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  • Can we please just ban distro war ragebait?

    It's 2025 and I'm sick and tired of it. You can feel cool for using a specific distro for all I care, you are embarrassing yourself at worst. You are toxic for shitting on other distros or creating an adversarial narrative tho

  • You should go see Gentoo or something if ArchLinux causes you problems.

    It's my go-to rescue cum doing-backups cum new-install distribution because it's clean (meaning low cruft), minimalist, and most importantly, rolling. I run it as a console OS. I adore it.

    Have I run it as my Workstation OS? Yes. Would I again? No. It was too fragile then.

    Pacman is too strange to use with the options reduced to letters and having to include the double dash every time you remember the long form. Gimme dnf, Aptitude or flatpak.

    My daily driver is Fedora. Is my heart in my mouth every six months when 4,000 packages all need reinstalling? Yes.

    Have I tried Debian Testing&Sid as semi-rolling? Yes, fantastic, until they did something weird with systemd instead of just doing the conf locations as intended like everyone else. And the weak-dependencies lists were unfunny. Did I mention I loved aptitude?!

    Have I tried, source distros (exherbo, Gentoo, funtoo)? Yes, never got any work done. I was always compiling something for that 1% corner-case performance gain.

    Don't think I'll try anything else save maybe openSUSE or that NixOS. The first seriously, the second for fun - NixOS smells a tiny bit like Gentoo or ArchLinux to me (sorry, not sorry).

    Personally, I think bro needs an immutable Linux OS. Fedora SilverBlue, openSUSE MicroOS, the ArchLinux one.

    Then someone needs to write a timer such that when he's really concentrating hard at 2am, it stops and puts some graphical meme on the screen for three hours. Then he'll feel at home.

  • Mint is just the GOAT, I was able to install it on family members PCs and tell them it’s windows but looks different and they had no issues doing their normal office stuff while getting better performance and security updates (looking at you windows 11)

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