuntu server for servers
Every try puppy linux? Its a fun and unique one.
Ive only tried a few but of those cachy is tier S. I tried a lot of others that were ok but had weird issues with my hardware or required a ton of setup by me. Cachy handles a lot of that for me and everything works fine.
As for gaming ive had 1 crash so far, but that was.. OpenLoco, so its no biggie.
Im happy with my choice and probably not gonna distro hop for the foreseeable future
Artix is so buggy tho