Alt text: A line plot with 2 axis (confidence vs competence) referencing the Dunning-Kruger effect with various distro logos placed at different points on the line. Starts with mint/ubuntu near (0,0) and progressing through multiple distros to end up with opensuse/fedora at what it calls “the plateau of sustainability”

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    10 days ago

    I’m not RanzigFettreduziert, and I don’t know much about PopOS, but…

    • Rolling release is awesome.
    • Amazing documentation.
    • Helpful user base. (The forums are great.)
    • Does pretty much nothing that you don’t specifically tell it to. (Like, very little is installed without your express say-so, for instance.)
    • Customizeable as fuck.
    • Doesn’t making things harder by trying to hide the “hard parts” from you.
    • Doesn’t take days to install Libreoffice like Gentoo.
    • AUR is great for software that isn’t available in the official repos. (Always review the pkgbuild, but practically everything is there.)
    • Very up-to-date (even cutting-edge) on everything.
    • And surprisingly stable given how cutting edge it is. (That said, I’ve never run a keyword-unmasked system.)
    • Definitely will teach you a lot.
    • Very actively developed.

    Downsides:

    • Learning curve. (Definitely not as bad as, say, Gentoo, though.)
    • You’d definitely have to get really comfortable with the command line. (Arguably as much a good thing as it is a downside.)
    • The biggest exception to the “customizeable as fuck” bit is that you’re stuck with SystemD, which is practically a whole OS. (And Artix (Arch but with a choice of init systems) is… kinda janky last I tried it.)
    • Support for non-x86 (like ARM, for instance) is abysmal.

    It’s kindof the second-most hardcore OS out there after Gentoo. (Nobody actually uses LFS as a daily driver, so I’m not counting that for this.) It’s the sort of OS that will teach you a lot and let you get down in the guts. But also avoids a lot of the downsides of Gentoo by remaining a binary OS.