• zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comBannedEnglish
      33·
      2 months ago

      I am sorry, but that notebook is way too modern for a proper Gentoo user. Anything above 500MHz is wasted energy with useless kernel flags

      • Digit@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        Oh. I didn’t even notice the Dr Pepper. … Also… I did not know there was any correlation between Dr Pepper and gentoo. I stopped my Dr Pepper addiction 5 years before I used gentoo. … I was on 4L a day for months, and didn’t realise I had a problem until I drank 9L in 24hr.

        +1 for “-1 for non Lenovo machine”. [… unless it’s like tuxedo or system76 or something like that or some pure custom job on a different architecture]

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      2 months ago

      Hoodie, MX Master and Gentoo, that’s literally my old stack, except it was a desktop not laptop.

      • mastertigurius@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 months ago

        This is a random internet image for shitposts and giggles. I considered the face to be obscured enough for the guy to be sufficiently anonymous, though he deserves fame and fortune for his awesomeness.

    • CAVOK@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Had gentoo as my daily driver for years, then it turned out that I was worse at optimizing my system than the debian guys who create distros professionally, so I just… stopped.

      Spent too much time fiddling with gentoo because it was fun, now I’m on fedora because it just works and is modern enough.

      (The amount of time spent fixing my system once I discovered “breakmygentoo” we probably shouldn’t talk about)

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      28·
      2 months ago

      Same here, except on servers, where I prefer debian.

      Because I’m old and tired, and I just want to install and be up and running in as short of a time as possible without dicking around.

    • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
      9·
      2 months ago

      Same conclusion for me. Been using Linux for years, Mint is the only distro I’ve used that #JustWorks in my experience.

      I use LMDE as my personal laptop, it’s rock stable.

      • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        What’s the difference between LMDE and running Cinnamon on Debian?

          • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Iirc LMDE uses a btrfs naming scheme that is incompatible with Timeshift for example, and it removes some standard Mint features. The last time I tried LMDE is was basically Debian with cinnamon (and green theme), but what is the Mint experience?

            • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              but what is the Mint experience?

              Mostly just the way Mint is set up out of the box and having most of the Mint tools available. I remember LMDE lacking some of the tools like the GPU driver installer last time I tried it, but I’m sure those are either being added over time or will be in the future.

    • Tango@piefed.caEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      I have yet to encounter a use case where I would need anything other than Mint.

    • titanicx@lemmy.zip
      7·
      2 months ago

      After 20 plus years of Linux I also really love using mint on any machine with a screen. My servers are all Debian based but my desktop and laptop are mint it just works

      Also, not sure how using arch is equal to the picture, not sure if that’s supposed to be a trans girl, an e girl, or something else. Using arch is more like a mechanic with a car that breaks down every time they change anything.

    • oppy1984@lemdro.idEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Yep, been on Linux for 10 or 12 years now, I honestly can’t remember. Distro hopped at first, then I found Mint and never saw a need to change.

    • cmhe@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      I’m in an organization that helps people install Linux on their devices, and we collectively decided to install Linux Mint. I never used it myself, and to me, the distribution doesn’t matter too much.

      However, I was negatively surprised that Linux Mint decided to mix closed-source proprietary software together with open-source software: http://packages.linuxmint.com/search.php?release=alfa&section=import&keyword=

      They also advertise them in top positions on their package installers, which also doesn’t show the packages licenses anywhere. To me advertising them and mixing them like they are the same is bad… They also don’t offer ways to filter them out… So… while I still install LM for others, I’m not a fan…

      • blarth@thelemmy.club
        8·
        2 months ago

        Being too purist about the openness of a distribution is a big reason Linux has taken so long to gain foothold on PCs.

        • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          On the other hand, being purist about openness is why GNU exists in the first place.

        • cmhe@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          I don’t care if a Linux distribution offers proprietary applications or not. I just want to be able to filter it out, and that they offer open alternatives first.

          I’m not a purist, I want people to be informed users, not just sheep that get fed whatever corporations want them to eat. If they still choose to use closed source software, then that is fine.

          • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            I don’t care if a Linux distribution offers proprietary applications or not. I just want to be able to filter it out, and that they offer open alternatives first.

            More often, it’s not applications, per se – it’s things like video codecs and drivers.

            And there is no open-source alternative, because the only way to decode that proprietary video format or run that proprietary wifi module is to use their proprietary software to do it. So you either have user-friendly distros that include the availability of those things for the ‘it just works’ experience, or you have open-source purist distros where you can be proud of being purely open source, but some of your video files won’t play, and your wifi doesn’t work.

            • cmhe@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 months ago

              Yeah… But LM has spotify, Google Earth, Dropbox and Sublime Texteditor mixed in open source software (like d-feet, a dbus inspection tool) in their repos… Those aren’t propritary Codecs, WiFi driver or firmware…

              Debian and Ubuntu have different APT repo sections for closed source stuff. That is what I would have expected…

  • addie@feddit.uk
    37·
    2 months ago

    Speaking as an Arch btw user, my socks match, thank you very much. How rude.

  • Reygle@lemmy.world
    36·
    2 months ago

    Weird. Just turned 47 and I JUST tried Debian tonight.

    So far it’s very good.

    Get off my lawn

  • pasdechance@jlai.lu
    23·
    2 months ago

    Lemme zoom in here just a wee bit on this here whatchycallit… Meme? Oh fiddlesticks, I don’t have me glasses… There they are… Oh! Hee hee haa haa you young fellers are drole.

    I use Debian.

  • BladeFederation@piefed.socialEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

    Fairly accurate. SUSE is more like an IT guy forced to wear a suit to work that is not tailored well.

    This guy is Kali Linux or Qubes/Whonix/TailsOS:

    altr

  • bort@sopuli.xyz
    17·
    2 months ago

    distro memes should be updated for 2026. i.e. with cachy,bazzite,steamos.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 months ago

    Cis straight male Arch user checking in. There’s all kinds of us, everyone is welcome to wear what they like and feel what they feel.

    Ask for help and help you shall have. (It’ll just… it’ll be someone giving you a link to a wiki page, or the wiki page, or saying “check the wiki”, BUT YOU WILL BE HELPED BECAUSE THE WIKI IS GO(O)D!)

    • SmoochyPit@lemmy.ca
      7·
      2 months ago

      Migrating my workflow to NixOS right now, and it’s really made me realize just how good Arch Wiki is. NixOS and Nix are a bit disjointed in terms of documentation and learning resources. But Arch Wiki usually helps me gain intuition for which software does what and what traits I’m able to configure.

      Non-Arch-Linux Linux users should absolutely consider the Arch Wiki when troubleshooting or learning about the Linux ecosystem! I’m not sure there’s a better broadly-applicable resource out there.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
        4·
        2 months ago

        Arch wiki is awesome, I’ve been using Debian and Debian-derivatives for 10+ years and Debian’s documentation is frankly embarassing compared to Arch’s. There’s some good stuff like Debian Administrator’s Handbook (outdated tho) and the upgrade instructions for each stable release, but a lot of the Debian wiki information is outdated and riddled with dead links.