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Hey now, thats not fair....
My chair is black, too.
I love Debian for its stability, but I hate Debian because I can't get anything to ever work on it properly.
It is stably non-functional π€‘π
This is a feature to me. I can fix issues and document workarounds, knowing that once it works it will probably continue to work until next release. With rolling or faster moving distros, every day is "I wonder if anything will break today with an update."
That's the whole point of stable distros, but people can't distinguish "stable" from "reliable" so we get comments like "arch is really stable".
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Fedora (users?)
(And yes, I know that's technically a trilby, shut up)
You'd think but here's a picture of a Fedora user.
Nah, we onto shiny crystal psuedo-gems that grow out of mostly granite.
m'distro
Trilby Enterprise Edition.
Make Linux Great Again.
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Hey, some of us are nyarch users - thatβs rainbow on both sides
Some people put so much time and energy in this kind of stuff. Imagine we could harvest this level of motivation from everyone and put it at the service of the sustainable transition, we would have stopped global warming at the +1.5β°C mark.
I don't think it's guaranteed we'd do better with global warming, but lack of creative just-for-fun projects would sure make it a colder place.
I think this is probably a bit more important than global warming
You got to have priorities
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nyay
I fucking cannot
It gets better:
Packages are always up to date thanks to Arch Linux's rolling release nature, offering good up to date bugs.
Material UwU is fine, though
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Kali usersI don't get it (Jesus, What have I started ?)
Arch users have the most whacky, customized computers you can find. Meanwhile arch itself is a small distro with very little features out the box.
Ubuntu as a distro has tons of features out the box but ubuntu users generally just keep the default without adding or using any features.
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A lot of arch users are kids fucking with thinkpads ricing up their systems and putting anime wallppapers while not doing anything serious.
Ubuntu is commonly used by researchers and hardware developers who don't really care about distro as long as it's linux. The amount of times I saw people use the entire distro with default gnome skin just to launch a terminal to run their black hole simulation, the crypto cracker or some centrifuge control script... I myself am neither but ubuntu has been my go to as well since I usually don't have time to screw with archinstall, so I just use ubuntu as good starting point and then tweak the internals as I go.
I feel like I'm the odd person out, using Arch like most people use Windows. I play games, do taxes, shop online, and do very minimal customizing, mostly just in KDE settings.
It's a shockingly stable system for how "bleeding edge" it is.
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Hmm. They have some surprisingly good documentation and user forums for a bunch of kids just fooling around. Very much unlike Ubuntu. I've learned years ago that Arch has good HOWTOs and solutions to common Linux problems that you won't easily find elsewhere, while you better avoid Ubuntu's forums unless you want to pick the one correct answer out of hundreds of posts guessing blindly at trivial questions. I have been using Debian for 25 years, so I don't have a horse in that race, it's just what I noticed.
Arch is hard to install, hard to configure, and hard to use, because it requires cryptic commandline knowledge at every step.
People who use Arch generally know very well what they are doing, so their system works with no issues, which they never forget to mention in every conversation.
Ubuntu is a novice-friendly Linux distribution, but since the majority of it's users are novices or Windows 11 refugees, they generate a lot of complaints on forums.
Arch is hard to install, hard to configure,
EndeavorOS supremacy gang rise up
Cachy RAHHHH
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Arch being hard to install and configure hasn't really been true since archinstall matured enough for regular use.
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"cryptic command like knowledge" which is mostly acquirable from 2 or 3 minutes reading the wiki.
Idk, I would probably just say it's more flexible, but less discoverable.
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I think the joke is on how people customize the visuals of their distro vs how the distro presents itself.
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Debian: Brunette Debian users: Brunette
Jokes on you. I use Ubuntu with no GUI.
What do you mean
Smh just what i'd expect from a Haiku user
/s
What's the best Linux distro for an easy switch from Windows?
Thank you everyone!! My PC is being left behind by Windows 11.
+1 to Mint. It is a very easy transition & you will not have ragerts.
Pros:
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prettier than windows while having a similar interface
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more responsive than windows
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more stable than windows
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zero spyware/bloatware
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basically the same level of software compatibility as windows
Only things that take some research ahead of time or getting used to imo:
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deciding how you want to partition your drives during installation (you can let it automatically do this, but there are reasons to create a different partition structure across drives/have different sized partitions),
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mounting drives. There are GUI tools for this (file explorer for mounting, gparted for formatting), so it really isn't a big deal, but it is a little more difficult than with Windows and you may need to reformat your drives depending what file format they're currently in.
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make sure your motherboard/video card/cpu all work well with linux. They should, but just check first.
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note that games requiring kernel level anticheat (aka spyware) won't work. So if that's a deal breaker, then dual boot or don't switch.
+1 mint
I also have a bit higher FPS in some games (both proton and native) but some just don't run at all
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Mint or Pop
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