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    [–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    The kind that pretends he understands the terminal output before entering "Y" after pasting in a decade-old user script suggestion on stack exchange.

    [–] moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
    [–] texture@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

    lol ... i still cant believe LTT did that.

    [–] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

    Ah, normal computer user then.

    [–] CreativeCider@feddit.org 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Mint. Couldn't be arsed to have anything windows like at home, because I am tormented by win11 through my job.

    So yeah, mint it is. Runs my slicer, 95% of my games and emby.

    I am happy

    [–] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

    I've yet to encounter a problem with mint I haven't been able to solve with some googling and chatgpt. I love it.

    [–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

    Runs... 95% of my games and emby.

    Nice! Last year, I would have assumed this was hyperbole!

    But I just setup Steam on my new gaming rig recently, and sure enough - at least according to Steam - I have better than 95% compatibility with Linux in my Steam Library.

    I'm sure having a SteamDeck for a few years affected this %, of course.

    [–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Not that much of a computer person, just switched because the hardware requisites for cities skylines listed for Linux were lower, but with time I really got into it, I love using and ricing Linux and I'm glad I got to skip all the w11 shitfuckstorm.

    Still too lazy to learn arch, currently on LMDE.

    [–] noxypaws@pawb.social 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    finger on the trigger while not actively aiming at a target? this one is definitely a "run commands as root instead of using sudo" kinda linux user

    [–] fleton@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Make life easy just run: chmod -R 777 /

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    [–] Chonk@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

    I use Termux on android just to have some console experience.

    [–] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    My favorite OS is mint because I don't care about my OS beyond it running the programs I want it to run and it staying out of my way. Similarly my favorite car make is whatever I can buy used for the cheapest and my favorite body wash is the stuff I steal from hotels.

    [–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Mint is a noob distro. I'm a linux user for nearly 30 years. I run Mint (on my desktop), because I can't be arsed fixing something that works.

    [–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Why is nobody saying opensuse... I'm afraid

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 4 days ago

    's where I started, in 2003.

    SuSe.

    Very cushy.

    Big love to YaST.

    [–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    I installed arch thinking it would be hard but worth it, and then I found out it's easier than I thought and now I'm having a bit of an existential crisis that I'm finding the "hard" distro to be easy.Β 

    [–] mlody@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

    Saying that Arch is hard is complete bullshit

    [–] Auth@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    there is only one "hard" distro and thats linux from scratch. Maybe nixOS due to lack of info and needing some time to get into the mindset of how nix does things.

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 4 days ago

    Yep.

    Many touted as hard, merely require a little reading and patience and following instructions.

    Gentoo, GuixSD, CRUX, OpenBSD, KISS/Carbs, Joborun, DecibelLinux, Dragora, etc, aint so hard.

    Exherbo though... Many times I've tried make it my daily driver, and failed.

    LFS... It's hard getting through the tedium.

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    [–] LBP321@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

    EndeavourOS is home for me. πŸ’œ

    [–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

    sudo pacman -Syu

    [No patch notes were read, zero idea what that update will do]

    [–] Odemption@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    EndeavourOS cause I wanted to instantly hop arch from windows but am also lazy πŸ¦₯

    [–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

    I use Gentoo on my mail server because I'm too lazy to learn a new distro.

    [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    I want a distro that's hard to understand, hard to make work, hard to update and gives me superpowers like being able to move box to box by taking a file or two with me.

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    [–] t00l@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago
    [–] cmeu@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

    ssh root@host rm -rf /

    [–] stebator@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Bazzite on my gaming PC, CachyOS on another.

    Both systems are amazing! Bazzite, in particular, lets you easily install apps from almost any distribution using Distrobox. Want to install an app that's only available in the Arch AUR? No problem!

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    [–] Solventbubbles@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

    Mint on the computers I want working.

    Testing Xubuntu on a chromebook that currently has no sound output.

    [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    gentoo kind, with sprinkles of slackware and devuan

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 4 days ago

    Try a dash of voidlinux too.

    You might like it.

    The kind to question all the weird noises from upstairs

    Proxmox on my server Fedora on my workstation and Arch on my Surface 4 Pro.

    Mein Moms Laptop Linux Mint My old laptop, Linux Mint. Some old laptop for testing, Linux Mint.

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