OpenSUSE got me onto Linux and was such a great option for a first distro. I still think about changing back sometimes. I'm surprised if doesnt get recommended more often.
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I've never seen an infographic for "I use arch, btw." until now.
oh come on. I don't ever say it outside of meme contexts. I just personally enjoy rolling releases and don't really like the corporate feeling of Fedora, so i'm left with only really Arch as a good option.
Fedora is corporate? I nearly spat my coffee ;-)
I'm flashing back to working with suse on unitedlinux and the challenges we had. If you want a very Corporate distro, it's right there.
Never again.
I mean.. fedora is RHEL, which is very corporate
Just lighthearted poking, I don't have anything bad to say about anyone's choices. I didn't mean any offense. Sorry if that was its tone.
No, no don't worry, no offense taken π I should have expected it lol
Favorite distro: NixOS First distro used: Ubuntu Distro you want to use in the future: SixOS, Asahi Honorable mention: Fedora Server Distro you liked the least: Ubuntu Distro you currently use: Arch, NixOS The distro you used for the longest time: Arch
Debian is where greybeards go to retire things just work once you configured them and you don't need the helping hand of the AUR as you can just build your own packages with aptbuild.
Hey! My beard isnβt thatβ¦ oh, fuck, I guess it is. Where does the time go?
Shit. I've been on Debian for decades now. Maybe I'm just an old soul... Or I'm just lazy. I don't even configure my DE anymore. The OS install of today will be wiped in no time, so it's not worth being too attached.
I think I may have a favorite.
I ditched slackwate in 98 after the validation issue became starkly problematic.
SLSA.dev .
Slackware was my first distro
wow... and what DE do you use with Slackware? I assume you just use pure CLI though
That CLI music player looks nice, I can't find it though. Looks like you made it, did you share it somewhere?
antiX mentioned
NGL, I really wanna try either free or open bsd
I worked at a company filled with BSD zealots. Their burning hatred for Linux was all-consuming, bad really put me off of the lot.
I've messed around with Dragonfly BSD a bit... it mostly felt familiar to me, and I can potentially see myself using a BSD in the future if I ever needed to jump ship. The multiprocessing and the HAMMER2 filesystem on that one in particular seemed neat. Though obviously I didn't have good GPU support on that particular BSD since I have an nvidia card XD
I did a tour with OpenBSD about 2000-2004. It works just fine, with a much reduced ecosystem of pre built packages, just because of the quantity of devs around.
I saw Dragonfly when it started and I'm glad to hear it's still going. The idea held a lot of promise.
i use arch, btw
What, only one distro at a time? Arch on desktop is one thing, but Arch on servers is quite another ...
Currently triple booting Windows (very rarely for gaming)/Arch (Main system)/Debian (fun)
I think that most Arch users that want to move to something stable are considering NixOS or GNU Guix rather than Debian.
Been considering giving Guix a spin as an alternative to Debian, I'm used to freebsd but would like something non systemd linuxish
Well, maybe i'm not your average Arch user then.. Don't see the appeal in Nix, honestly, and i'm too lazy to learn. What is GNU Guix? Never heard of it.
I'm kinda tinkering with Debian Sid atm.
It's strange to see someone move from Ubuntu to Arch, like it, and have aspirations of Debian. Ubuntu to Debian is fairly straightforward, didn't you have to do a bunch of shit to get on and learn arch?
Do you wanna hear the whole backstory?
I've been a Debian guy for many years and it's unlikely I'll move away in the foreseeable future.
Nix is a package manager and nix-os is an OS built around that package management system.
You can install nix the package manager in debian. I don't use it for installing desktop apps like a browser or office suite, I prefer AppImages for those. However, it's absolutely fantastic for CLI stuff, especially the things you might want as a once off. You can just nix-shell -p <obscure cli tool> and it's just magically there in a new temporary shell, and then cleaned up once you quit that shell. No more adding weird repos to apt, or downloading from github and building, or piping scripts to bash.
There's also home-manager which allows you to define packages and their configurations, and just roll out that state on any machine.
These fancy package management tools (flatpak, AppImage, and nix) have dramatically changed the Debian experience. I used to be forever struggling with the trade off between stability and old versions of things. That's really not the case any more because you don't have to interfere with Debian's conservative methodical ideology around stability in order to install and use all the shiny new things.
That sounds like a good compromise. I am really enjoying NixOs, but I miss the simplicity of Debian. I'll think about your method.
You just installed Nix from APT, I assume, but are you still rebuilding a config.nix every time you make a "permanent" change?
Agreed on nix-shell -p, that's extremely handy.
Guix (pronounced "geeks") is like Nix (declarative, functional, atomic) but more Emacs (niche, lispy, Free)
Either that or Void