what's your favorite "it just werks" distro? mine's ubuntu
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For me, it's Mint.
I do like the cinnamon desktop environment!
Shut the frick up.
i'm not a fan of XFCE, but I'm glad that you enjoy it!
Ok, have a nice day.
fpbp
Mint has been the standard of n00b-proof Linux for years, now. Ubuntu hasn't been relevant since 2013 so I have no idea why people still post about it.
Mint revived my old laptop and now I use it as a better smart tv
Mint is definitely the current champ of "if you were going to make a Windows person use linux and wanted them to not start yelling at you about how everything freetards use and make is ugly or designed autistically". Smoothest normie option.
*backdoors and steals your shit*
Thank you anon.
I honestly think Cinnamon is by far the most usable desktop environment right now. It's much more stable and polished than KDE, is far more sensible than GNOME, is more modern than most of the other lightweight/minor DEs, and it's quite literally the only desktop configuration (I'm even including meme WMs with lightweight compositors in here) where I've been able to get smooth, high-refresh compositing on Nvidia. I've been tearing my hair out for the past two months dealing with stuttering and laggy window resizing on every other DE. I think the Mint team has the right idea when it comes to Cinnamon--unlike KDE or GNOME which are constantly seeing major shakeups and new features (which, in my experience, always leads to aggravating new bugs and regressions), Cinnamon has pretty much remained the same for as long as I can remember, and it seems like they focus mostly on polish and bugfixes with minor improvements over time.
As far as Mint is concerned, I also think it has one of the most pleasant GUI experiences of any distro. It has (in my opinion) the only usable graphical package manager of any DE/distro, the update manager is fantastic (especially for putting on boomers' computers and enabling auto-updates), a firewall tool (if you care about that), timeshift, etc. I really think they should make the installer format to btrfs by default, though, especially seeing as timeshift explicitly supports btrfs snapshots. I've also had nonstop issues with Ubuntu LTS-based distros recently (they all seem to nuke themselves after the very first update, and Mint was no exception), so I think I'm going to give LMDE a try.
It's basically like a Windows 7 successor one reason I like it.
I like mint, it has the good working base and still able to go into more advanced stuff as I slowly learn
((snaps))
>sudo apt purge snapd
>sudo apt install firefox
and its back
Not my problem
https://brave.com/linux/
Ubuntu as well. Also kde is really nice for laptops, on desktops I use xfce.
I have tried debian also and it was fine, but packages were very old.
Arch had strong reliance on third party AURs which isn't good imo.
Haven't tried fedora yet, but I heard it's really good
I have also heard good things about fedora, but I personally prefer ubuntu's driver management app. I haven't used arch since I would have to configure power management for my laptop and that's a lot of effort!
Ubuntu is shit since they remove unity.
Just use Fedora.
I don't like vanilla gnome, and I prefer ubuntu's way of managing the NVIDIA drivers!
For me it's the opposite, ubuntu is completly broken with my nvidia card when Fedora just works.
Bunsenlabs
PopOS
Ubuntu + window tiling - snap = just werks
My personal favorite distro, though I have managed to break it before in the past (may just have been my hardware) and it requires some of the same initial setup as Debian, mainly resolving touchpad and screen-tearing issues.
I opted out of installing it on my current machine since they haven't had a major release in nearly 2 years, has me worried the project is going the way of #!. Is it alive after all?
any ubuntu distro. I started with ubuntu, then I did some distro hopping (manjaro, opensuse, arch) and in the end I came back to ubuntu because back then it just worked for me. I'm now using KDE Neon and I will keep using it since it hasn't let me down so far.
Debian.
The amount of autism goes from minimal debootstrap and installing and configuring everything from base system to live cd with calamares installer to get everything done.
Or you can build your own prepared iso with all needed programs, repositories and configs using live-build.
question for you footgays:
is gnome better on fedora or ubuntu? I've been trying both on separate machines and I'm leaning towards the latter although I like fedora in general. But lately fedora's gnome will just do moronic things for me, like open "save as" dialog boxes in some hidden window; can't get nautilus to fricking sort folders/files properly and have it stick across applications; apps/files don't have proper icons; etc. I'd wager I have issues because I'm moronic but then again I don't have these issues on ubuntu's gnome. should linuxbabbies just stick with ubuntu?
Gnome in fedora is the only proper way of using gnome.
Arch, Ubuntu is a bigger thing
openSUSE
Arch, Ubuntu is for Black folk
gentoo, unironically
it just takes time to compile, but otherwise it doesn't require much maintenance
Ubunga makes Gnome usable. Oob with a panel, desktop icons, and fractional scaling are all things Gnome should have but doesn't. Recently switched after liking the live environment during some data recovery.
blessed
KDE Neon is the answer
Slackware.
Yes. Full install is comfy.
>can't run steam
>can't run proper browser
>bloaty
into the trash it goes.
>False
>False
>False
prove me wrong, homosexual.
10 Enterprise LTSC
Fedora, it's basically Ubuntu - snaps + newer packages.
One downside, which actually does piss me off is the 6 month release cycle. Maybe if they'd drop one of those and made it 12 months it would be less annoying. Haven't had an upgrade break anything yet, same install since 31. KDE spin of course.
>One downside, which actually does piss me off is the 6 month release cycle
that and the fact that the updates install on boot
wtf is up with that shit
You should be able to turn off offline updates in your GUI software manager, at least, the KDE spin lets you do it.
Deb
Come home white man.
>Krashes
Nothing personal kid.
Files in thumbnail picker.
Haven't had any issues with budgie so far
What distro?
ubuntu is what gnome should be out of the box
frick yeah. Stock gnome doesnt even have a dock
which is annoying.
Debian. I just wish Linux had usable DEs.
Fedora
I personally hate how ubuntu mixes different packages and dependencies.
same
went from mint to arch to manjaro to debian to ubuntu to fedora. probably will never switch again unless something weird happens with it
Endeavour of course
just switched to ubuntu after distro hopping for 3 years.
its just works. And it works a lot better than fedora.
Pop Os
as a nigerian, from my m1 air 2020 16gb ram 256gb ssd
mx, the utilitarian choice for working whites
Microsoft asset
E.E E starts with Ubuntu
For me MX linux
What meaningful differences are there between Debian and Ubuntu besides the latter having gnome?
They both have gnome. Most distros have gnome. Ubuntu comes with some different defaults, some extra packages, snaps, ppas and a different(faster) release cycle for their point releases(betas). Debian demands more from its user at face value. It has a little bit more advanced installation process a rock solid stale release and a little bit advanced rolling one.
I don't really understand why you want a more frequent update cycle for your os, it's just background shit and it's not like I read release notes
It depends on what software you want to use. Recent projects seldom are available on stale distros. If you don't care about having the latest updoot and access to new stuff then you shouldn't care. Heed this though. Ubuntu is known to break sometimes when you upgrade. Debian not so much.
My desire is to use Ubuntu without snaps and with a custom DE. In my experience Ubuntu unironically just fricking works. I might try running WSL and experimenting with Debian and see how that works for me.
>use Ubuntu without snaps
>what is Linux Mint
>what is Linux Mint Debian Edition
>what is pop_os
etc
You will be very hard pressed not to use snaps with ubuntu. If they are a deal breaker you should try some other distro.
What IS pop, I've only ever seen it brought up in a meme context.
You do know how to use a search engine correct? Its an ubuntu based distro with a heavily modified gnome desktop maintened by System 76. They make linux laptops and shit. It supposed to have a version that plays well with nvidia gpus but i can't attest to that.
Debian + Arch cover all the use cases.
Debian naturally
>Debian + Arch cover all the use cases.
Quoted for truth
probably the most hated one but it works incredibly well: Windows + WSL2. I use Ubuntu for WSL but it doesn't really matter
>https://askubuntu.com/questions/1413763/acpi-errors-at-boot
After it froze and manually restarted I got this error.
>just werks
Its actually a meme.
MacOS
The ones I'm using: MX-XFCE and Endeavour-LXQt
All you ne/g/ros are wrong. Fedora is the only TRUE straight white male distro. Even the kernelgay himself used it!
Thats not their logo anymore homosexual.
If you're honest you'd post the updated one
they fell for the simplified logo meme, fml.
How is it a simplified logo? It literally has more complexity now. Previous version was actually more minimalistic.