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Their wiki is good tho
Jul 4, 2025 7:36 PM
postrediori
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Their wiki is good tho
76000BatteryLlamas
This is Slackware not Arch
ImpSpawn
I've explored several distros and even "hand-rolled" several kernels back in the beginning of this century. But ultimately I decided I just want to enjoy living in a time where computers are not that slow and finicky as they used to be, so I can just install an OS that just works, even if it's not 100% perfectly tailored to my hardware. So now I'm using Cinnamon Mint happily for at least 10 years.
onlyheretoargue
I just want someone to tell me how to set the display settings on my Linux laptop so that I can view whatever I'm looking at on the entire screen.
Tattooedpariah
Always an XKCD
https://xkcd.com/349
KilroyLichking
ChickenChickenBurningBright
What people don't understand about Linux is that it's not a means to an end, it's it's own end. The joy of the hobby is being inside a perpetual work ticket to make the machine capable of running that new package you downloaded without breaking everything else. If you want plug-n-play buy a SteamDeck and excise that part of your brain that knows it can access the console.
Frenchgeek
You don't have to use a 20 years old distro, you know...
pipatron
Arch isn't bad, this image probably describes gentoo!
aducksayswhat
Arch isn't bad, but I think a lot of users would be helped by knowing what they're getting into with different distros and what about of admin they want to take on, and what they actually need for the things they do or the hardware they have. There's different approaches to stability, different upstream, big established teams, small and new, how often they'll change out components. I've been using Cachy a fair bit lately, but I'm thinking Fedora might be a better fit.
aducksayswhat
What doesn't help is that a lot of linux evangelists seem to be fine living on the cutting edge themselves, because new tech is interesting and trendy, but the cutting edge can also be the bleeding edge that hurts you. Fine if you have the time to fix things and tinker to find out what went wrong, but for a lot of people the OS is meant to be a boring stable tool that lets them do other things that are interesting. Debian 13 is meant to be ready soon.
pipatron
Well I'm a Debian stable user myself so my OS is definitely boring!
snacksmoto
The image is from the late 90's anime Serial Experiments Lain. It's a slow-paced, slow-burn, tech horror exploring reality and self-identity
q2grapple
It is a total mindf**k
SteelyDad
I was hooked from the first email exchange in part one... "because here, there IS a God." After everything else up to that point, it just hits hard out of left field as the answer to Lain's question.
quietwalker
It's pretty awful. I like anime, and I like thinky, hard sci-fi, but this would only appeal to folks who haven't taken a single philosophy course in highschool or uni, and would have said something like, "Could you even imagine?!!?!" to the plot of "The Matrix" movies.
Like, yes, we could have imagined. Anyone with even a drop of extrospection would have considered it.
A friend loved it, so I watched it. At ep 11 of 13, I was like, "this is garbage," and they're like, "it gets good!"
quietwalker
Spoilers follow:
quietwalker
It's a story from the viewpoint of an AI that's sort of becoming self-aware, that exists as both a physical person (though this part is never explained) and obviously on the net/in the computers that she's shown assembling or whatever.
The rest of it is the output of the idea that metaphysical weight creates realities (all the stuff on the internet and connections are like a brain thinking of itself so this equals the creation of a new reality) and from there, electronic drugs are real drugs.
quietwalker
But it's done in such a hamhanded and vague way to make little sense, and in that, it's like the plot of the show Lost, where most of it only exists to confuse people who like to be confused, but the reasoning and rationale is meaningless nonsense.
Noodlesocks
Really good anime. Almost quit at the first episode because it was so slow and boring but I'm glad I stuck with it. It never picks up in pace but it is a fascinating story.
RelentlessDevastation
I'm thinking about installing Linux on one of my computers. I've gotten to the point of Linux Mint vs Ubuntu, any thoughts ?
BobTheWeak
If you just want something that works, browser, word processing, pictures, etc... Mint. If you're a power-user and want to invest a little time learning... Ubuntu. It's the "default" Linux and that's what tutorials/questions are designed for. It's a better springboard for more.
76000BatteryLlamas
Debian
xedrik
Especially with Valve putting so much effort into Proton, I haven't found a title in my Steam library yet that I can't play in Linux. Even the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14, with an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of a Realm Reborn and the award winning Heavensward, and thrilling Stormblood expansions up to level 70 for free with no restrictions on play time.
JohnSmithterms
Pop os of you want great gaming support or for 3d dev.
Regeny
Choose a desktop environment instead. Gnome vs. KDE. All major distros are good enough for everyday Desktop usage. And decide if you want older but more stable software (looks at Debian) or more up2date stuff (looks at Fedora). Besides that, I judge Arch, Ubuntu, and Debian to have excellent Wikis.
Regeny
Ah, Mint has it's own DE, Cinnamon. That's the 3rd player.
FuzzyMedic
Cinnamon can be found on other distros, but got it's start on Ubuntu. Linux Mint DE, or lmde, is the Debian edition of mint, based off of Debian rather than Ubuntu.
I can recommend EndeavourOS as a good Arch based distro. For more information I can recommend distrowatch.com as a solid resource.
RelentlessDevastation
DE?
Regeny
*Desktop Environment
RelentlessDevastation