The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Speaking of Debian 11, I just exorcised a Chromebook and shown it Jesus by installing Crunchbang Plus Plus, a cozy little distro that can be installed on a USB thumb drive proper or used to give a puny burner new life.

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I decided to spend 2020 with Linux. Started on Ubuntu then hopped to fedora and stayed there for MONTHS till I caught the /g/ meme and went to arch with KDE I never really noticed any major differences other than swagging out with neofetch.

I got a new laptop and it came with W10 and I just stuck there for ease of use with games. I might roll back to fedora,
 
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Made the permanent switch on my main PC after seeing a "your pc can't handle the new free windows 11 upgrade!" notification. Literally just built this thing a year ago with extremely good specs.

I've played with other distros in the past so I jumped to Arch. I don't understand the memes complaining about it when it's even more piss-easy than ever to install.
 
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Plunkie said:
Maybe I just haven't hit that stumbling block yet. We'll see how it turns out a year down the road lol
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I'm yet to hit that stumbling block with Artix and other Arch derivatives in general after... what, 3 months or so? I'm sure you'll be Just Fine™.
 
I'm looking for something for a laptop w/touch screen that needs to use wifi for network. It's a pretty basic system setup as win10/s right now and would like to move to linux using a USB at first to test it out. I'm looking for basic stuff, no gaming. The last thing I used was Mint a couple years ago and that was fine for me, but I don't want constant updates and I view systems rebooting as extremely rude. I'm not very keen on Fedora/RedHat but if it's the simplest I'm willing to give it a try again. Any input would be appreciated.
 
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I'm looking for something for a laptop w/touch screen that needs to use wifi for network. It's a pretty basic system setup as win10/s right now and would like to move to linux using a USB at first to test it out. I'm looking for basic stuff, no gaming. The last thing I used was Mint a couple years ago and that was fine for me, but I don't want constant updates and I view systems rebooting as extremely rude. I'm not very keen on Fedora/RedHat but if it's the simplest I'm willing to give it a try again. Any input would be appreciated.
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Try Lubuntu 20.04 Long Term Support. The LTS Ubuntu releases only get security updates and incremental app updates, with very few major ones in between.

If you want even better, go Debian Bullseye, Debian moves even slower in terms of update rollouts so you don't often have to worry about software breaking due to sweeping updates, kind of a reason Raspberry Pi OS and other ARM based Linux Distros use a Debian fork; because it stays still and does what it needs to do instead of asking you for what it needs.

I've posted about Crunchbang Plus Plus here before and even though it is basically Window Manager-only, it has all the sane utilities a laptop user needs.
 
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I’m thinking of making the switch from 7 to Loonix, but I have one big question. How easily can you transfer files from a Windows backup to a new Linux install?
 
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