Fixed:
Appreciated! I’ve always hated that nonsensical format
That hole was made for me!
Unironically the average Linux experience
Going to an Indian restaurant and asking for a lot of spice can work… if you’re a veteran of Thai or Mexican spice first
Went to a family-run Indian place in Cornwall looking for vindaloo, but the guy talked me down to a madras. Good thing cuz it was right on the edge of my tolerance level. I couldn’t have eaten their vindaloo.
Goat vindaloo 👌
I laughed. Then I remembered that my first distro was Slackware.
Project car vs daily driver.
Just different purposes and people have different tolerances for tinkering.Also, when you want the car to behave in a specific way, you’re willing to tune it to do so.
I have never touched arch because i heard it was hard and i just wanted a distro that works without too much effort put in
I use nixos btw
How do you like it?
EndeavourOS ftw.
The thumbnail makes it look like an Amish Raiden from Mortal Kombat really wants me to install Arch.
I found it a great way to learn what the different components are actually for and how they interconnect/interact. But honestly, I would not use it as a daily driver again. I’m tired of fixing everything afer each update.
Went to Fedora, good and stable. Tried some OpenSUSE, nice and European. Settled with MX Linux. Ticked all the boxes, best Linux experience so far.
Mint, Fedora, Pop_OS!..these are good distros to start on. Some people start and end on these.
CachyOS, Arch, Manjaro…these are not what you throw at a newbie.
Get them some nix
I think it really depends on the person (and a few other “luck” factors). Like, if they are truly generically computer savvy enthusiasts, they might actually have better luck on an Arch derivative. I’ve seen hardware compatibility issues plague a machine until it got Arch on it - sometimes that bleeding edge has what you need already and you don’t have to hunt for it.
I still like the play of suggesting new people download every distro that piques their curiosity, put them all on thumb drives, and spend a weekend giving them a go. But, if they aren’t willing to do that, then throw Mint or Bazzite at them and hope all their hardware just works because they probably don’t fit into the category above.
Except Manjaro. I feel like at least 70% of the Arch family hate is actually Manjaro’s fault. I’m glad it works for some people and they can use and enjoy it, but I just don’t have the faith in it to recommend it.
A new distro every day… that was me last year when switching over to Linux
Fedora for my desktop, cachy on my portable is what stuck around, debian for all the homelab stuff
I found Cachy to be a nice intro to Arch based distros, things worked well out of the box
Trial by fire
So, where is Dan Hurd going there, and will he find gold again?
Trick question. He always finds gold.
Not always. Sometimes he is looking for gemstones. And he has been to Sierra Gordo (or whatever the name of that abandoned Galena mine is).
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