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Fedora
From the bottom of my heart fuck rolling releases. Never worked for me (nobody get worked up please, ymmv).
lol it’s funny how proactively defensive everyone is about their distro choices
I use a Mac for my server 🤓
Kinoite Ride or die
FOR ME it does the things I need it to do; and it works; and hasn’t blown up my house yet so 🤞
Mint has been glazed since the beginning of time. Not a single laptop or computer I have ever owned has worked out of the box with it. As opposed to alternatives like Ubuntu or Fedora. I must be the single most unlucky person in the history of Linux.
I’ve had the opposite experience. Mint has just worked on literally every piece of hardware I’ve ever owned.
I’ve had the exact same experience.
Is it always a new laptop/computer?
I’d be suspicious of Mint on anything brand new (and hence only recently fixed in a lot of packages).
Is there any company out there that sells PCs with Linux pre-installed? I make a ton of money selling custom built PCs that have Linux pre-installed and tested.
Several. System76 (the cosmic dev) is a major one, literally making the distro just for their laptops.
They’re mostly white boxes though. I don’t any and manufacture their own hardware (except Framework possibly???)
You can find Linux models from dell lenovo and I think even hp but you gotta search for them
There are also some specialty companies that make Linux desktops and laptops but you also gotta really seek them out
And to clarify, it’s pretty much only Ubuntu that is the Linux option with the standard SI’s. And I’m pretty sure it’s standard Ubuntu with gnome, not Kubuntu or being able to select a different DE, etc.
So it’s an option…but not something I’d seek out from Dell or HP specifically.
True but you can still save the money on the MS license and then just install whatever you want
Oh for sure. Kind of forgot about that.
I usually build my own PCs, or I buy certified refurbished systems from eBay, so I usually don’t pay the Windows tax(or its baked in).
But definitely a good option to get something for cheaper, I do wish more systems had a Linux or no OS option.
And even if I plan to use Windows on a system, I usually re-install Windows anyway. Can’t be too careful with what has already been installed on something.
Official lenovo eBay store 💘
I dual boot anyway so it doesn’t really matter and as shitty as MS is i find having it to be valuable nonetheless but i suppose it’s trivial to just run activation scripts
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Same. Works everytime without special modifications, configurations, etc.
In the past 5 years I’ve only ever had minor issues*, like a power button light not being on. But as a developer, I’m aware my hardware choices are more likely to be popular with other developers who would have already noticed and fixed issues.
* excluding on niche distros, like Puppy ones.
Man… I just fucking love CachyOS. I switched from Win11 a few weeks ago and up until now it is just a great experience.
I tried twice to install it- a ryzen 360 was stopped dead by this bug: https://old.reddit.com/r/cachyos/comments/1pag639/rdseed32_error_and_sddm_fails_to_start/
Figured that out and ran into the touchpad not working after sleep.
A 9300H+1650 never made it past this: https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/the-installation-of-cachyos-always-aborts-due-to-chwd-error/16754/3
0/2, cannot recommend
I found CachyOS while trying to figure out the best OS for my handheld. Was on bazzite before that. I ended up loving it so much I installed it on my laptop and desktop too.
Neckbeard here. I run Arch btw.
The second sentence was superfluous.
I never left!
I think I’m just old enough, have fiddled with my PC enough times in the past, have enough other shit to do, and get enough coding and troubleshooting experience at work that I look at the quest to find my spirit distro and think “that’s a youngster’s game.”
Or, you know, maybe Mint is already my spirit distro and I am experienced enough to not fix what isn’t broken!
Ah that explains it, I no longer understand a single thing about computers or what people do with them anymore. You’ve explained it perfectly.
And here’s the thing: I don’t even want to know. It’s not like I’m trying to understand but can’t, I just don’t care. I don’t get it.
People with 100TB home servers, people with 3D printers and boxes filled with trash, endless upgrades for no visible change, etc
I don’t have a single need or want that ends with “I need a new computer”.
I completely understand the sentiment!
I am still into some tech and “new computer” type stuff. I am about to install a bigger/faster drive in my PC and set up my Home Assistant server. That PC is already my Jellyfin server. I am also in the middle of building a brand new PC for my kid, which will also run Mint, lol.
But I spend time only on the things that I’ve learned really matter to me, and not on all the things you’re “supposed to” mess with in your home lab that you obviously have.
You know the meme (or meme category) where it’s a resume or linkedin profile where the recent work history goes something like Senior Network Architect, then Goose Farmer?
I may literally have a 3D printer still in the box, and PC & networking parts all over the house, but my daily routine is embedded linux C/C++ sr developer by day and animal tender on the evenings and weekends, lol.
Just switched from Mint to CachyOS due to some upgraded hardware and it’s been pretty nice so far. Mint will stay on all my other devices though.
For when you want the Ubuntu of Ubuntu as opposed to the Ubuntu of Debian.
I prefer Kali because dragons are freakin awesome.
Tumbleweed
Fedora for life.
What desktop env
Gnome
Yea installed on my new laptop, actually nice
An OS should GTFO and let you get on with the business of doing shit on your computer, Linux Mint does that nicely. 🐧
Mint forever, Ubuntu without the snaps, and It generally is fuss free.
Shout-out to antiX though, revived many a “useless” old laptop with that.
Fedora for me tbh
Mint is decent too though
Desktop? Debian with GNOME. Laptop? Debian with GNOME. Tablet? Debian with GNOME. Server? Believe it or not, Debian without GNOME.
:s/GNOME/KDE/gOne small change and we could be twins. My Debian server also runs Proxmox though, that’s where I distrohop. In VMs.
I will never understand people who willingly subject themselves to Debian when there are so many better alternatives
Went with LMDE7 for my first full daily driver install, real happy so far :)
