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I'd rather someone's first choice about Linux was which DE to use. This plays a way bigger part in first impressions.
~~The obvious choice is KDE, ofc~~
That's a strange way to spell Xfce.
Maybe you misheard LXQT?
I totally agree, that's a way more important factor when you're starting out with Linux.
~~Gotta be Gnome though~~
DEs are clearly bloat, so the best DE is no DE.
~~Definitely not just because I prefer i3~~
I used to be a huge Plasma evangelist. At first I hated it, the old versions I mean. You just moved the mouse pointer the wrong way and your whole DE was fucked. Too many options and settings. But KDE 5 changed my world. Stable and lighter than Gnome, but still fully configurable. Last night I switched to Debian 12, Gnome. Maybe I'm getting old, but I'm loving it. I don't tinker with my DEs that much anymore. Just a couple Gnome extensions and I was good to go.
Maté is awesome
You missed the step where you tell everyone what distro you use, and that its the best.
Five minutes after you installed it and haven't tried anything else.
I feel personally attacked lol
HaHa Same
I use Mint, btw
I use SteamOS btw
(Which is arch based meaning.. I use arch btw lol)
Otherwise Debian stable is my go-to set it and forget it server OS
Searched, not googled. Google is bad, M'kay?
Reference
Drugs are bad, M'kay? Don't do drugs.
me and the boys out here still asking Jeeves
Fellow old fart detected.
Fellow old fart detected.
Just ddg-it
Just duck it.
Brave it
Install Gentoo
the ultimate beginner's distro, it's a great start before moving on to something complicated like mint
Oddly, Gentoo was where I started out when I got serious about using Linux. That was when I was in my 20’s and I wanted to get every last bit of performance out of my computer. Also, breaking stuff was fun and gave me a chance to figure new stuff out.
Now I just want stuff to work and be relatively up to date. So I use Debian testing.
What a madlad
I started with PopOS. Didn't like so many decisions being made for me so I started using Arch instead. Easy customization. Got tired of breaking systems. Jumped to Debian Testing. I think I'm settled.
Okay, but when most people are looking for advice on which distro to use it's because they don't know what they want.
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The endgoal: Linux from scratch.
I was a huge distro hopper until I started using immutable distros. One thing no one tells beginners is that you do have to maintain your system more on Linux than other OSs because Linux gives you the rope to hang yourself with. I would always bloat my OS and things would get unruly, everything would slow down or become unstable and I would lose track of how I had everything set up. Immutability make things so much cleaner.
Hannah Montana Linux is the best distro! It leaves out all those newfangled things like Wayland, GNOME 3, SysVInit and gives you Hannah Montana.
newfangled... SysVInit
You mean systemd? Cause SysVInit was created in 1991 based on Unix System V from 1983. Which means it's literally older than Miley Cyrus.
What if I don’t want to use whatever I want? What if I want my distro forced upon me?
I've decided that you have to use Slackware
Thank you sir. May I have another?
Yes, you have to use Softlanding Linux System. You can't go back to Slackware
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Lfs
It's been a long time since I've played around with Slackware, wonder how it's doing lately. Might need to find an extra machine to throw it on.
Wow, 1.3 was fun, as was RedHat 4.2 (guessing,. version on infomagix nov '95 CD set, can't find it now). Most fun though was kicking them off and dumping Debian on there early '96. (yeah, ~~fan boy~~ lazy admin that doesn't want re-installs for major upgrades)
You missed a third option;
"Just dive in you nerd."
Which distro should you pick? -> openSUSE tumbleweed
Hmm I don't see arch on here it must've gotten cropped
yeah that's my bad, here's a corrected version
Started with Ubuntu ended up with arch
@sharkfucker420 @atmur Same, its funny Kubuntu died on me twice on one year due to updates, while Arch hasn't died yet. Yes, it almost broke completly twice but I was able to fix it with help ( and always the error was related to my clumsiness ). And also, using arch has lead me to understanding many things about linux that I wouldn't pay attention in ubuntu.
Also, now I can say Arch BTW which probably is the main reason for moving ngl
Unironically moved to arch for the meme
Arch btw
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