How to (actually) choose a Linux distro (www.youtube.com)

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago

For the love of all that's saint, can we please stop recommending Manjaro to people, especially newbies?

It's not really a preference thing, Manjaro team did plenty of questionable stuff with it, as in DDoSing AUR, mind you, twice, or letting their server certificates expire, also more than once.

It also routinely shows more stability issues that led to the infamous "I swear to god, if it's Manjaro again..." in AUR discussions. Apart from AUR problems, they also shipped alpha quality things to their users, like this and this.

I've used Manjaro myself for around a month. If you are treating it as a regular Arch installation, you will break it.

If you want something up to date, but more stable than Arch, just use Fedora. If you insist on it being Arch-based, use something like CachyOS. Or you can read the wiki and install Arch itself. Arch is a DIY distro, after all.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I lasted 3 months before it broke itself beyond my ability to repair (my entire DE got uninstalled during an update), switched to EndeavourOS, and have had zero issues that weren't me doing something dumb.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I switched from Pop! to EndeavourOS around the start of the year and love it, seems like the perfect avenue into Arch. Still have a fondness for Pop which was my first Linux distro and I had no real issues, just wanted a change

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

i also used manjaro, and whilst they had a pretty looking theme on grub, it broke on me three times, where i managed to repair it the first two and then just installed fedora the third time. never looked back. when i installed manjaro i ran an update after boot and immediately lost a bunch of manjaro theming in my DE… wth?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I fucking loved Manjaro as a newbie but I completely agree.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I've never had a Manjaro install not break in the 4 times I've given it serious tries, all from updates. I could've avoided a few them by checking the forums first, but one was due to not updating for a couple months, which seem to set it up for failure when I did update.

I can't imagine cursing a newbie with it.

In comparison, Linux Mint has virtually never given me trouble, even if left not updated for months.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

The only way to choose a long term distro is to try several.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I just put Ubuntu on a laptop 12 years ago and never looked back.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Step one: ignore all video guides because I'd rather read about tech at the pace that I read, not at the pace that someone presents it.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Meh, everyone has different preferences, I'm firmly on the side of the written word myself, but I don't mind the occasional video presentation of something lol

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I don't mind a video for a review. But for instructions, I want to be able to easily skim and skip over things that I already know or that don't apply to me.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Why not just... not watch?

Why tell everyone that you don't like videos or what this person on YouTube is doing with their time?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

To inform people that their reach decreases when they don’t provide their ideas in text. I mean, they already have the script. All they need to do is upload it somewhere.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

OST gang ❤️

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Apologies for my ignorance, but what's OST?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Original SoundTrack, such as the music that's used in movies and video games.

It's not the definition you're looking for in this context, but it is a definition for OST.

Sorry, couldn't resist. I'll see myself out now.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Great vid! I would've greatly appreciated watching this if I were new to Linux. It sounds like my Linux journey has been similar to the person in the video's. I'm satisfied with Arch but am currently dipping my toes in Gentoo and NixOS

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

As a hopeless Gentoo user myself, I must warn you: it's very addictive and it will become your one and only hobby, whether you like it or not.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

I don't get it. An OS is to help you do stuff and not get in your way. Why do people argue over which is the best one to use and why is it Debian? No one cares what you use, just shut up and be productive.

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