I’m really enjoying Pop!_OS, but their logo could use some workshopping imo. I’ve been considering trying an upstream distro as an educational experience anyway, yet somehow this is what I’m feeling excited about. I don’t know why - nobody but me is ever going to see my neofetch output. Lol

(NixOS isn’t really in the running… I just wanted a 3rd example and like the logo)

  • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 hours ago

    neofetch is pretty but it is slower than the alternatives: pfetch, fastfetch…etc. I either use those 2 or no fetch whatsoever: I want my terminal pops up and is ready to type.

  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
    8·
    3 hours ago

    Fulltime Linux user since 2001 or so. Tried so many distros…

    I have never once used neofetch. I never really understood why anyone does, but maybe I am missing out…

    But if you find a distro you like that makes your neofetch look cool, post it here, I will give you a view so you aren’t the only one seeing it!

  • This2ShallPass@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 hours ago

    You can customize the logo. Raspberry Pi OS displays as Debian by default but you can force it to be the Raspberry Pi logo.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    7·
    7 hours ago

    Most of the *fetches (and clones by other names) have an option for showing a different distro’s logo without having to go through any major changes. neofetch, moribund though it is, has --ascii_distro for that purpose (Weird choice of an underscore in an option. Most programs use more hyphens to separate words in long options).

    This did get me to install screenfetch (superseded by plain old fetch but realised that too late for this comment), cpufetch (a year old, still in active development) and archey4 (likewise) after I did a bit of research on similar programs though, so maybe the sirens got me one way or the other.

  • Caveman@lemmy.world
    9·
    9 hours ago

    I want to do the Nix thing so bad. It’s tempting me but I don’t have any time for that.

  • illusionist@lemmy.zip
    52·
    13 hours ago

    You can just use a distrobox …

    The package manager isn’t that much of a reason to choose a distro anymore.

    Neofetch is not maintained anymore. I can recommend fastfetch.

      • funkajunk@lemmy.world
        17·
        13 hours ago

        Fastfetch is better than neofetch, and it can look the same:

        fastfetch -c neofetch

        EDIT:

        Forgot to mention, I like to put it in my .zshrc file so it comes up whenever I open the terminal, but I had some formatting issues until I changed it to this:

        fastfetch --pipe false -c neofetch

    • iopq@lemmy.world
      8·
      13 hours ago

      Disagree, nix is a lot better than standard package managers. For one, you can have packages installed that rely on different dependecy versions

      • illusionist@lemmy.zip
        7·
        10 hours ago

        Is nix already “normie” compatible? It has to become much easier.

        I really like home manager but even that is too difficult right now.

        Same for flatpak, it’s on a good path but there is still lots of room for improvement

        • GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          Complex things that someone has already done are infinitely easier in nixos - stuff like having zfs as root filesystem is literally two lines in the config (and the magic is that it is very, very hard to break).

          Complex things that are your own edge case will make you want to pull your hair out - I wanted to run immich on a raspberry pi 5 with native 16k page size, long story short, I still don’t have immich.

          On the other hand, if by “normie” you mean “running a browser and some flatpaks”, nixos is likely the best distro that will work right out of the box - the graphical installer will generate a good config, the out of the box hardware support is the best in my experience, breakage is almost impossible. Automatic updates will not work though and there’s no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.

          • luciferofastora@feddit.org
            1·
            13 minutes ago

            Automatic updates will not work though and there’s no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.

            That’s probably a disqualifying feature for laypeople-suitability. “Normies” ad in “non-techies” won’t easily dare touch the command line and certainly not think of frequently using it to check for updates, but not having any security updates is a bad idea.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        12 hours ago

        That’s neat how that’s been a standard feature of enterprise Linux for 20 years. They call them alt-packages and, even before a succession of environment juggling and subversion swapping, they worked really well.

        (Still do, except all the people who knew how to figure dependencies have left RH. I’m looking at you, Ansible who will soon need containers for even client install)

  • tengkuizdihar@programming.dev
    15·
    12 hours ago

    debian when you need image for your docker, nixos when you need stability and reproducibility, arch when you…

    i have no idea actually, why arch?

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Container images and NixOS is actually a match made in heaven, so yes it’s NixOS all the way, except I spend 10 times reading scattered documentation and tutorials rather than getting a working configuration… Fedora ain’t so bad

      • tux7350@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 hours ago

        How do you manage your images in Nix? Ive got a bunch of docker compose files and want to migrate over but havent had the time to sink.

      • MacFearrs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Easily the biggest downside rn. The scattered/lack of documentation has been the biggest hurdle for me getting into NixOS, especially after being spoiled with the arch wiki.

    • black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Personally I just like being close to upstream so that contributing if I find bugs is easier.

      As others have said I also recommend it for tech-competent gamers.

    • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.org
      7·
      11 hours ago

      Arch is great for gaming. Also, if you’re familiar with how Linux works, Arch pretty much gets out of your way. Just have btrfs with snapper for rolling back any mistakes. (Although, I’ve only had to do that once in the last 5 years or so on Arch. And I was trying to replace the graphics driver, so kinda on me.)

    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
      5·
      11 hours ago

      When you like rolling release distros because you’re still traumatized from trying to version-upgrade Fedora Core. Although I went with Garuda because of convenience tools like garuda-update.

  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    8·
    10 hours ago

    Personally I like fastfetch with dacrabs tweaks.

    In terms of distributions, I’m not a good example of “so cool!”. Its pretty much just Debian. Stable for servers (with proxmox mostly), stable for my main desktop, two machines with Trixie and Sid respectively, then two test boxes with arch and endeavouros (for laziness purposes).

    I like LMDE as a rec for others, though I prefer it with KDE which is no longer explicitly supported, so meh.

    For family, if I’m doing it, its Deb stable all the way. Even my htpc’s are deb stable.