Debian
Enough said.
same
I used to use fedora on my first school Thinkpad (since I recieved another when my brother graduated, becoming my second school laptop,) then after I got 2 considerably more powerful laptops for free I switched the thinkpads out of my setup, and to this day they still run windows 11 unfortunately (haven’t gotten around to it and they’re both nvidia MX business machines, so that’s not awfully ideal,) and then I converted the second Thinkpad to a FydeOS machine (basically chrome os with local accounts) to give to my mother as her own laptop, and then put chromeOS flex on a third Thinkpad I bought off a friend for $10 which remains as my occasional-browsing-but-also-throw-around-laptop that has pretty friggin good battery life.
I do plan to switch at least one of the MX laptops to Linux, for which I’m considering Pop!_OS due to driver support and GPU configuration, but I’ve still gotta back some stuff up first.
I am still a chronic distro hopper.
Linux Mint runs my laptop. I do some light 3d modeling and slicing, maybe a little photo editing. I guess that makes me a pretty casual user.
Ubuntu on WSL2
I’d love to go full Nobara, if all my peripherials worked properly.
Are there options to choose from?
whats’s a distro? :3 My UI looks like Windows 95 and i have cute cats in my terminal :3 i can text my friends, play games, surf the internet and do arts :3 what else does a girl need? :)
This is as it should be
You know, the kind that insists on using Arch, despite being slightly (or more) below the skill level one should have before using it.
Honestly the skill level for Arch is kinda overblown nowadays.
You can use Archinstall and get a full desktop and a pretty hands off experience if you don’t go around tweaking any lower level system stuff.
And if you’re extra lazy (like me) Endeavour or Cachy makes the minimal setup even more streamlined with good default settings. But you still get the AUR and fast updates, which I assume it what the average user wants more than complete control over how their system is setup.
And if you’re extra desperate, there’s always manjaro. But I love it. My hardware somehow works out of the box with them. Having the AUR is definitely a godsend for some things. One day I’ll likely contribute something to it as a tiny tribute back.
Does anyone who installed arch using archinstall actually use the ‘i use arch, btw’ meme?
Yes, you are mostly correct. In some sense, it is more a cultural thing. If your Arch breaks, the expectations for your ability to deal with it yourself are a bit higher. There are good instructions and people willing to help, but the latter (both inside and outside of Arch community, I think) may tell you that you shouldn’t be using Arch if you don’t meet their expectations.
Anyway, another aspect of it is the fact that with my system, I am a bit of a tinkerer.
I use Alpine Linux with Sway as my daily driver for browsing, writing scripts and to slowly customize my own work environment.
I have a Linux Mint DE partition that launchs directly to Steam for gaming. Tried Bazzite but the installer failed to find my SSD.
I also have a small partition that has an image of the LMDE .iso. It saves me from needing to grab a USB drive for when I inevitably fuck up the first two partitions and need a live USB environment to fix things.
I keep all my backups, music, work and sensitive data in a separate partition that’s encrypted so I can easily get back to work after any fuck ups. I’ve had of practice fixing my own fuck ups over the past year.
I’m a nightmare for any IT department and software developer. I know enough to do damage, but don’t have the patience and knowledge to wield this power. I go around editing shit in random config files in order to “temporarily fix” an issue and then forget that I ever did it, slowly turning and system I touch into a ticking time bomb. This also combined with my unique ability to seemingly break any piece of software by merely interacting with it, especially on Linux, before I even had the chance to install anything. I’ve installed and used Linux on countless devices and haven’t ever had a smooth ride, yet still I’m completely daily driving Linux at this point.
I use Arch by the way :3 (and Fedora, and Ubuntu, and Raspbian, and God knows what else)
Oh yeah, the classic “I can’t wait for DNS changes, let me temporarily add the address and IP to the hosts file, it’s faster”.
@gerryflap Have you ever considered a career of a QA engineer?
I grew up on Ubuntu (started on 4.10), moved to Kubuntu soon after and that was my daily until KDE 4.0 broke everything. I tried GNOME and XFCE but nothing really clicked for me. I got a job, I hated coming home to more sysadmin shenanigans and I moved to Windows.
Finally after I heard that the Steam Deck and Proton working great, and after years of Windows doing bullshit constantly, I came back to Linux. This time Linux Mint because I’ve been told it’s easy to use and has lots of support. I had trouble with the initial setup (Nvidia drivers not working with Safe Boot enabled, it took me two weeks to figure it out) but since then everything has been super smooth.
Anyway don’t shoot me, I have kids, they love GCompris and SuperTux!
I have no idea what I’m doing, but also not enough fear to be careful. Running Bazzite is for my own good.
CachyOS based on Arch (btw). I’m somewhat of a noob power user and want the newest software because shiny. I’m not afraid to fuck up the install and start from scratch all over again because I’ve fucked up a dozen times already.
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.
I’m the kind of user that spends a whole weekend to fix a driver issue for an obscure 2000s sound card, then proceeds to erase the entire process from memory to repeat it from scratch on a new system next year.
