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What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"? (feddit.uk)
submitted 11 months ago by case_when@feddit.uk to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 58 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (40 children)

Most of them.

  • Debian world - apt sucks. For something with a sole purpose of resolving a dependency tree, it's surprisingly bad at that.

  • Redhat world - everything is soooo old. I can see why business people like it, buy I rarely, if ever, agree with business people.

  • Opensuse world - I've only tried it once, probably 15 years ago. Didn't really know my way around computers all that much at the time, but it didn't click and I've left it. Later on I found out about their selling out to Microsoft and never bothered touching it again.

  • Arch - it was my daily for a year or two. Big fan. It still runs my email. At some point the size of packages started to annoy me, though. Still has the best wiki. I've never really bothered with the spinoffs, as the model of Arch makes them useless and more problematic to deal with.

I've got the Gentoo bug now. For the first time I genuinely feel ~/. A lean, mean system of machines :)

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 44 points 11 months ago (19 children)

never really bothered with the spinoffs, as the model of Arch makes them useless and more problematic to deal with

I highly enjoy using EndeavourOS. But then again, I wouldn't classify it as a spinoff, it's pretty much vanilla Arch, but purple.

Now Manjaro on the other hand... Tried it and understood why so many people don't like it within the first week.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

A few years ago I wanted to get away from Ubuntu on my desktop PC so I sat down and considered about a dozen of the most recommended Linux distros install images.

My requirements were:

  • Image should be live so I could test it without installing.
  • Should work out of the box with everything I could think to throw at it: wifi, Bluetooth devices including controllers, network shares, play music/video out of the box, printing, audio devices on USB etc.
  • Easy to install and maintain. No need for brain-dead install or zero maintenance, I'm a seasoned Linux user and anyway I don't want to be absurd, but I also don't want to spend my spare time debugging or maintaining the desktop system. I have a server for that.
  • Recent packages and frequent updates, but stable.
  • Usable for everyday use, work (mostly Citrix and other forms of remote desktop) and of course gaming.
  • Rolling release.

Guess which distro ticked absolutely every single box.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You are trolling us.

If you want stable, the answer is not Manjaro. If you do not have time for debugging, the answer is for sure not Manjaro.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl -2 points 11 months ago

Suit yourself. I'm telling you that you're sleeping on one of the most user-friendly, up to date, gaming-ready, stable and generally hassle free distros out there, and it's coming from someone who actually tried all the popular ones.

In exchange you just have to stick to a LTS kernel and not replace critical system components from AUR. Which I think you'll agree are reasonable conditions for all Arch distros, heck, all distros.

Try it, don't try it, up to you.

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