The Final Destination
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Today I talk about why there should always be an end goal as you distrohop.
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Void is home 🏘️
I stopped at NixOS (extremly reliable, multiuser package management, all system configs are stored in one file (or a few split up configs if you want to organize))
Tumbleweed forever.
Happy to have you, LC.
truly one of the friendliest Linux communities
Right! This is such a nice community and channel.
the only bad thing about opensuse tumbleweed for me is their qemu doesn't have sdl display support and there is no qemu-ui-sdl package
`qemu-system-x86_64 -display sdl,gl=on` is only way I gat have gpu acceleration inside vm, ` -display gtk,gl=on` shows black
note: nvidia driver, xorg
Carry on my wayward nerd
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary thumb drive to rest
Don't distro hop no more
Arch was my first distro and I have stuck with it for almost 2 years now. It seems like all the software I need is available, up to date and the community is large enough that I can troubleshoot issues reasonably well.
I used Linux from 1998-2002…and then again starting in 2019 (medical school didn’t require a computer)…I still don’t get why there are so many distributions…I don’t care what package manager I use, all I care about is a few set of apps…arch has all the ones I need.
Why can’t there be an OS that has all the package managers?
@@Namegoeshere-op9hg there is. It's called Nix
@@Namegoeshere-op9hg BlendOS
@@Namegoeshere-op9hgthere is, it's called VanillaOS
actually@@Namegoeshere-op9hg ... there is bedrock linux, a meta distro that allows you to have all distros you want inside the bedrock base without containers, its not super stable and its not for everyone (its not containerized) but its really an amazing project in general
Thank you for always giving the right directions.
Thank you for explaining what we should know.
Your videos matters a lot.
Please continue your work.
OpenSuse has just features ootb that no other distro has. The German (over)engineering is still in its DNA, and I love it :) It's my home as well.
Yaya, I know, but the legacy and the DNA is *still* there as I said @@breaddough-vk8gf
OpenSuse Tumbleweed is the peak of Linux Desktop. I did try many Distros and there are many good ones. The moment I installed Tumbleweed was the moment I stopped switching Distros.
So underrated and not enough covered by Linux RUclipsrs. Maybe because it is rolling and doesn't have the exposure of a new Release every 6 or 12 months.
Welcome! We are happy to have you! I used to distro hop a lot, but Tumbleweed is my home. Also the community is one of the best if not the best!
I've never cared for hopping, I advocate for using base distros. Arch (recreation) & Debian (workstation) feel like home for me.
I’ve settled on Arch as main,
NixOS for job,
Debian/Ubuntu for servers
I really wanted to use Debian but even 12 just kept not working in different aspects with either hardware or apps. It was taking more time fixing it than working with it, loved Debian otherwise.
My home is Kubuntu, it's KDE, it works with all my use cases and it's got the Ubuntu community.
Nice combo@@Flackon
@@hopelessdecoy Sorry to hear you had issues with Debian I've been daily driving Debian Sid/Unstable (now 13) on my Workstation since DEC I wanted the newest packages on my daily driver. I Timshift a snapshot then update once a week it's actually been rock solid for me, obviously there's 1,000s of hardware combos out there (enabling non-free is a must). If Kabuntu serves all your needs than it's your home, it's great in Linux we have unlimited choice ther's a distro for everyone. I'm a I3WM user now but when I useda a Desktop Environment KDE was my favorite it's well organized.
If you remember just curious what issues did you have on Debian with your hardware & programs?
@@UltimusShadow. Sure, wasn't that long ago, while I'm not a Linux wizard I do know more than most new people. I had switched from stable to testing branch for Debian since I know Ubuntu bases itself on that. I have an Acer laptop and while headphones worked pulse audio just couldn't play out the laptop speakers. I was able to get it to recognize the device speakers after some tinkering but still no sound.
I also couldn't get my printer to work over anything, even Kubuntu only recognizes it via cable, no wifi on either for printing though.
I use Safing port master and it didn't work on Debian 12, reached out to the devs and they said they won't be working on Debian support at all.
I did have another app that didn't work, I don't remember but I think it was one of my main proprietary IDE programs I use for my business.
I loved Debian otherwise, KDE is my DE of choice and it had it and the rest of the OS package was nice. Plus they have the best logo design and that counts for something lol
My goal was finding which distro+DE give me the smoothest workflow... and it ended with LMDE.
Here i am using the Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop, and I'm absolutely loving it. It just works!
I also switched to Linux Mint Cinnamon on the last hop, I'm coming from Arch and so far everything seems fine to me, it supports the software I need "out of the box".
Debian 12 is home.
LMDE is home 😊
I recently installed Debian 12 and all was well, until I used my laptop outside of my home wifi. When I got home I spent three hours battling with a dead dns. No amount of router resetting/rebooting could fix it. In the end I had to go back to Fedora to get my work done. Really sucks.
Same experience switched to Suse and Arch
I only use Debian for my home servers and game servers. Otherwise on personal PC it's Arch and on other pc's I manage it's OpenSUSE
I always seem to come back to Linux Mint.
My distro-hopping days are pretty well behind me at this point. I settled on Arch in 2010 and primarily used that until 2015, when I switched to FreeBSD, ultimately moving on to Void in 2017 which I've been on ever since. I still like the excuse to try out new stuff from time to time, though it's usually not Linux, like most recently I've been playing around with NetBSD on a laptop from the early 00s.
Thanks a lot for the video and glad you found your home (independently of the distro).
And as it's the 18th birthday of openSUSE, this video is well timed (even if not done on purpose, let's call it positive karma :)
Enjoy your ride, and as a side test (in a VM or 2nd computer), if you want the feeling of openSUSE with some immutable distro power (as you've been showing lately), there's openSUSE Aeon Desktop (with distrobox embedded).
Have fun and thanks as always for your content
I tried out 44 Linux distro's in the past 20 years. Those last five years while distro hopping. I stick to one for a full year. I finally stop my distro hopping for good. Settle on MX and MX is for life for me. Currently using MX 23 KDE, loving it. I can try other's either using a Live USB or a VM. Just to check them out. But won't be influence to change. MX for life.
After two decades of hopping around, I’ve been getting very cozy with Fedora Silverblue.
My Linux home is Mint, I've probably used it the longest followed by Ubuntu. My most recent distro hopping excursions have been mainly to try out other window managers, like qtile, which aren't readily available through Mint and the Ubuntu repositories. Mint and Ubuntu just work and are very stable. Since I've been using Linux only for a while, I've been less interested in trying out distros that may need a lot of tweaking, at least as my main system. Since I recently got an SSD to go along with my HDD I might try dual booting to play around again.
most user are not distro-hopping but more like "rice-hopping" or "pre-themed hopping". The best-looking one will get the attention faster than actually anyone looking at what features an actual "distro" presents to users, like the kind of package manager, init, etc.
Gentoo is my home. Ironically fixed my distro hopping addiction.
For me the perfect distro is Gentoo, I have zero issues with, but sadly I can't really use it because of my hardware being limited in terms of ram, I hope I will be able to get at least 32GB of ram and then I will be able to hop back to my home. Great video btw
Not that anybody cares but I found home at debian... it's my main drive and definitely a very stable distro. Love you content mate, and respect your sincerity.
Everything you say is correct. Do you always need the latest of the latest, for example are you a gamer use a rolling release, that works best. If you do not need this, you can opt for a stable system, you will not get tired of many updates that you have to flying ears.
You can change the look and feel of DE whenever you want, that's the good thing about Linux.
Viewing new distros never hurts, it also gives you ideas, oh that's how it can be.
You always have fun topics, thank you.
Mint & MX for me
For me was Fedora but after Fedora 38 it was hard to like it, I use Fedora for about 5 years but then I changed to Void Linux and it was very good but it lack some software and honestly OBS works very badly for me, so now I will try to use Opensuse forever and for now, I really enjoy it
If I hear Matt say the phrase "distro hopping" one more time, I am going to puke! Let's hope he reaches his goal this time. Everyone cheer Matt on!
I found the perfect linux distro years ago (CrunchBang). Then it was abandoned...
After 5 years of searching, I have settled to Gentoo in 2012, and running it ever since...there's none better in my opinion
Great commentary Matt. After 20 years of distro hopping I have returned to base and use Debian/MX for stability and Arch for fun...As a senior in life I do not need too much drama lol. Keep up the great work!
Garuda is home for me. I distro hopped and always went back to Linux Mint because it just works, Mint was when I first started in Linux. It had a few things that I had to fix, hardware related. Mostly with my wifi and grub. My laptop wasn't recognizing my wifi. I thought Mint was my home. I thought arch was to difficult but I was wrong. But when I found Garuda. I knew right then, it was my home. I've been using Garuda for about 2 year's or so. But I've been using Linux for about 5 or 6 year's. It's been great.
Over a year on Garuda now aswell, never looked back.
i still recommend Mint to any of my friends or family because it just works and they aren't tech savvy.
But for me, there is nothing like garuda.
@@Nepoxification yeah, I think it's still the best for the beginner, intermediate or non tech savvy. I've begin my Linux life on Mint. I still have a windows pc to but that's because there's a game that doesn't run on Linux yet, but that's all I do on windows thought steam.
Great thinks. I am distrohopping for a 6 months, but now I am on debian 12. It works awesome on my laptop.
My homes at the moment is Nixos rolling and OpenSuse kalpa
I want a terminal, Sublime, and Libre office. I really don't understand all this distro hopping. Just get the tools to do your job.
I agree to this. I started with Linux Mint and Ubuntu almost 8 years ago and made my way through a bunch of distributions just to end up on MX or regular Debian. That's where I'm sitting for a good 2 years now. There's just that beauty of an always-working stable OS that doesn't need much maintenance.
Same goes for Xfce as my main DE.
Thanks, Matt for this insight.Tumbleweed was too much for me. I have older hardware. MX Linux works perfect for me for its reliability and simplicity. Recently switched from KDE to XFCE for the same reason. So far so good. Once I admitted to myself that my overall usage is pretty basic, then that allowed me to choose MX.
The distros I would happily call home (and sometimes do) right now are, in order, Debian, Alpine (I don't game), Void and Tumbleweed. And then in the A tier there would be Arch and Fedora.
There is not always a very well reasoned rationale behind these choices, there is undeniably a personal component to it, based on my experience. Also, as I listed these I realized they were all base distros, which might be a bit of elitism on my part, I guess
I look forward to your future posts because I have no idea why opensuse (or any distro) is more amazing than another.
This is why I have a second machine for testing out other distros on bare metal.
My home is NixOs💪🏽😎 BTW
I'm kinda both settled and distrohop all the time just for the hell of it, my main system is always Debian but i spin up VMs of random distros and play around in them for a while 😅 its the best of both worlds imo! "Which distro do you use?" "Yes."
Spending a summer with Debian had been a real pleasure, but I might go over to Debian Unstable or OpenSUSE Aeon/MicroOS just because you made me have that itch to hop. It's fun. We do need to settle down at some point, can't be nomads forever.
I've been a Tumbleweed user for over a year on my desktop PC (after tons of hopping like Matt's talking about), but for some reason I always get the urge to try something new on my laptops. Immutable distros are one thing I've never tried, maybe the openSUSE immutable Gnome version or Silverblue?
@@stephenwilson0386 If you're a fan of OpenSUSE, go with the Aeon (gnome, MicroOS Desktop), though it's in RC state, not a proper release. Silverblue's been around for a while at this point and has had a lot more miles, and has a devoted community building images based on docker files (container manifests). Very solid in my experience.
Bro, you've got some of the best videos on RUclips! Thank you for your hard work!
Glad to hear you found your home. I have CS and SE background so I can tell you that no software is perfect and will never be: it is very complex under the hood, think of it as PCB board but with hundreds of thousand of traces - if one of the traces breaks the entire system acts weird. That’s the reason why I don’t distrohop, but rather look at the distros that have active community of developers with long-term commitments. So I started with Ubuntu, but after couple of years it became “bloated” for me (I like to tune my OS to every bit), so I’m now on Arch with Xfce and it feels awesome. I agree that every major distro has its own users crowd. For me it’s less about looks and UI but more about pure performance gains (i.e. low memory and CPU usage), but other folks prefer intuitive UI or something in between.
P.S.: very nice outro synths!
MX Linux works perfect for me for its reliability and simplicity. Recently switched from KDE to XFCE for the same reason. So far so good. Once I admitted to myself that my overall usage is pretty basic, then that allowed me to choose MX.
KDE Neon has been phenomenal lately. My stream 11 pentium acts like an i9
Linux Mint Mate has been my home for more than 12 years.
I hear you. However, one needs to consider how people change over time. I fell in love with Debian Linux. I used Debian for a number of years with KDE and loved it. What happened? I changed. Debian also changed. We grew apart. I've gone through a number of distros since. I'm still changing and growing at 68 years of age unbelieveable as it may seem to some.
So, just because a distro fits you perfectly today doesn't mean that it will continue to do so the rest of your life.
I can't remember my first distro, probably Red Hat 5.2, but the X setup was rather manual and if you pushed the dot clock value too high it could cook the monitor. Then Mandrake/Mandriva, SuSE and now Kubuntu for a few years. Just a few.
Void is home for me.
Distro hoped TONS around 2008 when i was in high school found arch and its become home since
Surprisingly Fedora is my Linux Home 🎉
@handsinthepocketsguy2036
1. First IBM is the company that bought Red Hat
2. RHEL is still contributing back to the community, with the community, in Foss way. Done through CentOS stream. Everything in RHEL is from CentOS stream and patches for RHEL were made in CentOS stream then it will move into RHEL. It means everything is open to the community.
3. This move is done because RH thinks unfair competition from new competitors like Rocky Linux's (rhel clone) enterprise support CIQ (another company), where they manage to win big projects like NASA's because they offer RHEL like support at a very low price. So by new way they are making it difficult to do bug to bug compatible RHEL clones. Now any one to clone they must dig deep into CentOS stream source code, which inturn force them to make more contribution to both community and RHEL.
3. Apart from cent os RH is Sponsoring Fedora by infra and paid man power which directly results in quality foss products. For which it will be very very hard for unpaid community members to do the same in their free time. ( think of latest greatest technology and it's orgin)
4. I can't see where RH breaks the FOSS contribution back loop.
5. Even if you hate redhat Fedora has nothing to do with it. It is community driven and its contribution is more than the RHEL beta test. Contributing Fedora is just contributing to the whole linux eco system.
I love this video! I think LMDE is my home. I love Debian also, but LMDE gives Debian a fresh coat of paint, more sane defaults out of the box and newer core system packages straight from the very reliable Mint team. It's truly the best of both worlds imo. LMUE (Linux Mint Ubuntu Edition) is also great for new users but I don't feel like I'm missing anything that it offers over LMDE. Driver manager would be nice to have but I can live without it.
As users, we should not need to fix it, we should be able to use the distro and work as expected...
Dude, you know you will be dumping Open SUSE in a few weeks. LOL.
Wait and see. 1 month in.
This comment didn't age well.
You learn a lot about linux when you distro hop, been there, done that, but after some time you get very tired of not finding that distro to call it home, I have stayed with Debian for a couple of years now!
Every Linux-tuber: I finally found my distro
The freedom to choose is exactly why Linux is so great. First started playing around with Linux nearly 25 years ago. I've given a spin to two dozen or more distros, but settled on the Mint train nearly 8 years ago as it was the most comfortable and usable for me. I'd installed Mint on a refurbished laptop back in 2015, and recently tried out a handful of other distros on it, but it didn't take long for me to go back to Mint.
Freedom of choice is great, I agree.
But the amount of distros ( >200) out there doesn’t have anything to do with choice.
If there were about 40-50 distros, it's still a huge amount to choose from.
In the end it comes down to the package format, release cycle, maybe origin, package manager, and a couple other factors.
By choice, that's exactly what I meant. I tried out about 25 distros, narrowed my favorites based on many of those things you mention, and finally settled on the one that fit the criteria I was looking for. You don't get that freedom of choice with Windows or MacOS.@@zizlog_sound
Gentoo is home for sure. I think the same for popos.
Since I switched to full-life Linux with Fedora 28 I never had a slightest wish to try something else. Never. My primary goal was... it just should do it's job. And Fedora does its job so darn well...
I mean, for my primary workstation. Actually... before installing F28, I tried Ubuntu, but that failed instantly to recognize my something, something SSD Raid something, something. I have no time to distrohop. I can't spend a day or more to fight with unknown unknowns.
It's the curiosity that kills the cat. After learning how to download and put a distro on a USB flash drive, how to partition the destination drive or prepare the virtual machine for the new distro, and learning how to install that, or for that matter, any other distro on that newly prepared disk space, then there really isn't a clear way of assessing if and when you should try another distro. Most newcomers either distro hop because they encounter problems or stumble over a new option that looks better or promises to be better. And with so many distros sharing only a handful of environments, package managers, repos and worse still, only a handful of origins, it makes distro hopping that much more probable, as well as that much more counter productive and wasteful.
Why don't main websites dedicated to Linux, like distrowatch, give pointers to interested users on how to actually pick a suitable distro?
Interesting point of view. I used to distro hop a lot as well. Now I just pick the right distro I want for the task at hand. Like I'll use Debian on all my home servers. I'll use Pop!_OS on my laptops. I'll use Arch on my main PC. Etc. For me it wasn't so much a 'final destination' as it was which presets do I like the most to build a system for the task I need it to do and then I just run with it from there.
Now I only really look at changing distros when I get new hardware which is about every 4-5 years or longer. That's when I look at it like, what's everyone else doing now that may be useful for me? When I do a hardware update/refresh I'll also treat it as a time for a software idea refresh too. We all know things keep changing so it's good to see other ideas and approaches to setting up a system from time to time, but not something I need to do all the time either.
Destination for distro hoppers-immutable os like fedora and distrobox
Great POV! For me it's KDE that I call home, so for the latest and greatest I use Arch, but the last year a lot of Tumbleweed. Fedora I mainly try out the immutable spin, of which I made my own image. So I am really looking forward to your podcast this week. And then I have an additional tinker pc, where I am always trying some useless, but cool stuff. Like Hyprland on Debian ;-)
I think KDE Neon provides an even more unstable version of KDE
@@vehementham Exactly why I don't use it. Or Debian Sid (yes, i know, tons of people will tell me Sid is perfectly ok, and yes I liked Siduction)This is about the final destination and both Arch and Suse KDE are the latest and very stable (for me that is)
@@vehementhamKDE Neon also has Snaps 🤮
This video and one by Chris Titus Tech cuts to the chase. 100s of distros, but essentially only a small number matter. Essentially a distro from the Debian / Ubuntu fold, a mainline RPM offering such as Fedora or something based on Arch. Quickly decide what matters most, stability or shiny and newer packages. Bear in mind, newer usually means less tested and could be more unstable with more system maintenance required. Pick a DE. Get used to its inner workings. Spend time with the distro and the way it works. The third criterion I’d consider is support and longevity. So a distro with good documentation and an approachable community matter. Do think medium to long term too. Is the distro likely to be around in two, five or ten years time?
That shiny sexy new distro from a super smart geek living in a basement flat may sound good, but when things go wrong I don’t think so.
I say all the above having used Linux for 25 years plus and being a regular home user without geeky tendencies. I prefer stability and set and forget distros. I don’t mind twice yearly or less major distro updates. I like the Budgie DE, but others are OK, but not overly fond of Gnome. So typically my choice is narrowed down to vanilla Debian, Linux Mint Debian Edition or MX Linux. Outside of these I really like the Budgie DE implementation in Ubuntu Budgie. So I still have choice, but I’ve narrowed the field down somewhat. To my surprise, I’m on Ubuntu Budgie, just like the look, feel and stability, despite not loving Canonical and its direction always.
If you want a rolling release, there are only two I’d consider. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed or Solus OS. I used the latter for quite some time, but the upheavals and personnel issues in recent times, as well as more limited software repos rules it out for now until I can be sure things will remain stable within the dev team. Actually Gecko Linux which is essentially OpenSUSE plus, is fantastic. Some useful extra tools but the Tumbleweed goodness shines through. This I think, due to a superior testing regime, makes Tumbleweed a far better choice than anything based on Arch. Do you like spending time maintaining rather than using a computer? No me neither, so be wise, take the Tumbleweed route, if rolling releases are your thing!
To those who say Debian packages are too dated I’d respond , for those packages where newer versions matter to you, install the Flatpak version to keep up to date!
My experience in the distro hopping arena? During the ‘virus’ era and since I’ve tried 40 plus distros and, like I said above, have used Linux as my main OS for over two decades. Pick a choice based upon he variables suggested earlier and stick with a distro. Save yourself lots of time and needless effort.
I hope this helps! Good video Matt.
New to Linux, just this summer. I finally settled on Debian 12 and Sid on my two desktops. LMDE5 made me realize that I could stop the hopping and go directly to Debian. And, I am glad I did. Sure, I have MX on my laptop and Kubuntu on my 2017 iMac for kicks. Hopping is a hard habit to break. But, you are right. I'm home. Debian on my desktops just feels right.
Arch is my home. I have switched to Fedora 37 then Debian 12 but I always go back to Arch.
normally Arch is not final a home mates... i.imgur.com/tugXTbE.jpg
If you want to try other distros, you don't need to install it on bare metal. Just spin up a VM and try it out.
The Final Destination Is "Arch-Linux".
Back when I didn’t use Linux as my daily driver, I hopped more than I do now. But since I used Linux as my daily driver I do not hop that much, maybe ever 18 to 24 Months or so. In the past I used RHEL without a license, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, the old Debian based SteamOS, many many desktop flavors. For a time I settled for Ubuntu Unity. Even kept an oder ubuntu install just to keep unity. Than ubuntu gnome, and since the beginning of the year Fedora with KDE.
Not a lot of hopping, since my Daily driving it’s 2.5 distros.
I want a distro that breaks for no reason when I try to update anything and then I have to spend two days looking for solutions from people who have zero interest in helping me because their system is working perfectly fine. Which one is that?
I have got to a nice point I know I REALLY like KDE Plasma as a DE. Trinity also. sooo after a long time I end up on KDE Neon on my main desktops (two pc's) and Q4OS Trinity on my laptop (a old degoogled acer chromebook) great vid
Void is HOME
All roads lead back to Debian roots. I have been running Linux mint for over 7 years. When you need stability there is no where else to turn.
i've falling into the trap so many times of. oh this didnt work here...well i know this works back on X and it would be faster to just hop then fix it.
2 yrs on 1 distro sounds like a neat challenge, i'll have to make a plan of what to stay on for each machine
Gentoo Linux is home for me. I’ve started with 14.04 on Ubuntu and went to arch Linux on and off for a couple of years. Then I used Void Linux for 2 months without uninstalling it and i liked it. Now, I’m on gentoo and love it here
When you distro hop, how do you manage all your user files and Home directory? You keep them always on a separate drive? (And use them from that separate drive?)
Or do you copy them to a backup drive, hop to new distro, and copy them back?
Thanks. Luv the great content. Cheers.
Sometimes I distro hop on one of my five drives EVERY DAY .... But I wish I could figure out how to manage the naming conventions. They don't all write a name into the Boot Drive that me helps me identify Whats What. Editing Grub .... doesn't seem like the answer. I've finally become pretty good with Efibootmgr usage ..... Any Suggestions... Feel free to post something
My comments on distro hopping, coming from the other side of the spectrum of distro hopping, i.e., sticking with my distro of choice is not too different than distro hoppers, really. My distro isn't perfect, sometimes I get an itch, wanting it to be different. What I've learnt, though, is that I'll have a much greater chance of being content, if only for the moment, if I stick with one distro, learn it as deeply as I can, and then re-paint it to my liking, much like a painter who has painted an ocean scene, can opt to add a sail boat. Having the luck of finding a distro maintainer who shares my exact new itch in the same moment as I is pretty slim, and if something Is "fixed" in that new distro, chances are something else will be reverted to discontentment and so the evil spiral continues ... Learning one distro of choice inside and out is sort of my way of learning, being curious, having Linux as a hobby if you will, reshaping the same lump of clay into a teapot in green, even if it was a coffee mug in blue the day before. 😀
For me is Fedora. Open Suse is nice too, but I will not use it daily. Best regards from Norway!
Good review Dude so true. Like I have stated I have benn an Arch user for the past 5 years but I seem not to be able to stay away from MX Linux, for me just those two. Desktop KDE
Never been a distro hopper, more a desktop hopper. Started with a mix of LXDE-Xfce (Peppermint), Xfce (Debian) Gnome (Pop OS) and finally settled on KDE. KDE Neon to be exact. Window managers I don't like them. I don't like keyboard bindings.
Arch is my home, it's been a year and a half
Lol I guess I'm a rich man I have 3 homes 😅.
Zorin on the main workstation
Solus on my netbook
Archcraft on my basement workshop computer.
Keep going Matt. Good content as usual 🎉
Zaney is doing one on 5 years on Gentoo.
Man this is very tempting, I just got back to linux, to Ubuntu 22.04 and I'm somewhat frustrated with the outdated packages.
I currently have 2 distros. I've recently been using Artix, because I like a minimalist distro, but ever since last September 2022, I've been a Salix 15.0 user, which I would say is my absolute favorite.
I have been a distrohopper for about 20 years and one thing I'll say is that you may never find "perfection" because Linux is rarely perfection and so sometimes in our travels you'll just have to settle for the best of the bunch at any given time.
A couple of years ago I settled on Fedora because I found Fedora 34 and at the time it had literally everything I needed mostly but there were still a few kinks that bothered me. Prior to that I was on the OpenSUSE Tumbleweed boat but an update bugged out and literally killed my system so I swore off it when I moved to Fedora. Now that Red Hat are pulling the crap they are and with that nagging feeling again I decided to swap back to OpenSUSE and it's been good for the last few months so we'll see how it goes.
Many new linux users forget that its just a tool. Learning to use tools is important and fun but the purpose of a tool is to use it to do something more interesting or important.
There is also the false notion that you need to try to understand “how linux works” and that installing distros does that. That is false, working with a distro will give you depth and understanding on why things are done that way. Eventually you can make a conscious choice to change the distro when you learn about something useful that other distro does better.
Its true that you might learn a thing or two about partitioning or bootloaders installing some distros but in the end you are learning a specific use case that is so trivial that most distros have a generic script that covers your use case and then some more.
A lot of packages? Debian. Stability? Debian. Huge community? Guess what - Debian.
For most people it’s one of the best option today, as debian 12 contains decent gnome 43 and, for now, the latest kde Plasma 5. Gnome 43 supports many good extensions that have been deprecated in newer releases (“dash to dock for cosmic” is my favorite).
Void Linux here, been wanting to try Fedora and OpenSUSE but I have to change to grub and implement a window manager like River.
Kubuntu is my home, with my backup being Mint/LMDE
This is very good advice for lots of things in life.
Arch is my final destination. A great video as always Matt!
Gentoo home sweet home
Tumble weed or leap?
I've used opensuse two for a year and arch for 3 before that, been enjoying NixOS
Do/how you're going to make in-depth reviews of other distros during this 2-year term?
Void and Debian are my go to distros. Currently I'm using Void.
I wish openSUSE would create thier own distro based on SLES without all the overkill security policies. There's no reason for silly stuff like having to use root to install a printer. It only makes sense on enterprise or server.
I just keep going back to Arch and KDE after relentless hopping. I think having a minimal, clean and up to date distro built how I like it is key.
Hi thank you for youre information I am also a "distrohopper" when I use plasma (KDE ) the desktop icons changed position everytime I restart or start up it is very annoying HOW to solve that problem ?
Can you spend some time on that question thks in advance Peter (LT)
I used openSUSE 11 when kde 4 arrived. It was soooo different from Debian with gnome 2. I can't remember the date.... I think it was 2008, maybe seven... Yast was a big tool. Over the years I left opensuse to debian again and for the last 5 years I'm with fedora. It makes me happy to know that the system is still as great as I remembered.
After some distrohopping, I decided to use Pop!_OS 22.04 with some Gnome extensions. The tiling feature is good enough for me, but having a regular DE at hand feels more convenient than configuring everything myself.
I used popOS until it crashed on me one day. Granted it’s tiling is the best feature but it’s really old now with no updates for close to 2 years. That’s a long time in Linux so I went back to Arch
@@Little-bird-told-me That’s right, Ubuntu 22.04 is quite old from now. But as you get new kernels (currently 6.4), graphic drivers and mesa, I’m fine with that. I just use flatpacks for any GUI applications which are too old.
@isthisrumo that’s cool 👌. I have really loved popOS for a long time and I found it was perfect for my use case but then I noticed that my vim was still running n version 0.6 while even Ubuntu was offering 0.8. That’s when I took a turn. Overall I still love the tiling features of popOS and I hope their next version the cosmicOS DE is going to a killer. It’s just that for next few months I have gone back to Arch and hyprland has become my new home. Also the software support is amazing, no app image or flatpaks needed ;)
@@Little-bird-told-me I definitely have to look at the version of vim. Don’t know what’s it currently at in PopOS 22.04
@isthisrumo yeah sure thing. I use neovim and it has lua syntax support starting version .8 But since popOS runs 0.6 I could not change the config to lua script. Although it’s not a big deal it limited my use case of nvim. Anyways that was probably nitpicking but that’s what geeks are 😬