• muusemuuse@lemm.eeEnglish
    103·
    22 days ago

    The one you fucking feel like using. God, stop trying to make tribes mandatory.

      • hansolo@lemmy.today
        27·
        21 days ago

        Well, it’s built to use Ooga, but it’s also set up to be able to handle Booga as well. It depends on the driver set you need to load Fire and Club.

      • muusemuuse@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        22 days ago

        I feel like there’s a lemmings reference to be made here but I’m tired. Internet, do your thing.

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
        1·
        21 days ago

        I’m tempted to commit to pretending that “Tribes” is a Linux distro that we’re all worried will gain too much popularity and hurt the ecosystem…

        • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
          2·
          20 days ago

          I wanted to interject about how “ecosystem” is a word only used for locked-in stuff like Apple and Google, but y’know what?

          THIS is a proper ecosystem. It is actually organic, made of independent moving parts, unlike the clockwork made by big tech, internal to each and to a large extent indivisible.

    • RustyNova@lemmy.world
      15·
      21 days ago

      *Except for beginners

      Try a beginner distro, and when you’re done with the tutorial, go ahead and install your arches or nixes, IDC

      • DaTingGoBrrr@lemm.ee
        8·
        21 days ago

        SteamOS was my tutorial and today I run Arch on my main system. But I like learning and I like the fact that I can build my own system and choose my own components. I understand that Arch is not for everyone but for me it’s perfect.

        • DaTingGoBrrr@lemm.ee
          5·
          21 days ago

          Also, fuck GNOME. When I tried Ubuntu in 2009 it was GNOME that made me hate Linux until I learned that KDE Plasma was a thing.

          • squaresinger@lemmy.world
            5·
            21 days ago

            GNOME is horrible. Looks pretty, but it’s opinionated approach means that nothing works as expected and you have to relearn how to use a stupid window manager.

        • RustyNova@lemmy.world
          3·
          21 days ago

          Steamos is a great introduction… If you touch desktop mode of course.

          Personally I recommend Linux mint, or even KUbuntu or Cinnamon Ubuntu (gnome is not meant for windows refugees so better not show it yet)

    • Harvey656@lemmy.world
      1·
      21 days ago

      Ooga Booga, caveman like Arch, caveman spread Arch!

      Edit: i never read the other comments and someone already sorta used this joke… shit.

    • joby@programming.dev
      10·
      22 days ago

      Yeah. “I use OpenSUSE tumbleweed, but have reasons I’ve been thinking about switching. I consistently hear that mint is a good place to start, or maybe pop!os if you’re looking to run games”

      I don’t actually even say the first sentence unless the question was “what do you use?”

      Sometimes, if it’s clear they’re trying to revive very old hardware I might help them search for something built around being lightweight.

      I’m mostly happy with tumbleweed, except that I have the nvidia repo set up and am convinced that it’s causing issues. One of these days I’ll look into how to try the nouveau drivers and/or how to get from my current setup to dualbooting pop!os without disrupting things I need for work.

      Also, an update straight up broke emacs while i was in crunch time once, but I learned to be more careful about my update timing.

      • Nick7903@feddit.dk
        3·
        21 days ago

        My guy just uninstall the Nvidia driver, it will fall back to the driver in the kernel, which is the Nouveau driver.

        • joby@programming.dev
          2·
          21 days ago

          I’ll try that soon. Tbf, it’s absurdly easy to roll back with snapper if I make a change and it’s not better, I just haven’t gotten around to it.

      • swelter_spark@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        21 days ago

        People having problems on Tumbleweed almost always seem to be using Nvidia, KDE, and/or Wayland. That’s what I’ve noticed based on official forum threads, anyway.

        • joby@programming.dev
          2·
          21 days ago

          Yep. I got a thinkpad a couple years ago that was enough of a deal that I forgave its nvidia GPU. I followed the documentation on how to connect a repo controlled by nvidia, and since then: a) the actual GPU appears to be used, but b) maximum brightness on the screen is significantly dimmer, and games run worse than they did when the GPU wasn’t actually used.

          And also I use KDE. I’m still on X11, though, so I didn’t complete the set.

            • joby@programming.dev
              2·
              20 days ago

              I haven’t, but a colleague (small all remote web dev outfit) plays rocket league and had said that pop!os has felt great for games without having to tweak anything. Meanwhile, I tried to play through cult of the lamb while some friends were all playing through it and it wasn’t playable

      • Zink@programming.dev
        2·
        21 days ago

        Games run great in Linux Mint.

        Mint also has a GUI driver manager that makes it really easy to see and change which nvidia driver you’re using.

        • joby@programming.dev
          2·
          21 days ago

          That’s good to know, thanks. I don’t get asked for Linux advice that often, but I’ll just recommend mint unless there are extreme hardware restrictions (which I’m sure mint can work with, but I’ve looked for whatever modern lightweight-focused distro is when it’s a concern)

      • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        21 days ago

        I try to avoid telling people what I use as they will wonder why I don’t use mint if I recommend it.

        I like Fedora + plasma, but I don’t want to explain rpm fusion and Fedora flatpak problems.

        • Bobo The Great@sopuli.xyz
          7·
          21 days ago

          And a lot of support, especially aimed to the beginner userbase. Most basics questions a first time linux user will encounter are usually answered to by searching the forum

          • Zink@programming.dev
            2·
            21 days ago

            It even goes beyond that because if you just search how to do something in linux, you are almost guaranteed to find instructions that work on whatever random site you find. It’s pretty rare to find instructions for dnf or pacman without also having the APT instructions right there.

    • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      21 days ago

      Right? I’ll talk about my salary all you want. I think it’s great to know where you stand against others when negotiating for a new job or a raise. Especially since unions aren’t really a thing in my profession.

      Don’t talk about my penis. If I want you to know, you’ll know.

    • aMockTie@lemmy.world
      14·
      22 days ago

      Holy shit I lost it after Material UwU. The system requirements and FAQ (including a famous Torvalds quote) were excellent highlights as well.

    • msage@programming.dev
      2·
      21 days ago

      Fucking Astolfo in there… this is just too good.

      Thank you for this, you’ve made my day.

      I didn’t really like Gnome, but one day I might spin up a VM for this.

  • mmmm@sopuli.xyz
    22·
    22 days ago

    Why is Tux flipped, is this some sort of subliminal message? Is BigTech behind of this meme?

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      19·
      22 days ago

      Oh, oups. That’s a remnance from a meme I made a few minutes earlier. However now Tux is looking towards the text, therefore this was all planned.

  • digger@lemmy.ca
    17·
    22 days ago

    You don’t need to ask, because they will tell you their thoughts regardless.

    Just switched to NixOS recently, after years on LMDE.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
    17·
    21 days ago

    Shame on all of you for not knowing Hanna Montana Linux is the best possible OS ever.

    I thought that it’s a fact everyone using Linux just instinctively knew.

        • hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          20 days ago

          TBH I would switch to Nix, from my current long standing arch, but it wouldn’t make any difference to me ultimately. Cool concept though, but I don’t really care much about these immutable distros.

          • Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de
            7·
            20 days ago

            I have to say the immutability isn’t what got me. It’s that i can propagate changes to all my machines (i have three, with different configurations of work and private users) without fuss. i have one git repo that contains the Config and all i do is git pull && sudo nixos-rebuild switch after i login and it’s done. reinstalling is also somewhat trivial and once the installer is done everything is as i want it to be. which is just bonkers to me. i love it to bits. before i had a super brittle system of dotfiles that regularly broke. nevermore

            • hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz
              2·
              20 days ago

              That does make sense for such use cases, however I feel that archinstall script is also mature enough, allowing you to have config files even. Even w/o them it still has very powerful defaults. I will def give nixos a try in a VM first, as I mostly rely on flatpak and landlock anyways.

  • chautalees@lemmy.world
    11·
    21 days ago

    it is OBJECTIVELY linux mint. Why? Because.

    this comment was written on June 2025. So as of this day Mint is fabulous. And if I were to save a single distro from a burning building of all the popular distros, i would grab mint twice.

    I know I know, there are many good distros, even texhnically better ones. But having used Mint as a secondary dual boot to my primary Windows, I have felt that Mint has been least annoying and actually worth retaining and updating and maintaining.

    • Camelbeard@lemmy.world
      3·
      21 days ago

      Mint is great I use it on my desktop and laptop and have been for years (I switched when Ubuntu has that unity desktop period). For Linux it’s the most “it just works” distro for me. My second choice would be manjaro, but mint also has the advantage that there is so much help for Ubuntu you can find online, that usually also works for mint.

      • chautalees@lemmy.world
        2·
        20 days ago

        Agree 100%. The amount of “help” content and documentation, both formal and informal, for other distros doesn’t even come close to that of Ubuntu. It’s like tenfold more. And so 90% of it becomes immediately, if not applicable, alteast in the right direction, for Mint as well.

        • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
          2·
          19 days ago

          Well it takes like a thousand people to make Debian, so they’d need to do a lot of work.

            • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
              1·
              19 days ago

              I’m actually thinking about switching from Debian to Mint. I’m thinking that if Mint is the recommended distro for people new to Linux, they will need a big community to answer questions in forums.

              • chautalees@lemmy.world
                2·
                19 days ago

                Absolutely. They will.

                With the momentum that Mint already has, it has the highest chance of succeeding as the primary distro for Linux newbies in the coming years.

                some long winded thoughts…

                Like every PC Semi-enthusiast sufferer of Windows, when I was looking for a Linux distro to respite, I deliberated way too long on which distro to use. Finally I realized that the way I use Windows, I’ll not be able to fully switch over to Linux anytime soon. So instead of burning midnight oil, one day i said fuck it, and installed Mint as a dual boot option. I spent quite a lot of time trying to make the Mint as close to my Windows setup as possible, but couldn’t do fully. Plus the VKD3D performance penalty for Nvidia GPU in DX12 games meant I was never going to ditch Windows as my primary gaming OS.

                • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
                  2·
                  19 days ago

                  I did the same thing, but with ubuntu. Now, you and I can troubleshoot issues and have patience. But someone who is sort of reluctant to begin with, it’s a hard sell if there are hurdles.

    • Zink@programming.dev
      2·
      21 days ago

      I freaking love Linux Mint. I use it for myself because despite being the “easy” distro, it is still Linux. (Or as I like to call it, GNU plus Linux, lol) But you are still allowed to use the terminal, compile your own code, fiddle with your system, run docker, and generally do what you want with your computer without it bogging down to load ads for services that are already running in the background bogging it down more whether you pay for it or not. And since it is based on debian/ubuntu/apt, users benefit from that popularity when they look up how to do something.

      I love it just as much for the non-power users. It is how I will allow my parents to keep their perfectly good laptop that collects dust instead of spending a thousand bucks on a new win11 laptop to collect dust.

      Long term I assume that I will end up on Arch or a derivative, mostly thanks to Valve, on top of it being a good project to learn on.

      • chautalees@lemmy.world
        2·
        20 days ago

        so I’m not very knowledgeable about the Linux world, but I’m also not completely green. In my lifetime I have dabbled with trying out 4-5 distros either dualbooting or VMing, Ubuntu being my first experience.

        But i feel like, as much as I love our Lord and Savior GabeN, what Valve’s doing with Steam OS is not fully how I image a PC Linux Utopia vision looks like? Maybe i am not able to word it properly, my thought salad, but it feels like there is something missing in the Valve’s approach to challenging Microsoft’s grip on PC market

        • Zink@programming.dev
          1·
          19 days ago

          I’d love to hear your specific thoughts on that one.

          My comment was less about anything technical with SteamOS, and more about its popularity and the influence of gaming on the enthusiast PC market. And I’m not assuming that everybody will install SteamOS on their desktop, just thinking that arch-based distros might get a lot more market share.

          I haven’t even used it, honestly. Like I said I’m using mint on everything.