Part of me wants to main Gentoo just to neutralise any arch smug I come across.
But then I remember I don't really want a 2nd job
I imagine telling an Arch user you use Gentoo is like telling a Texan that if you cut Alaska into two halves Texas would be the third largest US state.
It's only a second job if you ever want to add a new app
Actually, only if you want to tune stuff, like selecting from hundreds of USE flags and some may cause trouble, but who can resist.
This thread once again proving that complaints about arch elitism are 1000x more common than actual arch elitism
This would have been the perfect comment if you were from a slightly different instance
Edit: wait there is (was?) an "I use arch btw" instance right? I'm not imagining it?
I'm literally in the process of switching my main from Arch to Gentoo now. (Yes it's taking a while.) And I intend to be even more smug. Bwahahaha!
Warning: Hot take
Who you are and what your needs are will affect which distro is best for you.
Sacrilege! Burn the person bringing a reasonable perspective to the flame war!
What? Sacrilege. Of course my mum's PC runs arch so does my server I would install arch on a hospital Server and have it auto update if they'd let me ... /s
The best way to trigger an Arch user is to use Ubuntu and love it.
Heh, I have two laptops: one with Arch and one with Ubuntu. I like both systems. I guess i like triggering myself.
why did that last sentence sound so sexual 😭😭
"Oh yeah. I'm triggering myself aaaall night long!"
I would really like to thank the Arch community for maintaining such a wonderful wiki; it's great that your nuts-and-bolts approach naturally generates the best documentation. That said, Debian will always be my distro of choice.
Mint for me, but the Arch wiki is just the best.
I'm officially off of arch now and back on debian, my first and true linux love. I used to love arch for the AUR, but I had a couple of AUR packages that took so long to upgrade, they were basically un-upgradeable. I switched from i3 on X to sway on Wayland at the same time, so I can't say how much of my issues were that, but various small issues are no longer issues, like better Playstation controller support. And I don't have to restart every time I update repositories because I'm not constantly upgrading the Linux kernel. And there are so many .deb packages! But sincerely, thank you arch community. I still use the arch wiki.
Debian my beloved
controversial opinion: distro/software wars are good, because they make people discuss about their software, which motivates the developers. you don't see windows software wars, because they can't choose their de
arch, debian and mint all belong in 1st place
Debian
As long as you're not using the distro's 5 year old version of 3D printer slicing software with ancient printer models in it and go for the newest appimage/flatpak instead (just dealt with this last night).
Yep. When it has the package I need, flatpak elevates Debian to the last distro I will ever need.
And when flatpak doesn't have the package I need, there's always Fedora.
(I know - I'm a meme for hating snaps that much. Lol.)
My top five Linux distros:
Of course my opinion is objectively correct and if you disagree im going to burn your house down with combustible lemons (made by my team of scientists ofc) /s
The desktop environment and package manager has a greater effect on your user experience than the distro
I used to use Ubuntu and Mint now I use SteamOS.
Arrays start at 0, which leaves plenty of room for SCO Linux powered by UnitedLinux
Wait, I think there was an underflow error...
Well, the Tuxies said it was NixOS...
"Linux heals the heart, no matter the distro"
I needed to quickly get something up and running on a laptop so that I could take it in the field. I thought about reinstalling arch for a minute but decided to go with Ubuntu. And you know what? It was good enough. The install was easy peasy, and everything just worked right out of the box. If I was setting up a long term machine I'd probably go with arch, but just to get some shit done on a timeline? Yeah, turned out Ubuntu was good enough.
College-aged me would have loved Arch. Maybe retirement me will have to play with it for fun in the vaults.
Present-day me however, in middle age with a growing family and a full time job already working on Linux-based software all day, is a total slut for Linux Mint.
It installs and gets running easier and faster than Windows, and is based on widely used and tested stuff from Ubuntu and Debian. It’s not the “learn how operating systems work” distro for sure, but there is a lot of practical use in the world for the “plug the installer drive into your busted old Windows 10 machine and in 15 minutes have a responsive useful Linux PC where your parents can find the Internet browser” distro!
I am very interested to see if SteamOS makes a big push into desktops, though. A whole lot more of the desktop Linux world could become Arch based.
Why is everybody so shy about liking Fedora? You don't have to name lesser distro's first to make them feel good, you can just outright say Fedora is the best....
Joking. Whatever floats your boat is fine.
Recently started using openSUSE Tumbleweed after 15 years of on and off Linux experimentation. I think I’ve finally found the distro to make me stay. :)
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