Mint because I just want it to work. Although after fiddling with my Steam Deck, I'm now wondering if I should give Arch a try.
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Kubuntu on desktop, Zorin on ThinkPad, Nyarch on surface (cuz it was funny).
Ran Manjaro for a few years, liked it, but needed something more stable.
Fedora KDE on my personal devices. Debian on the home server.
Desktop and Surface Laptop Studio: KDE Neon, because I like when my desktop is pretty and hate when it works sometimes Homelab server: NixOS, because when it dies (for the third time) I have no plans to dispense any time setting it back up.
I know you're not impressed that I use Ubuntu but it's not Windows, and I can't be bothered to learn a damn thing about how to operate a system.
If Ubuntu works for you then keep rocking it
I wish Linux distro devs would interview you about your experience. If the goal is wider adoption, we need to understand how to make it friendly for real. Your opinions are very valuable.
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I used to use ubuntu but stopped bc i couldnt really game without dual booting to windows anyway.
Would you recommend ubuntu now? I know linux gaming is in a much better place, it just wasnt user friendly as an OS back in 2010
I switched from win 10 to bazzite the hardest part of the process was remembering my steam password and finding the setting in bios to boot to the usb. Ill never buy another windows pc again.
Luckily im forces to use win 11 at work./s
Its always fun to go from your smooth Linux work flow over the break, then back to windows for work.
No joke, last year. Day 1 back at work. Pop up notification about an adobe PDF subscription thing.
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Add a 3rd Dimensions and you will find BSD chads laughing at us from their jail's
They should laugh. When I switched from FreeBSD to Linux felt it like such a downgrade.
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boot
open librewolf
open neovim
code my silly lil' Dreamcast stuff
close neovim
play quake arena
shutdown
What do you code for the Dreamcast?
I'm doing a small racing game inspired by Aerogauge(N64)
ATM its a proof-of-concept esque... demo... ish... thing, for the DreamDisc '25 jam But after the jam, do want to continue developing it and make it a full game
I'm the kind of user that spends a whole weekend to fix a driver issue for an obscure 2000s sound card, then proceeds to erase the entire process from memory to repeat it from scratch on a new system next year.
I'm a Mint user, because I don't want to use Windows 11, and I realized that about 95% of what I was doing on Win10 was FOSS. The only thing I miss is Notepad++.
You could try Notepadqq, which is similar and runs natively on Linux
Edit: just learned this isnβt actively maintained anymore :/
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whats's a distro? :3 My UI looks like Windows 95 and i have cute cats in my terminal :3 i can text my friends, play games, surf the internet and do arts :3 what else does a girl need? :)
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Would I be immediately shot if the answer is FreeBSD?
Never! BSD bros are fellow comrades in arms against the corpos.
BSDs get too little love imho. They have more potential of becoming complete, usable and safe OSs than most Linux distros. Wish they would be discovered/talked about as much as Linux this past year.
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I'm a nightmare for any IT department and software developer. I know enough to do damage, but don't have the patience and knowledge to wield this power. I go around editing shit in random config files in order to "temporarily fix" an issue and then forget that I ever did it, slowly turning and system I touch into a ticking time bomb. This also combined with my unique ability to seemingly break any piece of software by merely interacting with it, especially on Linux, before I even had the chance to install anything. I've installed and used Linux on countless devices and haven't ever had a smooth ride, yet still I'm completely daily driving Linux at this point.
I use Arch by the way :3 (and Fedora, and Ubuntu, and Raspbian, and God knows what else)
Oh yeah, the classic "I can't wait for DNS changes, let me temporarily add the address and IP to the hosts file, it's faster".
You know, the kind that insists on using Arch, despite being slightly (or more) below the skill level one should have before using it.
Honestly the skill level for Arch is kinda overblown nowadays.
You can use Archinstall and get a full desktop and a pretty hands off experience if you don't go around tweaking any lower level system stuff.
And if you're extra lazy (like me) Endeavour or Cachy makes the minimal setup even more streamlined with good default settings. But you still get the AUR and fast updates, which I assume it what the average user wants more than complete control over how their system is setup.
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It's a bucket list item to someday have a pull request merged into a branch of the Linux kernel.
I was once the first to report a bug in the kernel. I'm still pretty proud of it.
- Boot computer
- Steam, emacs, evolution, newsflash, and web browser auto open
- Check email
- Check news
- Cry
- Go to dropout or nebula
- Log onto Wurm Online/FFXIV/Whatever
- Do something obnoxious in emacs that could probably be done elsewhere
- Maybe tweak a config if it needs it. Haven't needed to in a year tbh.
- Shut down
- Realize I forgot to update
- Say I'll do it tomorrow Like I'm on Arch but it's a computer. I do computery things on it. Write my silly little stories that would traumatize a therapist. Do obscene things in video games.
I got really into customizing my system for a while, but now that it works I just leave it be, mostly. Most recent major change was my update command now spits out a list of packages, so if I need to reinstall I can just shove that into pacman
Um, the POSIX kind?
I am certainly one of the Linux users that ever lived.
Fedora, simple, consistent, versatile, up to date.
Servers - Debian
Daily driver - Fedora
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Linux Mint runs my laptop. I do some light 3d modeling and slicing, maybe a little photo editing. I guess that makes me a pretty casual user.
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