I’m currently on Win11 but I’m getting that familiar Linux itch and want to dual boot a while again. I tend to gravitate towards Ubuntu simply because it’s so big and well supported by most things.

I’ve run Arch in the past but I’ve gotten too old and lazy for that if I’d be completely honest. I have played with manjaro and endeavour though… and opensuse tumbleweed, rolling is kind of nice.

Not sure what I’d try out first this time so I figured I’d get some inspiration from you guys!

  • nlm@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I can see the charm in that tbh.

    I like the idea of Gentoo, it’s a pretty cool concept. Just a time consuming one as well. :) I remember my problem with it was that I couldn’t really decide how I wanted my system to end up while I was setting it up… which kind of defeats the purpose a bit I felt.

    • soulsourceEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, and most of the customization you can do on any other distribution too. The main advantage of Gentoo is that it’s Rolling Release, so there won’t be any distribution upgrades breaking the cusotmizations.

      The same is true for Debian Testing or Arch too, though.

      • nlm@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Or openSUSE Tumbleweed :)

        Is Debian Testing actually rolling I thought they froze it before new stable releasea?

        • soulsourceEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yeah, it’s not fully “rolling”, as new (non-critical) updates can get delayed for quite some time while packages are getting stabilized for a Stable release.

          • nlm@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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            1 year ago

            It’s strange really. I’ve used Ubuntu on and off since… 8.4 or something like that but I’ve never tried Debian. Don’t even know why.

            • soulsourceEnglish
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              1 year ago

              I’ve used Debian Stable some years ago at University on “my” office PC. For a work PC it was the perfect distribution. The “stable” in the name is well deserved. It’s so stable, it’s a bit boring, to be honest. However, that’s just what one needs at work. The PC has to run (a crash equals lost work), and maintenance burden needs to be low.

              • nlm@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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                1 year ago

                Isn’t it kind of strange that a lot of us equal stable with boring? I know I do at times as well.

                There’s something satisfying with stuff breaking and managing to fix them I suppose