Hannah Montana Linux

The one you fucking feel like using. God, stop trying to make tribes mandatory.

Never heard of it. What packaging system does Tribes use?
- Well, it's built to use Ooga, but it's also set up to be able to handle Booga as well. It depends on the driver set you need to load Fire and Club.
- I feel like there’s a lemmings reference to be made here but I’m tired. Internet, do your thing.
- The wrong one, obviously!
- SHAZBOT!
- I'm tempted to commit to pretending that "Tribes" is a Linux distro that we're all worried will gain too much popularity and hurt the ecosystem...
*Except for beginners
Try a beginner distro, and when you're done with the tutorial, go ahead and install your arches or nixes, IDC
- SteamOS was my tutorial and today I run Arch on my main system. But I like learning and I like the fact that I can build my own system and choose my own components. I understand that Arch is not for everyone but for me it's perfect.
Ooga Booga, caveman like Arch, caveman spread Arch!
Edit: i never read the other comments and someone already sorta used this joke... shit.

I'm a simple man, but I love Fedora

I’ve bounced around to plenty of distros, Fedora KDE is my current daily driver.
Fedora is the best because it fits my use case the best.

It depends on who’s asking. But if it’s someone who is curious about Linux, it’s always Mint.

Yeah. "I use OpenSUSE tumbleweed, but have reasons I've been thinking about switching. I consistently hear that mint is a good place to start, or maybe pop!os if you're looking to run games"
I don't actually even say the first sentence unless the question was "what do you use?"
Sometimes, if it's clear they're trying to revive very old hardware I might help them search for something built around being lightweight.
I'm mostly happy with tumbleweed, except that I have the nvidia repo set up and am convinced that it's causing issues. One of these days I'll look into how to try the nouveau drivers and/or how to get from my current setup to dualbooting pop!os without disrupting things I need for work.
Also, an update straight up broke emacs while i was in crunch time once, but I learned to be more careful about my update timing.
- My guy just uninstall the Nvidia driver, it will fall back to the driver in the kernel, which is the Nouveau driver.
- Games run great in Linux Mint.
  Mint also has a GUI driver manager that makes it really easy to see and change which nvidia driver you’re using.
- People having problems on Tumbleweed almost always seem to be using Nvidia, KDE, and/or Wayland. That's what I've noticed based on official forum threads, anyway.
- I try to avoid telling people what I use as they will wonder why I don’t use mint if I recommend it.
  I like Fedora + plasma, but I don’t want to explain rpm fusion and Fedora flatpak problems.
If someone is new, show them DEs and recommend based on that
- I think that can come later. I think decision paralysis would be a problem.
Would Aurora be a better recommendation these days?
https://universal-blue.org/
- Not familiar with it, but one thing mint has is a long history. That’s important to me.
- Am I understanding this right? It's Linux installed to a remote server and then streamed to the desktop?

Right? I'll talk about my salary all you want. I think it's great to know where you stand against others when negotiating for a new job or a raise. Especially since unions aren't really a thing in my profession.
Don't talk about my penis. If I want you to know, you'll know.

I use Nyarch, btw.

Holy shit I lost it after Material UwU. The system requirements and FAQ (including a famous Torvalds quote) were excellent highlights as well.
Found the weeb
Fucking Astolfo in there... this is just too good.
Thank you for this, you've made my day.
I didn't really like Gnome, but one day I might spin up a VM for this.

Why is Tux flipped, is this some sort of subliminal message? Is BigTech behind of this meme?

Oh, oups. That's a remnance from a meme I made a few minutes earlier. However now Tux is looking towards the text, therefore this was all planned.

The best distribution is always the one you currently use. All others are trash.

and it is also the worst.
- Until you realize that the current distro isn’t the worst like the others were.
  That’s when you know you’ve found home.
- My distro is shit
  But all other distros are diarrhea
  I love my shit distro

Shame on all of you for not knowing Hanna Montana Linux is the best possible OS ever.

I thought that it's a fact everyone using Linux just instinctively knew.

Pfft Linux is too mainstream... I run BeOS and OS/2 Warp.

Pfft, those are still maintained (Haiku and ArcaOS respectively) and so corporate man.
TempleOS all the way baby. Nothing is more powerful the the almighty HolyC.
Haiku! 🍁 exists :3
I loved BeOS. It was great.
Like this BeeOS?
- Rad music. Reminds me of Earthbound battle music.

You don't need to ask, because they will tell you their thoughts regardless.

Just switched to NixOS recently, after years on LMDE.

See I just like LMDE. Everything works without fiddling (I want my OS to be boring). And if I feel spicy - backports.
Fuck yeah NixOS! I freaking love declarative config!

Excuse me sir or madam, do you have time to talk about our lord and savior NixOS?

no one likes a smart guy. you can keep your dot files /s
- There are no dotfiles! There is only the Config!
die heretic
- rebooted, restored, invincible!

It’s NixOS

This is my favorite comment on the thread.

Hannah Montana Linux, btw

Can confirm.

oh god I'd be so so happy if someone asked me that! Whenever I say i use Linux people look at me funny 😭

Yeah man. The amount of times I have to shoehorn into the conversation, that I'm using Arch btw. is tiring.
Would be so much easier, if they just asked.
- Are you using Arch btw?
@nichtsowichtig@feddit.org
Which Linux distribution is the best?
@Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de
- you'll know when you feel butterflies in your tummy.

Cant take EndeavourOS from me.

Don't forget Biebian

There is a slight difference there. You don't ask the first two because social norms have pressured those groups to focus on those elements to unhealthy levels, so asking is, on a certain level, disrupting the peace of the other person by touching a sensitive area. The third is not. The third is poking your own peace because whether they have an extreme loyalty to one or a nuanced understanding of why different ones are better suited to different use cases, you are about to be talked at for an hour about it.

I made this mistake once and every comment was a different distro, they were all upvoted, and everyone was saying good things about all of them.

I just went with Ubuntu.

Linux is like dogs, they’re all good bois.
That's okay, chances are half the different distros people were talking up were Ubuntu.

it is OBJECTIVELY linux mint. Why? Because.

this comment was written on June 2025. So as of this day Mint is fabulous. And if I were to save a single distro from a burning building of all the popular distros, i would grab mint twice.

I know I know, there are many good distros, even texhnically better ones. But having used Mint as a secondary dual boot to my primary Windows, I have felt that Mint has been least annoying and actually worth retaining and updating and maintaining.

Mint is great I use it on my desktop and laptop and have been for years (I switched when Ubuntu has that unity desktop period). For Linux it's the most "it just works" distro for me. My second choice would be manjaro, but mint also has the advantage that there is so much help for Ubuntu you can find online, that usually also works for mint.
- Agree 100%. The amount of "help" content and documentation, both formal and informal, for other distros doesn't even come close to that of Ubuntu. It's like tenfold more. And so 90% of it becomes immediately, if not applicable, alteast in the right direction, for Mint as well.
- Check out EndeavourOS instead of Manjaro.
If you only saved Mint, then Mint devs would have to do all the Debian work too?
- is that a good thing or a bad thing?
I freaking love Linux Mint. I use it for myself because despite being the “easy” distro, it is still Linux. (Or as I like to call it, GNU plus Linux, lol) But you are still allowed to use the terminal, compile your own code, fiddle with your system, run docker, and generally do what you want with your computer without it bogging down to load ads for services that are already running in the background bogging it down more whether you pay for it or not. And since it is based on debian/ubuntu/apt, users benefit from that popularity when they look up how to do something.
I love it just as much for the non-power users. It is how I will allow my parents to keep their perfectly good laptop that collects dust instead of spending a thousand bucks on a new win11 laptop to collect dust.
Long term I assume that I will end up on Arch or a derivative, mostly thanks to Valve, on top of it being a good project to learn on.
- so I'm not very knowledgeable about the Linux world, but I'm also not completely green. In my lifetime I have dabbled with trying out 4-5 distros either dualbooting or VMing, Ubuntu being my first experience.
  But i feel like, as much as I love our Lord and Savior GabeN, what Valve's doing with Steam OS is not fully how I image a PC Linux Utopia vision looks like? Maybe i am not able to word it properly, my thought salad, but it feels like there is something missing in the Valve's approach to challenging Microsoft's grip on PC market

i only use this linux

Devuan GNU+Linux with sysvinit

sorry, i don't speak spanish
- ?

That's easy, it's Debian

You either use Debian, or Debian With Extra Steps, so I went with Debian

Pretty much any distro can do any of the things Windows/Mac users are hoping a computer can do. So just pick one and stick with it. Once you're familiar with Linux, the benefits/drawbacks of each distro will become clearer, and you'll be able to make an informed decision. People will tell you "Arch is more lightweight than Mint" but compared to Windows/MacOS, all Linux distros are going to feel blazingly fast and lightweight. The only decent advice is, if you are just starting out and you have an Nvidia GPU, use a distro that sets that up for you automatically. It's not super complicated to set up, but it's definitely going to feel like a foreign experience the first time.

Pretty much any distro can do any of the things Windows/Mac users are hoping a computer can do.
Without knowledge and at least an hour of your time for configuration, CLI-first distros like Arch can't even play a video - or show a GUI for that matter.
[…] Nvidia GPU […] It’s not super complicated to set up, but it’s definitely going to feel like a foreign experience the first time.
If you're lucky that means. If you happen to pick a distro / device combo that doesn't harmonize and the distro didn't took care of the driver from the start you'll have a really, really bad time. Especially if it's a hybrid GPU system. You're right about picking a distro that comes with it. Options like Pop!_OS, TuxedoOS or Bazzite come to mind.

I use coasters, btw.

Toss up between Slackware, Gentoo or Linux From Scratch. Learn the hard way.

LFS is a distro in the sense that a cookbook is a buffet
Best way to learn Linux? Make your own distribution and libraries.
- Its the only way to learn linux, since if you try to find any help or info all you'll find is shit from 15 years ago thats horrifically out of date and not relevant.
I did LFS a while ago. I can confidently say I didn't learn shit.

All of them except the wrong one.

I don't use arch btw

Easy! The only I use. The rest are too bloated and/or have too little built in and are too easy/hard. Real Linux wizards agree

Daily driven Mint, OpenSuse Tumbleweed and Fedora. They're all great, with their own pros and cons.

I don't have time to mess around with Arch or customizing things. I tried a couple live boots and went with Mint. Spent 2 hours picking a theme, wallpaper, and menu icon. Boom, done.

I like Ubuntu but Rocky is also fun.

It depends on what you're using it for.

Once you get out of a monoculture, you start to better appreciate that 'best' is a subjective term.

Some distros are better for some users (and purposes) and others for others.

But it's got to be Mint ;p

Once you slack, you never go back.

I don't know maybe the bue one

I use the blue one, btw

The One I'm Using :tm:

Random PSA: set your bios to sleep state linux.

Ubuntu :3

debian <3
- Outdated packages <3
  Edit: the testing branches are better

What about Manjaro Linux?

Are there major differences between Manjaro and EndevourOS? Ive tried both, and Endevour feels more open for you to customize, which is why thats my go-to reccomendation for an Arch based distro.
I've been using Manjaro with Cinnamon for about a month now. It works great on an old Lenovo with 12gb ram. Probably going to stick with it when I build my desktop.

Hmm, probably going to have to distro hop for a few more weeks and get back to you

I miss Antergos. I know Arch is still there. I know Manjaro exists. I miss Antergos.

use a big hammer

GoboLinux

FreeBSD of course.

That one.

Simple, GNU Guix System Distribution because it's not an Operating System

it is though too

The one that everyone likes.