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.

  • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Most of them.

    • Debian world - apt sucks. For something with a sole purpose of resolving a dependency tree, it’s surprisingly bad at that.

    • Redhat world - everything is soooo old. I can see why business people like it, buy I rarely, if ever, agree with business people.

    • Opensuse world - I’ve only tried it once, probably 15 years ago. Didn’t really know my way around computers all that much at the time, but it didn’t click and I’ve left it. Later on I found out about their selling out to Microsoft and never bothered touching it again.

    • Arch - it was my daily for a year or two. Big fan. It still runs my email. At some point the size of packages started to annoy me, though. Still has the best wiki. I’ve never really bothered with the spinoffs, as the model of Arch makes them useless and more problematic to deal with.

    I’ve got the Gentoo bug now. For the first time I genuinely feel ~/. A lean, mean system of machines :)

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      never really bothered with the spinoffs, as the model of Arch makes them useless and more problematic to deal with

      I highly enjoy using EndeavourOS. But then again, I wouldn’t classify it as a spinoff, it’s pretty much vanilla Arch, but purple.

      Now Manjaro on the other hand… Tried it and understood why so many people don’t like it within the first week.

      • estebanlm@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        Mind to elaborate a little bit more about the Manjaro problem? I am driving it since a couple of years without any issue but I keep hearing this… now I am afraid :)

        • LeFantome@programming.dev
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          10 months ago

          I hope it works for you forever. I am not going to get in an argument with the other Manjaro users here that will come to argue with you.

          Just keep in mind that most of the people warning you away from Manjaro have a story that basically sums up as “I used to love Manjaro until, one day, it totally broke on me. Now I won’t touch it.” Sadly, this includes me. Will you join us one day? I hope not.

  • atmur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I daily drive Fedora, but I’ve used Arch, OpenSUSE, Debian, and more. Once you get used to how Linux works, distro doesn’t really matter that much aside from edge case distros that operate totally differently like Nix. I chose Fedora because I like the dnf package manager.

    The only distro I don’t like is Ubuntu. I had to setup a Linux VM at work so I figured Ubuntu would be a good choice for that. Firefox is painfully slow to open because of Snap, so I uninstall it and run “apt install firefox” which Ubuntu overrides and installs the Snap again.

    Fuck. That. Deleted the VM and installed Debian instead.

  • mikesailin@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    NIXOS is definitely not for me. The documentation sucks and there are less cumbersome ways to restore a system.

    • PostColonialMyAss@beehaw.org
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      10 months ago

      Honestly, if you’re not using nix to deploy systems or need it to create reproducible environments across systems, then NixOS is a bit overkill.

      I want to use NixOS for servers and embedded systems as well, so I run it on my laptop. But the user experience gives Gentoo a run for it’s money for being the most finnicky bastard in the distro world. They would both contend if there was a Razzy award for usability.

  • recursive_recursion [they/them]@programming.devEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Ubuntu, felt like I was being treated like a child with the lack of user customizability

    then I chose to jump directly into Arch Linux🙃 and saw despair from analysis paralysis, somehow I learned Arch in just a month tho🤷‍♀️

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    As someone who hates Windows with a passion, once everyone recommend Linux Mint, I knew I had to try it.

    I immediately had negative first impressions. I simply don’t wanna use something with a desktop environment that reminds me of something that I hate. I get that it makes transitioning a lot easier for many, but for me it simply looks too similar to Windows.

  • Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space
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    10 months ago

    Anything that isn’t Arch.

    • Ubuntu’s package managers won’t stop fighting with each other so I can’t complete an upgrade easily. Also, I hate apt. Trusting prebuilt binaries from PPAs seems a little dangerous to me compared to trusting build scripts in the AUR, so I don’t feel comfortable with that. I do like it otherwise, though.
    • Linux Mint is fine, I guess, but no Wayland yet and I don’t like Cinnamon. Same PPA issues. Has some more outdated packages than Ubuntu.
    • openSUSE is great, but the package managers won’t stop fighting with each other and it’s lacking a few packages. I like the Open Build System a lot less than the AUR.
    • Fedora is fine, while missing some packages, but it broke on me after a week and I had no idea how to fix it so I stopped using it.
    • Pop_OS makes everything about GNOME worse.
    • Debian’s packages are too old.
    • Manjaro is more work than Arch and the packages are out of sync with the AUR.
    • The packages I want aren’t in Solus. Is this distro even still around?

    And for distros I won’t consider trying:

    • Gentoo is too much work.
    • Qubes is too much work and I can’t play games on it.
    • I don’t like any of the ZorinOS modifications and the packages are old.