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Is your distro in the top 10 anon? Does your distro have sufficient community resources?
Gentoo has bigger resources and more relevant community than any of these Black folk.
>has to compile everything from source
I'm sorry anon.
only true IQfyentlemen ITT
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No, lot of shit on that list.
What the heck is a "MX Linux". Why doesn't anyone here talk about it?
It curls/wgets its page on distrowatch whenever it boots or something like that. Also when something is at the top of the list people will tend to click it more since they're lazy and will just go for whatever seems to be the best.
And this is why only morons care about DistroWatch rankings. Gentoo is ranked 61 yet it's one of the most popular distros.
But obviously when you're an experienced Linux user, you aren't going to be browsing DistroWatch looking for something new. DistroWatch is for Linux newbies who want to find a different beginner distro to hop to. It's why the most popular choices are all beginner distros.
>parroting baseless lies
nice cope, fattie
Its for people that want to start with a minimal setup on old hardware, though it has a version for newer hardware that uses the latest kernel. It's commonly installed to a bootable USB which I am using with crappy LUKS2.
>unknown artist - unknown song
I love that song
It's my biggest collection. I have all their albums.
It's my second favorite just after various artists
Anyway vanilla Ubuntu master race #getshitdone
How come you're using more RAM than you even have in your system, wtf?!
Mount google drive to partition, format as ramdisk
You miscounted a digit.
Ah yes, my bad sorry.
Not your fault. I set the default to KiB to make it look bigger for the ladies.
>he doesn't use the only non-meme distro in existance
ngmi
Whatever the case with their ranking may be, MX is essentially Debian stable with an array of usability tweaks, and repos for more up-to-date software (including crucial shit like DEs and WMs). MX and LMDE are probably the easiest ways for a complete gnube to get Debian up, running, and working with their hardware OOTB, and that's why the people who install these distros tend to continue using them as daily drivers.
MX also puts a lot of effort into making sure Xfce is bug-free, to the point where MX w/Xfce is a much better experience than vanilla Debian + Xfce, Xubuntu, or Mint Xfce. For example, nearly every Debian or Ubuntu-based distro currently has this problem with Xfce: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1383379/xubuntu-desktop-visible-after-suspend-before-lock-screen And it has been left unfixed for 3+ years. MX builds Xfce without upower integration, as the Xfce devs intended ( https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/-/merge_requests/20 ).
Sounds interesting, but I'm not going to use it because they cheat the distrowatch ranking.
Also it's based on the ANTIFA distro so even more reason not to use it.
antifa as in anti fascist as in anti corporate as in anti systemd
not antifa as in cut your dick off
i hate the fricking zoomtards like you wouldn't believe
>Helen Keller
kek, I went on a date with a normie once who ranted about how she was fake and gay. Unfortunately I forget the details.
My MX install is only allowed to reach 3 names, and I log all other drops.
-A OUTPUT -m tcp -p tcp -d deb.debian.org -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -m tcp -p tcp -d security.debian.org -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -m tcp -p tcp -d la.mxrepo.com -j ACCEPT
What is the endpoint that my node is cheating to?
I don't mean the system automatically accesses distrowatch, but some frickery is being done by other means as there is something clearly fricking wrong when a distro barely anyone knows is perpetually #1 on distrowatch.
Well, if they are just logging referrers embedded in distribution download pages that would be easy to spoof with a cron job. That means any of us could make any distro #1.
>barely anyone knows
you're stuck in a IQfy meme bubble, moron
mx is alive as frick
>a distro barely anyone knows
MEPIS (aka MX) is literally one of the oldest OG distros.
>MEPIS
Long dead and used KDE
Same devs, turboBlack person, DE is irrelevant, times change.
>KDE
Long dead and now Plasma
holy crap I've been looking around and it seems like MX Linux is THE Debian distro. I'll add that to the "best linux distros ever" list.
MX is the only Deb I've installed and not quickly replaced.
MX Linux is using click bots.
No and at least 7/10 distros in this list are really bad and should not be used by anybody. I'm an arch user btw.
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
gentoo number 57
Yes, because I use Ubuntu
>b-but the snaps!
>y-you should use Arch and spend all day maintaining your OS and do nothing else!
Don't care.
I'm beginning to think that tinkertrannies are simply spoiled kids that have nothing better to do than tinker on their PC all day.
>I'm beginning to think that tinkertrannies are simply spoiled kids that have nothing better to do than tinker on their PC all day.
Such a weird meme. Where did this stupid idea come from that Arch users have to spend hours tinkering with their computer? Once you've installed Arch (which only takes a couple of hours) it just works. Honestly it's probably even easier to maintain an Arch system than an Ubuntu system - at least in the former case you never have to deal with the hassle of upgrading to a newer version.
>Once you've installed Arch (which only takes a couple of hours) it just works.
>(which only takes a couple of hours)
>(which only takes a couple of hours)
>(which only takes a couple of hours)
OH NO NO NO AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yes, a couple of hours to install a system that will last you for years. Still less than the amount of time it takes you to sign up for a Canonical account and register your PC, remove snaps, and do a system update to the newest version of Ubuntu every 6 months.
where did idea come from that updates are intrinsically bad? You do know that updates are supposed to help your computer right? It's Micro$oft that poisoned the word "update". MacOS and Linux users still believe that updates are a good thing.
>inb4 but muh updates breaking muh linux system
Then don't use the unstable update.
Wow you are dumb. Nobody is saying updates are bad. I'm saying updating on fixed release distros is a big hassle and makes them a bad choice for desktop users, compared to rolling release distros where you can do a 5-minute update once a week and that's it.
is Arch a rolling release distro?
>I'm saying updating on fixed release distros is a big hassle and makes them a bad choice for desktop users,
The opposite is true.
>sign up for a Canonical account
literally never done this and besides using Fedora for a bit, I've always used Ubuntu or some derivative.
>remove snaps
involves a couple of commands and adding a single line to some config file.
>do a system update to the newest version of Ubuntu every 6 months.
Everyone who doesn't wanna be on the bleeding edge (most people) just use the LTS which are supported for 3 years. And upgrading isn't hard, just remove any PPAs you've added and ad them back when you've upgraded.
Correction
They release another LTS every 2-3 years, but each one is supported for 5 years.
i like this cope because it comes people filtered by the installation process, but nowadays arch has a install script so theres no reason to excuse not use it
>use this distro that's maintained by this 1 (one) guy who's also a homosexual!
no thanks.
>Is your distro in the top 10 anon?
Not really
>Does your distro have sufficient community resources?
Extremely so!
Long live Arch!
I didn't know this. Even more based holy shit
>getting sodomized in the anus is based!
I hate homosexuals so much it's unreal.
Alright, I'll ask what everyone is afraid to. WHO THE FRICK USES MX LINUX?! Literally who.
>see
everyone who isn't a fat memer or moronic
debian stable, best xfce, systemd off but available, mx tools, maintained by old school linux boomers, stable as frick, literally just werks
there's a best xfce?
>what are distro tweaks
nta. well how well the DE interacts with the OS is pretty important.
hm I use xfce with debian so perhaps the worst xfce?
debian is mx linux, fren
oh, haha
yeah I've noticed that too...
>i'm an idiot
yeah, we noticed
I never hear anyone using MX Linux, Mint has to be the real number one here.
Mint is the number one toxic community. I would not trust my OS to be maintained by unstables.
They are? Sauce?
Their forum and IRC. Lurk there for a while.
Arch is booming.
This chart is worthless because the data is based on DistroWatch stats which have ZERO correlation to the real world usage.
It's more accurate than the OP.
Arch-based = All distros that contribute to the repos and develop for that environment. That's the metric that matters.
Gentoo is in trouble, but Arch isn't.
>Gentoo is in trouble
No it isn't. It's already been explained to morons like you that DistroWatch statistics are not the same as popularity. Gentoo users are people who've been using Linux for years, are happy with their distro choice, and even if they wanted to change it wouldn't be to some random shit they found on DistroWatch.
DistroWatch is for newbies who distrohop to something new every week because they think Linux is a toy. These people are looking for a distro that comes pre-configured with everything they want, because they don't know how to configure a distro themselves. Naturally these are the least likely group to use Gentoo.
Besides, Gentoo is the only mainstream source-based distro, and there will always be a demand for at least one source-based distro. Gentoo isn't going anywhere.
>Besides, Gentoo is the only mainstream source-based distro, and there will always be a demand for at least one source-based distro.
You can compile from source on every distro. Literally a non-issue.
Gentoo is not even #1 on the number of available source packages.
Wikipedia tells me, it's at what? 19k?
LMAO
>You can compile from source on every distro. Literally a non-issue.
Go ahead and try to run Debian while compiling everything from source. I'm waiting.
Enjoy getting cucked by IBM Red Hat with Wayland, systemd and whatever shit they decide to force on you next.
>Go ahead and try to run Debian while compiling everyt-ACK!
You will always be a meme distro for unemployed trannies. People who do actual work on their PCs are using Red Hat / Fedora, Debian or Ubuntu.
>emacs
hjkl homosexuals btfo
People who use Fedora and Ubuntu are just confused Windows users. Imagine thinking Windows is bad because you're getting cucked by Microsoft, but it's totally okay to get cucked by IBM instead.
Nobody cares about your row row fight the powah imaginary battle. You are not a rebel just by picking some random distro over another. In fact your precious Gentoo uses the Linux kernel: Main contributors to the kernel over the past four years (in order): IBM/Red Hat, Intel, Linus.
NTA but can you give those stats excluding drivers?
It's kernel commits, excluding firmware.
Add Google to the list too.
And this is what it looks like as of 6.1. Looks like you freeturd trannies are out of luck escaping da evil corpos lmao.
Your only alternative is one of those FSF-endorsed smelly libre distros which don't work.
Surprised MS is not on the list, they're one of the biggest contributers thanks to Azure
I am happy to take advantage of Red Hat's free labour on developing the kernel. Just like Red Hat is happy to take advantage of the free labour of Fedora users beta testing RHEL for free.
I don't have a problem with using something developed by Red Hat. I have a problem with Red Hat trying to force their software on me. That is why I will never use any systemd-based distro or anything that requires Wayland.
As I said before, Fedora and Ubuntu users are just confused Windows users. Using whatever a corporation forces them to use, but it's okay because "it just works".
and yet a huge chunk of linux distros choose to package Red Hat developed software by default
>choose
No. Those distros are now corporate owned. Let me guess, you think Debian is still a community run distro? You probably believe Ian Murdock actually killed himself. Lmao
There is a lot of money to be made by controlling "free software" like Linux. Red Hat is now a multi-billion dollar company.
isn't that the beauty of freetard software all the non-choices you get?
So what is a person to do. Use Gentoo? something that requires multiple months of effort to get running correctly? You're too far down the rabbit hole man.
Gentoo isn't libre-kernel. You'd need something like Trisquel or Parabola with full open source drivers and a deblobbed kernel to live in the fight da powah fantasy. Of course your shit won't work lmao.
why would I give a heck if ubuntu has some real backing, if it's still 10x more efficient and lightweight than windows? It works and it's not windows, that's all I care about.
My first Gentoo install was a weekend project. By the end I had a fully working system that would be indistinguishable from something like Debian or Fedora.
But it's also a good learning experience. It teaches me more about Linux itself, and frankly it's quite satisfying once you get everything working.
They also don't know IBM is watching everything they do on the desktop and in their app store. Block that shit via DNS, reboot and watch the desktop go nuts.
>It's more accurate than the OP.
It's not, because OP is also citing DistroWatch. Inaccurate data over time is still inaccurate.
how the frick are there so many slackware based distros? i don't know a single one.
Neat picture. I'm surprised the base distros like Arch are so low.
What happened in 2006?
Ubuntu 6.06 probably
>measured by Distrowatch hits
AKA an absolutely fricking worthless metric. It would have you believe some antifa leftist distro is the MOST POPULAR OF ALL TIME when barely anyone uses it.
>Mint
Yes
fricken this x100000. I'm not loyal thougheverbeit. If something better than mint comes along, I'll switch to that. But right now, Mint is the absolute peak of non-windows OSes.
Is the number total downloads?
distrowatch page clicks i think. which means nothing because most people don’t go to distrowatch to access their distros homepage.
Since you all are Linux experts whats the best distro if I want to build an AMD gaming machine without Windows?
gentoo
steamOS
The real list goes something like
Debian
Mint
Gentoo
OpenBSD
(In no particular order.)
(Side note Arch is a trash meme distro only made popular due to reddit, same goes for "hyprgay" or what it is called.) Don't fall for the hype
Only Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE deserve to be on that list. Also OpenMandriva, Mageia, Slackware, Gentoo and Arch.