The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Aidan said:
I see "Arch btw" crowd as the new gentoo except even easier so more people actually do it.
You see, Arch is a highly exclusive club of high iq individuals who can read a wiki and use a "rolling release" distro, meaning they get bleeding edge updates only! And of course when things break they're high iq so can fix them but things seldom break. especially when you almost exclusively use your computer for browsing the internet

Really though I think it's mostly just people trying to feel smart and/or unique, especially before it got meme'd to death and everyone was doing it. You'd be quite the badass if your neofetch shows you run arch while showing off your tiling window manager anime desktop minimal rice.

The actual utility from Arch is the AUR but you don't need to use Arch itself to get that benefit.
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I thought that after all these years this image was out of date but it seems the thread disagrees.
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Dick Justice said:
I thought that after all these years this image was out of date but it seems the thread disagrees.
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This same problem exists any time there's a conversation about healthy diet. We're trying to convince somebody to stop eating cheetos for dinner and some asshole jumps in and starts talking about pure veganism with macros and micros.
 
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What I learned from the responses is if you're going to try a special snowflake setup you're going to melt. huh.
FFS why do people install things my aunt couldn't run then complain "I had to mess around with it"?
There are distros directed at desktop users, mainly the ubuntu family (including mint and pop) and fedora. Why are people surprised if they don't pick the "stock" distros and have to work on them?
 
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Rusty Crab said:
This same problem exists any time there's a conversation about healthy diet. We're trying to convince somebody to stop eating cheetos for dinner and some asshole jumps in and starts talking about pure veganism with macros and micros.
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The difference is that lettuce doesn't just turn black and become spicy and change color for just one person, leading to the rest of the community to call him a retard.
 
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fat old sun said:
I would suggest Kubuntu LTS if you want something that "just works" and has an interface that'll be familiar to you.
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People seem to have really mixed experiences with Kubuntu. Mine shit the bed so hard that it would have been funny if it wasn't infuriating. That distro could not do anything right. It couldn't use USBs correctly (would frequently freeze up the whole PC), I would get constant "internal crash" reports, god help you if you tried to wake up from sleep and it literally could not shut down. I had to do a hard shutdown with the power button every time.

Half of people are astounded when I say this and the other half say "yeah I feel that".

If you need a good "basic" distro that's rock solid, I'd try out xubuntu. It's fairly primitive but man, I don't think I've ever had a single thing go wrong (knock on wood again).
 
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I don't understand who these tablet UIs are for. Are they for the developers to learn something new or for resume padding? Then why is it associated with a specific project? Are they for Linux-on-the-Desktop people? Are they for people who install non-Android software on their tablets or phones? I don't know what happens in this space, but don't those projects already have UIs? Are they for people with a very specific workflow? Then what pain points are there with the desktop paradigm that these UIs solve?
 
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Rusty Crab said:
Why does anybody use Arch btw. I never hear them doing anything but complaining about how much their computer doesn't work. Followed by how proud they are of them fixing their computer.
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Their webpage is probably the best in the scene. Everything is laid out cleanly and without too much fuss, compare the Arch webpage to the Debian mess, give yourself a few tasks like finding packages on the webpage or a guide to do something. I don't think Arch would be even half as popular if it were not for the webpage design being so tidy. Secondly I would say the very fresh packages and AUR reduce a lot of headaches regarding locating and installing software for desktop usage. Also the bitching about stuff breaking is just a Linux thing in general, this happens on Windows as well but so few people know how to work the registry they just live with their broken installs or just format and reinstall it, Arch became infamous during the rollout of systemd and pulseaudio because many tried swap out the init system on an active install which has drastic consequences if you don't do it perfectly. It would have been better to just smoke the root folder and remount the home folder but autist will always take the hard path and bitch endlessly. The "i use arch btw" comes from this crossover period as Arch users would constantly show up on the various project boards with this or that trouble and Arch was one of the first to adopt systemd and pulseaudio so they had an outsized appearance for the Linux community cutting their teeth on them, particularly pulseaudio which apparently was a godawful mess of bugs initially.
 
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