mxlinux, manjaro, and openmediavault
Garuda
Opensuse TW KDE
OpenSUSE TW KDE supremacy!Opensuse TW KDE
Arch, but not fully installed. Just persistently in installation process.
Arch with extra steps, AKA CachyOS.
I’m far from OG, unless you count my dad’s SUSE that I “used” as a child for a while. I fondly remember SuperTux. But I didn’t really interact with the system much beyond starting games or a browser.
Later (about six years ago, I think) I started dual-booting Ubuntu as a side piece for productive stuff while gaming on Windows. Gradually tried gaming on Linux too, then made the jump to Linux (Ubuntu) exclusive late 2021.
Since a recent PC upgrade, I’ve used an additional disk to try Nobara and am happy with it so far. I’ve now got a spare disk and more time to try new distros, so I plan to explore the distroverse some more, but all in all I’d consider myself more of a newcomer or at best a resident than an OG.
Endeavour, fixing issues is easy enough.
Yes I have the arch logo as a wallpaper of my PC and my phone why do you ask?
hell yeah, endeavour is such an underrated arch distro, almost plug and play
running kde?
Yep, I’ll admit that I kind of gnomified it with the super button opening the overview (not slow since 6.0), but that’s kind of the point of KDE, we can do what we want.
Grew up in red hat- you know? Back when red hat wasn’t the enemy.
Endeavor is my flavor of the month. (Why pick one?)
Kubuntu
GNU Guix where even geeks are G
Started out with mint back in the codec days. Now use Aurora at work , Bazzite at Home
Wubuntu
Mabox.
I started with some UMSDOS-based “full X11 desktop in 5 floppies” distro on a 486, then went through Slackware, RedHat 5 with glibc breakage, actually bought a SuSE boxed set in the 7.x era, mostly stuck with Slackware unril I realized I wanted stuff like Steam and perhaps some degree of dependency resolution is nice. Bounced off of Arch (the AUR is a terrible concept IMO) and ended up on Void, which gives me Slackware-like vibes, but a little more built for broadband instead of CD images. Been trying Debian Sid latrly, just because I put it on my new laptop and I figured I’d go consistent, but I’m not sure I’m sold. Everything works, but even for an “unstable”, the packages are dated and I dislike systemd on principle.
What is it you don’t like about the AUR?
I run Arch but don’t install anything from the AUR unless absolutely necessary (or if it is dead simple enough for me to understand). I find the pacman-only experience makes a great stable low effort stable PC with all the latest bells and whistles. System updates on the weekend, once a week. No problems.
I guess I was startled when I went for my go-to desktop (fvwm) and it wasn’t in the main repo, but the AUR.
It feels like it means they’re not actually maintaining a lot of their package pool, just tossing it off on third parties.
Fedora on lappy 486, Nobara dual boot on compy 386.
Might pick something else for compy though. Don’t really game on it with Linux since my games are Windoze only (iRacing)
My first distro was Slackware 4. Now that I’m old and don’t got time for that, I’m running Linux mint on my main PC, 2 raspberry pi OS, and Ubuntu LTS for a Minecraft server.
