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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 prefer Ook! Ook! over Ooga.
I feel like there’s a lemmings reference to be made here but I’m tired. Internet, do your thing.
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The wrong one, obviously!
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…
I wanted to interject about how “ecosystem” is a word only used for locked-in stuff like Apple and Google, but y’know what?
THIS is a proper ecosystem. It is actually organic, made of independent moving parts, unlike the clockwork made by big tech, internal to each and to a large extent indivisible.
*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.
Also, fuck GNOME. When I tried Ubuntu in 2009 it was GNOME that made me hate Linux until I learned that KDE Plasma was a thing.
GNOME is horrible. Looks pretty, but it’s opinionated approach means that nothing works as expected and you have to relearn how to use a stupid window manager.
Steamos is a great introduction… If you touch desktop mode of course.
Personally I recommend Linux mint, or even KUbuntu or Cinnamon Ubuntu (gnome is not meant for windows refugees so better not show it yet)
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.
We need a healthy mashup OS between TinyCore, KolibriOS, ReactOS, and TempleOS, then I’ll be happy.
I thought you said healthy.
You’re right, we also need a CP/M terminal running on top of the Minix kernel…
Why not just ReactOS atop FreeDOS?
I’m not even sure if this is satire or not, but is that even doable? I mean I’ve tested both FreeDOS and ReactOS before, but do they play well together somehow?
Side note, I’ve also tried KolibriOS before, amazing project for its tiny size, still have it on physical floppy disk right now even.
Mostly satirical.
Gotcha, no worries 👍
Future goal, emulate Linux (any version that might work) under KolibriOS.
I think that’s actually doable, to some extent… 🤷♂️
That’s like asking if MS-DOS and WinNT work well together. I guess they can both rw off FAT32 and run on x86-32…
Hey, there actually are NTFS drivers out there for MS-DOS/Win3.11, I’ve used that for data recovery when neither Windows NT nor Linux could access the partition.
Very little surprises me anymore, and I have no idea what all tricks FreeDOS and ReactOS have up their sleeves.
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.
I’ll try that soon. Tbf, it’s absurdly easy to roll back with snapper if I make a change and it’s not better, I just haven’t gotten around to it.
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.
That’s good to know, thanks. I don’t get asked for Linux advice that often, but I’ll just recommend mint unless there are extreme hardware restrictions (which I’m sure mint can work with, but I’ve looked for whatever modern lightweight-focused distro is when it’s a concern)
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.
Yep. I got a thinkpad a couple years ago that was enough of a deal that I forgave its nvidia GPU. I followed the documentation on how to connect a repo controlled by nvidia, and since then: a) the actual GPU appears to be used, but b) maximum brightness on the screen is significantly dimmer, and games run worse than they did when the GPU wasn’t actually used.
And also I use KDE. I’m still on X11, though, so I didn’t complete the set.
Haha. Well, I hope you get it worked out. Have you used PopOS before?
I haven’t, but a colleague (small all remote web dev outfit) plays rocket league and had said that pop!os has felt great for games without having to tweak anything. Meanwhile, I tried to play through cult of the lamb while some friends were all playing through it and it wasn’t playable
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?
Not familiar with it, but one thing mint has is a long history. That’s important to me.
And a lot of support, especially aimed to the beginner userbase. Most basics questions a first time linux user will encounter are usually answered to by searching the forum
Great point! I hadn’t even considered that.
It even goes beyond that because if you just search how to do something in linux, you are almost guaranteed to find instructions that work on whatever random site you find. It’s pretty rare to find instructions for dnf or pacman without also having the APT instructions right there.
Am I understanding this right? It’s Linux installed to a remote server and then streamed to the desktop?
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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.
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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.
Your a Linux user?
What’s the best distribution of Windows?
XP was
Windows 7 Embedded.
Windows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC.
Windows Vista.
Windows XP Black Edition (xD)
Royale Noir was the shit
React OS
3.1
Windows 2000 was the best (and last good) version.
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
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!
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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
Like this BeeOS?
Tap for spoiler
Okay just kidding I know you wrote BeOS, I just wanna promote metaroom cause I like listening to them and their song was on when you posted this.
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I loved BeOS. It was great.
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.
Hannah Montana Linux, btw
Can confirm.
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!
TBH I would switch to Nix, from my current long standing arch, but it wouldn’t make any difference to me ultimately. Cool concept though, but I don’t really care much about these immutable distros.
I have to say the immutability isn’t what got me. It’s that i can propagate changes to all my machines (i have three, with different configurations of work and private users) without fuss. i have one git repo that contains the Config and all i do is git pull && sudo nixos-rebuild switch after i login and it’s done. reinstalling is also somewhat trivial and once the installer is done everything is as i want it to be. which is just bonkers to me. i love it to bits. before i had a super brittle system of dotfiles that regularly broke. nevermore
That does make sense for such use cases, however I feel that archinstall script is also mature enough, allowing you to have config files even. Even w/o them it still has very powerful defaults. I will def give nixos a try in a VM first, as I mostly rely on flatpak and landlock anyways.
die heretic
rebooted, restored, invincible!
It’s NixOS
This is my favorite comment on the thread.
