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“Oh god, they will immediately be able to tell I am a fraud who has no idea what he’s doing when I tell them I use Ubuntu”
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When I hear someone uses Mint I think “ah, they use better Ubuntu.”
Either mint or pop
Ubuntu is fine and I actually am on Ubuntu after using Arch for many years
I use Ubuntu. I think it’s funny how Arch users immediately assume they know more about Linux than me because of my distro choice. My hobby is learning about Linux and I can do that perfectly from my Ubuntu machine.
I’ve used Arch in the past, and let me tell you, nothing crazy is going on in there.
Yes, Ubuntu sucks because they are forcing Snaps on people while snaps are slow as hell. Thankfully they haven’t fully shoved snaps down our throats. If they don’t make snaps faster before shoving them down my throat, I’ll just distro hop. Probably to Debian. I love Debian.
Arch users HAVE to know a lot because their updates break it conatantly
Honestly I’ve found it to be surprisingly stable, and the only time the system broke, it was my own fault.
I’ve found it to be surprisingly stable
It sounds like you have used it extensively then, because the myth is spread by people who never tried.
Arch users HAVE to know
They do know this is a popular myth spread around by the antiquities of debian/mint/ubuntu users who wait a few years for Arch users to locate any bugs.
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Arch user here. I have no idea what I’m doing. Killing Floor just crashed my graphics card or something to crash and my monitors aren’t working after reboots. Oh god
I went from Ubuntu to Arch and I think I’m here to stay. Ubuntu was unstable for me for some reason. I would get freezes and crashes all the time. I feel like Canonical is making things slower and bloated but I have had pretty smooth experiences with Linux mint. On Arch I’ve been getting amazing uptime. But to each ones own, if you like it, who am I to judge.
I’m considering leaving Ubuntu. I’m currently looking at Manjaro because I don’t think I have enough time to invest in learning arch. Any tips?
One of my favorite features of arch is the aur, and because manjaro lags behind arch releases, you can run into trouble. If you want arch without the install difficulties, I would try something like endeaver os or garuda. You’ll end up with actual arch in the end and you wont end up with some of outdated certs or whanever manjaro ucks up nowadays.
While you’re absolutely correct, in my personal experience Manjaro has been perfectly stable even with somewhat heavy use of the AUR.
Mine too, but I did switch because I needed to reinstall and I would have just swiched out most of the tools that come preinstalled, to the point I didn’t know why I would even use manjaro instead of arch if I’m reinstlling everything anyway…
https://github.com/arindas/manjarno read this before you move
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Yeah that sounds good to me - this is my work computer and I can’t afford it to break or to spend even half an hour of the day fixing something
People on the internet say to read the wiki and follow the directions but I’m a much more visual learner. If you follow this video, you should be all good if you want to use vanilla Arch. I do not have experience with Manjaro but one of my friends said he used it once and he enjoyed it. Though his cmos battery died and the OS bricked so he switched to Linux Mint. Installing arch might take around 30 min or an hour so it’s not the hardest thing ever. I would recommend the archinstall script but that has never worked for me, if you can manage to use that script, setup is even easier.
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22.04 LTS gang
Honestly, it’s kinda my default general purpose linux distro at this point. Set it up bare bones and headless, rip out
snap, and do what you want.Isn’t Arch a lot of manual compilation? Like I do that shit for work, I don’t want to do it in my free-time too.
No, Arch has recompiled packages. Maybe you think of Gentoo?
Ah, I’m probably thinking of Gentoo, yes.
Even then it’s not “manual compilation”, it’s all automated.
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Someone should make that bell curve meme where on the extremes they say “(i) use ubuntu”, while mid is arch 'n stuff.
I’ll never understand the Linux community in that aspect. We want the market share to grow but always clown on the Ubuntu users, who make up the majority of our market share. If you use Ubuntu, you’re already far ahead than OSX/Win users who complain Apple/Microsoft did a change they don’t like but still remain hostage in their ecosystem.
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Nothing wrong with that! I’ve been using linux for nearly a decade, and after your distro hopping phase, most people settle into something like ubuntu
Exactly. I’ve run Linux almost exclusively for more than 20 years. I did the whole roll-my-own thing for a while. Now most of the computers I deal with regularly run mostly-stock Ubuntu.
Umm… Arch… -buntu… Hat… Linux?
It goes to another school. You would not know it.
Windows of course. when you run wsl it becomes linux distro
Steam Deck. ;)
Do you use it as a computer too?
Desktop mode is pretty essential to unlock the full potential, and I have a Windows 11 boot drive for it as well, but it’s not my main machine.
Primary machine is a work laptop.
2nd use is my phone.
3rd is my tablet.
4th/5th are my PS5/XSX
6th is the Steam Deck
Literally everything else in my life…
Nintendo Switch
Heck yes!
Definitely not Arch then?
I use Arch, btw
Let me 1 up you… Artix BTW (with s6 init)
Cool, I use gentoo.
“Steam Deck now leave me alone”
(cue DING sound and image of Arch installer)
AAAH!
(cue another DING sound with “Akira” echoing and an image of GNOME 3 desktop)
AAAAAAAAH!
of course the true and only “hannah montana linux”
As someone who gradually went from arch to Manjaro to Ubuntu because I kept breaking my installs or not having time, this resonates lol.
Manjaro likes to break on its own during updates in my experience
The Arch Dilemma. If you never update the system, it will never break. To update without breaking you have to carefully check every package update, but it’s time consuming. So you either spend time productively on an outdated but working and stable system or you spend time carefully keeping up a bleeding edge updated system.
Or you take system snapshots so you can roll back when an update breaks.
Garuda is an Arch distro that creates a system snapshot every time you upgrade. That way, if the upgrade breaks something, you can roll back to a previous, stable system.
This
What’s a distro? I just use the Linux kernel on a potato 🥔
What’s a distro
an Americanization of the word distribution (software that is).
Oh, so other countries don’t say “distro”?
I live in greece and just say which linux do you have(τι linux έχεις;)
We say it in Australian English.
Red Star OS.
What is thaaaat. Does it have any relation with the football club?
Nah
It’s the official North Korean OS.
The operating system comes pre-installed with a number of applications that monitor its users. If a user tries to disable security functions, an error message will appear on the computer, or the operating system will crash and reboot. In addition, a watermarking tool integrated into the system marks all media content with the hard drive’s serial number, allowing the North Korean authorities to trace the spread of files. The system also has hidden “anti-virus” software that is capable of removing censored files that are remotely stored by the North Korean secret service.
just searched it up, looks a lot like mac os how can i install it?
You don’t want to
If you do, if it’s even available, airgap the fuck out of it unless you want the North Korean government knowing what porn youre into.
Unless you’re a North Korean citizen, what exactly are they going to do with this information anyway? :P
You know I’ve never thought about that. That is an excellent point.
Imma make a furry porn site dedicated to speculation on north Korean officials fursona and kinks, running it off an old laptop I can get off Ebay. Powered by RedStarOS of course, the superior enterprise solution
Masturbate furiously.
And it is linux based?
Indeed, and completely and utterly locked down and set up so everything you do is tracked by the government.
And you can’t use anything else. It’s the only OS you can use in the country, otherwise jail and torture I guess.
-What distro do you use?
-Chrome OS
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avarage android user 🗿🗿🗿🗿🍾🍾wwwww
i orniginally said that but probably a coincidence
Sorry, I hadn’t read through all the comments and didn’t see yours at the time. Great minds think alike 🗿
Hannah Montana Linux of course. Disney uses on their disney plus servers
This is now canon
Since developing early onset dementia, I’ve had to switch to mint.
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To be honest it’s possible they’re not joking.
Linux mint is insanely user friendly, to the point where my father istalled it by himself as his first linux distro long after the first symptoms of dementia appeared and used it for years.
Glancing through their post history, probably not
Honestly if I was in the same boat, I probably would, too. Mint is so ridiculously good. Here’s hoping they can make the Wayland transition.
I’ve had to switch to mint.
That bad, huh? I am sorry, I hope you get better.
So what is your distro? ;)
Some weather we’re having, eh?
Yeah totally, makes me want to discuss init systems for some reason.
By the way, which init is your favorite?
Does making everything load in docker containers count?
…git init?
