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This is why you have to switch to more and more difficult distros over time, to keep yourself on your toes
It's a bell curve. Eventually you switch back to ez mode for your main machine and have alternative or niche distros on spare kit
Can confirm. Study laptops are on Linux Mint Debian Edition, gaming PC is on CachyOS currently but it changes all the time, had Bazzite on it beforehand
Ken Thompson, who invented UNIX first in assembly and then rewrote it in C, is now running a Debian derived OS as his main daily driver.
Me going from Mint to Ubuntu to Kubuntu to Neon to Arch. My experience with the Arch installation process is just the command
shutdownSomeday I'll be comfortable enough with this nerd shit to trust myself with unsupervised access to a CLI. Until then I'm happy just knowing what a DE is
next step is nixos! holy fuck transitioning from arch to nixos was hell, i did like 10 years of arch.
Or Gentoo? I haven't used nixos yet so cant speak on it but Gentoo has been awesome to tinker and learn with.
I think nixos is harder than gentoo, plus you can do all the gentoo compile from source stuff on nixos
Genuinely curious cause i don't know much nixos, does it support an equivalent to USE flags or slots?
I don't know much about gentoo, but use flags sound a lot like overlays to me, but like I said, i'm not familiar with gentoo.
nixos allows the install of various versions of software by default so slots are definitely a thing. It's one of the main things nix wanted to fix.
I ended up installing the nox package manager on my gentoo machine, and it's been useful so far. Got some packages installed that aren't in the native Gentoo repo