They say its all about distro hoppin baby
There so many options it is gettin crazy
I’m ferrin and carryin my files from SSD
Gonna need that when I reformat my PCIts gettin hard in this economy
to find all the right parts at an honest fee
And the only option left that I can see
switching to an OS that will work for meUbuntu I adore ya
But this week is Fedora
Linux Mint got me through March
By the way I used ArchEvery day the list grows
an endless number of brand new distros
One thing every homie knows
we all hate on windowsI always end up back at Arch, its the old reliable. Although I do have one system running just Nix these days as well.
Arch is the “old reliable?” 🥲
Once you get used to its quirks, yeah.
it’s what they have the most experience re-installing.
Honestly, it’s the OS I can usually fix without having to resort to a reinstall. Sure it breaks sometimes, but those breaks are pretty easy to repair.
I’m just gonna stick with Fedora cause I’m white and nerdy.
I used to be a Linux Mint user, but Fedora has become my mainstay for a while now. It feels like the perfect blend of stable yet cutting edge.
It’s all about the pentium’s baby.
Your grammar just blew my mind. Thank you.
After all these years I just now realized Pentiums should be Pentia.
I’m a break hopper. If I like a distro. I’ll use it. Months and sometimes years. Then, if there’s some kind of breakage and I can’t figure it out and I decide to do a fresh install, I’m like “why not try something new”
Makes it easy as a gamer. My only worry is all the wear from installing my games each time with the high cost of storage nowadays.
But it’s always nice to start from scratch with a new distro and not bringing any baggage with you.
You can always have a partition for your data separate from your boot partition. Then you just mount that on any distro you run and you’re good to go. I have a drive from when I used Windows for media, and I’ve never reformatted it. Your distro doesn’t care where data came from, as long as it can read it.
If you’re still using a data drive formatted as NTFS, and you’re not using Windows anymore, it’s best to change the filesystem.
Linux NTFS drivers are pretty good, but it’s still reverse engineering a proprietary filesystem. Sometimes it misbehaves.
If you’re using something like ExFAT then ignore me.
Yeah, I need to switch it at some point, but it’s a 4TB HDD, and my other drives are smaller. I need to delete a bunch of stuff to be able to reformat it.
Depending on the amount of data, you might be able to shrink the existing NTFS partition, create a partition next to it of the proper filesystem type, move the data between the partitions, delete the NTFS partition, and expand the replacement.
But I wouldn’t attempt that on ant data you care about unless you have backups. I’ve done things like that a lot working in the tech industry, and sometimes things just break.
So with hdd prices, not super tenable but i keep all my games on a 2nd drive formatted as ext4.
I’m at that point with Solus right now. They messed up so many things when they switched to Wayland. Definitely wasn’t ready for release. Trying to figure out what to try next.
Hit install and never stop
I’ll tell you how I distrohop
There’s no flavor I’d say no to
‘cept that faschy one (you know who)
got a hundred boxes runnin’
and a vendor ain’t locked one in
Drop a new one and I’m on it
jumping ships like the bubonic
keeping ancient silicon churning
endless new OS smell burning
I’ll be jumping 'til I drop
to the beat of the endless distrohopLove this song, “Play me online. Well, you know that I’ll beat you. If I ever meet you I’ll control-alt-delete you” is gold.
I feel the line “While your computer’s crashing, mine’s multitasking. It does all my work without me even asking’” is very relevant today.
“I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM”
Even almost 30 years later it’s still a flex 😭
“Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half”
Somehow still relevant too.
turned one on a half hour ago. still waiting for the disk and cpu activity to mellow out.
expected, though. it is a scrap-tier laptop with slow hdd and win11 that is not completely up-to-date.
And on CachyOS I often do “upgrade my system at least twice a day, I’m strictly plug and play”
We need to find out if Weird Al uses Arch, BTW.
Distrohopping is just OS tourism.
You gotta live the ecosystem. Vote in their elections. Contribute to their package managers. Then you can hop if its not for you.
Certified fresh meme every time lol.
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ugh that’s totally me. I’ve literally tried everything, even all the BSDs, and there are many that I like.
I don’t know I just find it fun to install a linux distro or BSD and set it up, see what will work, what doesn’t, etc.
The beauty of it is now I can install anything with ease and i’m familiar with pretty much every package manager out there. Favourite install: Gentoo. Least favourite: Slackware.
what I changed more were DEs and WMs. I could never find the right one that I absolutely loved for years. Finally I just ended up building my own and put in all the stuff I wanted.
Hey fella, I bet you’re still living in your parents cellar, downloading picture of Sarah Michelle Gellar
And posting “me too” like some braindead AOL-er I should do the world and cap you like Old Yeller
You’re just about as useless to JPEGs as Helen Keller
Weird Al did not need to make these lyrics slap so hard but I’m so glad he did.
suggestions for better rhythm:
I distro-hopped every Linux system,
gave some props, the rest I dissed 'em.
You had your OS more than a week?
Pave that shit, man, it’s antique!Tell Weird Al, he wrote it
Wait, seriously? I mean, editing is easier than creating from scratch, but that literally took me less than a minute. He must have written it in the car on the way to the studio.
Weird Al didn’t write that, he wrote “It’s All About The Pentiums” which is what OP is riffing on
They based it on these two phrases:
I beta tested every operating system
Gave props to some, and others? I dissed’emAnd
You say you’ve had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it’s an antique!Along with the chorus line “It’s all about the Pentiums, baby”
Also, the rhythm of the Weird Al song is fine, it’s worth watching even if a lot of it is pretty dated since it’s thirty years old now
It’s also a parody, he borrowed the cadence from Diddy
Ok my bad, I’m not at all well versed in rap.
I’m not either lol, I knew it was a parody but I had to look up the original
At least you knew it was a parody with an original. I assumed it was just somebody’s comment.
Part of me is like “just run a VM” other part of me is like “hardware comparability is a major part of choosing an OS”.
Also, just friggin at least run a fedora VM and shove every DE in it until you figure out what you like. Maybe you actually just want to try a different DE.
I believe yours says, “Copilot” on the side.
Nixos is where it’s at
