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use a big hammer
Hannah Montana Linux, btw
Can confirm.
I made this mistake once and every comment was a different distro, they were all upvoted, and everyone was saying good things about all of them.
I just went with Ubuntu.
It’s the canonical choice
Linux is like dogs, they’re all good bois.
That’s okay, chances are half the different distros people were talking up were Ubuntu.
Random PSA: set your bios to sleep state linux.
I had no idea this was a thing. Thank you!
Secureblue.
Excuse me sir or madam, do you have time to talk about our lord and savior NixOS?
no one likes a smart guy. you can keep your dot files /s
There are no dotfiles! There is only the Config!
TBH I would switch to Nix, from my current long standing arch, but it wouldn’t make any difference to me ultimately. Cool concept though, but I don’t really care much about these immutable distros.
I have to say the immutability isn’t what got me. It’s that i can propagate changes to all my machines (i have three, with different configurations of work and private users) without fuss. i have one git repo that contains the Config and all i do is git pull && sudo nixos-rebuild switch after i login and it’s done. reinstalling is also somewhat trivial and once the installer is done everything is as i want it to be. which is just bonkers to me. i love it to bits. before i had a super brittle system of dotfiles that regularly broke. nevermore
That does make sense for such use cases, however I feel that archinstall script is also mature enough, allowing you to have config files even. Even w/o them it still has very powerful defaults. I will def give nixos a try in a VM first, as I mostly rely on flatpak and landlock anyways.
die heretic
rebooted, restored, invincible!
There is a slight difference there. You don’t ask the first two because social norms have pressured those groups to focus on those elements to unhealthy levels, so asking is, on a certain level, disrupting the peace of the other person by touching a sensitive area. The third is not. The third is poking your own peace because whether they have an extreme loyalty to one or a nuanced understanding of why different ones are better suited to different use cases, you are about to be talked at for an hour about it.
My favourite Linux is the kernel
Colonel who?
Colonel Linux and his army of daemons!
All of them except the wrong one.
That’s easy, it’s Debian
You either use Debian, or Debian With Extra Steps, so I went with Debian
Yeah why would someone ask a question when the answer is so obvious?
Pretty much any distro can do any of the things Windows/Mac users are hoping a computer can do. So just pick one and stick with it. Once you’re familiar with Linux, the benefits/drawbacks of each distro will become clearer, and you’ll be able to make an informed decision. People will tell you “Arch is more lightweight than Mint” but compared to Windows/MacOS, all Linux distros are going to feel blazingly fast and lightweight. The only decent advice is, if you are just starting out and you have an Nvidia GPU, use a distro that sets that up for you automatically. It’s not super complicated to set up, but it’s definitely going to feel like a foreign experience the first time.
Pretty much any distro can do any of the things Windows/Mac users are hoping a computer can do.
Without knowledge and at least an hour of your time for configuration, CLI-first distros like Arch can’t even play a video - or show a GUI for that matter.
[…] Nvidia GPU […] It’s not super complicated to set up, but it’s definitely going to feel like a foreign experience the first time.
If you’re lucky that means. If you happen to pick a distro / device combo that doesn’t harmonize and the distro didn’t took care of the driver from the start you’ll have a really, really bad time. Especially if it’s a hybrid GPU system. You’re right about picking a distro that comes with it. Options like Pop!_OS, TuxedoOS or Bazzite come to mind.
Don’t forget Biebian
The one you fucking feel like using. God, stop trying to make tribes mandatory.
Never heard of it. What packaging system does Tribes use?
The wrong one, obviously!
Well, it’s built to use Ooga, but it’s also set up to be able to handle Booga as well. It depends on the driver set you need to load Fire and Club.
I prefer Ook! Ook! over Ooga.
SHAZBOT!
I’m tempted to commit to pretending that “Tribes” is a Linux distro that we’re all worried will gain too much popularity and hurt the ecosystem…
I wanted to interject about how “ecosystem” is a word only used for locked-in stuff like Apple and Google, but y’know what?
THIS is a proper ecosystem. It is actually organic, made of independent moving parts, unlike the clockwork made by big tech, internal to each and to a large extent indivisible.
I feel like there’s a lemmings reference to be made here but I’m tired. Internet, do your thing.
*Except for beginners
Try a beginner distro, and when you’re done with the tutorial, go ahead and install your arches or nixes, IDC
SteamOS was my tutorial and today I run Arch on my main system. But I like learning and I like the fact that I can build my own system and choose my own components. I understand that Arch is not for everyone but for me it’s perfect.
Steamos is a great introduction… If you touch desktop mode of course.
Personally I recommend Linux mint, or even KUbuntu or Cinnamon Ubuntu (gnome is not meant for windows refugees so better not show it yet)
Also, fuck GNOME. When I tried Ubuntu in 2009 it was GNOME that made me hate Linux until I learned that KDE Plasma was a thing.
GNOME is horrible. Looks pretty, but it’s opinionated approach means that nothing works as expected and you have to relearn how to use a stupid window manager.
Ooga Booga, caveman like Arch, caveman spread Arch!
Edit: i never read the other comments and someone already sorta used this joke… shit.
Hey can y’all help me out? I wanna start switching over, but I need a beginner friendly distro that can work well with my 2070 super for gaming. I need something simple to set up or I’ll get ADHD paralysis and never do it.
I’d also love if it worked well with my Valve Index, but if that still has a lot of issues across the board I may still have to dual boot :c
i started on mint, with a 2080, played through hl alyx (with one weird issue - when i had my old xbox 360 controller plugged in, alyx and vr home couldn’t start, but that was a few years ago, maybe it’s not an issue any more).
which is to say, the index is not the issue, most vr games don’t have a native linux version, so you have to rely on proton, and especially with nvidia cards they’re far from guaranteed to runThanks so much!
If you like the color green pick linux mint. If you like blue pick zorinOS.
If you really want to use arch as noob pick Garuda.
80% of recommendations will be an Ubuntu/debian child so pick whatever looks good and works. See the first two.
If you really don’t like Ubuntu/deb check out Fedora. If you want a big screen steam mode pick bazzite.
Thank you!
Mint. It started as the beginner friendly distro and it’s becoming the “main” distro as of late.
Thanks!
Given they have an Nvidia and want stuff like the Valve Index to work (so in the best case to have all those super new drivers, libraries installed and stuff) it should be a distro that comes with a lot preconfigured, like the Nvidia driver.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Bazzite in this regard.
Thanks for adding onto this!
Shame on all of you for not knowing Hanna Montana Linux is the best possible OS ever.
I thought that it’s a fact everyone using Linux just instinctively knew.
