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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What if the perfect distro were the configs we made along the way?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Only to drop them all in favor of nixos. However you mostly can translate your config into configuration.nix

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's my goal. When I tried NixOS 3 years ago I didn't had time and there was a lack of documentation to make a .nix for missing packages. Community was... something not very welcoming. I will try again during college break.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

But like...yeah, that's kinda it IMO. None of the distros come out of the box absolutely perfect for me and my use case, but Debian is close enough, well-documented enough, and flexible enough to be configured into a "perfect distro". I haven't really had a reason to distro-hop on any of the systems I installed Debian on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I keep switching between Debian and Arch cause they're very different but both close to perfection. I think I'll stay on Arch for my gaming PC (newer drivers) and Debian on my laptop (just works).

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (3 children)

There’s no single perfect distro.

Some are stable, some run light. Some are fully featured. Some are bleeding edge.

And some are for plotting world domination.

But there’s only one for saving the world.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wrong, my distro is the perfect distro, everyone else is just adding to fragmentation

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

So, you’re on the world domination kick.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

and them there's nixOS being everything that you said

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Dude. Why are you telling people how to stop me?!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Arch can be whatever you want it to be 😇 you just have to form it yourself.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i tried that with the GF. she laughed. hysterically.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Nice😏

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Endeavor. It's just Arch but approachable, or Manjaro without the AUR issues

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

99% of distro hoppers quit before finding the perfect distro

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

My experience tends to be

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

For me it's become all about convenience. Is Ctrl-Alt-T preconfigured to open a terminal? Can I move it around with Super-[arrows]? Are all the drivers and codecs I need in the standard repos? No (or little enough) bloatware? Then I've found a distro for me. I don't care about anything else anymore.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

so anything kde

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Fedora KDE Spin also does not have a lot of the mentioned feature. I don't think it's about the de but more about the maintainers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

MABOX Linux may be the distro for you!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The perfect distro doesn't exist, YOU make it then you add it to distrowatch

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was hopping several distros.

Ubuntu. Nah not my thing.

Fedora. Mhh yeah but I have Nvidia isn't there sth. For me?

Ah yes Nobara. Nice a distro from the glorious eggroll guy.

Switched because of stupid reasons..... To:

Debian-trixie. Cool that's the distro I will stay.

My system gets somehow into a boot loop after 60 seconds of logging in....

Ok let's try Linux Mint. Mhh on my laptop it works better... Nah my hardware doesn't like Mint.

Nixos. Holy shit is that difficult to use. I love it! Stable as fuck. Bleeding edge almost. Newer gonna use sth. else. That thing is amazing and a ton of work to do anything.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (9 children)

NixOS? Ain't nobody got time for that. I still try to not struggle with weird flickering while gaming using EndeavourOS + Hyprland using Nvidia graphics. It's a pain. But one day I'll make it work and it will feel so good.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Da hilft nix

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nix kann meinem Distro-Hoppen einhalt gewaehren.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Nix mehr Zeit muss Doku lesen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

oof owie mein witz

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We all end up using fedora.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Fedora made me stop hopping.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m distro hopping because Ubuntu was perfect for me in basically every way, but I don’t want to be locked to a closed distro..

I haven’t found anything I like yet, and I don’t have the skills (or motivation) to make core Debian feel the same.

I’ll probably end up back on Ubuntu, at least for my server machine.. it just worked the way I wanted it to, and the ui was lovely for me. Plus it’s stable enough that I can just keep it up indefinitely without issue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use Ubuntu too, because it works and has wide compatibility for everything, any software that supports Linux is generally tested on Ubuntu, etc. I use Ubuntu because if I tried anything else I'd end up becoming a distro hopper lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You comment gives me vibes of "I don't do heroin because I know I'd get addicted". I say this as someone who is currently flirting with distro hopping. I wouldn't call myself a distro-hopper yet, but I'm certainly en route to that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yep, I have my other vices though lol like datahoarding

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Debian. It gets shit done.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Debian users try not to tell everyone at every opportunity to use Debian challenge (impossible)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

NixOS users try to not to tell everyone at every opportunity to install NixOS challenge (impossible)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

the only perfect distro is gentoo

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Weird way to spell NixOS but ok

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use Arch BTW

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's cute

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I haven't been converted to a Linux person just yet but I love all the watamote around here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Try linux mint in your free time :)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This is why I own 10 guitars 😅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

And why I own 6 bicycles (yes, they're all necessary).

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Not gonna lie it's an addiction at this point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Distrohopper should listen to Distrohoppers' Digest podcast... https://distrohoppersdigest.com or found at any podcatcher

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