• brev@infosec.pub
    1·
    3 months ago

    This is why I use Fedora

    Instantly works, and I never need to dedicate hours to fixing stuff when something breaks

    • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
      1·
      3 months ago

      Some people put so much time and energy in this kind of stuff. Imagine we could harvest this level of motivation from everyone and put it at the service of the sustainable transition, we would have stopped global warming at the +1.5⁰C mark.

  • Normo!@lemdro.idEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Arch users should switch to Ubuntu and Ubuntu users should switch to Arch, Problem Solved

  • Chivera@lemmy.world
    0·
    3 months ago

    What’s the best Linux distro for an easy switch from Windows?

    Thank you everyone!! My PC is being left behind by Windows 11.

    • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 months ago

      +1 to Mint. It is a very easy transition & you will not have ragerts.

      Pros:

      1. prettier than windows while having a similar interface

      2. more responsive than windows

      3. more stable than windows

      4. zero spyware/bloatware

      5. basically the same level of software compatibility as windows

      Only things that take some research ahead of time or getting used to imo:

      1. deciding how you want to partition your drives during installation (you can let it automatically do this, but there are reasons to create a different partition structure across drives/have different sized partitions),

      2. mounting drives. There are GUI tools for this (file explorer for mounting, gparted for formatting), so it really isn’t a big deal, but it is a little more difficult than with Windows and you may need to reformat your drives depending what file format they’re currently in.

      3. make sure your motherboard/video card/cpu all work well with linux. They should, but just check first.

      4. note that games requiring kernel level anticheat (aka spyware) won’t work. So if that’s a deal breaker, then dual boot or don’t switch.

      • Electricd@lemmybefree.net
        01·
        3 months ago

        prettier than windows while having a similar interface

        uhh…

        more stable than windows

        Not if you have multiple screens and want to zoom the interface or something. I remember there was a massive bug with this

        basically the same level of software compatibility as windows

        Except all Adobe software, video editing software, many windows only software, the full Office suite

        So, no, that’s just false

    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      Arch users have the most whacky, customized computers you can find. Meanwhile arch itself is a small distro with very little features out the box.

      Ubuntu as a distro has tons of features out the box but ubuntu users generally just keep the default without adding or using any features.

      • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
        0·
        3 months ago

        I think a statistic about how much of your userbase keeps the default config could be a testament to how good your OS is

        • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          I think it is a testament of how bloated it is. I mean, we could get 20 Linux users together, list every package we have collectively installed, and produce a new distro with all of those packages that would serve all 20 of us without needing to add anything else. But our new distro would easily be the largest available, and none of us would use everything we’ve included.

    • drath@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      A lot of arch users are kids fucking with thinkpads ricing up their systems and putting anime wallppapers while not doing anything serious.

      Ubuntu is commonly used by researchers and hardware developers who don’t really care about distro as long as it’s linux. The amount of times I saw people use the entire distro with default gnome skin just to launch a terminal to run their black hole simulation, the crypto cracker or some centrifuge control script… I myself am neither but ubuntu has been my go to as well since I usually don’t have time to screw with archinstall, so I just use ubuntu as good starting point and then tweak the internals as I go.

      • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        3 months ago

        I feel like I’m the odd person out, using Arch like most people use Windows. I play games, do taxes, shop online, and do very minimal customizing, mostly just in KDE settings.

        It’s a shockingly stable system for how “bleeding edge” it is.

          • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            No you’re supposed to rice the hell out of your Arch install, put an anime girl wallpaper, some form of neofetch replacement (RIP), and post screenshots about it while wearing programmer socks and loudly telling people how good arch is and how much their distro sucks.

            Then complain about how you broke it and can’t fix it because you used archinstall thereby skipping the setup and recovery lessons, and didn’t read the wiki before updating.

    • pelya@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 months ago

      Arch is hard to install, hard to configure, and hard to use, because it requires cryptic commandline knowledge at every step.

      People who use Arch generally know very well what they are doing, so their system works with no issues, which they never forget to mention in every conversation.

      Ubuntu is a novice-friendly Linux distribution, but since the majority of it’s users are novices or Windows 11 refugees, they generate a lot of complaints on forums.