Thread 106997781

If you could choose only one distribution to be titled 'the most superior Linux distribution,' what would you choose?

(Yes, I understand there is no such thing as a superior distro, and it all varies.)

your mom

>>106997781 (OP)
pufferfish wit da big ass lip

>>106997781 (OP)
Mint (xfce) of course. Although it's a distro based on a distro that is itself based on a distro, it feels less messed up, less failed, less stupid, better overall, than what it is based on.

>>106997781 (OP)
From today you'll use screwdrivers as folks and spoons as knives
Retard.

>>106997797
Great choice.

>>106997877
>folks

>>106997798
N...

>>106997954
pufferfish wit da big ass lip

>>106997798
cuck license

>>106997781 (OP)
There's only two choices with considering.

My preference is the Fedora ecosystem, so Fedora KDE is it.

If you prefer the Arch ecosystem, you use CachyOS with KDE.

>>106997781 (OP)
Guix

>>106997781 (OP)
macOS mojave

>>106997781 (OP)
Arch Linux is the best desktop Linux bar none.

>>106998004
You are that one guy with roman numerals in the desktop thread (the one and only one guy using guix kek).

>>106998122
Obviously Arch Linux is the only correct answer.

>>106997781 (OP)
i guess arch or nix, i've never actually used nix but people make it sound like reproducible and unbreakable arch, which sounds really solid if true

Secureblue. The only Linux "distro" that is making an effort to be more secure. All the other distros are so far behind MacOS and Windows as far as security goes. Linux in general is more privacy-respecting yes, but extremely vulnerable.

Gentoo

>>106997983
Ok but who cares? I accept terms and conditions and codes of conduct, but I do not follow them. I do whatever the fuck I want and they can suck my CoC.

>>106997781 (OP)
Assuming you are talking about personal computer, then Arch obviously. It strikes a good balance of control and convenience. If you know what you are doing it just werks and can do a lot.

I use Debian btw

>>106997874
i too was going to say xfce mint since i feel like cinnamon is too restrictive but for it being a derivative of a derivative is pretty good

Debian for low effort "just werks" servers/headless machines.
Gentoo for desktops if you know what you want.
If you just want something that is modern and works on desktops with no effort, honestly no idea which DE I could recommend. GNOME2 is long dead and KDE, while good with a custom config, has bullshit like kwallet that often doesn't work ootb and gets in the way. Anything using GTK3 or GTK4 is fucking useless and LXqt is too minimal for a normal user.

arch
but most of the big ones are fine

>>106997781 (OP)
i think gentoo is the best install instructions are actually clear unlike the arch wiki

>>106997781 (OP)
>a superior distro
it's called nixos

>>106998652
nixos is on the opposite end of the spectrum from arch. with arch you explicitly configure everything, with nix you rely on a massive stack of predefined configurations you'd have to override individually. but both handle repositories equally poorly, kek.

>>106999205
I had some issues with the UEFI/boot partition section some days ago. If I mount the ESP at /efi the installkernel package still copies the kernel an grub to a /boot folder

Arch

Notice how anyone who recommends Arch does not state why, because they just fell for a meme.

>>106999448
arch is not too bad for learning. they're just intermediate

>>106999452
Their wiki contains a lot of stuff but it is poor at explaining what the listed commands actually do. It's good to find obscure fixes but not great for learning concepts

>>106999484
i agree, but in most cases there's nothing out there that really explains these things to the layman, so providing a fix to a niche problem is probably better than leaving them in the dark. the actual learning happens during use anyway, trying to to understand things or do something that's not explicitly documented somewhere. LLMs and friends who know better than you are a sometimes useful source, but there's no magic pill that teaches you technical literacy.

>>106999448
I'm gonna say Arch because I love pacman and the AUR and find it them a thousand times more usable than whatever the fuck ubuntu is trying to do.

>>106999527
AUR is just a worse version of Gentoo

>>106997781 (OP)
Windows 11 Pro, using linux through WSL, and then one of the major upstream distros.

>>106999540
I wouldn't know, I've never tried Gentoo

>>106997781 (OP)
Arch, Debian, Gentoo, maybe Void.

>>106999484
>>106999515
to a large degree what arch makes you do is repeat and manually perform configuration that if you know how to do it and why you're doing it is a massive waste of time, and that's why im saying it's good for learning. doing these things teaches you how to manually solve already solved problems, which is sometimes necessary to do just to understand something.

Anything that forces you to manually do what other distros would automate for you. This is useful because it lets you spend more of your time that has no value and then you can wank off about it on a Chinese basket weaving forum.

>>106997781 (OP)
if your only goal is performance you need a distro where you can compile everything for less memory usage through either less features or certain optimizations.

basically, get a source based distro which makes it easy to compile everything and customize (like gentoo) to get speed.
everything other distro is basically pre-packaged stuff and will always carry a speed/compatibility compromise.

>>106999635
if you're trying to do any of these things professionally learning the underlying concepts is extremely valuable and arguably crucial. if you just wanna send emails, browse the web and do modeling in blender then ofc don't use arch, lmao

>>106997781 (OP)
My first instinct is Debian
and I have never even used it (outside of servers)

>>106999684
Except you'd be configuring very different things if you wanted to do it professionally. You won't get paid to rice a desktop, but you can get paid to set up servers properly. Which is a lot of manual stuff even on distros like Debian.

>>106998676
>secureblue
Unironically what's the use case? Why wouldn't you just use an atomic fedora flavor?

>>106997781 (OP)
Realistically, Mint. With Ubuntu as the testing ground.

>>106999741
doesn't matter, you learn better doing something you care about, and this inevitably forces you to learn concepts relevant to actual work
>Which is a lot of manual stuff even on distros like Debian.
yeah, if you're doing it wrong. this isn't 2005 and your and idiot if you're editing config files on a server by hand for anything but testing or investigation of an issue

>>106999755
>and your and idiot
bruh
But I get what you mean, a lot can be automated, but you have to write those scripts too yourself

>>106999771
>>and your and idiot
you don't have to. that's the point of understanding something and moving on to solutions that automate the tedious busywork for you while still remaining capable of debugging and understanding what said solutions are doing when the need arises

>>106999786
Yeah but i won't write Ansible scripts to set up a single server in a specific way. It would take longer than just doing it manually.

>>106999805
sure, but in professional environments you're probably not managing one server, you're managing 100s of apps running on 100s of servers, and by doing everything manually (the arch way, but on debian because servers) you're destined to end up with a team of 20 doing what one guy using more modern tools could do.

>>106997781 (OP)
Mint XFCE, it's easy enough for retards to use it and it's modern in a good way.

>>106997781 (OP)
ubuntu has to be the best all rounder
i say this as a dude with some form of debian installed on all his systems

you're all installing gentoo RIGHT FUCKING NOW

>>106999742
It IS just an atomic fedora flavor but with additional hardening. Usecase is just Desktop Grapheneos

>>106997994
>KDE
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