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heaven forbid you go read about it. You’re weird, man. Takes all of 5 seconds to web search the distro and find what makes it different.

why do I need to explain it to you? I already said I like CachyOS and I want to try the server version. that’s it.

because I like cachyos and want to try their server version?

honestly if they do this I will slap it on my server. I love CachyOS, it’s a great and solid distro and by far the best Arch fork out there. I’ve never had issues with it and while sure the install is probably the longest out of all the distros I’ve used it’s still great. Very solid team behind it.

with some interactions I’ve seen from GNOME fanboys on mastodon…honestly wouldn’t put it past them. /s

There are quite a few great linux content creators on youtube. The Black Don, Tony (his tmux config is top notch), typecraft, Diinki, Vimjoyer (who pretty much taught me how to use NixOS completely), and Veronica Explains.

Although Veronica is unfortunately taking time off because of the comments she receives which really sucks as her videos remind me of old episodes of the Screen Savers and Call for Help.

Love her videos. she got me hooked on DWM and ST.

I don’t know a single person that uses MX Linux and yet it’s always at the top of the distrowatch list

regardless if you switch distros or not it’s good practice to backup stuff to either a personal server or even a private git repo.

I distro hop every so often, heck just did it lastnight, and what makes it easy for me is using borg which backs up daily to my server. It backups personal files, ssh stuff, and some dotfiles. I also do a push to my private forgejo before hopping and that will be configs and what have you so when I’m on a new distro it’s just a matter of cloning that private repo and then accessing a recent borg backup and i’m good to go. For Arch based distros I use something called DCLI which backs up a list of packages I have installed so I can pull that down and then merge it to my system and it automatically installs the packages I want. All of this allows me from once spending a couple hours setting up a system to now a few minutes. Doing all this makes distro hoping a non factor for me.

nope it’s a GTX 3050 mobile. so a few years old.

I’ve never had issues with my nvidia gpu on wayland.

I’ve never had to tweak anything to get it to work, it just works, even on a fresh arch install. I don’t get it.

you’re not wrong. A lot of them could simply be flakes or just cloned dotfiles. Just look at Omarchy, that’s basically Arch with in installer and dotfiles.

If I’m looking to use a distro I want something that improves whatever it’s based on, like CachyOS for example that has it’s own repos and kernel. Distros that essentially just tweak GNOME or KDE I’m going to pass on. Like this PearOS. you can just download virtually any distro and install Plasma and make it look the same.

hopefully no one shows the developer NixOS…

I wonder if there’s a bit of a bias considering pretty much Ubuntu’s main source of support is via AskUbuntu which is on StackExchange.

but the results just scream junior web dev to me.

yup that’s the way to go. just whatever you want to do think “can I do this via the terminal?” and it’ll all flow from there.

AND if you start using Neovim you’ll start getting addicted to vim style navigation and want to apply it to everything…which you can for a lot of things. you’ll then find that using vim nav and doing things via the terminal is a lot faster than using your mouse in a GUI.

I would suggest easing yourself into it. Since you’re in Mint start off with just installing and uninstalling programs via the terminal. If you really want to get into terminal use what helped me was this. “is there a GUI that I use a lot that I could potentially do from the terminal? lets research how.” So for example instead of using a package manager, use the terminal. Instead of using a file manager use the terminal with something like Yazi or Ranger and then from there you can use the terminal to manage files quite easily.

Want to unzip something? instead of doing it via the file manager look up how to do it via the terminal. need to empty your trash bin? same deal.

Instead of trying to learn everything at once when you’re doing something on your machine think to yourself “could I do this via the terminal?” and then look it up.

As far as programming goes I still firmly believe there’s nothing better out there than Vim/Neovim or Emacs/Doom Emacs. If you want to go that route instead of using Vim checkout Neovim with Lazyvim. both are extremely easy to install. OR if a total package and then some is what you’re looking for check out Doom Emacs. I use Doom Emacs currently for all my dev work and I love it. on my server I use Neovim just because it’s a bit faster since I have to SSH into it and it’s offsite.

you should really watch some of these videos on youtube, there’s quite a few of them and yes you’re 100% spot on that if I recorded myself doing this stuff I would be fired but some of these kids go into great detail as to what issues Amazon is having, the details of said issues, and potential work-arounds/fixes their seniors suggest to them. When on call only the new hire is paged and it’s up to them to page a senior or someone else on the team when they’re stuck. The problem is these kids don’t want to admit they’re stuck to their seniors or other team members because they feel it’ll impact them negatively. They admit to it. So I’d say 8 times out of 10 the tickets they get paged for don’t get resolved and are passed on to another team in the morning. So the whole thing is pointless.

In one video I watched they do have a shadow but it was reversed. the senior is the shadow and ONLY during the day. the new grad hire is still doing all the work. and after office hours they’re no their own. I wish I could find the video again as it was awhile ago but one kid recorded himself working on a ticket at like 3am and I was almost screaming at the screen like “NO DON’T DO THAT OH MY GOD PLEASE CALL SOMEONE!”

It’s like when AWS went down a few weeks ago I was thinking “probably one of these new hires at 2am trying to fix something”

one of the many reasons I switched to codeberg and my own forgejo instance.

Github is garbage. if you can, get off it.

they don’t. I mean for example Amazon puts all new hires on “on call” status for like a week every month. the LAST people I would want working On Call and waking up at 2am to try and solve something are fresh grad hires. You can actually watch videos on youtube of new grad amazon hires doing this, they actually document themselves, and the vast majority of them are “well it’s 1am and I just got a call…I’m going to try and fix this ticket but really I have no idea what I’m doing” annnnnd generally nothing gets fixed or they break it worse. So they end up being sleep deprived, going into the office the next day and sleeping at whatever workstation they can find available and it leaves you wondering “what’s the point?”

I personally am of the belief that being on call for stuff like this is pointless when you’re world wide and could literally just transition the stuff to a different team in some other part of the world but I guess Amazon treats it as a sort of initiation process or whatever.

I’d rather use Omarchy than Manjaro that’s for sure and I absolutely hate Omarchy.