linuxmemes

I'm these 2 kinds:

• Cute queer nerd
• Stallman-like privacy and libre software enthusiast and anti-capitalist

i use openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE btw (it just works)

Slackware.

I'm the kind that likes to build up a lightweight system instead of tearing down a featured one to get things where I want them to be. I also want to look like a hacker at all times because I find it funny. I don't actually use my computer all that much right now because I'm in school so it's basically a glorified browser that also has games, though I do some small side projects and manage a couple basic servers with it. I may have programmer socks that happen to be blue white and pink for no particular reason I just think the colors look neat

I use arch btw

So crazy that this guy built his career on being Matt Damon adjacent.

shrug Whatever doesn't have Snap. Currently Bazzite gaming rig, kinda want to move it to non-immutable fedora, trying Opensuse Tumbleweed on a laptop in an interest to de-US-ify my computers (1 part paranoia, 1 part fuck IBM).

Anybody not using Arch, by the way, must wear an arm band with the logo of their distro.

Windows users, hop in the truck!

I’m a NixOS and Sway person, with all my configs and theming set up reproducibly. I have so much confidence to experiment and tweak to my heart’s content when I can roll everything back at any time, or stand up a new system in minutes with the exact same configuration. I’m also mostly CLI based, nvim, ncspot, all of that fun stuff

• Distro: Void Linux
• Filesystem: Btrfs
• Display Server: Xorg
• Desktop Manager: kde plasma

POV how it feels to ask for help with your Linux on a Linux community

Nix

The future is now old man

I'd say a tinkerer, somewhat of a control freak, and i like the novelty of trying more obscure things. I really liked NixOS, but i didn't like the systemd part of it. Wanted to stick to Runit-only so went back to Void, but at this point i decided to try GNU Guix. Who knows, i might end up liking Shepherd better than Runit. I think Guix has to be the most obscure distro that i've played with so far. Luckily the documentation is great, cause the community is small so it might be tougher to find help from the community sometimes.

I'm the type to mess around with pipewire, break stuff, fix it, learn nothing from that and fuck it up again. I've got it doing what I want it to, and yet I wanna tinker around and probably mess it up again because I can't seem to really understand the docs or configuration files.

I'm the type to have two OS (Nobara, Ubuntu) on separate disks, then decide to rip the guts out of the second one (Ubuntu) and just use the disk for data storage (without reformatting) but keep forgetting to also delete the boot partition that no longer works anyway (because none of the system directories exist anymore) but occasionally UEFI randomly decides to boot it first and ends up with a fucked up and hopelessly confused GRUB.

I'm the type to put the second disk in fstab, then unplug it and wonder why boot is having issues loading the filesystem.

This is my primary system, so I'm just barely holding back from messing with the system itself, because I know I'll fuck up something and I'd rather still have a working system to either troubleshoot from or at least decide I'll postpone the unfucking and play Satisfactory instead to mess up my factory there.

I'll probably format my third disk again (currently Bazzite, which I never really fully set up to try at length) and try something new on there. Still haven't figured out how to make my GRUB add entries for other disk, but also, I really don't wanna touch my primary boot config.

I can't stop messing with things I don't properly understand, get impatient with trying to understand the Docu and just fly blind, with predictable results. I tell myself half the joy is in fixing it, because the second it works, I forget it all and get to figure it out again next time.

I'm the "incorrigible amateur" type.

I am still a chronic distro hopper.

• Luggable gaming rig: CachyOS
• Surface Go 2: Mint
• Old laptop strapped to the underside of the gaming table: Debian
• NUC home server: Ubuntu Server
• Steam Deck: SteamOS

Non-linux:

• Gaming tower: Windows
• Previous gaming tower repurposed as NAS: TrueNAS

Arch Linux with the CachyOS repos.

I run whatever works for me. Been through most of the big variations (Debian, arch, rhel, suse), and a lot of flavours. Every once in a while I run into some issue. Sometimes I manage to fix it, and sometimes I end up reinstalling or distrohopping

Are there options to choose from?

Gentoo, OpenRC, BSPWM, Nvim, Librewolf, Ortholinear Keyboard.

I’ve been everywhere from a piecemeal Arch setup with a minimal desktop all the way to a Mint pleb. I’ve pretty much settled on EndeavourOS. It’s really impressed me with its dummy simple setup and OOB experience. Not to mention very few issues getting games to run even with an nVidia card.

Casual AF. I'm here to get shit done, not take any shit from my OS, not pay permanent rents to run my computers*, and do things my way. Protecting my privacy, fulfilling the promise of general purpose computing, and lack of DRM are just icing on the cake.

*Totally happy to donate on the regular to the open source apps I use!