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I've been wanting to give Guix a try. I always seem to end up just installing Arch thoughI was thinking of librebooting an old Thinkpad of mine sometime soon and was just wondering if anyone has recommendations on what OS to use when I get it all setup, was thinking either Gentoo or Arch (which I already do use) but just wanted to see if anyone had other recommendations.
Arch is king. Literally no reason to use anything else unless you're a noob or lazyI was thinking of librebooting an old Thinkpad of mine sometime soon and was just wondering if anyone has recommendations on what OS to use when I get it all setup, was thinking either Gentoo or Arch (which I already do use) but just wanted to see if anyone had other recommendations.
Linux Mint is the king. It's easy to set up and use. Cinnamon is a comfy DE. Overall, it's plenty powerful and doesn't get in the wayI was thinking of librebooting an old Thinkpad of mine sometime soon and was just wondering if anyone has recommendations on what OS to use when I get it all setup, was thinking either Gentoo or Arch (which I already do use) but just wanted to see if anyone had other recommendations.
ive recently switched from years on xmonad to Gnome and i must say i sort of see the appeal.I tried installing KDE on a laptop this week but I just...I just couldn't use it. It's really cool and I've seen some neat rices, but I have become too accustomed to a WM. I don't have to think about the keybinds now, screen space is efficient, and I don't even need the mouse.
Maybe I'm just more used to MacOS for GUI type desktop experience, and since KDE is more like winblows, it wasn't immediately intuitive to me. Might try elementaryOS at some point then...
But tbh I really like just a WM. Feels sleek, feels like I have more direct control on the machine.
Ubuntu/Debian used to be the go-to newbie distro, but ever since they moved to the GARBAGE Gnome 3 shell, it's not newbie friendly anymore. Not when using your PC is painful and difficult because it now has a crappy phone interface. It's like Windows 8 but worse.Debian is the one i like the most besides ubuntu which is idiot-proof for the most part.
I've tried manjaro too but I downloaded the i3 one cause I wanted to try out one of those windows managers. Couldn't fix the audio so I never got to use it.Ubuntu/Debian used to be the go-to newbie distro, but ever since they moved to the GARBAGE Gnome 3 shell, it's not newbie friendly anymore. Not when using your PC is painful and difficult because it now has a crappy phone interface. It's like Windows 8 but worse.
I recommend all newbies use Manjaro KDE instead.
Also the absolute first thing I do when installing Linux for new users is disable SNAP and FLATPAK support in their app store settings. Both of these technologies were a mistake and create significantly more problems than they solve. Even just a few weeks ago one of my friends (who is a linux noob) was having problems with games running at ~5FPS because the Snap version of Steam couldn't see the graphics card because of the stupid containerisation bullshit they do. I uninstalled it and put in the "hard to use" and "difficult to install" apt version with 1 command and now everything runs fine.
I've tried manjaro too but I downloaded the i3 one cause I wanted to try out one of those windows managers. Couldn't fix the audio so I never got to use it.
I had to use windows 10 for about 2 hours today, this changed my view of linux once again, i fukken love linux. I forgot how terrible win10 was compared to using linux.I fucking hate linux, i would ditch it in a heartbeat if OBSD had wacom drivers.