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Not sure but it’s by B00merang-Project. Check their site.

RebeccaBlackOS > Hannah Montana Linux

"the cup of a carpenter coder"

Is this going to be Arch or Debian?

So… Slackware?

BTW...

Also kudos to you for your modding last couple days.

I highly recommend avoiding manjaro like the plague, their team is incredibly incompetent (see: https://manjarno.pages.dev/ ), I say this as someone who has given people manjaro for years and regretted it, I was also their it person, manjaro regularly broke every few months and gave people a very bad taste of linux

for example, why are kernels given version numbers in packages? This caused 3 separate peoples computers to break multiple times. Everything good about manjaro comes from arch, everything bad about manjaro comes from the manjaro team.

Y’know how it’s not rolling release because they delay packages by 2 weeks? They actually do no testing in this time. How do I know this? They pushed an update that caused steam to uninstall your desktop environment. Famously covered by linus tech tips… this is something that should have easily been caught, and yet the two week window did absolutely nothing.

the truth is for manjaro there is no real usecase, there’s no set of desires that align with manjaro being the best choice for you. I am not asking you to switch away from manjaro, but I do not think we should ever recommend it to anyone, and on your next machine, I recommend trying the arch installer.

But if what you’re looking for is an easy pre-setup arch, use endeavoros

If you want something simple and up to date, use fedora kinoite

If you’re a power user and want to configure every little thing about their system, use arch or nixos

If you don’t care at all about updates and want the most rock solid system possible, debian.

Slack there!

Portage Prefix is a thing too

I putz with Discover sometimes. Though I have no idea how it resolves package updates under the hood, as it often will produce a different manifest than running dnf itself.

What would you like to see improved?

You can use UTM on an M1 or up Macbook and iOS/iPadOS:
https://getutm.app/
It is not VirtualBox yet, but it is moving fast. And thank $deity it’s not Oracle… like VirtualBox

I’d say iOS is still unix too, just rootless.

Mac is BSD, and the Darwin kernel is open source.

The company that laid me off let me keep my Mac which was a nice parting gift. I don't think I'd ever buy one myself. They're just way to expensive.

A VM doesn’t change the underlying OS collecting data from you

"always" in this case is when you have two or more gpus in your system, which limits the ability to "just" run a vm considerably.

couldn't you always just run a Linux VM at near-native speed, and get the benefits of both?

The obvious downside is that Linux is no longer the host OS. MacOS or Windows would be closed source code managing your hardware. And any VM could only be as fast as the host OS allows it to be.

This website has a decent summary: https://manjarno.pages.dev/

TL:DR: Repeated dumb mistakes that a (relatively) big distro like Manjaro should not be making. Haven't heard any drama in the past year or so though, so maybe they've finally gotten their act together. Time will tell.

It's too "easy" for all the kiddos who tie their self-worth to their ability to follow installation instructions.

Replied to a different comment about this: https://lemmy.world/comment/12365020

Shouldn't it be "further"? farther is for physical distance, further is for figurative/metaphorical distance.

Ah yes, that's exactly what I said.

The only people who hate Linux users more than windows and Mac users are Linux users who think you chose the wrong distro

Because there's always going to be someone who says the distro you liked the most is not the distro you should be using. (I use Arch btw)

Because of in-fighting.

A quick Google search says... Yes! they even implemented a basic sdl2 library in holyc to access the full potential of the video hardware.

Nooooooo

Cinnamon

First half has the actual advice

They have a debian based version, it's pretty awesome. It's still a beta fork atm, but it's rock solid so far

That's the thing, I don't know enough to know what to even ask. So far I've been able to follow step-by-step instructions for installing Mint and downloading software, but I don't know what I'm doing at all.

One example of something I spent hours on is adding Cura to the panel. I finally got that done while I was writing this comment by following AndyMH's answer here.

Now, I can read

I would move the appimage into a folder in PATH. If you create a folder /home/you/bin it is automatically added to PATH next time you boot.

And I can do that. I have no idea what PATH is or why I want to do that, but I can do it. And I can look it up, and I'm sure I'll eventually get to a point where all of this makes sense to me, but I feel kind of helpless when I have to look up multiple terms every time I want to do something as simple as adding an application to the panel

Literally me. Can confirm, Stack Overflow is based.

I just open the Welcome app, and click the first 4 options to update like once every week or so.

Nuh uh, obviously its AmogOS

Except all the cool kids use Arch, of course.

Fedora is pretty much the new Ubuntu more or less. Ubuntu has gone so far downhill that I can't recommend it to anyone and that's been the case for quite a while.

I’ve been using Arch and Manjaro for couple years each and in my experience they both break regularly. But, for some weird reason, Arch Linux is praised, when Manjaro is shamed upon.

No, there is not some weird reason but actual very good ones.

Things can break on a bleeding edge update scheme. That's to be expected from time to time. But the questions are "why did it break" and "what is done to fix it".

If something breaks on Archlinux it's because of some new package with a issue that escaped testing. Then the fix come out as fast as possible (often within minutes even, but let's assume hours as those things need to move through mirrors first...).

If something breaks on Manjaro it's either because of the exact same reason as above, but 2 weeks later. Because Manjaro keeps back updates for two weeks "for stability reasons", yet doesn't do anything in those 2 weeks. So they just add the same problem later, completely defeating the argumant about stability. Oh, and fixes are of course kept back for 2 weeks, too, because... reasons.

Or it breaks because they fucked up their internal QA. For example by letting their certificates expire again and again and again and again... of by screwing up their very own pacman-wrapper and then ddos'ing the AUR for all users, not only Manjaro ones.

Or -speaking about the AUR- it breaks because they give their users full access to the Arch User Repository (without any warnings about user content being less reliable and used at your own risk) pre-installed. Also they do it on a system generally out-of-date because it lags 2 weeks behind. Which is not what AUR packages are build for (they assume up-to-date systems) and is a straight path to dependency hell and breakings... not because something went wrong but because the whole concept of an out-of-date system not running their own also 2-weeks behind version onf the AUR is idiotic. On the "plus" side they have an easy fix: blame the user, because he should obviously know that an pre-installed part of Manjaro is conceptionally flawed and shouldn't be trusted.

Linux mint: ex windows guy? I take offence, I’m an ex-SuSE 4.2, ex-macOS, windows only at work guy. (My cinnamon is themed to have macOS ish appearance btw.) [and I lied, not ex-mac as such, I have a few macs round the house, and built my Linux machine to run games on steam/lutris, around a spare gfx card that came out of my classic Mac pro5,1]

The main problem with Manjaro is they hold updates to the repos back for to weeks, which in itself isn’t a problem but they don’t do the same for the AUR, meaning you’re almost guaranteed to have dependencie issues at some point. And a, very minor, issue is that in the past they have broken their forum site, but that hasn’t happened for a while now.

In my experience, nix works exceptionally well with Rust. Python and JavaScript are nastier, especially if the libraries use C extensions.

Lol, forgot that very important one 😂

Reaction: 😃good choice! I think it is a good well distro for people coming to linux✌🏻

I activate Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu is awesome Change my mind

Unfortunately not. But I'd imagine flawless. You know of a free way to test?

Lol really? Edit: oh! My bad thought this was something else. Gimme a minute I'll run through it

Why would you want that on Linux? We already have qemu KVM which can be used via libvirt. Just install virtual manager and be done with it.

Slow down. VMware can be one click and done. All these alternatives and extras and configurations are the reason windows people don't try Linux. Don't over complicate a simple thing. If they want new or more they can figure that out at a later date.

It's Arch-based, but if
distro = base
then
Mint = Ubuntu
Ubuntu = Debian

Mint = Debian

Yes, I use SteamOS on my steamdeck. Aside from my nuc which is running ProxMox with several Debian based VMs, that’s sadly currently the only thing that’s running Linux in my house.

OpenSUSE family