What's the one on the left?

Either way, boring is good.

Bazzite iirc

Based on my years of community experience, whichever you pick is wrong and you're a bad person for thinking that it was the right choice.

Bazzite. An immutable^[1]^ distro pre-configured for gaming.

Fuck you for having that opinion!

I just picked omarchy for my first time using linux as my primary os

I know. I specifically chose not to.

This is so true, and why I choose OpenSUSE

e: lol don't downvote them! People come to the meme community with no sense of humor, smhing my head.

Oh please. Be real. Are you sure there's nothing in your flake to refactor or modularize? :)

Come to Mint. We're standing by X11, and Cinnamon looks better than Plasma.

Boring is good indeed. I'm running Bazzite on both my gaming desktop as well as my work laptop (webdev). The only reason I think about Bazzite at all is because I see it mentioned everywhere and feel the need to share my experience. Otherwise, it really is out of sight, out of mind.

Just stay on Debian and be patient for the new Plasma version. Problem solved.

Tried that, but my autism didn't like it.
The fact that YaST and the KDE settings had overlapping functionality, a GUI package manager frontend that shows you options you aren't supposed to use in Tumbleweed, and it being the only modern distro that couldn't install my printer-scanner-combo automatically drove me off.

You aren't standing by X11, Wayland support just isn't finished yet.

But GIMP just fixed the issues I was having with it, too!

Well, I guess I'm not responsible for the mistakes of the devs.

For me, I always keep coming back to Arch tbh

Sometimes I get fed up with managing a whole system and once in a blue moon bricking my system on an update, but the alternatives are always worse, and with btrfs now, I don't have to worry about the latter problem.

Nix was the closest to pulling me away. A centralized config? Beautiful. Static package store without dependency conflicts? Beautiful. Immutable applications? The WORST idea we've ever had as a community. For instance, imo, VS Code extensions are fundamentally incompatible with Nix. I spent weeks trying to get it to work doing multiple different things to try and hope it would work. It can't. VS Code just has to be mutable.

Anyway so I'm back to arch and have been for over a year since I tried Nix (and before that Fedora which has its own issues). Before that I had been on Arch for 4 years.

I think I'll stay now. It's really the best option out there. In my mind, Arch is Linux, i.e. it's how an OS should be built for the Linux kernel and the FOSS ecosystem, and it won't ever be beat

"Step-Operating-System what are you doing!?"

I'll never understand why some people have the need to constantly fiddle with their OS install. But, different strokes for different folks.

YaST is dead and kde settings overlapping? Wut?

Can you cherry pick the patch?

Idk I've been on Slackware for 10 years.. And I've just ended up learning how to use the OS and change things as I please.

Look at Mr. "I have something better to do than build compilation queues for LibreOffice" over here.

In between gaming and gooning theres just no time left in the day for anything else.

/S

Time to "accidentally" break something

I love that Slackware still exists, and try every new release.
It works as a daily driver and after initial setup is less of a hassle than people think, but I also can't really find any good reason to use it over more modern distros.

Best I can do is pepper brush it.

Sid for life!

YaST is dead?
OK it's been a few years since I last tried OpenSUSE.

Boredom, I spent whole summer (2022 or 2023) just installing different Linux distributions, I was in highschool and I was bored during summer break and my laptop was kinda slow with windows 10 so I decided to try Linux and was spending whole summer just installing Linux distributions and playing around. Now I use Linux mint because it is easy to setup and works.

The main thing that keeps me from going back to it is how much I hate manually setting up an encrypted logical volume over multiple disks with BTRFS snapshotting.

I think Nix is better used for things like servers instead of a daily driver PC. Having to fuck with config files for my laptop/desktop would be a nightmare that I refuse to go through. I've been playing with Nix on a home server and I'm loving it for that. With a limited scope on what actually needs to be installed it makes managing the configs possible.

🤷

I came up on Slackware, used it exclusively from like '96 - 08'. Have not touched it since. I have fond memories of debugging XFree86.conf and compiling half of what I installed from source. 🤣 This is a wild slack themed day- I just ran into a Bob Dobbs picture in the wild. 😂

But have you tried Gentoo?

https://gentoo.org/

And an older version of Xfce than Debian

Why

My Arch install has had no issues upgrading for years, even with the big KDE updates

I hit that point, needed to add a few things and changed settings around, and everything broke. I tinker with little things way too much to use Nix.

"Manual configuration is exhausting" my brother in christ that's the whole fun of having a fucking computer

Valid. I really like that the whole system is held up with a bunch of bash scripts. Which is not a plus for a lot of people.

A wild Bob is calling you 🤣
Tbh I've not debugged a config like that in so long, since like 10 and I was a wee lad.
Most things just work now. I've also been using Wayland and pipewire.