Linux user for 25+ years here. I've tried 'em all. These days I just use Mint.
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Same here, except on servers where I use debian.
Because I'm old and tired, and I just want to install and be up and running in as short of a time as possible without dicking around.
So Linux Mint Debian Edition would just be a middle-aged person?
Linux Mint as the baby makes no sense. That would actually be CachyOS or MX Linux at this point.
where linux from scratch?
Behind suse
Nixos
NixOS
Fairly accurate. SUSE is more like an IT guy forced to wear a suit to work that is not tailored well.
This guy is Kali Linux or Qubes/Whonix/TailsOS:
Don't forget the Gentoo crowd
I am sorry, but that notebook is way too modern for a proper Gentoo user. Anything above 500MHz is wasted energy with useless kernel flags
If it compiles too fast, you don't have time to properly savour it.
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I look similar to RMS and I use Arch (btw). Whatever is going on in the picture requires more fashion sense than I've got.
Cis straight male Arch user checking in. There's all kinds of us, everyone is welcome to wear what they like and feel what they feel.
Ask for help and help you shall have. (It'll just... it'll be someone giving you a link to a wiki page, or the wiki page, or saying "check the wiki", BUT YOU WILL BE HELPED BECAUSE THE WIKI IS GO(O)D!)
Migrating my workflow to NixOS right now, and itβs really made me realize just how good Arch Wiki is. NixOS and Nix are a bit disjointed in terms of documentation and learning resources. But Arch Wiki usually helps me gain intuition for which software does what and what traits Iβm able to configure.
Non-Arch-Linux Linux users should absolutely consider the Arch Wiki when troubleshooting or learning about the Linux ecosystem! Iβm not sure thereβs a better broadly-applicable resource out there.
Arch wiki is awesome, I've been using Debian and Debian-derivatives for 10+ years and Debian's documentation is frankly embarassing compared to Arch's. There's some good stuff like Debian Administrator's Handbook (outdated tho) and the upgrade instructions for each stable release, but a lot of the Debian wiki information is outdated and riddled with dead links.
There's dozens of us! Represent!
Speaking as an Arch btw user, my socks match, thank you very much. How rude.
Speak for yourself, asymmetry is awesome :3
CachyOS user
I installed it last week. If just kinda works, is there supposed to be something bad about it?
What's bad about the picture?
a distinct lack of thigh high socks
Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they're not there.
Meh...use what you use, don't judge others for what they use... unless it's windows, fuck those guys.
I just assume that everyone arguing over distros has been using Linux for less than 3 years. If you're an experienced user you're just happy more people joined the ~~cult~~ community.
I'm not sure that I'm what anyone would call "experienced". But I've used it for a long time. And people wetting their pants over one or another distribution seems like a total waste of time. they're all very similar.
I'm very much not happy to be associated with the community depicted in meme - i sincerely hope most of them are just taking the piss out of themselves.
I think even if there were quadruple the user base it's not going to materially change the number of developers making decent linux native programs. So you either use open source stuff. or webapps and wine stuff like that. Size of userbase is pretty irrelevant to me.
Distros are a matter of taste, and you shouldnβt judge someone over it. But a bit of friendly fun-poking is alright (e.g. βNixOS user spend all night configuring their PCβ). Insults directed directly at a person are never OK. And there are of course distros that are objectively bad (like Ubuntu), and you can criticize their creators, and maybe try to convince the users to choose something else (thatβs where Mint is from, kind of), but you cannot. hate. on. them.
The higher the socks the downer the foo'
Obligatory not an arch user, but I have been thinking of potentially getting thigh highs if I can find purple and white stripped ones. Closest I got is a couple of pairs of soccer/football socks that I recently got, but I kinda wanna change that.
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