• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
    3·
    2 小时前

    Feels like maybe that represents SUSE but…not OpenSUSE. Tumbleweed is legit and the community is super chill and dope.

    ~yeah I feel personally attacked lmao~

    • cmhe@lemmy.world
      1·
      47 分钟前

      I’m in an organization that helps people install Linux on their devices, and we collectively decided to install Linux Mint. I never used it myself, and to me, the distribution doesn’t matter too much.

      However, I was negatively surprised that Linux Mint decided to mix closed-source proprietary software together with open-source software: http://packages.linuxmint.com/search.php?release=alfa&section=import&keyword=

      They also advertise them in top positions on their package installers, which also doesn’t show the packages licenses anywhere. To me advertising them and mixing them like they are the same is bad… They also don’t offer ways to filter them out… So… while I still install LM for others, I’m not a fan…

      • blarth@thelemmy.club
        1·
        29 分钟前

        Being too purist about the openness of a distribution is a big reason Linux has taken so long to gain foothold on PCs.

        • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
          1·
          51 秒前

          On the other hand, being purist about openness is why GNU exists in the first place.

    • oppy1984@lemdro.idEnglish
      2·
      1 小时前

      Yep, been on Linux for 10 or 12 years now, I honestly can’t remember. Distro hopped at first, then I found Mint and never saw a need to change.

    • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 小时前

      Same conclusion for me. Been using Linux for years, Mint is the only distro I’ve used that #JustWorks in my experience.

      I use LMDE as my personal laptop, it’s rock stable.

      • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
        1·
        4 分钟前

        What’s the difference between LMDE and running Cinnamon on Debian?

    • Tango@piefed.caEnglish
      6·
      4 小时前

      I have yet to encounter a use case where I would need anything other than Mint.

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      3 小时前

      Same here, except on servers, where I prefer debian.

      Because I’m old and tired, and I just want to install and be up and running in as short of a time as possible without dicking around.

    • titanicx@lemmy.zip
      2·
      4 小时前

      After 20 plus years of Linux I also really love using mint on any machine with a screen. My servers are all Debian based but my desktop and laptop are mint it just works

      Also, not sure how using arch is equal to the picture, not sure if that’s supposed to be a trans girl, an e girl, or something else. Using arch is more like a mechanic with a car that breaks down every time they change anything.

  • darthsundhaft@piefed.socialEnglish
    13·
    2 小时前

    Linux Mint as the baby makes no sense. That would actually be CachyOS or MX Linux at this point.

    edit

    I didn’t interpret the age of the people matching the user of the distro. I matched the person in the graphic as the perceived maturity of the project itself… not the user. This is why I say to me Linux Mint doesn’t make sense as the baby… MX Linux and CachyOS have been adopted more recently than before.

  • M137@lemmy.today
    2·
    4 小时前

    I’m forced to use Ubuntu (an old version too, 22.04) because the app I use for about 70% of my computer time doesn’t support anything else. I’ve tried newer versions of ubuntu and other distros and have gotten it to a mostly working state after a lot of work, but the issues are too much and I also loose all customer support since I’m not using the officially supported distro and version. I’ll never go back to Windows but I feel jailed in more than I did before, and there’s just no other option.

    So what does that image look like?

    • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 小时前

      Im trying to imagine what software is so obscure no one has updated it or ported to another distro, but is important and good enough that you use it for 70% of your comluter time.

      Even (often, especily) extremely old programming languages and stuff are still maintained by someone

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        1 小时前

        Probably shit like NinjaRMM

        They only support Ubuntu for their rdesktop app, Someone pulled it kicking and screaming into nixpkgs, i built a flake around it. It’s stable, but the day they release a breaking change, I’m at the mercy of an unpaid, unnamed package maintainer to make it work again or take a stab at it myself. Or run it in wine, or run it in a windows VM. or build it out an ubuntu docker and x11 forward it back.

    • ratel@mander.xyz
      39·
      8 小时前

      I just assume that everyone arguing over distros has been using Linux for less than 3 years. If you’re an experienced user you’re just happy more people joined the cult community.

      • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
        7·
        4 小时前

        yeah I’ve tried just about all of them and at the end of the day it really boils down to “how do you like to install your shit”. a DE/WM is probably more important than the distro at this point as you’re going to get similar performance no matter what you’re on.

        I use NixOS only because for me personally it makes dev work slightly easier than other distros. that’s it really. Some people want to constantly tinker, some people just want to install and forget about it for a year and have it stay out of their way. It’s all about personal taste and how you want to install stuff really. I know a guy that uses Bazzite for everything not just gaming and he loves it. it works for him. My dad uses Slackware and will never use anything else, he loves it. If I had the time I’d probably switch to Gentoo but NixOS works for me right now. Like I said the DE/WM is more important.

        All that being said if you use GNOME then I’m worried for your well being. /s

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 小时前

          I LOVE keeping my configs in source control. I add something to my laptop in my shared config, it also adds it to my work desktop and my travel box. I need it just on the prime laptop? there’s a spot for that too. Stuff that’s not needed every day? nix-shell -p it. I even setup some shared nix-shell project folders so if i need something like yt-dlp, nix-shell in the directory pulls down a specific python, installs the latest yt-dlp, ffmpeg and deno, even leaves me a shellhook reminder of what the command line is. when I close that shell, it’s all gone.

      • bryndos@fedia.io
        8·
        7 小时前

        I’m not sure that I’m what anyone would call “experienced”. But I’ve used it for a long time. And people wetting their pants over one or another distribution seems like a total waste of time. they’re all very similar.

        I’m very much not happy to be associated with the community depicted in meme - i sincerely hope most of them are just taking the piss out of themselves.

        I think even if there were quadruple the user base it’s not going to materially change the number of developers making decent linux native programs. So you either use open source stuff. or webapps and wine stuff like that. Size of userbase is pretty irrelevant to me.

        • libewa@feddit.org
          4·
          6 小时前

          Distros are a matter of taste, and you shouldn‘t judge someone over it. But a bit of friendly fun-poking is alright (e.g. „NixOS user spend all night configuring their PC“). Insults directed directly at a person are never OK. And there are of course distros that are objectively bad (like Ubuntu), and you can criticize their creators, and maybe try to convince the users to choose something else (that‘s where Mint is from, kind of), but you cannot. hate. on. them.

      • ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netEnglish
        2·
        5 小时前

        I’m actually hoping the Windoze losers stay away…last thing we need is a flood of “make it more like windows” requests… Ugh…

        • bryndos@fedia.io
          1·
          33 分钟前

          Yes - they should stay in another subculture, far away.

          Ideally they’ll also be locked behind a paywall, safely protected by shit like “HP sure start” so that they don’t accidentally open some dangerous csv file in anything other than excel.

      • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        5 小时前

        I’ve been using linux for almost 30 years. I’ll stop arguing about distros when I’m dead.

        Also, let’s be real, this ain’t that serious.