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• Distro: Void Linux
• Filesystem: Btrfs
• Display Server: Xorg
• Desktop Manager: kde plasma

Why is nobody saying opensuse... I'm afraid

I installed arch thinking it would be hard but worth it, and then I found out it's easier than I thought and now I'm having a bit of an existential crisis that I'm finding the "hard" distro to be easy. 

I'm the type to mess around with pipewire, break stuff, fix it, learn nothing from that and fuck it up again. I've got it doing what I want it to, and yet I wanna tinker around and probably mess it up again because I can't seem to really understand the docs or configuration files.

I'm the type to have two OS (Nobara, Ubuntu) on separate disks, then decide to rip the guts out of the second one (Ubuntu) and just use the disk for data storage (without reformatting) but keep forgetting to also delete the boot partition that no longer works anyway (because none of the system directories exist anymore) but occasionally UEFI randomly decides to boot it first and ends up with a fucked up and hopelessly confused GRUB.

I'm the type to put the second disk in fstab, then unplug it and wonder why boot is having issues loading the filesystem.

This is my primary system, so I'm just barely holding back from messing with the system itself, because I know I'll fuck up something and I'd rather still have a working system to either troubleshoot from or at least decide I'll postpone the unfucking and play Satisfactory instead to mess up my factory there.

I'll probably format my third disk again (currently Bazzite, which I never really fully set up to try at length) and try something new on there. Still haven't figured out how to make my GRUB add entries for other disk, but also, I really don't wanna touch my primary boot config.

I can't stop messing with things I don't properly understand, get impatient with trying to understand the Docu and just fly blind, with predictable results. I tell myself half the joy is in fixing it, because the second it works, I forget it all and get to figure it out again next time.

I'm the "incorrigible amateur" type.

Arch Linux with the CachyOS repos.

Nix

The future is now old man

POV how it feels to ask for help with your Linux on a Linux community

• 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

I am still a chronic distro hopper.

I'd say a tinkerer, somewhat of a control freak, and i like the novelty of trying more obscure things. I really liked NixOS, but i didn't like the systemd part of it. Wanted to stick to Runit-only so went back to Void, but at this point i decided to try GNU Guix. Who knows, i might end up liking Shepherd better than Runit. I think Guix has to be the most obscure distro that i've played with so far. Luckily the documentation is great, cause the community is small so it might be tougher to find help from the community sometimes.

Casual AF. I'm here to get shit done, not take any shit from my OS, not pay permanent rents to run my computers*, and do things my way. Protecting my privacy, fulfilling the promise of general purpose computing, and lack of DRM are just icing on the cake.

*Totally happy to donate on the regular to the open source apps I use!

sudo pacman -Syu

[No patch notes were read, zero idea what that update will do]

EndeavourOS is home for me. 💜

Are there options to choose from?

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

EndeavourOS cause I wanted to instantly hop arch from windows but am also lazy 🦥

I rice'd Gnome and now dont mess with my computer (I got a job :sadge:)