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What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"? (feddit.uk)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Get that downvote finger ready!

Arch.

I know it's what all the cool kids are using, and I keep trying to like it, but I just can't get into it. I'm a slacker for life.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    No downvote here my friend. I love arch, but that doesn’t mean it’s for everyone. Plug-and-play distros are great too, they just have different strong points.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Haha, I've been daily driving slackware since the late 90s. I like to tinker and install a lot of stuff. I seem to break anything with an automated package manager and dependency resolution.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oops, I seem to have misread you. Haha, ok, wow I am a total linux noob compared to you.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Nah, I'm just a hobbyist. I'm a n00b compared to all the regulars in the slackware channel on IRC. But I love tinkering and learning. I'd need your help to install vanilla arch, just like you'd probably need mine to get started on slackware. (The slackware install is actually super easy).

    I've been trying to distrohop the past couple months, see what else is out there. I wasn't paying attention installing Garuda and borked my EFI partition. I did manage to chroot into my still working slackware partition, but I couldn't figure out how to re-install grub. So I formatted and did a fresh slackware install.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (6 children)

    A wild slacker appears.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Are you your own dependency manager too?

    Some day I'm going to get someone in one of these "what distro should I try?" posts to install slackware and fall in love with it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Sbopkg has a slackbuild queue generator sqg which builds the dependencies for applications in it for you. apart from that I'm trying to package ROCm.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Holy crap, how did I forget that existed? I would use that for complex stuff like vlc back in the day.

    I've not heard of ROCm, but I think I get the gist. It's something like Cuda for AMD?

    Are you going to upload and maintain it if you get it working?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Its easy to forget it cause the name is forgettable lol.

    yeah basically. Its annoying af to build from source.

    yeah i would like to do that but baby steps it needs to build and work.

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