I chose to double boot Pop!_OS and Fedora

[Jason Voorhees]

Installing both was really easy tbh. Fedora ofc needed a bit of elbow grease for making it work. Some of my system processes of my laptop broke certain dependencies. Install fedora first because you need GRUB to pick up pop os. Not used to a rolling upstream version of Linux before so this should be interesting

https://looksmax.org/threads/help-me-pick-a-linux-distribution.1901724/

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@littestjeff1 don't know why you think cosmic is bad seemed perfectly fine to me. I do still prefer vanilla gnome tho. KDE was honestly too much even for me.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@NotAMogger

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@inyerta @Sprinkles @1exposed

 

[1exposed]

Installing both was really easy tbh. Fedora ofc needed a bit of elbow grease for making it work. Some of my system processes of my laptop broke certain dependencies. Install fedora first because you need GRUB to pick up pop os. Not used to a rolling upstream version of Linux before so this should be interesting

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looks clean

i haven't been back on linux on a while ngl i used to use arch but im now back on windows for school purposes

linux overall runs way smoother compared to windows + less bloat

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@LXR @2s2f @mcmentalonthemic
@MoggedSubhuman @trump @Chakras

 

[2s2f]

Very nice, I use gentoo dwm thank you for tagging me I would like to see more linux threads

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Very nice, I use gentoo dwm thank you for tagging me I would like to see more linux threads

Any specific reason for gentoo? Gentoo compile times are so cancer.

 

[LXR]

Which one is your backup ?

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Which one is your backup ?

Pop os for time pass and light work. Fedora was abusing and breaking

 

[2s2f]

Any specific reason for gentoo? Gentoo compile times are so cancer.

use flags portage and complete control also I really wont mind using a different distro as long as I can use DWM I was using arch before gentoo

 

[LXR]

Pop os for time pass and light work. Fedora was abusing and breaking

I dont know much about devops work, but if you ever want a different more specialised distro for running a server give BSD a try

 

[Jason Voorhees]

use flags portage and complete control also I really wont mind using a different distro as long as I can use DWM I was using arch before gentoo

For me compile times and maintenance overhead aren't worth the trade off. I want to get shit down not spend 2 hours fighting things. That's why I chose fedora close to upstream without me having to be the distro maintainer. I get the appeal of gentoo tho.

 

[2s2f]

For me compile times and maintenance overhead aren't worth the trade off. I want to get shit down not spend 2 hours fighting things. That's why I chose fedora close to upstream without me having to be the distro maintainer. I get the appeal of gentoo tho.

ofc I just dont have a life so I got all the time in the world to mess with gentoo

 

[Jason Voorhees]

ofc I just dont have a life so I got all the time in the world to mess with gentoo

if you're comfortable with Gentoo, , and maintaining your own system end to end, you could probably slot into a lot of low level infra or platform roles pretty easily. That kind of control and understanding isn't common. You could get hired for this stuff.

 

[2s2f]

if you're comfortable with Gentoo, , and maintaining your own system end to end, you could probably slot into a lot of low level infra or platform roles pretty easily. That kind of control and understanding isn't common. You could get hired for this stuff.

I got really bad grades tho so idk if ill get hired for that, also you should maybe try a window manager if you got time to try it out

 

[sadcel]

Installing both was really easy tbh. Fedora ofc needed a bit of elbow grease for making it work. Some of my system processes of my laptop broke certain dependencies. Install fedora first because you need GRUB to pick up pop os. Not used to a rolling upstream version of Linux before so this should be interesting

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Bunsenlabs Linux >>>

 

[2s2f]

Bunsenlabs Linux >>>

never heard of it

 

[sadcel]

never heard of it

The desktop environnement is a bit different from other distros but it looks so nice

 

[2s2f]

The desktop environnement is a bit different from other distros but it looks so nice

what desktop is it?

 

[sadcel]

what desktop is it?

Basically it’s debian with Openbox

 

[ReadBooksEveryday]

The fedora you need:

The fedora you have:

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Basically it’s debian with Openbox

I strongly prefer vanilla GNOME

 

[sadcel]

I strongly prefer vanilla GNOME

having shitty computers as a teenager made me love lightweight desktops

 

[MoggedSubhuman]

I tried out Mint, then this obscure distro called Q4OS, because I wanted to try out the WinXP theme there. Lastly I went to Arch. I tried manually installing, but I was too low IQ to follow the instructions so I gave up and used the archinstall script.

 

[1exposed]

I tried out Mint, then this obscure distro called Q4OS, because I wanted to try out the WinXP theme there. Lastly I went to Arch. I tried manually installing, but I was too low IQ to follow the instructions so I gave up and used the archinstall script.

archinstall came in clutch i swear

tried watching the mental outlaw video and i was like yeah im not doing all of that

 

[mcmentalonthemic]

I do manjaro + cachy

 

[inyerta]

Installing both was really easy tbh. Fedora ofc needed a bit of elbow grease for making it work. Some of my system processes of my laptop broke certain dependencies. Install fedora first because you need GRUB to pick up pop os. Not used to a rolling upstream version of Linux before so this should be interesting

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Bro Pop OS is very outdated, they are working on cosmic OS which is supposed to fix the issues but its still in beta.

You need something like Cachy OS

 

[trump]

I just use templeOS. God backs up my needs