/g/ - Technology

>What's your favourite desktop distro for actually getting shit done

Windows.

Sorry guys :^)

>>2789

Some variant of Enterprise Linux. I've been administering {RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux} boxes for so long that they hold few surprises for me, and that's good when you're trying to get shit done.

>>2811

Preach it. The only problem I had while using Void was that there was a lack of packages and I was way too lazy to compile shit like PyQt. I'd use Void full time if it had the selection of packages Arch has.

Manjaro, bcuz gotta love the Manjaro settings Manager which handles drivers and kernel version. Based on arch so I get AUR but it also has a nice gui when I'm lazy

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>>2789

- Linux Mint

- Fedora

#!

what the fuck is debian

........

linux from scratch / #! -_-

>>2828

Switched from Arch to NixOS, and it's absolutely wonderful for development. However, I switched back to Arch because packages weren't all there and I don't have the time to maintain them. :(

>>2869

>>2879

Crunchbang is dead.

Move to debian. :^)

Manjaro

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>not always using arch

>>2910

>debian

Arch Linux all the way

>>2942

[neckbeard grows]

>>2910

#!++ mate

>debian

>>2813

same here. fedora was the only distro i've used so far with my hardware and it works out of the box. even ubuntu wouldn't recognize some of my hardware.

i see no reason to switch to another distro for now

what about puppy linux?

>>2879

how do you not know what debian is?

Fedora or Arch Linux.

Testing is not fast-moving enough to have all the latest stuff, nor stable enough.

So to answer the original question: Debian Unstable on desktop, Debian Stable on home server and a few VPSes.

>>2800

My nigga.

I used to fix my mom's pc on XP all the time before she passed awa. Her and my sibling would either would either get a virus (youngest sister still used frostwire) or fuck up the drivers somehow. I upgraded at one point and gave my old pc to my mom which had mint on it. I didn't bother to reformat to windows cause the DVD drive was faulty and I didn't know how to install a distro via USB at this point.

Ever since I gave her that mint computer, I never had to fix anything ever again. It was too solid for her or my sisters to fuck up. My mom was probably the least techsavvy person I knew and even her could find her way around it.

Mint is my go-to distro for anyone who wants to learn how to use linux. I tried ubuntu and even that was not noob friendly. Mint almost literally took me by the hand till I could do shit on my own. Never looked back since.

Arch is literally the only acceptable answer here.

>>2789

centos LITERALLY STABLE AS MY MARRIAGE

Opensuse Tumbleweed rolling.

Slackware mustard rice representing

>>2789

Ubuntu LTS and Debian Stable. They are both pretty stable, although I'm thinking about replacing my Ubuntu system with Debian and using XFCE or Mate. The reason being, Ubuntu has some packages that are broken, such as PyMOL (some plugins crash the whole program) and macchanger (the -r flag doesn't work).

>>2800

MINT SHILLLL

use no systemd fork of debian, DEVUAN

>>2789

Let's say I have Debian Stable and I am a beginner. Should I upgrade to Testing? Is Testing the same as Sid?

>>2789

Linux Mint Debian Edition.

Arch because it just werks and I'm used to it

>>2789

I use Debian stable for the laptops, as they're more important. Testing can go on just the desktop, since I'm a bit fussed with having to update every machine, as well as a few cosmetic errors here and there.

Few major distributions offer the default of running without firmware blobs, so Debian has stuck with me for a while.

>>3266

Testing is similar, but it does not accept packages from Unstable unless they meet the guidelines shown here:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

>>3266

Also it's not advisable to upgrade to testing if you're a beginner, unless you can put up with constant changes and notable bugs once in a while.

>>2791

Fucking this, GNU+Linux is great as a hobby os but you need windows for real work to get done. :^)

>>3103

my nigga

OpenSUSE, of course

Arch

>>3436

stay plebby m8

>>3436

Windows is terrible for getting things done. All their products have gone from decent to use to absolute shit. Point and case the abomination known as Visual Studio. Looks like a faggot made it and often I feel like I have to be gay to use it. Plus it's slow, doesn't render pixel fonts (What the fuck?), slow, has almost no customization, slow, slow, oh and fucking slow.

Not only that, Windows is shit these days too. I don't know why they want to make everything flat as fuck, but it's annoying when you can't tell when one window ends, and another begins, or one field begins and another ends.

Honestly, if you're too much of a Pleb to use Linux, just go install Mint.

Debian Testing is annoying. It's buggier than stable but still has ancient packages, and occasionally packages go missing. Debian now has systemd, which is really quite unfortunate. I might try out devuan at some point but it seems overall a lost cause.

Gentoo Stable has newer packages than Debian Testing and is overall more reliable, while being vastly more configurable as well.

Enterprise Linux uses an ancient kernel patched to hell with weird garbage. Fuck that. 4.x.x or bust. Also has a systemd problem, pulseaudio problem, etc, etc. Fuck Leonard.

I assumed by "getting shit done" you meant for use as a workstation computer. For a server OpenBSD is usually quite good because of its simplicity and low maintenance, although if I wanted maximum performance I'd use Linux. Linux has better performing filesystems, a faster network stack and the best scheduler known to man. The only problem is that most of the distros are too high maintenance or are filled with garbage.

>>3581

I feel the very same way. I also prefer the BSD way of doing things so I use Slackware for personal computers and Free/Net/Open BSDs for various servers and appliances I build. It's not for everyone but it works for me and I choose stability over new and shiny every time. I have a hell of a lot less headaches that way.

I am surprised no one posted Ubuntu yet

Mint.

I've tried Debian, but it seemingly purposely makes things more difficult than they need to be.

>>2791

You quoted but didn't even read what you were quoting. Fucking retard.

Windows

Is not

A GNU+Linux distro.

You fuck.

>>3210

>DEVUAN

>The current release series is ALPHA2 meaning not ready for production, mostly targeted to developers, contributors and testers.

How about fuck you? I'm all for a SystemD free OS, but is there any such thing as an "it just works" OS without SystemD?

>>3657

Nope, but systemd 'just works'. Kinda why it's been adopted by almost everyone.

Debian more like plebian

>>3753

>>3753

is it the best option for a small file server for work?

>>3853

what is this gay shit, swapping system d for emacs

>>3666

>trying to use a peasant OS for sysadmang work

>trying to use a peasant OS for coding

Please tell me, anon, why are you so hell bent on being unproductive in your dev environment?

Unless you are a .NEET developer, of course.

>>3872

dude he's obviously retarded

>>2819

Void needs to have their own AUR (VUR I guess)

Do any Mint users here know if there's a way to evenly align icons in Mint the way Gentoo does? I'm using MATE and the align option only works in one dimension if I remember right. My desktop looks terrible and it's triggering my autism.

>>2802

What is that?

>>3943

*the way W i n d o w s does

I run Sid. Nio major issues. apt-listbugs catches most shit, and anything that's really awful gets fixed REALLY fast.

You get security updates faster than Testing as well. And while testing is still good, sometimes packages (good examples right now being filezilla and krita) aren't in the repos, while unstable generally has a version available.

For me it's Arch, I tested Debian Stable and I didn't liked it all, it felt very weird and not good at all, but I'm also a lazy fuck

>>2789

>work

>/g/

Haha, did /g/ ever finish writing the code for Tox or that shitty torrent client? 😳

>>2910

>>2968

Bunsen Labs is the successor to #! I've been using. It's fucking awesome. They're about to finish the second release candidate at the end of the month.

>>4040

>or me it's Arch

> I'm also a lazy fuck

MFW?

> Debian Stable

> not good at all

Debian Stable, although not the distro I use, is one of the best. No shitpost here, and if you can use Arch then Debian should be like Windows is to Normies.

>>2813

Hear hear. Fedora is excellent

>>2789

I'm actually using Debian Stable. Why? Because I can get shit done in it without facing bugs and shit I need to report.

>>4099

Enjoy your bleeding edge distro.

>>3951

lo/g/os

>>2789

What do you mean with "working" faggot?

All distros of gnu/linux work.

Mothe fucker!!

That doesn't work is your brain.

I go for Windows. It's just better.

>>3576

At least we have some products, faggot.

>>2789

am i literally the only macbook fag? feelsbadman.jpeg

>>2811

>hardening flags

If void compiles packages w/ full ASLR (+PIE) you've sold me

I'd go with Mint, mostly because it's currently my only.

I tried installing Debian, but it bricked one of my hard drives. I didn't even know that was possible, gj on the partition manager dumbasses.

>>2789

>What's your favourite desktop distro for actually getting shit done

Gentoo and Debian, because they actually werk

Fedora has always worked best for me. I've always had constant problems with wifi card and monitor firmware. Not to mention a lot of packages older versions. I only ever used Debian stable though.

>>4535

I just installed Zorin, because I'm a fucking newfag to Linux and an MCTS... I know... I suck.

How is Zorin not as good if not better than Mint?

>>3573

This 1000%. There's literally no reason to not use arch.

>>2813

I dislike Fedora for two reasons:

1) It booted up for almost two minutes, and emacs-analyze blame gave me Failed to parse error and I had no idea how to fix it.

2) I felt like RHEL's rat while using it, and I dislike RPM, I like pacman better.

I'm used to Mint in my old laptop but If I buy new computer, should I put LMDE in it? Or what distro? Mint 17.3 has old kernel so newest hardware do not work in it, correct? I'm still complete newbie and only use terminal if there is extensive guide for my needs and no gui feature available. New toaster would not be for working but everyday entertainment so ease of use and stability is a must. I wouldn't like to troubleshoot/reinstall stuff every other day.

QubesOS ftw

>>4615

LMDE is cancer. It's just Debian Stable with the Cinnamon testing repo. You'd be better off using Debian stable directly and installing Cinnamon as your DE.

>>2789

>debain testing

>ubuntu w / o spyware

>arch

>whatever works best for you

Haven't used arch but have heard good things about it and would probably like it. I've been moving my work to terminal as much as possible. tbh I use ubuntu 14.04 w / o spyware, terminal emacs, terminal music, terminal everything, and workflow is excellent. Have also used debian and I like it, if anything I would prefer to switch to debian testing but am avoiding this until i can switch to a new laptop. No money right now and I don't like fucking with a stable system or dual booting. When I upgrade I will probably switch to arch or debian testing.

Manjaro

>>3657

I've been using Funtoo for quite a while now. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone but it runs openrc and it's perfect for me

>>4402

like what? fucking malware?

>>2887

what packages did you miss?

>>3210

Mint is great.

I switch distro in a heartbeat recommend a distro that

1) supports all media formats

1.1 I literally need my flash video on the web, no do to my security structure its 9999% irrelevant that its insecure.

1.2 I don't give 2 shits that RMS thinks a driver or coded is NON-FREE include it god dammit!

2) The dystro is not one big win10 keyloging clone like ubuntu who sends everything you type to amazon.

3) No autistic shit like on Arch!

I want to run things from the start not spend 20 minutes to pacman 100 pacages (true storry, arch is for trolling new loonix users and autists).

3.1) I don't give a shit that it makes the OS bloated, include everything you fucks!

I'm on mint right now and recommending mint to people from win XP or running away from Win10.

>>3576

>All their products have gone from decent to use to absolute shit

This absolute truth.

Its not that loonix got good, windows degenerated to the point(Win10) they are equally shit like loonix only shit in a different way.

Auto updates that break everything and you can not turn off, say hello to win10.

Windows 98 was great, ever since Bill left the company(WinXP was the last one he was in charge) it was a downward spiral Vista, win8 and now the 10 circle of NSA hell that is Win10.

Also their aggressive, spy-ware and virus like forced "upgrades" to win10 are something I was unable to imagine.

We used to joke that windows was the biggest virus out there(unprotected systems and in lots of computer) back in the 90s however now win10 is a virus for real! Like what the fuck! How can you not classify something that forces itself onto your computer to be anything other then a virus? And its one gigantic keylogerOS??!!!

Reality is beyond parody at this point.

>>2789

Gentoo -emacs

>>3951

It's shit

>>2934

>expecting newfags to have Arch as their first distro

Linux Mint KDE or Manjaro XFCE

STEP ASIDE PEASANTS. OSX MASTER RACE IS HERE.

>>4310

pretty edgy wallpaper ya got there friend

I'm going with Debian because of it's ease-of-use and the sheer number of good, relevant, pre-compiled binaries. As a trader, I recommend (whatever your field) that you have a Windows or OS X box for running those applicatoins which are exclusive to those OS's , then have a Debian or Debian-based distro for any and all 'day to day' activity like web browsing, research, etc..

Because really Windows especially is more cluttered and caters to more distractions than the Debian look and feel, and actuality of the platform. Here at Chicago Board of Exchange we're drilling to decrease latency between Chicago and NYSE/NASDAQ because of the curvature of the Earth. And you know what OS we use to plan our GIS and surveying for the jobs? I have no idea.

>>5350

>>debian

marketfag here - +1 for Solus my man.. they are pretty limited, or were last I know in procompiled bins but are solid for getting shit done.

Don't forget to use google docs suite and office online and to pirate Ted Talks 35gb compressed.

>>2789

I actually tried debian testing and it was so fucking unstable I couldn't do anything.

>install debian sid (unstable)

Most stable OS I have ever used

fucking gg debian best distro I have ever used since all other distros crash immediately when I plug in my HDMI monitor ffs.

>>5075

>For these people sudo is a magic word you use in combination with other magic words in the CMD to make your problems go away

if I ever see anyone using sudo rather than su ing into the root account (like a non-retarded person) I have an autistic-screeching attack

>>5076

>Mint

>literally Ubuntu with strange wallpapers and weird malware in Firefox

>1537282929 emacs daemons running in the background.

Every PC where I've tried Mint and it was slow or had longer-than-Windows boottimes behaved brilliantly on Debian and Ubuntu.

Mint has absolutely no reason to exist.

>>5075

Your points are mostly fair, but the way you type along with the poor grammar and enormous length has me convinced that you are some kind of autistic spico.

Slackware masterrace reporting in.

Ubuntu. Why? I switched from win7 to it and it "just worked" for my purposes.

I'm not sure if the following work for most other distros, or not, but the following get the job done for me.

>Gedit/Arduino IDE/Unity3D for programming.

>Pinta/Gimp/Blender for art.

>3x3 Workspace switcher across 2 monitors makes switching between a large number of gedit windows easily.

> Audacity for audio.

If the OS is sluggish, I haven't noticed on my laptop nor converted gaming rig.

Would there be any advantage to switching to another distro such as mint? Additionally, has anyone found a decent text editor with code folding?

>>2791

for doing what?

losing your work?

losing time?

losing money? on power and it's cost

stomach acid?

windows?

>>5882

Imo, Debian > Ubuntu > Mint, but Ubuntu is fine if that's what you're used to. Mint is slower, more bloated, and will eventually break if you manage packages at the command line instead of their modified gui package managers.

As for a text editor, try Geany.

>>3210

17 is still supported and has no emacs

I am already preparing to switch to Devuan in 2019 though

>>3581

Devuan is great, actually. I'm a long time Debian user and I wanted something without emacs. It's just jessie with a couple packages recompiled to remove emacs dependencies. You even get updates the same day Debian users get them, I think the whole process is automagically done except for patching and some system configuration stuff which I assume they must have done manually.

>>3664

>emacs 'just works'

Except when it doesn't. And this is frequently the case.

>>3664

>s.y.s.t.e.m.d is being word filtered? wtf

I'll switch to Devuan when I can install Mate on it without pulling in emacs.

>>3657

Mint17 until 2019

>>5903

>I'll switch to Devuan when I can install Mate on it without pulling in emacs.

do us all a favor then and give this one a try

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nelum-dev1/

>>5440

what do you mean weird malware in firefox?

>>5959

>>5440

>download adware

>blame it on the OS

>>2789

Arch

>Ubuntu

<There's always annoying shit that gets in the way

>Fedora

<SELinux crashes all day.

>Debian

<packages I need are from a century ago, even on experimental bc no maintainers

>Arch

<just works.

>>4577

Actually there is a reason.

Gentoo exists

Arch Linux because the AUR allows me to easily install whatever libraries I need for my C++ projects.

All comes down to you OP, if you use Debian testing like a fucking loser you'll come to hate yourself for it.

>>2789

Debian, non-free build is best distro.

Solus Budgie is climbing the ranks though.

I un-ironically use Solus with gnome as my zero distractions distro. The only thing that's shit about Solus is EOPKG feels slow as fuck.

Arch because minimal bloatware installed to begin with so I can pick and choose my own things, excellent documentation, and the wonderful AUR. Fuck searching all over the internet for PPAs with Ubuntu. Haven't tried Gentoo yet though.

>>6075

>non-free

why are you even fucking here

>>2791

>>2910

>>3436

>>3626

>using the smiley with the carat nose

>>2789

testing is debians virtual cock and it only exists so ubuntu has a nice plack to suck

debian wont stick it in as it feels ubuntu has too many kids allready

Arch. Not my favorite, but it has the least problems. I've ran into issues both as bugs and just complicated stuff I can't figure out on Void, Parabola OpenRC, and GuixSD.

>>3626

i kekd thx anon

>>3945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yca6UsllwYs

>What's your favourite desktop distro for actually getting shit done and why is it Debian Testing?

>What is x and why is it y?

Please fuck off.

>>6723

>proceeds to bump anyway

>>2789

I used many distros in past but I stuck with debian. Installation is easy, it just works, It has all I need, installation of other WM/DE is easy too, I don't need to spend on it hours. No reason to switch so far. My first distro was Slackware and maybe I will try it out again one day.

>>2789

I like Dropship

>>5076

>supports all media formats

media that cant be played in VLC isnt worth keeping

>>3266

you ad the word testing to the repositories and hit update

>>2789

Arch, dat AUR and build enviroment doe

Fedora and CentOS

openSUSE used to be my go-to but it seems to be nearly unmaintained, community is dead, no innovation.

CentOS is not nearly as bad as it seems on desktop on the first glance, just add extra repos and you are good to go. Kernel is kept patched so it runs on Ryzen as of 7.4.

I use OpenSUSE for word processing and programming. It works and doesn't require much maintenance.

>>5395

Debian master race anon. This thread is full of Mint faggots and Arch autists.

>>6911

CloverOS and Gentoo are good distros! Good job anon.

>>6955

debian is quite good. Arch's repos are managed badly: Lol it broke, lol keys are invalid, lol manual intervention is required; i am too incompetent to fix the package olololol. Mint and Manjaro are insecure clusterfucks that shouldn't exist in the first place. Just use Lubuntu/Xubuntu, if you are newfriend, otherwise just install gentoo or debian.

>>3626

I couldn't take looking at that stupid nigger every time I logged in, even if it's only once for a joke.

>>3657

<is there any such thing as an "it just works" OS without SystemD?

By, 'it just works' do you mean a nearly unkillable distro unless you personally fuck it up? if so, Slackware. If, however, you mean a distro that tries to be as easy on the user as possible, especially by trying to ease the windows user into linux by doing things using a gui as much as possible, then gas yourself.

Debian Stable with mate. I run it on every thing except my T430. I use ubuntu on my T430 so the damn dock drivers work.

>>7825

manjaro user checking in

>>7821

Same here, game developer and business software developer. It's all windows. But I have centos running virtual box with my windows hosted there. For game playing, trying to get used to debian with steamplay. I love linux too, but unreal engine is shit on linux so rarely have a use for it.

>>3657

What about Artix?

>Best Linux distro

Gentoo or Alpine. Hands down.

If I were to choose the best OS it would be OpenBSD but that's not a linux distro.

archlabs. really nice i3 gaps config plus arch and a great installer.

>>8230

does it have systemdick?

Sorry guise, but it's MXLinux for me.

>>7830

>>7825

manjaro is a bad distro. its developers are incompetent. Either install real Arch (if you want to use Arch) or install Debian or OpenSUSE or Gentoo.

>>8099

my nigga

>>8231

Yes

>>3876

Yup. The only excuse for using windreck is games.

>>5890

Geany seconded. I use it for all text file work, scripting and coding included.

>>8227

Kinda works if you have a long-running Arch installation and you want to kill systemd without going through hassle of distro-hopping. But the idea of having both Artix and Arch repos with Artix core lagging behind Arch is just begging for trouble.

>>2791

enjoy your botnet anon

Ubuntu is best, Mint is second.

Isn't there CoC-free Linux kernel fork? I hate Code of Conduct and SJWs!

>>3885

It sorta does with xbps-src

>>8488

The linux-libre kernel has not subscribed to the CoC last I knew. It can be a bitch with some hardware, though (because blobs)

To those who like Debian: switch to Devuan. To those who like Arch: switch to Artix. To those who like god-tier GNU/Linux: switch to Void. To those who want a god-tier non-Linux: switch to any of Haiku, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, or GhostBSD

>>2813

I'm using GNU+Linux for >10 years, tried everything from LFS to Mint, but Fedora is the only distro that I kept for some reason. I don't know, it just works.

>>8518

why do you use a kernel with a code of conduct?

>>8517

Linux-libre takes everything from upstream vanilla Linux. They just apply the deblob and anti-reblobbing scripts. They will still be affected by the code of conduct's cancer.

>>8521

I'm waiting for actual damage arise from it instead of outlines of theoretical damage

Kali Linux (BackTrack) is useful.

>>2789

Manjaro as it's arch that just works

>8chan

>getting shit done

>>8538

Kali is what wannabe hackers in 8th grade computer science class use

>Linux

>Doing work on it

LOL what next, working on a MAC?

You need windows for that.

Gentoo. It takes quite some time to install but once it's done it's set and forget. It'll just do exactly what you set it up to do.

>>2791

>Windows

How do you actually get shit done in Windows? Just to change a setting, there are multiple control panels and some are hidden away, some can even only be edited via a "register" which is literally the worst idea they came up with.

This is only a settings thing, but I had yo be in these settings way more often than on other OSes. Also, try to defend them only supporting zip and NTFS/FAT out of the box.

Ubuntu, Mint, Kali Linux

http://oxwugzccvk3dk6tj.onion/linux/index.html

https://8ch.net/linux/index.html

i use arch on all of my computers (desktops and laptops) because it's dead simple and allows me to configure it exactly the way i like.

>>8910 Many pedophiles use Linux because of security issues of Windows and macOS.

>>8935 Pedophiles use not only Linux but also BSD. They like open source softwares because they concern security.

>>8910

Idiot. It's called Fibonacci.

MX Linux

its easy to install right out of the box

it has all the Office-Related programs

email is Thunderbird

GIMP

Solid

No systemd

I use this for everything.

Lubuntu

Also a very solid distro - more like Win-XP Tier, has systemd,

I use this as my Word Processor - On startup, it goes straight to focuswriter

debian, the way to go mate.

>>8935lol wut? no most linux users are not pedos.

>>2800

can't really go wrong with mint. if you're not hacking or autistic and just using it for normie shit but still interested in learning command line and scripting its good. And for gaming it's solid, supports nvidia drivers no prob. not shilling. it just works lmao.

>>2789

debian. They care about my privacy which is the main reason to use linux.

>>2789

definitely cloveros!

or /g/ -> /gentoo/

>>2789

I use debian stable on my phone.

>>2789

Kali Linux is the best distro for hackers.

KALI

A

L

I

;) real man's work.

Fuck the normies and Fuck informants.

the one you have on you

>>3266

Stick with stable. I did the testing thing for a year or so, but things break, and while I generally know how to fix them it's still a pain in the ass. Stable is rock solid. If your priority is getting actual work done rather than dicking with your rig, stable is better.

>>2789

Cinnanigger.

>>2811

I've just started working through Linux and it seems to me that Fedora is quite comfortable for many purposes during work process. I also tried to use Debian. I work in the software development industry and I used to provide proof of concept https://spdload.com/blog/poc-vs-prototype-vs-mvp/ to my clients and Linux is very attractive option in this case.

Fedora, for sounding like the most autistic option, is probably the least; Close to bleeding-edge, 6 month major release-cycle, 1st class GNOME experience; But also a solid KDE offering. RPMFusion is actually a maintained, trusted source for non-free software / codecs and not a weird 3rd-party that is 'apt' (heh, Debian Multimedia) to break things. Though not used a bunch, have contributor-repos (copr) that are actually properly namespaced unlike from what I can tell in AUR,

It's also obviously somewhat a testing ground for RHEL / CentOS and with it a lot of new technologies are developed and pushed on it first and gets released to other distros later -- this sounds 'risky' in-theory but in about 10 years of it being my primary Distro I've not run into any show-stoppers; The release team is always careful and conservative where it matters.

Maybe wouldn't recommend to brand new users; There's 'better' options (not-as-legally-encumbered) that will automatically grab non-free drivers, codecs, and the like -- but besides that am confident about anyone can get productive in Fedora 'Workstation' within a few days.

Started out with Mint, which is great because it treats you like the retard you are, switched to Arch because the stone age packages were starting to drive me insane.

>>2789

>actually getting shit done

I'd say Arch. I prefer Gentoo but I guess the compile times can sometimes keep you from getting shit done. Arch just works and doesn't get in the way like many Debian based distros. I haven't used pure Debian in ages though because it is infamous for having relatively old packages. Something like Ubuntu does to much shit on its own, runs a ton of services in the background by default and the most aggravating thing is that it is either trying to auto-update packages by default or will at least nag you with a GUI dialog to do it all the time. Such things are distracting and therefore bad for productivity, you might as well use Windows 10 with such mechanisms in place. It's better to have a clean minimal system on which you install exactly what you need and want to use on a daily basis, and nothing else. This way you can keep control over the system. I tried some Arch based distros like Manjaro and they obviously make the same mistake.

>>4237

Uhm, yes.

>>6067

Correct, only serves a purpose to

>>9535

be the cocksleeve of Ubuntu.

>>9535

Stellar 80IQ spic post.

>Best GhanoSlashLonoox is Literally tinycore

>5 years later

>first post is still best post

Unix weenies will never get their heads out of their asses, will they?

>>8910

>anything vaguely resembling a spiral is a pedo symbol

This is what conspiratards actually believe

>>11704

It wasn't so much that linux sucked me in, it was more that windows 10 pushed me away by being shit. And I didn't want to spend the money to buy an apple product

>>11717

Not having systemd is always going to be a headache if you're going to use programs which have it as a dependency. fuck you anki

Best systemd free distros are mxlinux, devuan and void linux.

>>11730

I know of things like elogind to substitute logind, but I don't know if there's one for systemctl. Normally you manually create a symbolic link yourself to enable services or use something like e.g. rc-status to check their status.

>>11724

>complains about win10 being shit

Fair

>suggest devuan

Do you have brain damage?

That thing is a barely alive fork leeching off a niche flavor of a niche OS, you get all the incosistencies of Windows plus shit docs, nonexisting support, additional bugs, and retarded defaults.

>>11738

Excuse my recommendation then, I mentioned it purely because I've exclusively heard positive things about it, have never used it. We all make mistakes.

>barely alive fork leeching off a niche flavor of a niche OS

You're going to have to explain to me how debian is a niche OS, brother

>>11782

>I've exclusively heard positive things about it

They got "hacked" a year or so ago, still unclear if it was a joke or an actual hack.

>You're going to have to explain to me how debian is a niche OS

Desktop Linux is a niche OS, and debian is only a fraction of that niche.

>>11783

>Desktop Linux is a niche OS

I get what you're getting at, but if you're going to level that as a criticism for being a debian distro I'll assume that you think all linux distros have that problem, so why bother to even point it out if the point is to recommend a Linux distro in the first place.

Void linux as a base strata for a systemd-free bedrock linux.

for me, it's devuan

>>11837

forgot image

>>11824

Stratum, if it's one.

Debian testing, not too bad, not too awful. Might try guix.

>>8518

>T60

My nigger, though mine has the thinkpad logo instead of IBM

>5 year old thread still up

this place is dead

>>12016

To be fair, from 2015 to 2019 /tech/ existed and was where people went for tech related stuff, so it's expected for /g/ to have old threads

>>8935

Joke's on you, Epstein (big pedo guy) was using macOS (look at the drone/raid video) because apple doesn't comply with FBI and it offers babby's encryption for noobs, most pedophiles probably use apple devices too as abuses happen about 30% with relatives and even snapchat shit are mostly applefagspedos, most Linux are those faggots who wear programming socks (contrary to homOSeX meme) and probably indulge in gay 2D.

Winbabbys

>manbaby who plays vidya all day and have fucked up eyesight, soyboy fat neckbeard who leech off parents bucks for their rainbow shit and mlp plush, probably a cringe student npc or a FuLl tImE gAmEr but would end up a complete disappointment with parents for all that big boy toys

Linuxfags

>faggots who either rice computers or wear programming socks or both, most likely into gay shota or yuri or whatever fuck, economical and would buy a used thinkpad and have thinkpiles lying around. gpu support sucks and only watches anime or reads books with it anyway

Macpedos

>literal pedos who encrypt their device, no arrests ever about applefags being pedo because they "probably" don't want to scare 70% customers. disagree with FBI to break encryption to protect pedo customers. OS approved by Epstein.

>>12016

Ron spawned /g/ but not /tech/ I think, not all boards are recovered, maybe you can contact him directly if you're the BO

>>12359

>Ron spawned /g/ but not /tech/ I think, not all boards are recovered, maybe you can contact him directly if you're the BO

/pol/ hasn't been respawned. Can you tell me why? In detail?

>>12372

>8000+ packages

That doesn't mean much.

>default install already comes with everything i need to operate my computer

This again doesn't mean much, what is your use case? If you just browse the web, watch stuff and code then your use case is covered by so many distros.

>>3029

Even her. Foh certz!

>>3082

TIGHT. As your daughter

>>3434

That’s what I’m Falkland about

>>3576

Sheeeeet

>>12550

>>12551

>>12552

>>12553

faggot nigger

>>12549

idiot

>>12571

You resort to insults because you know i'm right.

Any KDE Neon chad here

>Best Linux distro for actually working?

bickering over what platform to use is peak procrastination. it could be any distro, given it has support for whatever software you need.

>>12624

this is objectively the best, least-retarded answer.

However,

>Ubuntu

>Fedora

>Linux Mint

>Debian

are all great choices. All other distros are memes or for hobbyists

>>13080

At this day and age only Slackware is worth using. I tried Alpine as well but the package maintainers fuck their shit up all the time. Dillo is not compiled with SSL support, mplayer is not compiled with ffmpeg support and such and such.

>>13084

based = "woke"

/pol/ is basically liberals at this point

>>5981

memeing aside I think arch or arch variants are a good blend of flexibility and ease of use.

Ubuntu is easier to install and to get going, but once you get going with Arch you can do so much with little extra effort.

Also AUR

>>13085

Is Slackware hard to get into for a novice? I like the Subgenius theme.

>>12551

based

>>13121

>fuck the middle east

I agree with that general sentiment, though I would add "fuck the jews 46656 gorillion times harder".