I want to make the transsition to linux but there are too many distros and this board is just a meme
I'm an advanced user, I know how to read and research to solve problems, but I want a distro that is easy to setup and it's stable and looks and feels comfy because I want to install it on my work laptop
I've tried Manjaro and Ubuntu, Manjaro felt lame and Ubuntu is as bloated as windows, I've thinking on Arch but I don't know
I just want something that just works and looks nice, but it's advanced enough for an advanced user and that let me install most of the things I need to work and it's configurable without losing stability
Ubuntu. And then put whatever desktop environment you like most on it.
Kayden Cooper
Get Arch, its fun to install and fun to use. But plan in 2 or 3 hours for a first install
Jacob Perry
Alpine Linux is a community developed operating system designed for x86 routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes and servers.
Anthony Hernandez
ZorinOS Lite or Xubuntu
Jace Ross
quick addition: pacaur is great and the aur is the best package repository for linux i've ever encountered
Christopher Rivera
Antergos All the good things of Arch (pacman, AUR, rolling release) without the edgyness of having to install it from 0. It comes with a selection of desktop environments
Samuel White
Mint or an Ubuntu flavor >>>/fglt/
Eli Baker
but you learn a lot by installing the os yourself. and its fun if you like that kind of stuff.
Adam Garcia
>Manjaro felt lame What do you mean by this? >Ubuntu is as bloated as windows Again, what do you mean? Minimal install has less packages than Arch. You mean you don't like Unity? Try Ubuntu's flavours like Ubuntu MATE, GNOME, etc. >I've thinking on Arch but I don't know Love to update constantly? Than Arch is for you. It's a lot more stable than people say it is, as long as you are careful with AUR packages.
Gabriel Reyes
my main concern is that after all the installation I don't like it, I want something stable and easy to set-up because I will be using it on my work laptop and I don't want more time setting up things that actually working on my projects
that's why I want to stay on the big distros area and not installing esoteric flavors or minor/small distros
Nolan Lewis
>arch installation do everything you usually do with GUI but use CLI instead.
Andrew Moore
I only learned how to use the Arch Wiki desu
Ethan Martinez
maybe you should just work on your projects and don't waste time learning a meme OS? Really, any Linux distro you choose (except maybe Mint) will demand some attention from you.
Jayden Campbell
Few days ago I've spoke with an old school sys admin cousin that's now going to actually be an engineer for formula 1, and in our 1 hour and 40 minutes phone discussion he repeatedly told me how shit openSUSE is...
So I've installed it today, holy shit such a clean and beautiful straight install - such a well optimized distro with perfect behavior from KDE, I will never use any other distro for my development workstation again.
Cameron Anderson
ubuntu and its flavors don't demand any attention if you're installing it on a machine with good support
Nicholas Powell
Not my experience. Something will always be broken - media buttons on a keyboard, DPI settings will shit themselves after installing non-free drivers, etc. Really, never encounter a machine that would work with out of the box Ubuntus
Jayden Lewis
Just get Linux Mint. I was distro hopping for a while and settled on it because >cinnamon is ultra-ricable >window snapping >stable as all heck >Gnome 3 isn't the DE
Carson Hall
tell me you aren't bullshitting me, I might end trying it dunno, manjaro felt idk clunky, there was a something that just didn't make it for me
Ubuntu, when I saw it had amazon pre-installed and that I needed an account to use the little app-market thing, I just didn't like it right away and for some reason it was giving me a lot of errors and glitches
Jackson Rogers
which flavor would you recommend me?
cinnamon, mate, KDE or xfce?
Levi Ortiz
About OpenSUSE no I love it a lot and what I told you it's legitimate within my experience.
Just try it in a virtual machine see for yourself.
First I've thought he might be right but I was impressed with their website and how smart forum posters were there.. I said ok don't get fooled by aesthetics go try it yourself..and it's very good user.
Basically it's THE distro for developers, install it neatly - have a modern, clean, well optimized distro and start programming. + It's supported everywhere by all big corporations, while Arch is not - tho Arch is very good itself.
Gabriel Evans
No you don't.
Charles Brooks
It literally does not matter at all.
William Collins
If you're a competent Linux user, THIS is the way to go. Minimalist, no systemd by default, godlike package manager (albeit with not so many packages - yet), very stable and lightweight. Not only that, it has an optional TUI based installer, so you don't have to do everything by hand like Arch or Gentoo.
Adam Reed
>Ubuntu is as bloated as windows Do a netinst then
Brandon Cox
I'm monitoring this thread because I want to switch from Win8 and OSX to Linux.
Ryan Robinson
I'm not so competent I would say I'm above average noob
Benjamin Hall
Gentoo
Samuel Martinez
>well optimized boot times and overall perfomance are horrendous. Boot times can be fixed by fiddling around with network manager and turning ipv6 off. But perfomance can't be fixed (at least I don't know how to fix it). Coming from Fedora it feels very slow. The thing is - openSUSE is fully packed with the things that you may not need in a desktop environment. It's really a server distro. Too bad that the same goes for Tumbleewed which nobody in their right mind would use for a server. If openSUSE guys would optimize Tumbleweed for desktop use - I would be fully onboard because it looks like the most tested rolling distro.
Aaron James
Debian or gentoo
John Jones
What about Slackware?
Gabriel Gomez
Is Ubuntu's future tied to Canonical? I don't want to get comfy with a distribution only for it to become obsolete just because Canonical goes bankrupt.
Even after Microsoft paid them a nice sum of money they're still around 60 million in debt and haven't made a penny since 2004.
Adrian Jones
Get Debian with Cinnamon and install it from non-free ISO, it's like Mint or Ubuntu but lasts forever. It's almost the oldest distro that's still going and no company owns it. You can always find tutorials for everything if you have Debian.
>captcha: speciale place
Blake Howard
This is going to shake up and will quickly come to dominate the entire distro tree over the next few years. Might as well do yourself a favor and jump on board now.
Sebastian Ortiz
>I just want something that just works and looks nice, but it's advanced enough for an advanced user and that let me install most of the things I need to work and it's configurable without losing stability something that you connect to AUR, distro doesn't matter, only pm and repos, etc. The real shit is when you get into exotic filesystems
Tyler Barnes
The answer is obviously debian. Stable, no bloat, a serious OS that isn't exclusively used by retard ricer memesters.
Brandon White
>free software only repos nope
Camden Myers
>Ubuntu is as bloated as Windows It's bloated for a Linux distro, but if Ubuntu is a fat guy, than Windows is a literal planet made out of ham.
Parker Wilson
Couldn't you also just go with Mint Debian Edition?
Lucas Miller
What non-Arch based distros provide AUR-like repos?
Alexander Wood
You could do, but the incompetent Mint devs still alter packages and hold back certain updates.
Isaac Smith
Pretty sure that's only LMDE2. LMDE is a rolling release, and LMDE2 is stable, or so I thought.
James Gomez
Just get Fedora
Red Hat isn't going anywhere, because they're an actual company with actual customers
David King
>Never have to compile anything on your own again (99% of the time) >Can do anything any other system can do >Highly stable; 1 minor error in the last year that required 2 minutes of manual interaction from its users >Bleeding edge >Annoys newfags that fall for Sup Forums memes when you say you use it
What Godly OS is this, you ask? Arch Linux!
Just make sure to use arch-anywhere.org/ if you want a super easy installation
Ethan Thomas
Manjaro is based on Arch, but I agree it's pretty shitty. Try Antergos, the patrician arch-fork.
Camden Rogers
Solus or KDE Neon
Eli Thompson
MX Linux Escape the systemd
Henry Johnson
Would be a great distro if it wasn't void of packages
Carson Long
Or use Arch-Anywhere, the best way of installing arch
Angel White
>Never have to compile anything on your own again This is not always a good thing. >Can do anything any other system can do Can you easily install Firefox without pulseaudio? >Highly stable If you're actually running stable, yeah. I've seen the level of stability you're describing on dfferent distros in the unstable channel >Bleeding edge Unless you're running stable. If you run unstable, your stability argument is gone. >Annoys newfags Quite so
Easton Hughes
>This is not always a good thing. You can compile manually if you want to >Can you easily install Firefox without pulseaudio? Pretty easily: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/firefox#Multimedia_playback >If you're actually running stable, yeah. I've seen the level of stability you're describing on dfferent distros in the unstable channel I never meant I'm running a "stable" release. It's stable as in it doesn't break - 1 issue that required 2 minutes of interaction in a year is nothing.
Noah Collins
Would you also go Mint for older pc's or even netbooks? Contemplating putting a Mint with xfce on my old Aspire One D250...