welcome in the cat friendly penguin group

I have the Mint (it's fucking good) and no need nor ambition for any other system. Especially an elitist shit which break after an upgrade.

Y'all's, I don't want to tinker with my OS. I don't wanna think about my OS. I just want my OS to work, mind it's fucking business and leave me alone.

Hacker: Skipper
Programmer: Kowalski
Arch User/Gentoo User: Rico
Cat: Private

Don't worry, we'll protect you

Those penguins appear to be Gentoo penguins, so in a way only one belongs

You, too, can become a 1337 h4xx0r with this one (1) simple trick: Read the manual!

Which is both definitely correct, but also profoundly unhelpful for newbies. But seriously, there is so much documentation, blog articles, video tutorials etc. for Linux, if you put in some effort everyone can go from newbie to hacker/programmer/gentoo user.

Cat.

Tbh as an Arch (btw) user I'm not really some magic computer wizard, I struggle with basic python, I often forget command arguments (I take heavy advantage of fish but sometimes it doesn't know the arguments either), I don't know how to do much scripting, I don't make my own config files, and my de is cosmic. Remember that most advanced Linux users are less advanced than people think (occasionally less advanced than even they think).

Where my debian as desktop homies at?

Yer a lizard, Harry.

Not trying to win contests. Just glad it ain't winders.

Sure, arch has a steep learning curve, but in the long run easier to use than others since it has better documentation.

Since you're already doing a fresh install, might as well create the root partition as a BTRFS with opensuse-style subvolumes for easy snapshotting and rollback. And since you're so close might as well also add LUKS1 encryption across the partition, since TPM is untrustworthy for REAL security. You're going to be using a grub config with rd.luks params and a protected keyfile so you don't have to decrypt the partition twice per boot like some scrub, of course.

Of course, technically there is nothing wrong just a plain arch install as long you've devised a proper opsec strategy, alongside daily, weekly and monthly full-disk offsite encrypted backups!

And yes indeed, Arch linux is the distro that was ordained to me!

I daily drive FreeBSD and have tinkered with Plan 9 and Haiku.

My Linux desktop (for gaming, DRM, and Linux-specific stuff), my wife's laptop, the kids' laptops, and our two media PCs all run Mint. It's great.

As an Arch user: welcome! It'll be a little work, but you're gonna be a-okay.

If you have any problems with Blueman not letting Bluetooth controllers work, install KDE system settings. Don't know why that works but it does.

At the end of the day for new and casual users, support wins. Ubuntu has the largest community of support, making Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu while having a more elegant variety of UI, making it a good compromise. Good choice.

I noticed that little quote there btw.

Don’t worry. You can just as easily wreck your Mint install as any other distro, as soon as you start to poke around.

I’m pretty sure the rest of them felt that way on day 1 / year 1 too.

Welcome to the pengulution

Been using Pop_OS! For almost 4 years now. Now I have SteamOS on my deck, headless Linbuntu on my mini PC, and MacOS on my work machine. Still love coming back to pop, especially with the new Cosmic DE.

I use cachy os because I like my pc to go fast as fuck boy

I want to be that pussy!

Me who just have install Ubuntu.

I mean yeah. This is going to be me as soon as I fix my next ~~two~~ one! life and death problems and hang the drapes, and also post a picture on here of the picture we found thrifting because i am excited that it helps color my room I don't care that it's a print of AI bullshit. I can put a print of something better there eventually but it catches the eye right now.

In the meantime, is there a "these are the cli commands you need to know" Linux for stoned dummies cause I haven't used it since college and that was decades ago