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submitted 1 year ago by case_when@feddit.uk to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

Opensuse. Did absolutely nothing wrong but I just didn't vibe with it. Went to fedora and I vibe hard with it

[-] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Void, and I really wanted to like it on account of not relying on systemd, but its package repos are too barren for me.

Like, Void's repos are even more barren than EL's stock repos before you add RPMFusion and EPEL among other third-party repos into it, and its AUR equivalent don't help matters.

And Void's musl port is even more limited than the glibc version because it doesn't support multilib, so you can't have Steam or WINE on Void musl, for example, while you could on the glibc version that supports multilib.

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I game a lot, so I need the latest drivers. So anything with a slower release schedule than Manjaro is a no go for me.

[-] tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

GNU Guix. Need to do an Ayahuasca ceremony sometimes and try again with a much more radiant mind.

[-] HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Its a meme at this point, but I tried to install arch. Ran into display issues during install and couldn't progress. Gave up and did Ubuntu instead.

I know there's supposed to be some helper stuff out there now to make it go smoothly, but don't think I am motivated enough to retry ever.

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