What is the best distro+DE combo and why is it antergos with gnome?

what is the best distro+DE combo and why is it antergos with gnome?

excuse the desktop mess, its been a busy month or two

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Why use antergos instead of manjaro? Do you like your shit breaking on you?

>school
>inb4 underage b&

I'm 18 and this is my last year of school

What's this from?

What grade are you leaving?

I've been going strong for over a year now and this OS has given me less troubles than windows ever did. I remember windows updates destroying my windows install and registry errors stopping me from using the computer's native functions after only 6 months of use.

Manjaro may be more stable, but i prefer that my OS stays as true as it can to the DE it uses. Manjaro on gnome is very ugly by default (black and green) and having its own fork of the arch repositories just makes everything much more complicated. But i can understand the appeal! :)) It makes a lot of sense if you are willing to trade aesthetics and system consistency for stability.

Whats what from?
the screenshot? my computer.
The busy-ness? from school and my run-from-home computer shop

grade 12 in australia

The operating system. What's it called? I'm Australian too, BTW.

It is Antergos. A fork of Arch linux that is incredibly user friendly. Make sure when you install it that you choose the GNOME desktop environment :)

If you wanna know what themes im using its numix-circle for the icons and arc-theme for the windows/menus

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Can I play Steam games on it? And how's its compatibility?

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Manjaro being arch based is extremely easy to rice.

its great. I play my steam games on it and some games work better than they do on windows (usually older ones)

but the newer games that work on linux all work great.

When i have games that dont work on my linux laptop i just play them on my windows desktop which is hooked up to my TV with an xbox controller

I wanna get into ricing seriously beyond just using gnome's tweak tool

where do i start? Any resources or is it just an acquired art?

I guess this is anecdotal, but the only time I tried Manjaro it was completely broken, pacman kept fucking up the system, for some reason installing different DEs always lead to something breaking. Tried out antergos, zero issues.

Currently have no laptop or computer, can you try out gnome-i3? I like gnomes features but love tiling window managers, and gnome-i3 looks like it may be an interesting compromise.

>Gnome with a different WM
You might as well kill yourself right now.

i (OP) second this.

Every distro had a problem with it except antergos

Antergos is the most hassle free version of linux, contarary to the belief that everything arch is unstable.

Hi, OP here. I'd be interested in seeing how i3 works on gnome but unfortunately i dont have the time to open a VM of antergos or anything right now - also would not like to screw with my OS because its perfect to me how it is - maybe theres some videos on youtube that can help you see what its like? Hopefully you have enough data or some wifi to watch youtube. Or you could run a VM on a friend's computer and try gnome-i3 !!!

best of luck man!! :D

Gnome is a complete mess. Workspace switching bugs your pointer focus (???) almost every single time. Is a complete shit "out of the box", it's up to you to try and make it a proper DE via plugins. And even with plugins it's still less functional than other DEs.

Best distro: archlinux or ubuntu (latter if you have to use cutting-edge enterprise apps, as they all work better on ubuntu)

Best DE: i3 (tiled), KDE (for the real plugins orgasm), xfce

If you're an underage hipster you can use whatever you want on your study laptop because nobody gives a fuck whether or not it would work in the first place.

If you're a developer who is concerned about having the lattest core and the most stability and usability, you should probably go for ubuntu

If you're a home user you can basically pick any debian fork or the debian itself (although the stable has a very outdated core) and you'll be fine.

>creating fake documents so it looks like you have a job when posting a screenshot

>shitty flat icon theme
>meme distro; either use arch or manjaro
>bloated DE
>even using a DE and not just a glorious tiling WM
>no tiling in GNOME
>wallpaper to remind you that you won't be getting cucked by your job forever, they'll fire you once they've used you like a disposable resource

I usually am not this mean but felt like meme-arrowing someone

sorry OP

Enjoy kernel panic after - Syu

Wallpaper Source OP

youve got it wrong lmao
i like flat icon themes just like it is on ANDROID!
vanilla arch is time consuming, manjaro is inconsistent.
define bloated. You mean my desktop? thats from all my folders and notes that i decided to dump on my desktop - nothing to do with the DE.
tiling WM's are a new concept for me, but i'll check it out
Gnome can have tiling if you use gnome-i3
My wallpaper was put there by me for me breaking my porn habit
im trying to overcome the urges of wanting to watch porn, as a test of my self control.
I am my boss. I own a business that i run from home.

heres the file
does Sup Forums compress images? i hope not
if it does, i dont notice lol

thank

i'd give a big reply but cant be fucked

workspace switching works great for me no bugs at all. we aint talking about out the box gnome - we talking about gnome on antergos
its less functional, but its consistent and highly customizable anyways

i3 is a WM not a DE

ubuntu makes sense if you're looking for compatability yes but enjoy installing .debs lol

lmao

close, but those are just quickly-made docos with random notes and links and things in them.

debian and xfce

>it's been a busy month
You ain't foolin anyone here. Everyone knows no real work gets done on a linux box. I like that folder full of commands. Gotta keep all those millions of commands handy so you can do simple tasks that windows can do with one click.

>GNOME
>best

best at wasted screen space

>gnome

It's not really friendly - beyond the installation, it's just Arch

It's Kde Neon with Kde.

But with a nice aesthetics repo

Antergos isn't a fork of Arch, it IS Arch. It just provides a graphical installer.