3mo ago

Decisions Decisions

Mine are:

What are yours?

PS: Guys I know Temple OS isn't Linux

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Linux swinger parties: On the way in you drop a thumb drive loaded with a distro installer in a fishbowl, then spend 30 minutes drinking energy drinks and dunking on MS, then grab a random thumb drive on your way out. That's your new daily driver.
- You know somebody's putting barebones LFS on one of those drives.
- Sounds like malware
  
  Always take protection to a swingers party.

God chose TempleOS but you have all forsaken him.
- "Start praying for the souls of the poor Linux atheists and their leader Mr.Torvalds"

I choose exclusively based on mascot and I don't know any distributions with mascots other than opensuse so I use opensuse
- i think the gentoo pacman looking guy is cool

I chose Endeavor because I like its wallpapers.
(And I am too scared of installing Arch)
- My one borked Linux install came from what I'm guessing was a mem leak in Endeavour (Firefox related or otherwise I'll never know) stopping up an update/upgrade and not finishing all the post install scripts before rebooting. You'll be fine, but Endeavour is close enough and does look good out of the box :⁠-⁠)

I choose my distro based on if KDE will crash or not.
So far on my hardware only NixOS has not got that issue out of the box.
- Have you had issues setting hotkeys in KDE? I'm using NixOS on my laptop and for some reason the shortcuts I add all reset on logouts/shutdowns
  
  Thats weird, I never had any problems with hotkeys bc nixos does not manage that. Did you setup inpermanence on your .config folder?

Why has nobody mentioned package managers? I can't be the only one who cares about that...
- Some guy commented about it and got corrected for saying that yay was a package manager. lol
  
  I mean, I use it in place of pacman.
  Since it's a wrapper, it can do what pacman does and more

i chose my first linux distro based on difficulty (gentoo). needless to say it took me two weeks to get my computer to boot up and load i3 without problems.
- Two questions: are you still on Gentoo, and have you tried LFS?
  
  i gave up on gentoo when the updates started making my laptop so hot that i had to point my bedroom fan at it in college. i was thinking of doing LFS but by that point gentoo was turning into such a headache and i wanted something simpler. i switched to arch afterwards, but now i mainly just use macos and let tim handle all that stuff for me. although i’m tempted to try arch again when im done with grad school and have more time

Only one of those OP. The oldest one in the list. When any of those other distros bring something new and beneficial to the mix I might consider them.

I have OpenSuse Tumbleweed, Arch, and some version of Ubuntu. I'll probably replace Ubuntu with Tumbleweed eventually.
- The only one worthy of cool logo

Tuxedo OS, it came with the laptop and I'm too lazy to put something else on it. There's also a RPi somewhere in the basement running Arch.

I like to pick based off the name of the command I use to evoke the package manager. Currently, I'm enjoying using yay but I've been thinking about emerge quite a bit
Edited for pedantic specificity
- Neither of those are package managers. That'd be Pacman and Portage.

Screw you guys, immutable fedora. Currently, bazzite, but I can, and have, change on a whim.

By this list, I like endeavor(it's wallpapers go hard as shit), alpine, centos(watch dogs!!1!), and "Athena OS"(distrowatch random)

NixOS Arch SteamOS Debian
- I would do love to put steamos on my desktop
  
  I'd suggest trying out Bazzite Linux. It's the closest to SteamOS and has a lot of tweaks already installed.