how i can get rid of distro hopping? i stayed in arch (btw) but i felt incomplete
Arch cured my distro hopping. it was everything i wanted. a bare bones system that you can build up as you go with a simple install (archinstall) that gives you more control over any other.other distros that are barebones don't have an installer that is as simple and easy as archinstall. distros that have simple installers are all GUI-based that come with a lot of shit you don't want by default like mint.
>>108342389keep multiple distros instead of wipingi have cachyos,nixos and just tried GUIX on my laptop.
>>108342389mint cinnamon
>>108342389Debian + Guix package manager
how can you feel incomplete with arch? it has the most documentation and you can install literally whatever you want with 1 command. you are just a retarded tranny and that deep saddness you feel isnt because of arch
>>108342787>schizophrenic projectionsYou can like anime and not be a tranny, you know. I agree on everything else though.
>>108342389Fedora is Home for the productive linux user.
>>108342389arch zsh and gnome terminal is pic just graphic art
>>108342445fpbp/thread
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>>108342389Install distrobox or virt-manager and run containers or vms of other distros instead of wiping out your actual system to satisfy your need to seek out "the next best thing" even though you know deep down in your heart that the only difference between distros is pre-installed software packages and what command you use to install the software.
>>108342445>other distros that are barebones don't have an installer that is as simple and easy as archinstallFedora Everything
>>108342389I don't understand distro hopping. Just use your computer bro stop overthinking things. At work I use ubuntu, it's what came on my dell dev tower. At home I use mint, chose it on a whim with little thought. At my old work, centos, the customers were all on redhat. I don't rice the desktop environment. I don't use a TWM. Computer is fine.
>>108342389Actually make a list of everything you want in a distro. Then find the small list of distros that meet most/all of the requirements. Then make a choice and stick with it, until something actually adds additional features that meet your needs better.Then just be happy that you made the best choice for yourself.If you still want to switch after, then you know that you're doing it for some other reason than suiting your use case.
>>108343312I think its a symptom of too much free time, I used to distrohop and be obsessively partictular about my setup until I got a job
>>108342389If you're hopping away from arch because you feel incomplete, you might as well just neck yourself.
>>108342389Windows 10 will cure your FOMO
>>108342772this did it for me
>>108342799>You can like anime and not be a tranny, you knowfactually incorrectI would add pedophile too
>>108342772>>108343633This is it for me too in my laptops. And Void for my home server.
>>108342389download cachy
>>108342389>how i can get rid of distro hopping? i stayed in arch (btw) but i felt incompleteYou have to stop thinking. Arch is probably the most complete distro. But if you think about it long enough, you can make even arch sound bad, here I'll share my thought process:>Fuck, it's rolling release, it COULD break.>Damn, no official 3rd party niggas support Arch, they only offer a .deb or .rpm>Security? I can't be bothered to deal with SELinux myself.>AUR is convenient, but fuck, what about the malware?Honestly, you can do this for every fucking distro, there is no perfect distro, but I feel like if you are sticking with mainstream shit, you are fine>Arch>Debian>Fedora(maby openSUSE and ubuntu) but yeah, don't stress it nigga, just stay on your distro, especially if everything works.
>>108342445this arch also cured my distro hopping. i like how bloat it is like if you get a package it comes with all of the required libraries so you arent installing package then trying to build thing that requires that package getting failures then having to install package-dev. you just install once and get everything you need. also because of the aur you hardly ever have to manually build stuff from github etc because there will be package builds available its just the most simple distro
>>108342389>but i felt incompleteseems like you're about to genderhop too
>>108342389Do your research and pick a distro based-on your use case. Use VM's or live CD's to experiment with and evaluate the viability of different distros before committing to an installation.>general use/Windows replacementLinux MintZorinOSPop! OS>server administrationDebianUbuntu>gamingCachyOSBazziteSteamOS>productivityFedoraOpenSUSE>programmingArchLinuxManjaroNixOS>autismGentooSlackware
>>108346867gentoo is the only one i see myself using
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The only thing stopping me is that Tumbleweed makes it very easy to have a system of updates that I cannot achieve anywhere else. Well unless I'm alright with immutable distros, which I'm not.
>>108342389Distrobox>>108343409Sticks in the mud like you enslaved the entire world to microsoft and you'll do it with KDE and GNOME, too. Everyone is going to be bitching about the same frustrations in short time regarding the corpo consumer desktops.
>>108346867>Manjaroits place is in the trash
>>108342389Just install debian
>>108348227no
>>108342389you distro hop because you don't have a clear idea about what you want to accomplishI want stability. everything else is secondary. therefore I use Debian stable, and I have a few flatpaks for programs I think may need to be more up to dateif you want performance, gentoo is the obviousl choice, but requires that you know what you are doing to get that performanceif you want broad compatibility and a relatively well assured experience, *buntu or fedora are probably a good choice.but you get into the weeds when you start to prioritize schitzoid objectives like gaymen.you're going to end up trying arch, or any gaymen focused flavor of the month such as bazzite, nobara, cachyos, etc. those are all cancer.stick with one of the big 3 distros: *buntu, fedora, or debian. anything else is just going to be a waste of time.
>>108349613>if you want performance, gentoo is the obviousl choiceIt really isn't, and I'm posting from gentoo right now. Any speed gain you get from self-compiling is placebo at best, and is gonna be offset by the time you spend fucking around with use flags and waiting around for shit to compile.
For me, it's Arch and KDE, the only distro and de that are stable, have a bunch of contributors, corporate and volunteer, and a GUI toolkit that works on ever OS right out of the box, Qt.
>>108349647definitely takes time to learn what works and how to do thingsbut you do get that back once you are fully dialed inand as for compile times, we all have to sleep and most modern CPUs can get firefox compiled overnight or faster.I will say that a lot of people have schitzoid approach to gentoo and end up not liking it because of those bad approachthe kernel should be compiled as tight an monolithic as possible. modules are slow and your hardware isn't so vast that you need a module for everything. tighten that shit up.
>>108349676Has anyone actually done any benchmarking on this? I really can't imagine the difference between a minimal binary based linux distro and even a highly stripped down gentoo is that noticeable.And again I'm not against gentoo, I've daily'd it for a few years now. But I acknowledge that it's because I like tinkering with shit, not because it's more efficient.>and as for compile times, we all have to sleep and most modern CPUs can get firefox compiled overnight or faster.Sure, that's what I do for updates, but sometimes you wanna install some new program and you realize that it's gonna take like 4 hours because it wants to pull in some shit like qtwebengine and your use flags don't match any of the binary builds for it.
>>108349780if you really want something now, nothing is stopping you from getting a flatpak or appimageprobably a better way to test before committing to an emerge
>>108349939That is also what I end up doing, but at that point there really isn't any good claim for a speedup. I'm just really skeptical that on modern hardware you're gonna get much of a noticeable difference of performance. Maybe if you're using an old IBM thinkpad or something
i just use debian on everythingwhat's the use case for distro hopping?
>>108342389>how i can get rid of distro hopping?Windows11 Pro, then actually use your computer for getting this done, rather than living inside your OS.
>>108342389My honest to god Nigga, let me tell you something: All Linux distros have quirks. All linux distros break from time to time. All linux distros will give you a similar experience. That being said, install Ubuntu and forget about everything else. That's literally it. Whenever you think you're missing out with other distros, remember what I said earlier, stick to Ubuntu. Make Ubuntu do what you want (cause you can), modify the shit out of it. Really use it and you'll discover you where not missing on anything. Ubuntu is the answer. It IS the most corpo distro there is, but remember, Ubuntu LTS is OBLIGATED to work, because Canonical's clients depend on it. That's more than 99% of distros can say.So repeat after me: Ubuntu!Now get the fuck out.
