Good friend

I would never criticise someone’s distro. As long as it was arch built without any scripts.

Distros are like Kinks. I have my own and you have yours, I won't judge.

Ahh yes, Good Guy Greg. Just like the good old days, I'm loving the nostalgia of these vintage memes.

I know enough about Linux to be able to install most distros and use them, but I don't know enough about them to criticizes others for their choice.

they are just waiting for you to discover Arch ;)

I will, however, warn them about Manjaro, fuck it.

Everytime I mention Linux in the outside world, people's brains freeze and then I get questions. I need a better social circle.

I use Arch btw.

I swear that when I was a student, my department had a good mix of distros.

• Most students were on Ubuntu and Mint VMs.
• Students in system or HPC labs had to learn CentOS. However, my entry condition to my lab was to install FreeBSD as a guest on VMWare ESXi. Everything must be specifically partitioned and must be done in one sitting. (This happened illegally in the server room. I could not exit and hope to reenter, hence the rule.)
• Enthusiasts learn Debian.
• I don't know what happened to SlackWare people.

Kids these days? WSL or Mac.

Amogos is the best just saying🙄

Arch linux is the gateway drug that leads to NixOS

i'm about to take my first peek into linux on mint. i'm not completely put off learning some new things but being able to do that in a desktop that is familar makes everything a lot easier to pick up on. who knows, if it all goes smoothly maybe next week i'll be running arch (i won't)

First time installing Linux? What the fuck is this Ubuntu shit, that distro sucks. You really should try out Gentoo as your first distro.

Can't believe I fell for that as a kid. Wasn't even my first distro, but Gentoo for beginners is just hilarious

I use Hannah Montana Linux btw

I don't criticize, I just give fair warnings. I want people to enjoy Linux like I do, not call me every other week because something is "broken"

It's mostly all Debian based, so it matters little.

Finally somewhere I can start a CentOS stream community!

Ubuntu 🤮 if I wanted to be tracked by Amazon, I would have a registered address.

I use ArseLinux btw

Is Ubuntu still the go-to for home use?

Looking to use for things like web, office, Plex server, streaming, etc

That's damn right, however, Debian is the only right choice.

Ain't nothin wrong with Ubuntu (is Ubuntu still around?)

Eventually, they'll start criticising your choice of DE or text editor.

What is this thing about Manjaro in this Comments here?

How cheap can i build a linux pc if i dont want to game on it? Just browsing, maybe play some videos from youtube every now and then. Mostly browsing and using excel etc for work, no gaming at all.

bsd from scratch btw

I won't judge you until you should know better.

Can install that on this can of garbage beer and this AMD chip?

Cesar/Leo if you are out there thank you for enduring my stubbornness in learning Linux on Slackware. I bet you were patient every time I had issues and you didn't force me to switch distros. Thank you.

pfffff typical Ubuntu kind of guy 🙄

And doesnt tell you to "just google it"

There's no wrong distro.

There is a wrong DE tho.

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That's pretty much me. I've introduced a few of my friends to Linux. I recommend Ubuntu because it generally has the most documentation, support, largest userbase, etc but they are of course free to pick whatever distro they want. I use Ubuntu LTS myself, it works well enough. In terms of software, I like static linked builds and AppImages since they work on pretty much any distro.

Except openSUSE. Fuck that, it breaks with the smallest thing and is just odd. But this was like 5y ago on Tumbleweed, so maybe it’s changed.

Slackware or gtfo.

I told them to use Ubuntu LTS and they did. Why would I criticize?

First distro was Mandrake, yeaaars ago. Second was Gentoo. Third was back to Windows. Wish I'd gotten more into it. Definitely don't have the time for it now though.

Am I the only one around here that uses MX Linux?

And that dude didn't show up years later trying to sell me something on TV! Looking at you Bad Luck Brian.

More like unicorn

ZipSlack FTW

The arch wizard who introduced me to ubuntu

Yeah but fuck Ubuntu though.

Y’all should call your friends out on this sort of stuff but jabbing at each other is a useless practice that only serves to ruin trust, add frustrations and is just a generally douchey behavior to encourage. Nobody likes being harassed for their choices, esp. when they’re subjective

+rep