Hey /g/uysHow do you all handle the distro FOMO? like I haven't got the time or spare ssd writes to try all distros in a timely fashion but i always question whether the distro I've chose or even the desktop environment is the best one to use.The only thing that I can think that may help sway me to another distro is I found my laptop website (dell) for example, has a page of support in relation to using Ubuntu... so I feel like maybe Ubuntu would run really well since they have official support?Other than that I struggle to make up my mind on whether I should try something new or stick with what I already have, taking into account I'm going to put a new larger ssd in my laptop and since i'll be doing a clean install its almost the perfect opportunity to make a change or perhaps not.Cheers
Stop caring. It's mostly the same shit.
>>96087063Lots have live cds. Just get ventoy and install a bunch.
They're all the same. Go with Ubuntu first, but keep the /home partition separate so you can keep distrohopping if need be.
>>96087063https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=mcdonald%27s
i use arch btw
>>96087142thanks man, I already have a job>>96087290>archthis is on the list, currently using an Arch based distro but wondering if I should just go direct Arch, problem is i'm not 300lbs yet
There really isn't much of a difference between distros beyond the installation process. If the distro has the programs you need in its repros why not use it?
>>96087519>the programs you needmy software needs are constantly evolving, so I guess this is hard to lay down at the beginning, I may also forget something I use infrequently, I don't think I've had too many issues with current distro in finding packages whether directly or bootstrapped from the AUR directly
>>96087559Then Arch works
>>96087333>problem is i'm not 300lbs yetThank god for the Arch memes keeping faggots like you away from it. It's too good for clowns who fall for them and it's sort of a self-preservation to make sure retards like you don't contribute to it, because to be honest, your contributions would be very poor and shitty. Stick to Ubuntu, motherfucker.
>>96088266thanks for outing your attempts to avoid, also contributing? wtf are you talking about? i'm talking about using it not dev-ing for it, fuck that shit, i'm no tranny
>>96087063Mint is the best one>Ubuntu is the best supported distro with highest chance of you shit just working>it removes retarded Ubuntu shit like snap store>doesn't have gay branding>negative, it's ugly>inb4 you can theme itCope, plenty if distros have decent looking ui out the box>inb4 install gentoo
>>96087063They're all pretty much the same shit. If it works for you, you're probably not going to get a huge benefit from switching. That being said, I like Arch a little more than everything else thanks to the repos always being up to date, the AUR having literally everything you could ever fucking want (down to obscure drivers, patches, random github projects, and so on), the fantastic documentation of the Arch wiki and other little niceties (like pacman being fast, Arch's tooling being simple, etc.). It is very nice not having to waste time hunting down third party repos/packages, and having it all managed by the package manager.The memes about Arch being some hardcore autist distro really aren't true (it doesn't require a manual install anymore), and neither are the memes about it being super unstable (if you *really* need a particular application pinned to a specific version or whatever, you could always just use Flatpak). I have unironically had much more catastrophic bugs and stability issues on supposedly "stable", "noob friendly" distros like Ubuntu and its derivatives (Linux Mint, PopOS, etc.)--you might get the rare regression on Arch, but typically never anything system-breaking. I would say the only annoying thing about Arch after a fresh install is that it installs a *very* vanilla DE with basically none of the optional packages installed. Like, last I checked, for KDE, you need to install things like spectacle (the screenshot tool) and kdialog (the KDE file dialog) yourself, and also SDDM uses an ugly theme out of the box.As far as DEs are concerned, I would say that most people these days have gravitated towards GNOME or KDE, or have gone full autist with a tiling window manager. For me, though, after an extremely obsessive and autistic bout of distro hopping, I always came back to Arch + KDE, so that's my permanent home. KDE can be configured however the fuck you want and isn't really missing any features, so you can't go wrong with it.
>>96088284>fuck that shit, i'm no trannyAHAHAHH this motherfucker falls for every meme, must be sad not being able to think for yourself, not that you'd know it because you aren't even aware of it. Like I said, stick to Ubuntu, cunt.
>>96088377I want to do one of their courses for lols
>>96088542>cuntjust for that i'm going to install Arch and learn how to code and contribute motherfucker
>>96088284>also contributing? wtf are you talking about? i'm talking about using it not dev-ing for it,Yet again, you prove how incomprehensible you are. Contributing isn't just code, it's fixes on the forum and providing logs whenever there's a bug you're aware of.
>>96088572Smart choice, welcome to the real Arch.
>>96088580>forumis there a tiktok or fb group i can contribute on?
>>96088600Your mom's forum where she constantly prowls for bbcs to fill her up, maybe one of the niggers there is smart enough to use Linux and you both can chat about it while she farts the cum out in the bathroom.
Simple. Use a distro backed and developed by a major company.You have these choices:>Ubuntu>Fedora>Pop OS>OpenSUSESUSE is pointless compared to Fedora. Pop OS will most likely be better than Ubuntu once their new COSMIC comes out, and System76 has the funds and employees of a professional company, but they're private, so no shareholders to appease, and they make their money selling computers that come with Pop OS. So many, many incentives for them to make it a good OS, and they have the resources to do it.Fedora is backed by Red Hat. PipeWire, GNOME, systemD; you name it. Red Hat developed it or had a major hand in its development. Fedora is extremely reliable, and it's also the only distro where its upgrades from release to release are reliable and don't break anything.Ubuntu is old reliable. Use LTS and it'll just work.These 4 are the only distros you can 100% trust because they're developed by a group with the funds and employees to make shit happen. You can rest assured they won't be gone in a couple years.
>>96088617>implying a mom with a healthy sex life is an insultlol better then your mom who's all dried up inside and wants to murder suicide your whole family because ur dad is too busy watching loli porn
>>96088641>admits that his mom's crazy for bbc and actually partakes in conversation about in on 4chanJust admit that you're fucked in the head and you wanna fuck her too, lil nigga
>>96087063>How do you all handle the distro FOMO?By using virtual machines but I'm decades past FOMO. I just like having max tools at my disposal and learning a variety. Dual booting off as single hdd is fine for horrible slow old notebooks (desktops easily mount hard drive swap racks so no need to dual boot or risk molesting your main OS while noobing if your desktop is too feeble for VMs). Otherwise it's shit so I did it twice im 1999 then dropped it. These "which distro" threads can easily be disposed of by running a stable host you do not fuck with or want to, then trying multiple VMs. You can also boot live .iso images the same way. Virtualbox is an excellent noob-friendly VM starter solution. VMs permit multiple OS (Windows is free so I run that instead of Wine because why not). Windows or Linux hosts can have Windows or Linux or other guests and the more OS I have the more choice for me.Free VMs for the lazy. https://www.osboxes.org/
>>96088666>Free VMs for the lazy. https://www.osboxes.org/what are the chances these are filled with keyloggers?
>>96088738I don't know why you'd be entering anything confidential in a VM based off an image. These are for quickly getting into an environment to do some shit like test an app you're developing or do some malware testing/probing. For any VM you're going to use for an extended period of time, always best to install it the regular way
>>96087063Feels like people who distro hop are mostly people who don’t have a job/not doing anything productive with their lives. Unless they just try other distros on a vm as a hobby. Just get one distro and stick with it, there’s barely any difference
>>96088788well i'd want to test it for stuff i do on the reg before i isntall it, like banking, emails, reddit and word/excel processing stuff, plus media creation/editing and watching
>>96087063The more experience you have with Linux the less you will tend to hop because there are only 3 distros worth running >Debian>Arch>GentooAll 3 of them have advantages and disadvantages but with the advent of containers you can get rid of the disadvantages
>>96088839Why would you need to test any of that? It's all websites
>>96088943>Debiantried already and had lots of issues with it>Archleaning towards as already comfortable with Arch based distro>gentoostill unsure if this is legit or /g/ meme
>>96087063Its only worth trying one distro from each general category. You can install the same shit anywhere for the most part, so ignore that and look at what it does at the core thats actually distro specific. e.g. immutability with ostree, nix, abroot, whatever else there is now.
>>96089177>tried already and had lots of issues with itWhat issues did you have with Debian? >still unsure if this is legit or /g/ memeGentoo is better then Arch but of course the big drawback is having to compile most packages yourself.
>>96087063You just need to learn what the differences are between distro's. And it comes down to:>Update scheme>Package manager>DE>Other tweaks/configsIf you use them in one or two distro's you should know what you like/need and just pick the distro that has the best configs with the update scheme, package manager and DE you like.Als get a raspberry pi or old laptop to test distro's.
>>96089177Gentoo is legit. I’ve been using it for almost 6 months now, and it just works. All of the regressions I had were because of my own incompetence. E.g. I decided to use custom kernel instead of dist kernel, and it shat itself because I misconfuigured it, or I accidentally removed my user from ‘video’ group, so it couldn’t log in to the xorg server, stuff like that. If you won’t be a nerd and install default profile and a distkernel, it will be fine, plus you will get cool use flags feature at your dispose.
>>96087063Official distro support is a meme. You only need to have drivers (which are in the kernel).https://distrochooser.de/Also, for DEs:KDE - full fledged, looks like WindowsGnome - full fledged, looks like MacOSCinnamon - semi minimal, looks like WindowsXFCE - minimal, doesn't have multi touchpad gestures
i tried to install freebsd on either of my laptops. it won't work on either of my laptopsi got it to work in a virtual machine.
>>96087063Linux is literally just a package manager and desktop environment. Just install Debian and move on with your life, 99% of distros is based on Debian anyway.
>>96087063Have multiple devices/drives depending on your machineOne drive runs debian stable/testing so you can have a proper system to go back toThe other is a nuke it and go drive where you install whateverAlternatively: use separate partitions for home and systemTry whatever bullshit you like and nuke your system partition when youre bored
>i always question whether the distro I've chose or even the desktop environment is the best one to use.My first distro was Fedora with GNOME 3, because Ubuntu seemed "too obvious" a choice. I liked everything about Fedora, except things changing too often for seemingly no reason. Some years later I remembered that RHEL exists, which is mostly the same as Fedora, except that it's stable and doesn't change things all the time. Turns out it's perfect for me. As a bonus, it still uses GNOME 3, which takes me back to when I first made the jump to Linux.>FOMO?During that time, I briefly tried Gentoo, Arch, FreeBSD, Ubuntu LTS, some other DEs, but none of them made my experience better. I just went back to what I knew works best for me and the FOMO was gone. I hear getting a job helps too, but you'd have to ask someone else about that one.
>>96088377>negative, it's uglyJust install another DE or WM, it's not that hard
>>96088637>SUSE is pointless compared to FedoraWhy would you shill for IBM?
>>96092407What does SUSE do better? Nothing. It can't even maintain its own ideas. Leap is going away and they keep making random other distros and it's a mess. Plus it has less software support; you cannot use RPMs intended for Red Hat/Fedora.
>>96091704>I hear getting a job helps too,I have a job, in which I have to use Winblows, Linux is a personal endeavour>software supportI never understand this though, like shouldn't any linux software run on linux? whats the issue with compatibility?
>>96088666>Free VMs for the lazy.talk about lazy...
>>96092578argh, clipped it
>>96091704are you really paying $300 for a RHEL license?
>>96092512>I have a job, in which I have to use Winblows, Linux is a personal endeavourI meant more like having a full time job means you're less likely to care about distrohopping and would probably just stick with what you know.>software supportIt's complicated. There are many different package formats and distros can be grouped into "families", based on their native package format (e.g. RPM family, DEB family, etc). When you build software packages for Linux distros, you have to make sure the distro is able to satisfy all the runtime dependencies (you can provide your own, but without proper containerisation this can overwrite dependencies other programs use and break stuff elsewhere).>shouldn't any linux software run on linux?There are several solutions which aim to be universal and distro agnostic, like Flatpak, Snap and AppImage. Flatpak manages its own dependencies separately from native packages and AppImage builds all the dependencies into the binary. Sometimes there are even binaries that you just download, run, and they just work.>>96092758RHEL has been free to use for several years now. You just need to make an account.
>>96092512>shouldn't any linux software run on linux?PFFFFFFHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>96087063>>96087094Fpbp, you beat it by distrohopping a bunch and realizing it's all shit, just go with debian stable unless you want a super small install or the latest shit, if you do then just use arch
>>96087063its all the same shit just use arch or something faggit
By dehumanizing other distro's users.
