• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
    26·
    7 days ago

    Mint, judge me

    PS anyone have any favorite resources for absolute tech illiterate noobs? I’m trying, but without a baseline understanding of the subject, it’s hard to find the right guides

  • Allero@lemmy.today
    111·
    7 days ago

    Ooookay, this will get controversial.

    Proud Manjaro/Debian user!

    • Ubuntu and derivatives suck because of Canonical and their practices
    • Fedora sucks because of Red Hat
    • OpenSUSE sucks because RPM (why?!) and still SUSE (but they’re the best of the three)
    • Rest is exotic and obscure

    So we end up with Arch and Debian. Debian 12 is good enough as is, and runs on a work laptop where I don’t care about anything but stability. Arch is respectable and great, but requires excessive maintenance to work properly. Among its derivatives, Endeavour is just a nicer archinstall (so, why?), Garuda is cool but unstable and too gamer’y, Manjaro is a bit problematic at times but generally the safest bet when it comes to Arch. So, when it comes to my main PC doubling as a gaming rig, this is a no-brainer.

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 days ago

    Put any distro in front of me and provided I don’t need to master it, I’m good. Ubuntu is fine. Debian is fine. RedHat is fine. Fedora is fine. I even have a tiny low-end system that is using Bohdi. Whatever. We’re all using mostly the same kernel anyway.

    90% of what I do is in a container anyway so it almost doesn’t matter; half the time that means Alpine, but not really. That includes both consuming products from upstream as well as software development. I also practically live in the terminal, so I couldn’t care less what GUI subsystem is in play, even while I’m using it.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    The one that does what I need it to do on the device I’m running it on. I’ve currently got four different Linux distros on x86 PCs around my house at this moment.

  • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    7 days ago

    I have zorin and mint dual booting on my surface book.

    really liking zorin, very pleasing to look at, simple, haven’t run into any software I had on windows that I can’t run here. I don’t game on, could still be a slight negative, but so far I love it.

  • fleton@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 days ago

    Just curious does anyone actually care about what distro people use or more just a meme?

  • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    7 days ago

    Find me a distro, that works with Nvidia 4070 / Intel CPU.

    Can support a 3 monitor setup with weird sizes. 4k, 1440( in vertical), and a 1600-1200.

    Play most games with out scaling issues.

    That should do

    P.s. very little CLI and tinkering needed.