every distro sucks, so everyone thinks they can make a better distro but each one ends up sucking in its own way

>>108616922
>what distro did you pick
Artix, 2 years ago
>and do you have a specific reason for staying on it?
had been using Arch for a while and wanted to get rid of systemd

>>108616922
at the end of the it's all the same thing just slightly different flavors, which yes, come down to the desktop environment itself. i honestly think most people who have a basic grip on computers are better off just using arch and customizing it to their needs. ie. i would only recommend pop or mint or cachy to someone who i know isn't going to have a relatively ok time getting their system set up for the first time.

I picked Opensuse tumbleweed because everything is up-to-date and rarely breaks, and if somehow something breaks you can always return to the previous update where everything was working perfectly.

>>108617249
Every distro can do that?

>>108617255
No?

>>108617266
Yes.

>>108616954
gaki brudi? is that you.

>>108616922
what is the point of different distros or distro hopping?
>fun
what distro did you pick?
>mint
do you have a specific reason for staying on it?
>looked the most like Windows 7 and it just works :^)

>>108616922
>what distro did you pick?
Mint Cinnamon Edition
Landed there in 2018 or 2019 after distro hopping since 2011 or 2012.
>do you have a specific reason for staying on it?
TL;DR:
I stopped caring about configuring every little utility myself. Plus, I stopped playing video games. I learned I am happier with an LTS base and a DE that doesn't make big, flashy changes. Install, turn off animations, move taskbar, get on with my life.

Full Story:
In the 2000's I used Gentoo and was used to compiling and configuring everything myself, and having "full control". I moved to Debian Sid for while, using minimal install, still configuring every package myself. By the 2011-ish I was tired of that. My "distro hopping" days were actually me trying the pre-packaged, desktop-focused distros for the first time.

I tried GNOME, KDE, a few tiling WMs (xmonad was cool), lightweight floating WMs, lightweight DEs like Xfce and Enlightenment...
They were all "fine", but each had its own rough edges.
The two I stuck with the longest were:
(1) I forget the name, but it was a heavily pre-configured Fluxbox (or Openbox?).
(2) Xfce on Fedora.
But I never thought "This works so well that I want to use this forever."

From my Gentoo days, I let myself have the fake-elitist view of Mint and Ubuntu as "Baby's First Distro", so it wasn't until 2018 or 2019 when I tried it. They had just stopped following the every-6-month Ubuntu release, switched to LTS, and focused resources on making the basics better. Making their config menus not suck, fixing the worst performance issues, etc.

And Cinnamon was... comfortable?
It has the core desktop ideas that I remember from Windows 98 or XP from my childhood, just cleaned up and on top of Linux. They aren't "re-imagining what a desktop can be" or whatever GNOME thinks they're doing. Every version upgrade, the way things work stays the same, but those things are slightly better.

>>108617422
I would have a beer with you.

>>108616922
NixOS cured my occasional distrohopping. Learning it was difficult, but it was worth it since now all my configs are in one place and I don't have to bother with docker or flathub anymore. I definitely couldn't go back to traditional distros and there are no other distros like NixOS right now.

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>>108616922
debian + xfce
i like the lts peace of mind and things going slowly by, so i picked debian; xfce because its very modular, lightweight and fast. im coming from fedora + kde which was okayish but not nearly as comfy and i found there was no reason for so many updates.

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>>108617387
maybe

>>108616922
>what distro did you pick
Windows 11
>do you have a specific reason for staying on it?
Too scared (and potentially too dumb) to try Linux.

>Which distro did you choose
I recommend fedora or Nix. I was on Nix, but moved to Fedora because I got sick of configuring shit. I stick with Fedora because its fast, up to date, and tries to keep things simple. The only time I'm in the terminal is either to update or when I am programming. I suggest picking a distro that handles most of the driver shit for you. I tried guix and was super annoyed that WiFi wouldn't work. FSF tries to sell you on their distros, but they always suck because they always lead you to having a half functioning computer.

>>108617631
>Too scared (and potentially too dumb) to try Linux.
you can try in a virtual machine or on a spare machine you don't care about

>>108617631
False flagging lintard with a superiority complex. Pro tip: linux doesn’t require much intelligence to use.

>>108616922
I'm just on Ubuntu, my nigg

>>108617965
Are virtual machines hard to set up?
>>108617990
I have literally never used Linux in my life. No need to be a schizo.

>>108617631
Don't worry about being too dumb to use Linux. There's loads of retards using it.

>>108618027
>Are virtual machines hard to set up?
no. just download Virtualbox and install it, you can manage them inside it once that's done

>>108618031
If I try one in a virtual machine which one do I pick?

>>108618042
something that's beginner friendly like Mint perhaps

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>>108617574
we meet again.

>>108618042
download a vm like the other post suggested, and install mint on it
https://linuxmint.com/

>>108618042
I started off with Pop! OS, which is pretty easy to use I think. But I haven't distro-hopped as much as others.

>>108617990
>>108618031
kill yourself rajesh

>>108617679
how a "just works" man ends up on nix?

>>108618112
pop! was the first linux anything i installed years ago as a baby to linux and it was a terrible first impression. at least back in 2018 or so. being used to a certain level of sleekness in windows 10, it just automatically put me off and made it hard to use. it looks a lot better now from what i can tell.

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>>108617541
same but i replaced the desktop while xmonad while keeping everything else
pretty comfy

>>108616922
>what distro did you pick
arch
>do you have a specific reason for staying on it
it was the second distro i ever used after my first one (mint) and decided if i'm going to do something i might as well do it right. have literally never felt the urge to distro hop.

>>108618136
>How
I really likes the idea of being able to completely purge programs from my system. Nix promised that. I also enjoy writing software and being able to define what packages you need to run software at a version level is really nice. Also they have a vast selection of packages compared to other distros. Honestly if WiFi didn't break on that install I probably would still be using it.

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>Nix

>>108616922
I pick arch because i wanted to install an OS myself to learn more about it. I pick a WM as well, it was i3wm. I used the documentation and learn somethings. Was a great experience and it didn't reak

>>108616922
>there is no [nontrivial] difference between distros
lol, lmao. the most dunning krueger midwit thought /g/ routinely produces.

>>108617455
Thanks, Anonymous.
If we could, I'm sure I'd enjoy it.

>>108619988
>>108617455
>>108617422
Could I drink with you guise? I'm not a homo and I appreciate your double digits on your posts.

I use arch because I'm cattle with recent hardware and need bleeding edge, it just works also.
I also have alpine on my homesever because it's designed for that purpose and minimal

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>>108616922

I use Mint but I see why its outdated
If I could, I would use another distro like Arch but my wifi card has some sleep bug. I don't know which one would work OOTB with the kernel.