Flow chart for choosing a Linux distro because I disagreed with the first one
Flow chart for choosing a Linux distro because I disagreed with the first one
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Are you a Nixos fan? Why else would it be there 3 times and everything else once apart from 2 debians.
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Yeah, seems like OP is here to promote NixOS. I ended up on NixOS on the top row because I'm a Linux veteran of almost 20 years and I'm still eager to learn more. But I had a look at NixOS a few times and I've decided on a hard no. Thanks but no thanks.
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My way of seeing it is similar to yours: If you're interested in learning NixOS, then go for it, but if you need an OS that gets out of the way but still gives us plenty of customization choices then I'll rather go for something else.
The thing is, I want to have audio in my system without having to spend two weeks learning a new declarative language plus pulseaudio, alsa, pipewire, etc..
My time in this blursed earth is short and I want to focus learning what I care about.
In other words: There's people that like crafting their own tools and there's people that go to the shop and buy some, but NixOS feels like that youtube channel "Primitive Technology" where the guy builds the tools out of raw materials, including the furnace to melt iron, the casts, buckets, pliers, table, etc.
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NixOS is kind of awesome. It has a crazy amount of stuff packaged compared to other distros. And the declarative approach is super nice. And you get to learn a lot of things. First of all a completely new programming language to write these configurations. And lots of weird concepts and its internals which enable it to do what it does. And it's mandatory to know about that stuff or you can't do basic things. And then it also made me read a good amount of source code, because there's often not enough documentation available, and I had to figure it out on my own (by reading the sources). So I'd say if you like learning new things... It'll definitely make you do it. 😄
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@slazer2au @ShadowGlider And have you ever even tried Guix? Not systemd...
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Na, I stick to the enterprise stuff for work Deb and rhel families.
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This is confused all over the place...
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Redox has limited hardware support and I don't think it's ready to be a daily driver. It's also not Linux.
I wouldn't recommend Pop!_OS until the next version with Cosmic is out. It's quite outdated right now. I guess you can try the beta.
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It was a joke, BSD users probably don't need a chart
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Rght, they'd pick Mac.
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is this a transparent png? I literally can't see any of the lines and the background is black...
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It's an SVG
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same, thought it was a joke.
it is a funny joke, sad that it isn't
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low amount of computing power
gentoo
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99% OP was trolling. Two days later: "I don't agree with all previous flowcharts..."
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This is going to be the new tier list meme. 😂
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Should probably also have a bleeding edge branch into Arch, Fedora, Tumbleweed and Slowroll
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Not sure about the "fine with learning" part. I'm fine with learning, but learning isn't my primary motivation, but more like a bonus!
That being said, it did neatly capture why I chose CachyOS over Arch!
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Lukewarm take: distro doesn't matter, really. DE has a much bigger impact. I don't care about package managers or init systems or whatever.
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I prefered the previous chart.
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Image is not loading on for me : "Invalid media file provided"?
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Wow this is a tad controversial, can't remember the last time I saw something with an even 50/50 vote ratio
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Why is arch under “don’t want to learn”? I learned a lot of what I know about Linux from using arch.
That being said, the chart is supporting my inkling to try Nix… must be accurate
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no zorin, no mint. worse than the last. the last one did not lead me to it but this does not even have the endpoints. Honestly the first thing it should ask is do you want something out of box. Do you want to install and be done and move on with your life or do you want to tinker and modify.
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I don't see any situation where Zorin or LMUE would be better than LMDE
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that would explain the chart. it does not care about what I said should be first which is out of the box.
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Straight to the right. Simple as that, btw.
New to Linux, not fine with learning, and getting asked if you want apt or rpm… not sure if that works.
Only for corporate (Where presumably someone will tell you which is necessary). If you still think that's a problem you can have server go to Ubuntu and Desktop go to OpenSUSE
Welcome to Linux! I might say that the package system doesn't matter too much, both are popular and more often than not large distributions have (almost) the same packages.
The things that you should worry about are:
Finally, some advice:
Thank you for the detailed response, but I was merely criticizing the flowchart. I am a Linux poweruser/sysadmin, and roll with arch at home, asahi fedora on my MacBook, and I manage mint/debian at work.
My flowchart would have two branches. You either are new and I recommend mint for work, popOS/maybe Nobara for gaming, or you’re not new and should go and do your own research as to which distro is good for you.