The answer is simple. You need to perform the following steps: 1. [A]sk around 2. [R]esearch on your own 3. [C]ontinue to distro hop until 4. [H]ome is found
I used it since I started on Linus about 4 years now and I had put quickgui on it with a few distro,s I like Archlinux,Rockylinux,Ubuntu.and Zorin os core which I really liked and wanted to see how it would be on bare metal so yesterday I put it on and took Linuxmint off. I already am somewhat missing it as I knew where everything is on it, something in my mind says I will go back to Linuxmint in the future just not sure when that will be. I had some trouble getting me volume working on Zorin right off the bat I have it fixed now it just seem somewhat strange not being on Linuxmint.
Mint got me into Linux too, its great and I'm thankful that its there. I'm not using it anymore but it will always be my first main Linux experience. (my actual first was a fedora live usb stick to save my mom's files on a windows laptop where the login was forgotten)
My 87 year old Mom has two 15 year old Dells that run 32 bit Mint (Cinnamon DE). She uses them every day for streaming Web on TV and word processing in her office. It's a good distro. Thank you for the wallpaper lead! Alois Arnegger is very talented.
I love your pov and how your present it on your channel here. It just feels natural. I am an old school Linux user, literally starting at the beginning of it all back in 91 before even Softlanding Linux was out. I have seen the ups and downs. I love seeing the younger generation of Linux users, like you, promote the idea of Linux and FOSS. I also find it interesting to watch myself. I also saw your channel get promoted by Distrotube, which, I thought, was very cool of him. Keep up the great work.
Same here although I think I started using it around 93. I was in an operating systems class in University and at the time everyone used Minix for OS courses. So I was poking around fidonet, ftp, gopher, etc. which was amazing then because there were only a handful of us that knew how to use the "internet" on the Sun systems, so we had free reign of the T1 line. Anyway, I found this project called Linux and after convincing my professor that I could do my coursework using Linux instead of Minix, I went down the very long path of trying to figure out how to work with the scheduler and how to map my homework from Minix to Linux. It was a blast tho. Those were the days when it was really new and exciting but to see young people today doing what they are doing, I am truly jealous. I wish I could be 20 again. 🙂
As long as I have access to a shell I can pretty much feel at home on any Linux distro! Once you learn the shell and are comfortable with it, you have a lot of cross platform knowledge that is applicable to many different distros. Once you understand the shell everything regarding the GUI tools clicks into place.
When I was a beginner, I hopped between many distros, tried them in virtual machines,usb sticks(still i carry iso's of mint debian and arch with me everyday), and I strongly recommend this to new users, as you mentioned in your video. I gained a lot of knowledge from using Linux Mint (which is still one of my favorites), and eventually moved on to base distros. After trying several, I settled on Debian. I want to say few words to the beginners also. The issue with choosing a distro as a beginner in my opinion is following people on the internet who says things like "X is the best," or "Y is better than Z," or "I use Arch, btw." Don't follow others' opinions blindly. Always take the time to explore for yourself. Use what works for you, and please, don't make your distro of choice a part of your identity. At the end of the day its all penguins and gnu/linux. Thanks for this great video btw i really enjoy this linux related videos even if i am experienced user some sort of.
Oh no, I hope the majority of us saying "I use arch, btw", nowadays are saying it ironically, because we're more self aware than prior generations who used it as a form of identity. Or at least, I haven't met anyone who's an arch supremacist in awhile? **knock on wood**
@@cevmantius I saw it back in the days of usenet, I guess they had to have gone somewhere, so yes, I most certainly believe you. [sigh] to me, it's like PC v Mac, I can never comprehend or condone the infighting between enthusiasts. I'll continue barking at them, when/if I see them. 😉
Subscribed and your content inspires me to make new content. Your doing awesome. Keep it up. Your a breath of fresh air in the midst of some elitist in the community. Your absolutely correct. It's your distro and my distro. You get to choose what works for you.
I built my first pc roughly a year ago and dove right into linux mint. After a few months, I found myself on arch. I've learned a good amount since then, and agree there isn't any objective "best" distro. Just go with whatever works and suits your preferences best. Can't go wrong as long as it's linux
I remember when there were fewer distros, and the most forgiving of them for newcomers was Mandrake, now Mandriva, and PCLinuxOS. While I use others now, those left a good impression on me, at least from a 'historical' perspective.
In my personal experience I found that I hopped between opinions faster than I hopped distros. I went through the full range of wanting stable to wanting rolling to wanting something in the middle, something familiar hen something different and so on and so on. I had to go through various cycles of that before I found my home. A big part of why I love Linux now is that process was really, really fun.
That's fair - I moved around with opinions on what would be best in my first year or two of using Linux, but have always used Arch on my main machine and distro hopped on laptops. I agree it's a very fun process, learning along the way as well. :^)
For my desktop PC I use Mint, on my old thinkpad I use OpenBSD+Arch Linux. Both Arch and Mint perform their functions very well. Everyone uses what suits them and that's it! That's the beauty of freedom of choice and software. This fight of criticizing your colleague's distro is very 90s, from the time when Slackware fought with Debian and blah blah blah...
"That's the beauty of freedom of choice and software." - Exactly! The multitude of distros would not exist, were there not a use someone saw to develop each and every one.
I switched from Windows 11 to Nobara about a month and a half ago. Cold turkey. Best decision I've ever made. Gave some thought about trying out other distros, but for me, Nobara just simply works.
I used the mainstream Mint for a while and have it still on a Dell, but for some time I have been running LMDE6 on a ThinkPad and it is just fine. I can do what I need to and that is that. I know Mint is a gateway distro for some, but it doesn't have to be your rebound after leaving Windows. You can stay with it. I started playing around on Mandrake back in the day too. But that was a long time before I wanted Linux as a daily driver. :)
I started with Mandrake which became Mandriva. Then I moved to Ubuntu and Mint. I have done the Arch install, Slackware, and a LFS install. Now I'm using Arco Linux which is pretty much Arch with a Calamares installer. I use the Awesome WM, it's what works for me. Just use what works for you. I found you from DT, your channel seems pretty cool so I subbed.
I started using Linux in '04 or '05. My main way to get installation media at the time was LinuxCD (based in France, if I remember correctly). At the time, I loved the variety packs. I could get a variety, see which ones I could manage to get a working install from, and then see what worked for me from there. There is so much more choice now, but it is also more accessible for a lot of people. Great advice to choose something that appeals and see how it goes.
That's awesome, I wasn't even using computers then! I guess we forget how incredible it is to have access to any distro of our choice, at our fingertips. Thanks :-)
@@BreadOnPenguins I'm sure some people could download their own at the time (location/service dependent), but I was on dial-up in a rural area in Missouri with a peak download speed of about 14kbs. ISOs were smaller, but still not tiny. If I remember correctly, Debian took 2 discs. So, it made sense to order install media from someone with a much faster connection.
It can be fun to see the neckbeards' heads explode over my preference for my favorite 1st tier desktop environment on my favorite 3rd tier distro. "Cinnamon Arch?!!" (In the tone of voice from that picante sauce commercial, "New York City?!!")
Tried several distro's. Settled on MX linux Xfce. Quick, easy and very fast install. Easy to use and very stable. I don't need the latest and greatest.
Also: you can use multiple different distros on different machines, just to try or to learn. Some distros are better supported on certain hardware, that can be a factor to choose one as well.
For sure! I've kept Arch on my main machine for years, but have tried many distros on laptops. Factoring in how lightweight a distro is, for older hardware, is very important.
Things to consider: * packages recency and availability * documentation * support in general. Is best to use a well mantained distro than one person effort * support from DEs or Tilling Composer/Manager to your considered distro * If nvidia GPU, does it support proprietary nvidia drivers out of the box?
"Which Linux Distro" is something that stops a lot of people even trying I think, and it shouldn't since most distros will do the job and can be made to work the way you want. I usually only recommend a few to new people. Linux Mint is the top one for new people for sure. Fedora KDE is also a major recommendation since I have more experience with that over the years and I use it for my main work machine. The other is Debian (main net install) for a traditional, reliable system with easy choices for multiple desktop environments. The Arch based installs I'll leave for those with experience. I break them enough myself. lol.
Tinkering on ARCH just feels good. building my own system from minimal install means i know what is going on. Would go to gentoo but i just dont really care about the powers it offers same with NixOS. I love picking and customizing my own WM.
my most used distro and first was ubuntu. Now that i am serious and switching off of windows as much as possible , I have been doing the hop for a bit. I love KDE Plasma for de , so I have been sticking to that with different distros. PopOS is solid and I have it on a ThinkPad that rarely has any issues and just works out of the box, I just don't like gnome and Cosmic is still in Alpha. So I now lean to Fedora KDE spin , been on openSUSE Tumbleweed for a month as a daily and have had weirdness. Also that community and finding help in general hasn't been great. Soon as it breaks again I will wipe and reload with Fedora and be done. Great video !
Thanks for sharing! If I had to pick between DEs I'd go Plasma as well. I have heard great things about Fedora, so hopefully that goes well for you :-)
Of all the more user friendly distros I found myself going back to manjaro cause it gives me the least amount issues of them all. The only reason I sometimes keep going back from manjaro to arch is when I have an itch to install something manjaro hasn't yet shipped but arch has and I'm not a fan of using testing branches. Also my mom's laptop is running Manjaro for years with pretty rare updates but all of them has been completely smooth which is pretty impressive. Also btw if you pick btrfs when installing manjaro you get automatic bootable snapshots out of the box, a very cool thing but still very rare
I'm partial to MX Linux, XFCE. I use it as a live USB, with persistence, and I love it. I don't care if it's not pretty, even though it can be quite customized. I'm rather ignorant about Linux, I don't want to get under the hood, so to speak. It works great out of the box.
I like the "just use Mint" option, because as a new user, a baseline has to be established. There is no way for a new user to know what it is they want in a distro until they try something, and then figure out, "I like X, but I don't like Y." When you have that language to ask for recommendations, that is when things get interesting. New users spend too much energy on this; until a baseline is established, there's no point stressing about "which distro." I'd advise new users to not feel like they're committing to anything in the beginning.
That is a great way to put it. You have to try out Linux to learn what you're looking for, and of course you can always switch later on if you aren't happy. Thanks for commenting.
The Linux Mint option is what I always come back to after hopping around a little. I finally settled on their LMDE 6 version using Debian as a based rather than Ubuntu/Debian. I made LMDE look and feel like MacOS because I appreciate the workflow and elegance of a Mac. My Mac'd out LMDE is my daily driver now and I'm sticking with it unless I go pure Debian at some point which I have also made look and feel like using MacOS. I like the little polished features the Mint team did with LMDE.
That's pretty cool. The UI/UX of MacOS is extremely elegant. I'm less of a fan of recent iterations, but the classic 00s-10s MacOS versions were all very sleek.
@@BreadOnPenguins I have attempted two replies to your comment, both of which were deleted by YT which I can't understand why, but this is where we are with YT these days-- zero valid reason for censorship.
@@BreadOnPenguins I agree with your point. I also prefer the older UIs of MacOS. I'm attempting to be sneaky with my reply to avoid censorship if this is indeed why. I'd appreciate your experienced opinion regarding my bash scripts that I recently uploaded to a "hub" where programmers share things. You can use my name for the channel.
That's youtube for you, unfortunately. It happens to me often as well. It looks like a cool project! I'm sure someone will find use out of scripts to convert UI.
I've gone full circle and hit on Bluefin for a while now, all my faff is already done, and I don't have to worry too much about setting up snapper or BTRFS partitions. I think once you get an idea of what you want, just look for the distro that offers most of it out the box.
I've been dual booting Fedora (fedora default, windows if I need steam) and it's amazing! It's amazing and I saw it. I saw it. The thumbnail is right, just pick one.
May I ask why do you need windows for Steam? For me Steam works perfectly with Vulkan on my Ubuntu. I'm a newbie user so at first I made it a dual boot windows and ubuntu, but ended up only using ubuntu and not booting up windows since. Eventually I deleted windows. Felt great :)
@@ramboi9498 Ah, makes sense. I also have a friend who enjoys playing modded Euro Truck Simulator and she uses it on windows as it works better with mods that way. But myself, mostly playing dark souls games or other RPGs, I am totally fine on Linux.
@@BreadOnPenguins I'd like to try out Fedora and I think I'll be checking it out when I feel like some distro hopping. Semi-rolling seems like a good middle ground. But I'm also asking myself a question: what of the packages I normally use I'd have the newer version of on Fedora than on Ubuntu? I don't see myself using anything in particular.
I started on Ubuntu and switched to Mint when it came out. I gained confidence and had an Arch install last for almost a year. After figuring out Gentoo and playing with Nix... I settled with Void. FOR me it feels like Void sits right in between Gentoo and Arch.
@@BreadOnPenguins After being on Arch for years it was weird to run my daily update and have nothing to install, sometimes for days. I thought I had broke something..lolz. Void just feels snappy and solid
I've been using arch for about a year on my main laptop. But, since its a shared machine, I wanted to get linux working on another laptop for me to play around, which is old, 2001, 512MB RAM. Seems like arch wont boot into the installation environment due to the RAM requirement, so Im currently trying out Gentoo. Im waiting for emerge to compile my word set since 4 days ago, even with binaries packages. I havent tried Nix neither Void to see if they even boot to the installation, but I chose Gentoo over those because I find interesting compilers, init systems and package managers. What do you guys recommend for me?
@@awauser My recommendation would be to upgrade your laptop..lolz. You can run a few distros on it BUT it won't be an enjoyable experience. You don't need a fancy laptop but you are are shooting yourself in the foot trying to run on 1/2gb
Hello, I usually just search artists I like, or on stock sites, or /wg/. I've been putting artist & title in video descriptions :^) I'll be making a video soon about using Pywal as well!
I really liked starting out with Manjaro/KDE as it gave me a good idea of programs that were out in the wild. Now I'm getting my second system and going to dare Arch proper. My only worry is updates breaking things. But ya know, there's always reverts lol. And now I feel comfortable enough with timeshift so, bring on the interesting times!
Have fun with Arch! Things may break from time to time, but the more comfortable you become with it, the quicker you can diagnose and fix problems. It has a reputation for packages breaking, but really, it's rare to have something break out of the blue. :-)
No problem! I will eventually make host a repo with cleaned up and organized dotfiles; I'll be making a video about how to source wallpapers within the next few weeks :-)
Manjaro was my second distro, and with my experience with it and stories I read, I would rather recommend endeavor OS even though I never personally used it
Personally i've used almost all the distros except parabola,puppy and kali so here is my top 3 1. Artix (i use this currently) - its just arch with no systemd (less bloat) 2. Void (its something very diffrent and unique) 3. Gentoo (just for the flex)
Thanks for ranking them! I personally prefer Void over Artix, but yeah not a systemd fan lol. Gentoo is fun to learn but for me would be too time-consuming to daily drive
Thanks Bread, another helpful video. I generally stick with Debian based distros but have realised that whichever one I am using I always install the same DE, programs etc. For me, it comes down to personal preference and does it do what I want it to do. It is good to try different distros, like you say in VM or live USB. We are spoilt for choice.
No problem! I tend to agree, the DE/WM and programs make a much bigger difference than the distro underneath (other than for sysadmin purposes). "We are spoilt for choice" - completely true.
@@BreadOnPenguins I would recommend Debian over Linux Mint only on the account that Debian is more up-to-date [correct me if I am wrong]. LM is an excellent distro, but I have got use to Gnome and its extensions.
Hey, awesome video as always! I’m a long-time Linux Mint user and advocate. I just wanted to mention that if people enjoy using Linux Mint or other open-source projects, it might be a good idea to remind viewers to consider donating if they’re able. I don’t have a lot to spare myself, but I try to donate a little every year to Mint and other FOSS projects. Of course, only if people have the means-times are tough for a lot of us right now, so no worries if they can’t! Just thought it might be a helpful reminder for those who can. Keep up the great work! - Also what should we call you? Do you like being called Bread?
Great idea to mention - donations are what keep FOSS projects running. Community support is what allows us to have these great programs. Bread is fine :-) Thanks for asking!
usually i just stick to debian and slax. i like any distro where you can install it headless and add whatever desktop/wm, but also like stability. i am interested in LFS but havent mastered cross compiling yet.
On laptops I do distro hop frequently - for fun/to learn. My pc is on Arch and at the moment, the only distro I'd consider switching to for daily use would be Void :-)
Mint has had some iffy choices on its road but i've still been using it off & on since 2008. I finally dumped Windows for it fully at the start of the year and everything has been good, especially gaming via Steam. 🙂👍
I've been using Linux almost exclusively (in my personal life) since 2012 and on and off since 2000. I would not consider myself to be a "tier 3" or "tier 4" user like you describe. I've never really felt the need to go to those lengths. I have had to ask myself what my use case is. I have test computers that I can build up and trash when I get it wrong. That's fun and a great learning experience. But I also need something reliable to use personally, and for my family. For that, I tend to stick with Linux Mint Debian Edition. I've had it loaded for years and never felt the need to change it. My kids use a computer with Mint loaded and they're happy with it (some games notwithstanding). I don't worry about it too much because of Linux's extremely good user control and general unwillingness to run Windows malware. I don't worry about it spying on us and calling back home to ad partners. I can run it the way I want without some big brother organization looking over my shoulder telling me that my current hardware won't support this looming new version (ahem, Window 11). Debian-based distros have always worked really well with my hardware, without a lot of fuss. Actually, they tend to support my hardware out of the box better than Windows. I don't have to download and install endless driver packages (with their associated bloatware) just to make stuff work.
dude! you make a really good point! im probably tier 2 or 3? lol ive already decided and am using Mint Debian edition this is my main Disto i chose it over the ubuntu base because i dont like the direction of ubuntu and i LOVE the underlying Debian package manager thats whats keeping manjaro away IMO this is the perfect Linux OS i am however considering making a dual boot setup with a experimental distro this would be where i might play a little more reckless but idk if i did would it be deb? or maybe fedora ? i think i could deal with dnf install firefox (my brain has nicknamed it Do Not F**kUp lol) i look at the underpining of the distro because i take into acount that i may be working with the terminal just as much as GUI
I notice this video is in 16 by 10 aspect ratio. Neat! What monitor are you using? Laptops have been moving to 16 by 10 since quite some time and my primary and only machine is my laptop so it is great that the video actually goes "full screen".
For me, an OS is just the middleman between the programs I would like to run and me. And I don't want to change it every 5 years! Knowing that OS-es have a limited life span, how to deal with an OS update? Take a hard disk with 3 partitions, of which 2 are bootable. Use the third for data storage. Start with OS on partition 1, and when this one becomes obsolete install the next one on partition 2. All the time data is stored on the third partition.
Separating home and root partitions is a good idea, I always do so on my own installs. It saves a lot of headache down the line. Your strategy for 2 different bootable is interesting, as long as it works for you then go for it :)
Started with Linux Mint, started finding it boring and having problems with the large updates, tried Arch, liked Arch, broke Arch, found OpenSuse Tumbleweed with KDE. Stopped looking as I’m happy, but I might look into Fedora and Arch at some point, maybe Qbes. I hate distros with really big, seemingly monolithic updates. I broke more stuff updating Mint from 18 to 19 than weekly updating OpenSuse Tumbleweed. If only use the central repo, nothing ever breaks, and if you don’t (like me), it hardly ever breaks and if so is easy to fix by just rolling back.
That's an interesting and good point: a lot more may break with a big distro version update, as opposed to small updates weekly, where you have fine control over what you're updating and will likely immediately realize what went wrong, if something breaks. Thanks for commenting!
hi! i'm not sure if this fits the channel but could you maybe make a video about wine and related stuff? like there's so many things like wineprefxies and winetricks and other helpers like lutris which comes with multiple wine setups and stuff and it's a bit overwhelming to understand how to use it bc for a lot of things it seems one thing works and another doesn't and then there's like really weird fixes for specific ones and then there's bottles like yeah it's like weird and confusing as hell yea
Hello, I'll probably cover wine at some point, yes! I don't use it often but I agree it's a topic that deserves a simple and to-the-point video on how to set up Thanks for suggesting :-)
I started my linux journey with linuxmint cinnamon. I didn't like it, so I switched to Manjaro. It isn't perfect, I had many issues (mesa, KDE6 upgrade etc.), but I am still using it, it gets the job done. I tryed endeavourOS briefly, it wasn't very pleasent experience with the neverending update process. In the bleeding edge, stable axle Manjaro is the middle ground you get the recent updates, but you might avoid the bad updates. I also use MX Linux on my ancient MacbookPro, it can be a good pick for a beginner. In the end I think linux is linux no matter which distro you use, especially in the beginner level they are all the same basically.
@@infinitivez no, it was some legal issue on Manjaro side. The mesa version in the Manjaro repository had some features ripped out, so I had to use the Arch repository or compile the normal mesa myself. Fortunately it is over now.
Thanks for the video. One thing I havent noticed anyone mentioning is the ntfs problem where Mint and Kubuntu, will not mount and read ntfs drives. It makes accessing your back-ups impossible without a lot of reading and experimenting, its definitely not good for new users. Zorin and Mx can access ntfs with no trouble.
Thanks, that is good suggestion. I had already tried it and it didnt last. I could access the drive, but each time I restarted my computer, or even if i swapped to a different external backup hdd it would reset, and i would have to run the command again. thats ok though. I switched to another distro, there are plenty that do just what i want without fussing around.
I've used Linux on and off since 2015 and I used to distro hop a lot. Currently I use CachyOS on my Acer Nitro 5 with a 3050 Ti Mobile/i7-11800H and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my build with a 7900GRE/7700X combo. I use distros based on use case. I daily drove GNOME for weeks on end until I switched over to KDE. I sorta keep GNOME around in case KDE craps out but I also like Cinnamon, i3, Awesome, and Sway. I use Wayland almost exclusively so something like Debian wouldn't work well for me personally. I do have it on a 1050 Ti/i5-2400 combo but I don't really touch it much.
@BreadOnPenguins Forgot to mention I was an Xfce fanboy for years but I've been spoiled by more feature-rich desktops mentioned. It's also funny that once I migrated the Tumbleweed drive from the 1050 Ti machine to the 7900 GRE machine, Xorg stopped working so I was forced to use Wayland anyway. Both GPU vendors and display servers have their pros, cons, and certainly weird quirks. It's not as cut-and-dry as the Linux community likes to make it. Maybe once upon a time but not these days. I remember when the HD series Radeon cards were terrible on Linux and would have graphical glitches on Unity and I've had the Nvidia issues on Wayland in recent years like external monitors being sluggish and of course the jitters which have been fixed in the 555.58 driver of course. Nvidia and Wayland itself are pretty good now and even issues from a year ago have been fixed so I'm pretty happy.
I was done distro hopping and stayed with Linux Mint, reason that I was so busy so I really dont have the time to fix arch linux when it breaks. For a busy person because of work I dont plan to have downtimes so I went back to using Linux Mint
It's great to use something more complex if you are curious, passionate, and have the time, but for many, using a reliable and simpler-to-setup distro makes more sense. Great mindset to have :-)
This was a cool video - I am curious about your feelings on desktop environments. At this point in my journey, I am finding the DE to be the one thing that I struggle with - I am still looking for "just right". I am not totally happy with Gnome or KDE, but dwm seems too bare, too extreme in the other direction. I am seriously tempted to make my own DE and call it Goldilocks, but I have no clue on how to build one.... actually, I have a naive suspicion on how to build one, but I am hoping to avoid a project that large. Any ideas/suggestions on desktop environments? I currently run Cinnamon on Artix and am checking out i3, but i3 is not a complete DE....
Thanks! Sure - I'd try identifying and making a list of the features you want most in a DE, and seeing if you can find a match. Making your own DE would be awesome, but a huge undertaking - it could end up being worth it, if you can create the perfect setup and enjoy the process! It might be easier to just fork and modify from an existing DE, if you have something you're partially happy with but want to change some features. It's worth mentioning that in KDE, you can use a full tiling WM instead of the default, I believe the program for that is called Bismuth.
@@BreadOnPenguinsBismuth is discontinued. Krohnkite has had a recent fork which works excellent. I wanted to be a cool kid with Hyprland but there were more dotfiles than I could handle. KDE is brilliant for someone like me who likes tweaking stuff without having to learn Luna (edit: Lua of course) and whatnot.
Also make sure you get the right Distro with the latest OS kernel version that will support your hardware. Like if you have a 7800x3d and AMD 7800xt you need Linux Kernel 6.3 and up at least, make sure you a new version and is stable. I 2-3 weeks ago upgrade from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to 24.10 (less stable but is). Linux Mint is decent for when you come from Windows; but Ubuntu is good too, just the Gnome desktop is a bit like Mac I think, takes a while to get use. Linux Mint is based off of Ubuntu any ways. The thing about Ubuntu it has 20 years stability behind it. But later on if you want something more advance consider Arch Linux. I would suspicious of small distros, especially from other countries, could be spyware. Ok, good luck and hopefully you find something to suit your needs.
@@leonbishop7404 Basically, Linux Mint is another Ubuntu flavour but a special one cause it's desktop is sort of like Windows. I was thinking Kubuntu cause I heard some good things about KDE desktop. Gnome sort of works, but not sure about the future of Gnome. I have a somewhat strong system, so I can handle these, but was thinking might look into Window Managers like Hyprland but seems like a pain to configure and only a few people maintain it.
Keeping up to date is very important for security reasons as well. Gnome is likely going to be more familiar to those coming from MacOS (and KDE or Cinnamon closer to those from Windows). Thanks for commenting!
I use debian and i chose it because to me it feels comfortable to use it, i don't event feel like i wanna distro hop nor i feel like i wanna go back to windows. My point about systemd is: stop being so lazy and instead of complaining about what you don't like about systemd, remove it from your distro and install sysvinit instead of switching over to another distro, it will take but of time to learn sysvinit but DO NOT BE LAZY!
Hey thanks for mentioning that! That might be a far better option, I hadn't even thought of just removing it / running vanilla Arch with a different init.
@BreadOnPenguins before you really remove it dig into artix linux wiki to see what they wrote on init they use depending on what you want. It they mention they have compatibility modules included for apps that depend on systemd than it's safe to remove it if not do not risk unless they have systemd dependent apps covered. Devuan which is debian based distro that is lile artix for arch and according to devs of devuan they have modules for all inits they offer that work with apps that normally depend on systemd so if artix has the same, grab their aur repos amd instal sysvinit from there. So i can if i don't want to use it anymore remove systemd and install sysvinit from devuan's repos.
I ran several distros in a VM before settling on one. Would run one for about a month until I made my decision. That took a while to test drive all those distros but it beats a bare metal install and then distro hoping every time the wind blows.
Ok maybe it is your CPU temp but regardless... Do you have your dwm configuration on github by chance? I was wondering how you got the weather to show on it. Are you just calling an external shell script or is it a feature built-in to dwm?
I have a full video about weather in shell/statusbar - ua-cam.com/video/3mGgJbqQLNM/v-deo.html My statusbar uses dwmblocks; each block is calling external shell scripts. I have yet to post my dwm config as it's quite messy, but I will eventually clean it up and post it :)
I personally love Tuxedo OS. It's very niche but it has the best defaults per my liking. A semi release model to have both stable and rolling benifits, comes from Debian family (so i can use things like nala) and KDE+Wayland+No snaps by default.
I cut my teeth on UNIX workstations back in the 90s when I was at university (DEC Alphas running Tru64, SGIs and Suns). I've always run Slackware and or Gentoo as they feel the most UNIX-like to me. Plus neither of these distros are infected with SystemD (optional on Gentoo). Nice videos!
I tried many but on Arch (EndeavorOS) with KDE Plasma I'm feeling like in home. I'm not PC noob so learning basic of Arch/EndeavorOS to use that system wasn't hard. I'm also thinking about trying out Hyprland.
Awesome! Of the various DEs available, I like KDE Plasma best as well. I haven't seriously used it in a long time though, so maybe I'll make a video trying it out at some point.
How I went about choosing a distro was that I needed something lightweight for my old 15 year old netbook, and liked AntiX. They have a focus on anarchy and dislike of SystemD which are both things I liked, but I wanted something a bit more modern looking and therefore went with MX Linux, which is related to AntiX. I'm thinking of switching to Artix or something less Debian based down the road, because I think wayland is starting to look appealing, a switch I won't see for years on MX Linux.
Thanks for commenting! I'll likely switch to Wayland in the next year or so. It's far better than it was a few years ago compatibility-wise, and X is starting to lag behind. Artix might be a good choice, or Void as well. :-)
Why did i choose Fedora for daily driver? I got some free Ubuntu install media back in mid 00's and all of them were broken :D My first Linux install was in mid 90's with slackware, it was part of my education. I've used Fedora since core 3. and started using it as daily driver since core 6. I did some work with centos environment back then and it was good to have same kind of system on my livingroom machine to know how it works. Now i'm writing this with Fedora 41 KDE. After Gnome became some kind of tablet UI i switched to KDE.
hmm, not yet at 10k, but still congrats to 6k though, we will get there ok little woman in the corner of my tv, if you don't like systemd i wonder if you ever tried void as an alternative to arch. i mean, of course i'm asking because void is what i use and i'm biased as every linux user is but i actually don't mind systemd or its lack to much, i picked void because it's more stable and the equivalent in void for the AUR in arch is more restricted and therefore not that cluttered anyway i would love some content about pywal because i have integrated it heavily in my whole system(like beside the terminals it changes colors of the window manager, panel and my rofi theme) and i'm curious how you did put it into dwm without having to recompile it everytime.
Thanks! 10k eventually, I hope :-) I will try Void - it's been suggested a few times, and I like it more than Artix (which I have tried). Pywal is a superb program and I will make a video about it soon. For dwm, if you have either the xrdb or the Xresources patch, it shouldn't need to be recompiled.
Speaking of choosing a distro, many people's relatives might be switching to Linux soon due to EoL on Windows 10. I mean the kind of people with old hardware, maybe are tech-unsavvy or don't have many needs, and Win11 wouldn't run well for them or they wouldn't want to run it. I got my mom on ChromeOS Flex for those reasons, it runs & looks great out of the box, is intuitive and it runs better than Win10 has in years or ever on her laptop 😁 For most people it'll probably come down to ChromeOS vs Mint, they seem to be the most popular ones for ease of use.
That's true. Given privacy concerns I'd always suggest staying away from Google, but that said, it's a toss-up between Microsoft and Google. But for overall usability, I'm guessing ChromeOS runs far better than Windows 10. Glad it's working for her :-) Thanks for commenting!
I started with kali (yeah i know), went to debian, landed at arch for the longest time, now I'm at debian unstable with a lot of debian experimental components. Tried gentoo too, but it was too complicated after I installed it lol.
It really gave me a chance to pick out what works the best for me. I still plan to try Exherbo soon enough, but other than that I dont really do any distro hopping anymore. A good video I would like to see if an explanation on how to run more than one distro from a common /home. Just an idea.
Linux Mint is a great choice for new users, I have family members using it that know nothing about Linux, no news is good news touch wood Lol, desktops are a tough choice, they're all pretty good these days, you're right though, it comes down to personal choice!! Thought I would check out your channel, not sure if you're aware, Distrotube gave you a shout out, I give you a sub to support :)
Awesome, I've heard that Mint is becoming pretty popular for anyone without technical knowledge moving away from Windows 10! I did see his video - thanks so much for coming over and checking out my channel, and for the sub :^)
In the morning. I've tried many distros and the majority have Debian based but I always seem to end back on Mint. It just seems to work for me without too much faff. Recently tried Debian 12 and while it was great I ran into issues, issues that I just don't want to have to trouble shoot. Christ Titus did a video a while ago and he put Arch and Debian in the God tier, which I agree with.
Fair enough! It makes sense to stay on whatever works best for you. Good to know, I don't think I've seen that video - Arch and Debian are among the mother-distros (ie. many distros based on them)
Debian is a bit annoying sometimes but I've personally found it really good once you get it setup how you want it. Plus there is a fair bit of support out there for commercial software .deb packages seeing as it's been around so long. Surely, for me it is a better experience than Manjaro breaking on me a couple years ago fairly regularly, which pushed me back onto Windows until a couple of months ago. For Debian 12 the wiki is your friend, and so is github if you have a specific use case you can't solve through the wiki/manual. Once again, the wide support for Debian and related distros means that solutions for say, Mint or Ubuntu generally also work fine on Debian 12 especially if it is some kinda edge case stuff - which I ran into setting up my music production linux desktop I'm currently on. Solved all my issues with bumbling around search engines and github when a first party solution wasn't available, or was a bit outdated. A bit of searching and trying out solutions may be required, but I understand not wanting to do that as well. Above all, use what you're comfortable with and enjoy.
I used Debian for years due to stability. Then systemd happened. For a year or two it negated the benefit. That's why I switched to Devuan for my main box. I've been running it for many years now. I could go back but why move off something stable? 😉
For me it is that it acts so different from a standard Linux distro that you can't say you learn Linux on NixOS, you learn Nix on NixOS. Businesses mostly use Redhat or Ubuntu. Other than that NixOS is so cool.
Hi, I've tried several Linux distributions on my 14- and 15-inch laptops, and the main issue I often encounter is display scaling. With all but one or two distributions, the display appears very small, to the point where it's sometimes unreadable. I've tried adjusting the scaling, but that often causes the screen to flicker. Does anyone have any suggestions for me?
Assuming these are hiDPI displays (high resolution in a small form factor), I would recommend looking at this ArchWiki article: wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI You can also adjust fonts, icons, and panels individually in most DEs. Hope that helps!
For me my journey was kinda forced, because my laptop wich im confident about using linux is bios locked, therefore I can’t disable secure boot. I started with openSUSE but I never got warm with it and eventually got into Debian. And I really love Debian currently, I love minimalism, but a minimal Debian install as I have is enough for me and on Debian everything just works. But it’s not as bleeding edge as I like, but I also like the stability. Eventually I will probably dual boot Debian and Arch, to have the best of both. I could probably already compile Gentoo and I tried it, but I don’t like the compile thing, takes way to much time for me and isn’t necessary, because my hardware is decent. But at the end of the day the distro doesn’t matter, it depends on how you install/use it. I only need a tiling window manager, because I mainly code on linux and you can probably configure almost every distro to your likings 🤷♂️
Aside from a certain portion of Arch users inherently disliking anything that isn't vanilla Arch, I've only heard of problems with Manjaro being user-based (ie. users treating Manjaro as if it's Arch, and then going surprised pikachu). If I'm missing something, let me know - always good to be more informed :-)
I hate the term "beginner" distro, like at some point you need to move on and "get better". Arch/Gentoo/LFS doesn't fit every use case and with the advent of FlatPacks/Snaps/Appimages/Distobox they aren't even needed for the latest software (mostly). I just think it is funny because you can modify and tinker with Linux Mint a lot past the GUI tools and "beginner" stuff. I am a Software Engineer, so not exactly a Dentist in Nebraska and I have used Mint for 4 years now and Mint or other distro's are just software layered on top of other software. Luckily with all distros you can tinker with them all and do a lot with them if you know what you are doing.
That's a fair criticism. Usually distros that require less upfront knowledge are considered "beginner" since those are more accessible to new users, but of course someone can tinker further - there's no limit, especially with open-source.
Mint has been great for my Family computer setup. I have used CentOS for most of my servers but now likely changing that due to all the hoopla with RedHat going on.
The answer is simple. You need to perform the following steps:
1. [A]sk around
2. [R]esearch on your own
3. [C]ontinue to distro hop until
4. [H]ome is found
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@@BreadOnPenguins I use Arch btw :)
@@mostrealtutu 😂🤣
@@mostrealtutu 🤣🤣🤣 You rule. Thanks for the laugh. 🖖
Naahhhh come on at least make it hard for me 😂
I have been using Linux Mint for 7 years now. It's a solid distro.
I used it since I started on Linus about 4 years now and I had put quickgui on it with a few distro,s I like Archlinux,Rockylinux,Ubuntu.and Zorin os core which I really liked and wanted to see how it would be on bare metal so yesterday I put it on and took Linuxmint off. I already am somewhat missing it as I knew where everything is on it, something in my mind says I will go back to Linuxmint in the future just not sure when that will be. I had some trouble getting me volume working on Zorin right off the bat I have it fixed now it just seem somewhat strange not being on Linuxmint.
Yup, I've started using Mint since Ubuntu introduced Unity gui, and stayed for very long.
Mint got me into Linux too, its great and I'm thankful that its there.
I'm not using it anymore but it will always be my first main Linux experience.
(my actual first was a fedora live usb stick to save my mom's files on a windows laptop where the login was forgotten)
Mint is a solid choice, my pa and ma need about 3-4 days to adapt when i installed it to the family pc.
Me as well. I used Debian but had always some problem. Mint is easy going if you just use distro for other work ...
My 87 year old Mom has two 15 year old Dells that run 32 bit Mint (Cinnamon DE). She uses them every day for streaming Web on TV and word processing in her office. It's a good distro. Thank you for the wallpaper lead! Alois Arnegger is very talented.
Refurbished Dell optiplex 5050 mini. Running MX linux.
That's awesome - good for her!
No problem, agreed :-)
I love your pov and how your present it on your channel here. It just feels natural. I am an old school Linux user, literally starting at the beginning of it all back in 91 before even Softlanding Linux was out. I have seen the ups and downs. I love seeing the younger generation of Linux users, like you, promote the idea of Linux and FOSS. I also find it interesting to watch myself. I also saw your channel get promoted by Distrotube, which, I thought, was very cool of him. Keep up the great work.
She reminds me of Nixie Pixel a little. I would love to see them colab.
Same here although I think I started using it around 93. I was in an operating systems class in University and at the time everyone used Minix for OS courses. So I was poking around fidonet, ftp, gopher, etc. which was amazing then because there were only a handful of us that knew how to use the "internet" on the Sun systems, so we had free reign of the T1 line.
Anyway, I found this project called Linux and after convincing my professor that I could do my coursework using Linux instead of Minix, I went down the very long path of trying to figure out how to work with the scheduler and how to map my homework from Minix to Linux. It was a blast tho. Those were the days when it was really new and exciting but to see young people today doing what they are doing, I am truly jealous. I wish I could be 20 again. 🙂
Thank you for the kind comment :-)
It was awesome of Distrotube to make a shoutout video - really helpful to everyone featured.
I really love your taste in wallpapers
Thanks :-)
As long as I have access to a shell I can pretty much feel at home on any Linux distro! Once you learn the shell and are comfortable with it, you have a lot of cross platform knowledge that is applicable to many different distros. Once you understand the shell everything regarding the GUI tools clicks into place.
Your wallpapers are always a vibe!! Will there be any setup tutorials/walkthrough? 👀
I'll be making a video talking about Pywal and where I find wallpapers sometime soon! Hopefully within the next few weeks :-)
pywall is op
I like cyberpunk skyline clips as the desktop. 😎
@@BreadOnPenguins i need all your wallpapers 😀
When I was a beginner, I hopped between many distros, tried them in virtual machines,usb sticks(still i carry iso's of mint debian and arch with me everyday), and I strongly recommend this to new users, as you mentioned in your video. I gained a lot of knowledge from using Linux Mint (which is still one of my favorites), and eventually moved on to base distros. After trying several, I settled on Debian. I want to say few words to the beginners also. The issue with choosing a distro as a beginner in my opinion is following people on the internet who says things like "X is the best," or "Y is better than Z," or "I use Arch, btw." Don't follow others' opinions blindly. Always take the time to explore for yourself. Use what works for you, and please, don't make your distro of choice a part of your identity. At the end of the day its all penguins and gnu/linux. Thanks for this great video btw i really enjoy this linux related videos even if i am experienced user some sort of.
Thanks for commenting! I completely agree with what you've said there, at the end of the day we're all on GNU/Linux. :^)
Oh no, I hope the majority of us saying "I use arch, btw", nowadays are saying it ironically, because we're more self aware than prior generations who used it as a form of identity. Or at least, I haven't met anyone who's an arch supremacist in awhile? **knock on wood**
@@infinitivez there are lots of people believe me
@@cevmantius I saw it back in the days of usenet, I guess they had to have gone somewhere, so yes, I most certainly believe you. [sigh] to me, it's like PC v Mac, I can never comprehend or condone the infighting between enthusiasts. I'll continue barking at them, when/if I see them. 😉
@@infinitivez same here
Subscribed and your content inspires me to make new content. Your doing awesome.
Keep it up. Your a breath of fresh air in the midst of some elitist in the community.
Your absolutely correct. It's your distro and my distro.
You get to choose what works for you.
Thanks so much, I really appreciate that.
100% :-)
I built my first pc roughly a year ago and dove right into linux mint. After a few months, I found myself on arch. I've learned a good amount since then, and agree there isn't any objective "best" distro. Just go with whatever works and suits your preferences best. Can't go wrong as long as it's linux
Awesome, thanks for sharing! Yup definitely agree :-)
I remember when there were fewer distros, and the most forgiving of them for newcomers was Mandrake, now Mandriva, and PCLinuxOS. While I use others now, those left a good impression on me, at least from a 'historical' perspective.
Thanks for mentioning - I had not heard of Mandrake/Mandriva, so good to learn about! PCLOS seems to still be going strong
Hi buddys, Mandrake is now mageia, one of the distro out there I would recommend if you want a solid alternative in a stable branch release.
In my personal experience I found that I hopped between opinions faster than I hopped distros. I went through the full range of wanting stable to wanting rolling to wanting something in the middle, something familiar hen something different and so on and so on. I had to go through various cycles of that before I found my home. A big part of why I love Linux now is that process was really, really fun.
That's fair - I moved around with opinions on what would be best in my first year or two of using Linux, but have always used Arch on my main machine and distro hopped on laptops. I agree it's a very fun process, learning along the way as well. :^)
For my desktop PC I use Mint, on my old thinkpad I use OpenBSD+Arch Linux. Both Arch and Mint perform their functions very well. Everyone uses what suits them and that's it! That's the beauty of freedom of choice and software. This fight of criticizing your colleague's distro is very 90s, from the time when Slackware fought with Debian and blah blah blah...
"That's the beauty of freedom of choice and software." - Exactly! The multitude of distros would not exist, were there not a use someone saw to develop each and every one.
I switched from Windows 11 to Nobara about a month and a half ago. Cold turkey. Best decision I've ever made. Gave some thought about trying out other distros, but for me, Nobara just simply works.
Awesome! Glad you're having a good experience so far, Nobara seems to be growing in popularity.
Arch feels buttery smooth, and is very snappy, been running it for a few months now.
Agreed! Awesome :-)
but it is not for noob and does not support secuure boot so it is a big no no for me
I used the mainstream Mint for a while and have it still on a Dell, but for some time I have been running LMDE6 on a ThinkPad and it is just fine. I can do what I need to and that is that. I know Mint is a gateway distro for some, but it doesn't have to be your rebound after leaving Windows. You can stay with it. I started playing around on Mandrake back in the day too. But that was a long time before I wanted Linux as a daily driver. :)
I started with Mandrake which became Mandriva. Then I moved to Ubuntu and Mint. I have done the Arch install, Slackware, and a LFS install.
Now I'm using Arco Linux which is pretty much Arch with a Calamares installer. I use the Awesome WM, it's what works for me. Just use what works for you.
I found you from DT, your channel seems pretty cool so I subbed.
Cool distro journey! AwesomeWM is great, probably my second choice to dwm.
Thanks so much :-)
I started using Linux in '04 or '05. My main way to get installation media at the time was LinuxCD (based in France, if I remember correctly). At the time, I loved the variety packs. I could get a variety, see which ones I could manage to get a working install from, and then see what worked for me from there. There is so much more choice now, but it is also more accessible for a lot of people. Great advice to choose something that appeals and see how it goes.
That's awesome, I wasn't even using computers then! I guess we forget how incredible it is to have access to any distro of our choice, at our fingertips. Thanks :-)
@@BreadOnPenguins I'm sure some people could download their own at the time (location/service dependent), but I was on dial-up in a rural area in Missouri with a peak download speed of about 14kbs. ISOs were smaller, but still not tiny. If I remember correctly, Debian took 2 discs. So, it made sense to order install media from someone with a much faster connection.
Great video. Glad I found your channel. Looking forward to seeing more content.
Thank you! :^)
It can be fun to see the neckbeards' heads explode over my preference for my favorite 1st tier desktop environment on my favorite 3rd tier distro. "Cinnamon Arch?!!" (In the tone of voice from that picante sauce commercial, "New York City?!!")
Keep rocking Cinnamon on Arch! Thanks for introducing me to that commercial, super funny
I had to Google it ... never seen that commercial before ... New York City?!! indeed =)
Tried several distro's. Settled on MX linux Xfce. Quick, easy and very fast install. Easy to use and very stable. I don't need the latest and greatest.
Fair choice! Thanks for commenting :-)
Also: you can use multiple different distros on different machines, just to try or to learn. Some distros are better supported on certain hardware, that can be a factor to choose one as well.
For sure! I've kept Arch on my main machine for years, but have tried many distros on laptops. Factoring in how lightweight a distro is, for older hardware, is very important.
Things to consider:
* packages recency and availability
* documentation
* support in general. Is best to use a well mantained distro than one person effort
* support from DEs or Tilling Composer/Manager to your considered distro
* If nvidia GPU, does it support proprietary nvidia drivers out of the box?
"Which Linux Distro" is something that stops a lot of people even trying I think, and it shouldn't since most distros will do the job and can be made to work the way you want. I usually only recommend a few to new people. Linux Mint is the top one for new people for sure. Fedora KDE is also a major recommendation since I have more experience with that over the years and I use it for my main work machine. The other is Debian (main net install) for a traditional, reliable system with easy choices for multiple desktop environments. The Arch based installs I'll leave for those with experience. I break them enough myself. lol.
Tinkering on ARCH just feels good. building my own system from minimal install means i know what is going on. Would go to gentoo but i just dont really care about the powers it offers same with NixOS. I love picking and customizing my own WM.
my most used distro and first was ubuntu. Now that i am serious and switching off of windows as much as possible , I have been doing the hop for a bit. I love KDE Plasma for de , so I have been sticking to that with different distros. PopOS is solid and I have it on a ThinkPad that rarely has any issues and just works out of the box, I just don't like gnome and Cosmic is still in Alpha. So I now lean to Fedora KDE spin , been on openSUSE Tumbleweed for a month as a daily and have had weirdness. Also that community and finding help in general hasn't been great. Soon as it breaks again I will wipe and reload with Fedora and be done. Great video !
I'm so looking forward to Cosmic's first stable release. It might be a long way out, but playing with the betas sure is promising.
Thanks for sharing! If I had to pick between DEs I'd go Plasma as well. I have heard great things about Fedora, so hopefully that goes well for you :-)
Of all the more user friendly distros I found myself going back to manjaro cause it gives me the least amount issues of them all. The only reason I sometimes keep going back from manjaro to arch is when I have an itch to install something manjaro hasn't yet shipped but arch has and I'm not a fan of using testing branches. Also my mom's laptop is running Manjaro for years with pretty rare updates but all of them has been completely smooth which is pretty impressive.
Also btw if you pick btrfs when installing manjaro you get automatic bootable snapshots out of the box, a very cool thing but still very rare
Nice video as always, thanks
Appreciate it :-)
this seems really helpful to noobs so nice work, +1 to the wallpapers comments tho !!
👍👍 Wallpaper video coming soon, probably within the next few weeks
I'm partial to MX Linux, XFCE. I use it as a live USB, with persistence, and I love it. I don't care if it's not pretty, even though it can be quite customized. I'm rather ignorant about Linux, I don't want to get under the hood, so to speak. It works great out of the box.
Did you try KDE? I like MX but the amount of tools confuses me sometimes.
@@marnixds I typically run on lower spec hardware, so XFCE, works out well.
@@robertmaxa6631 Agree! I tested it on a 10 year old laptop with a 10 year old SSD and it worked like a charm
I like the "just use Mint" option, because as a new user, a baseline has to be established. There is no way for a new user to know what it is they want in a distro until they try something, and then figure out, "I like X, but I don't like Y." When you have that language to ask for recommendations, that is when things get interesting.
New users spend too much energy on this; until a baseline is established, there's no point stressing about "which distro." I'd advise new users to not feel like they're committing to anything in the beginning.
That is a great way to put it. You have to try out Linux to learn what you're looking for, and of course you can always switch later on if you aren't happy. Thanks for commenting.
The Linux Mint option is what I always come back to after hopping around a little. I finally settled on their LMDE 6 version using Debian as a based rather than Ubuntu/Debian. I made LMDE look and feel like MacOS because I appreciate the workflow and elegance of a Mac. My Mac'd out LMDE is my daily driver now and I'm sticking with it unless I go pure Debian at some point which I have also made look and feel like using MacOS. I like the little polished features the Mint team did with LMDE.
That's pretty cool. The UI/UX of MacOS is extremely elegant. I'm less of a fan of recent iterations, but the classic 00s-10s MacOS versions were all very sleek.
@@BreadOnPenguins I have attempted two replies to your comment, both of which were deleted by YT which I can't understand why, but this is where we are with YT these days-- zero valid reason for censorship.
@@BreadOnPenguins I agree with your point. I also prefer the older UIs of MacOS. I'm attempting to be sneaky with my reply to avoid censorship if this is indeed why. I'd appreciate your experienced opinion regarding my bash scripts that I recently uploaded to a "hub" where programmers share things. You can use my name for the channel.
That's youtube for you, unfortunately. It happens to me often as well. It looks like a cool project! I'm sure someone will find use out of scripts to convert UI.
I've been an Ubuntu Studio user since about 2012, but very keen to drop it now it has the Plasma desktop.
I've gone full circle and hit on Bluefin for a while now, all my faff is already done, and I don't have to worry too much about setting up snapper or BTRFS partitions. I think once you get an idea of what you want, just look for the distro that offers most of it out the box.
I've been dual booting Fedora (fedora default, windows if I need steam) and it's amazing! It's amazing and I saw it. I saw it. The thumbnail is right, just pick one.
May I ask why do you need windows for Steam? For me Steam works perfectly with Vulkan on my Ubuntu. I'm a newbie user so at first I made it a dual boot windows and ubuntu, but ended up only using ubuntu and not booting up windows since. Eventually I deleted windows. Felt great :)
@@angelmeier4382 Multiplayer games probably, issues with anti-cheat
@@ramboi9498 Ah, makes sense. I also have a friend who enjoys playing modded Euro Truck Simulator and she uses it on windows as it works better with mods that way. But myself, mostly playing dark souls games or other RPGs, I am totally fine on Linux.
I've been hearing very good things about Fedora. Thank you :-)
@@BreadOnPenguins I'd like to try out Fedora and I think I'll be checking it out when I feel like some distro hopping. Semi-rolling seems like a good middle ground. But I'm also asking myself a question: what of the packages I normally use I'd have the newer version of on Fedora than on Ubuntu? I don't see myself using anything in particular.
I started on Ubuntu and switched to Mint when it came out. I gained confidence and had an Arch install last for almost a year. After figuring out Gentoo and playing with Nix... I settled with Void. FOR me it feels like Void sits right in between Gentoo and Arch.
Fair enough! I have yet to try Void, I really ought to - makes sense to place it between Gentoo and Arch.
@@BreadOnPenguins After being on Arch for years it was weird to run my daily update and have nothing to install, sometimes for days. I thought I had broke something..lolz.
Void just feels snappy and solid
Had a similar journey. From Mint to Fedora then Manjaro then Arch then Void. Never tried Gentoo, but compiling from source seems interesting.
I've been using arch for about a year on my main laptop. But, since its a shared machine, I wanted to get linux working on another laptop for me to play around, which is old, 2001, 512MB RAM. Seems like arch wont boot into the installation environment due to the RAM requirement, so Im currently trying out Gentoo. Im waiting for emerge to compile my word set since 4 days ago, even with binaries packages. I havent tried Nix neither Void to see if they even boot to the installation, but I chose Gentoo over those because I find interesting compilers, init systems and package managers. What do you guys recommend for me?
@@awauser My recommendation would be to upgrade your laptop..lolz. You can run a few distros on it BUT it won't be an enjoyable experience. You don't need a fancy laptop but you are are shooting yourself in the foot trying to run on 1/2gb
As a user of UNIX in the 90's, and moving on to Linux in 2002; Choose: Linux Mint. I do, agree KDE is better then GNOME!
hi, where do you find and download your wallpapers please tell me!!
Hello, I usually just search artists I like, or on stock sites, or /wg/. I've been putting artist & title in video descriptions :^) I'll be making a video soon about using Pywal as well!
@@BreadOnPenguins are the wallpapers hd?
I really liked starting out with Manjaro/KDE as it gave me a good idea of programs that were out in the wild. Now I'm getting my second system and going to dare Arch proper. My only worry is updates breaking things. But ya know, there's always reverts lol. And now I feel comfortable enough with timeshift so, bring on the interesting times!
Have fun with Arch! Things may break from time to time, but the more comfortable you become with it, the quicker you can diagnose and fix problems. It has a reputation for packages breaking, but really, it's rare to have something break out of the blue. :-)
Thank you for great videos. Would you mind sharing your dotfiles? And especially wallpapers folder 🙂
No problem! I will eventually make host a repo with cleaned up and organized dotfiles; I'll be making a video about how to source wallpapers within the next few weeks :-)
endeavouros is a good arch-based distro, it's closer to vanilla arch than manjaro
Manjaro was my second distro, and with my experience with it and stories I read, I would rather recommend endeavor OS even though I never personally used it
i use it as a daily driver, it's been very solid all the time i used it
Thanks for mentioning!
Personally i've used almost all the distros except parabola,puppy and kali
so here is my top 3
1. Artix (i use this currently) - its just arch with no systemd (less bloat)
2. Void (its something very diffrent and unique)
3. Gentoo (just for the flex)
Thanks for ranking them! I personally prefer Void over Artix, but yeah not a systemd fan lol. Gentoo is fun to learn but for me would be too time-consuming to daily drive
Thanks Bread, another helpful video. I generally stick with Debian based distros but have realised that whichever one I am using I always install the same DE, programs etc. For me, it comes down to personal preference and does it do what I want it to do. It is good to try different distros, like you say in VM or live USB. We are spoilt for choice.
No problem!
I tend to agree, the DE/WM and programs make a much bigger difference than the distro underneath (other than for sysadmin purposes).
"We are spoilt for choice" - completely true.
@@BreadOnPenguins I would recommend Debian over Linux Mint only on the account that Debian is more up-to-date [correct me if I am wrong]. LM is an excellent distro, but I have got use to Gnome and its extensions.
Hey, awesome video as always! I’m a long-time Linux Mint user and advocate. I just wanted to mention that if people enjoy using Linux Mint or other open-source projects, it might be a good idea to remind viewers to consider donating if they’re able. I don’t have a lot to spare myself, but I try to donate a little every year to Mint and other FOSS projects. Of course, only if people have the means-times are tough for a lot of us right now, so no worries if they can’t! Just thought it might be a helpful reminder for those who can. Keep up the great work! - Also what should we call you? Do you like being called Bread?
Great idea to mention - donations are what keep FOSS projects running. Community support is what allows us to have these great programs.
Bread is fine :-) Thanks for asking!
usually i just stick to debian and slax. i like any distro where you can install it headless and add whatever desktop/wm, but also like stability. i am interested in LFS but havent mastered cross compiling yet.
Makes sense - headless installs are my preference as well. Good luck if/when you try LFS!
I'm making progress on my own distro. i managed to get fdisk to work and in compiling gcc, it only messed up on the very last step.
Currently using Debian, but one day I hope to muster the courage to give NixOS a whirl.
Debian is solid, but definitely worth trying out Nix!
Great wallpaper at the beginning,where can we get it?
Wallpaper is a painting by Alois Arnegger, called Sonnenuntergang am vereisten Bach. :^)
are you still distro/OS hopping? which ones have you spent the most time on?
On laptops I do distro hop frequently - for fun/to learn.
My pc is on Arch and at the moment, the only distro I'd consider switching to for daily use would be Void :-)
Mint has had some iffy choices on its road but i've still been using it off & on since 2008.
I finally dumped Windows for it fully at the start of the year and everything has been good, especially gaming via Steam. 🙂👍
Fair enough - glad everything's going well for you so far on Linux!
I've been using Linux almost exclusively (in my personal life) since 2012 and on and off since 2000. I would not consider myself to be a "tier 3" or "tier 4" user like you describe. I've never really felt the need to go to those lengths. I have had to ask myself what my use case is. I have test computers that I can build up and trash when I get it wrong. That's fun and a great learning experience. But I also need something reliable to use personally, and for my family. For that, I tend to stick with Linux Mint Debian Edition. I've had it loaded for years and never felt the need to change it. My kids use a computer with Mint loaded and they're happy with it (some games notwithstanding). I don't worry about it too much because of Linux's extremely good user control and general unwillingness to run Windows malware. I don't worry about it spying on us and calling back home to ad partners. I can run it the way I want without some big brother organization looking over my shoulder telling me that my current hardware won't support this looming new version (ahem, Window 11). Debian-based distros have always worked really well with my hardware, without a lot of fuss. Actually, they tend to support my hardware out of the box better than Windows. I don't have to download and install endless driver packages (with their associated bloatware) just to make stuff work.
dude! you make a really good point! im probably tier 2 or 3? lol ive already decided and am using Mint Debian edition this is my main Disto i chose it over the ubuntu base because i dont like the direction of ubuntu and i LOVE the underlying Debian package manager thats whats keeping manjaro away IMO this is the perfect Linux OS i am however considering making a dual boot setup with a experimental distro this would be where i might play a little more reckless but idk if i did would it be deb? or maybe fedora ? i think i could deal with dnf install firefox (my brain has nicknamed it Do Not F**kUp lol) i look at the underpining of the distro because i take into acount that i may be working with the terminal just as much as GUI
I notice this video is in 16 by 10 aspect ratio. Neat! What monitor are you using? Laptops have been moving to 16 by 10 since quite some time and my primary and only machine is my laptop so it is great that the video actually goes "full screen".
It's an old Dell, at this point, I'm not even sure the model :-)
16x10 is nice for the extra bit of space.
For me, an OS is just the middleman between the programs I would like to run and me. And I don't want to change it every 5 years!
Knowing that OS-es have a limited life span, how to deal with an OS update? Take a hard disk with 3 partitions, of which 2 are bootable. Use the third for data storage. Start with OS on partition 1, and when this one becomes obsolete install the next one on partition 2. All the time data is stored on the third partition.
Or are there better strategies?
Separating home and root partitions is a good idea, I always do so on my own installs. It saves a lot of headache down the line. Your strategy for 2 different bootable is interesting, as long as it works for you then go for it :)
Started with Linux Mint, started finding it boring and having problems with the large updates, tried Arch, liked Arch, broke Arch, found OpenSuse Tumbleweed with KDE. Stopped looking as I’m happy, but I might look into Fedora and Arch at some point, maybe Qbes. I hate distros with really big, seemingly monolithic updates. I broke more stuff updating Mint from 18 to 19 than weekly updating OpenSuse Tumbleweed. If only use the central repo, nothing ever breaks, and if you don’t (like me), it hardly ever breaks and if so is easy to fix by just rolling back.
That's an interesting and good point: a lot more may break with a big distro version update, as opposed to small updates weekly, where you have fine control over what you're updating and will likely immediately realize what went wrong, if something breaks.
Thanks for commenting!
hi! i'm not sure if this fits the channel but could you maybe make a video about wine and related stuff? like there's so many things like wineprefxies and winetricks and other helpers like lutris which comes with multiple wine setups and stuff and it's a bit overwhelming to understand how to use it bc for a lot of things it seems one thing works and another doesn't and then there's like really weird fixes for specific ones and then there's bottles like yeah it's like weird and confusing as hell yea
Hello, I'll probably cover wine at some point, yes! I don't use it often but I agree it's a topic that deserves a simple and to-the-point video on how to set up
Thanks for suggesting :-)
@BreadOnPenguins thank you!
I started my linux journey with linuxmint cinnamon. I didn't like it, so I switched to Manjaro. It isn't perfect, I had many issues (mesa, KDE6 upgrade etc.), but I am still using it, it gets the job done. I tryed endeavourOS briefly, it wasn't very pleasent experience with the neverending update process. In the bleeding edge, stable axle Manjaro is the middle ground you get the recent updates, but you might avoid the bad updates.
I also use MX Linux on my ancient MacbookPro, it can be a good pick for a beginner.
In the end I think linux is linux no matter which distro you use, especially in the beginner level they are all the same basically.
Thanks for sharing! I agree with your conclusion there - differences only start to appear once you look for them :-)
Oof, yes, the KDE6 update was - painful. Just curious, was your mesa trouble because you have an nvidia?
@@infinitivez no, it was some legal issue on Manjaro side. The mesa version in the Manjaro repository had some features ripped out, so I had to use the Arch repository or compile the normal mesa myself. Fortunately it is over now.
@@akosmarton8339 that's a relief! I'm getting my first Ryzen system up and running sometime this next week and I've been nervous
linux mint for beginners.
arch linux for everyone else.
Thanks for the video. One thing I havent noticed anyone mentioning is the ntfs problem where Mint and Kubuntu, will not mount and read ntfs drives. It makes accessing your back-ups impossible without a lot of reading and experimenting, its definitely not good for new users. Zorin and Mx can access ntfs with no trouble.
I was not aware of that either - thanks for mentioning!
Just install ntfs-3g driver. Problem solved.
Thanks, that is good suggestion. I had already tried it and it didnt last. I could access the drive, but each time I restarted my computer, or even if i swapped to a different external backup hdd it would reset, and i would have to run the command again. thats ok though. I switched to another distro, there are plenty that do just what i want without fussing around.
I've used Linux on and off since 2015 and I used to distro hop a lot. Currently I use CachyOS on my Acer Nitro 5 with a 3050 Ti Mobile/i7-11800H and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my build with a 7900GRE/7700X combo. I use distros based on use case. I daily drove GNOME for weeks on end until I switched over to KDE. I sorta keep GNOME around in case KDE craps out but I also like Cinnamon, i3, Awesome, and Sway. I use Wayland almost exclusively so something like Debian wouldn't work well for me personally. I do have it on a 1050 Ti/i5-2400 combo but I don't really touch it much.
Sounds like you've had a well-rounded experience with DEs and distros! Thanks for commenting.
@BreadOnPenguins Forgot to mention I was an Xfce fanboy for years but I've been spoiled by more feature-rich desktops mentioned. It's also funny that once I migrated the Tumbleweed drive from the 1050 Ti machine to the 7900 GRE machine, Xorg stopped working so I was forced to use Wayland anyway. Both GPU vendors and display servers have their pros, cons, and certainly weird quirks. It's not as cut-and-dry as the Linux community likes to make it. Maybe once upon a time but not these days. I remember when the HD series Radeon cards were terrible on Linux and would have graphical glitches on Unity and I've had the Nvidia issues on Wayland in recent years like external monitors being sluggish and of course the jitters which have been fixed in the 555.58 driver of course. Nvidia and Wayland itself are pretty good now and even issues from a year ago have been fixed so I'm pretty happy.
I was done distro hopping and stayed with Linux Mint, reason that I was so busy so I really dont have the time to fix arch linux when it breaks. For a busy person because of work I dont plan to have downtimes so I went back to using Linux Mint
It's great to use something more complex if you are curious, passionate, and have the time, but for many, using a reliable and simpler-to-setup distro makes more sense. Great mindset to have :-)
This was a cool video - I am curious about your feelings on desktop environments. At this point in my journey, I am finding the DE to be the one thing that I struggle with - I am still looking for "just right". I am not totally happy with Gnome or KDE, but dwm seems too bare, too extreme in the other direction. I am seriously tempted to make my own DE and call it Goldilocks, but I have no clue on how to build one.... actually, I have a naive suspicion on how to build one, but I am hoping to avoid a project that large.
Any ideas/suggestions on desktop environments? I currently run Cinnamon on Artix and am checking out i3, but i3 is not a complete DE....
Thanks! Sure - I'd try identifying and making a list of the features you want most in a DE, and seeing if you can find a match. Making your own DE would be awesome, but a huge undertaking - it could end up being worth it, if you can create the perfect setup and enjoy the process! It might be easier to just fork and modify from an existing DE, if you have something you're partially happy with but want to change some features.
It's worth mentioning that in KDE, you can use a full tiling WM instead of the default, I believe the program for that is called Bismuth.
@@BreadOnPenguinsBismuth is discontinued. Krohnkite has had a recent fork which works excellent. I wanted to be a cool kid with Hyprland but there were more dotfiles
than I could handle. KDE is brilliant for someone like me who likes tweaking stuff without having to learn Luna (edit: Lua of course) and whatnot.
Also make sure you get the right Distro with the latest OS kernel version that will support your hardware. Like if you have a 7800x3d and AMD 7800xt you need Linux Kernel 6.3 and up at least, make sure you a new version and is stable. I 2-3 weeks ago upgrade from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to 24.10 (less stable but is).
Linux Mint is decent for when you come from Windows; but Ubuntu is good too, just the Gnome desktop is a bit like Mac I think, takes a while to get use.
Linux Mint is based off of Ubuntu any ways. The thing about Ubuntu it has 20 years stability behind it.
But later on if you want something more advance consider Arch Linux.
I would suspicious of small distros, especially from other countries, could be spyware. Ok, good luck and hopefully you find something to suit your needs.
Ubuntu has many flavors, you don't have to use the gnome one
@@leonbishop7404 Basically, Linux Mint is another Ubuntu flavour but a special one cause it's desktop is sort of like Windows. I was thinking Kubuntu cause I heard some good things about KDE desktop. Gnome sort of works, but not sure about the future of Gnome. I have a somewhat strong system, so I can handle these, but was thinking might look into Window Managers like Hyprland but seems like a pain to configure and only a few people maintain it.
Keeping up to date is very important for security reasons as well. Gnome is likely going to be more familiar to those coming from MacOS (and KDE or Cinnamon closer to those from Windows). Thanks for commenting!
I use debian and i chose it because to me it feels comfortable to use it, i don't event feel like i wanna distro hop nor i feel like i wanna go back to windows. My point about systemd is: stop being so lazy and instead of complaining about what you don't like about systemd, remove it from your distro and install sysvinit instead of switching over to another distro, it will take but of time to learn sysvinit but DO NOT BE LAZY!
Hey thanks for mentioning that! That might be a far better option, I hadn't even thought of just removing it / running vanilla Arch with a different init.
@BreadOnPenguins before you really remove it dig into artix linux wiki to see what they wrote on init they use depending on what you want. It they mention they have compatibility modules included for apps that depend on systemd than it's safe to remove it if not do not risk unless they have systemd dependent apps covered. Devuan which is debian based distro that is lile artix for arch and according to devs of devuan they have modules for all inits they offer that work with apps that normally depend on systemd so if artix has the same, grab their aur repos amd instal sysvinit from there. So i can if i don't want to use it anymore remove systemd and install sysvinit from devuan's repos.
The flowchart show Chakra, miss it. So after distro hopping I found home on CachyOS.
I ran several distros in a VM before settling on one. Would run one for about a month until I made my decision. That took a while to test drive all those distros but it beats a bare metal install and then distro hoping every time the wind blows.
For me the answer was as following:
1. Install Arch
2. Try using Arch
Fair enough haha
Debian.
You got to respect what survives after 30 years. ❤
Fair - Debian is tried and true.
Debian and Suse 😊
Pop-os is an amazing first choice
Ok maybe it is your CPU temp but regardless...
Do you have your dwm configuration on github by chance? I was wondering how you got the weather to show on it. Are you just calling an external shell script or is it a feature built-in to dwm?
I have a full video about weather in shell/statusbar - ua-cam.com/video/3mGgJbqQLNM/v-deo.html
My statusbar uses dwmblocks; each block is calling external shell scripts. I have yet to post my dwm config as it's quite messy, but I will eventually clean it up and post it :)
I personally love Tuxedo OS. It's very niche but it has the best defaults per my liking. A semi release model to have both stable and rolling benifits, comes from Debian family (so i can use things like nala) and KDE+Wayland+No snaps by default.
Thanks for mentioning it! Makes sense :-)
Finding L337 h4x0r under beginner in the flow chart had me chuckling a bit. So true.😃
Mint is my favorite.
I cut my teeth on UNIX workstations back in the 90s when I was at university (DEC Alphas running Tru64, SGIs and Suns). I've always run Slackware and or Gentoo as they feel the most UNIX-like to me. Plus neither of these distros are infected with SystemD (optional on Gentoo). Nice videos!
I tried many but on Arch (EndeavorOS) with KDE Plasma I'm feeling like in home. I'm not PC noob so learning basic of Arch/EndeavorOS to use that system wasn't hard.
I'm also thinking about trying out Hyprland.
Awesome! Of the various DEs available, I like KDE Plasma best as well. I haven't seriously used it in a long time though, so maybe I'll make a video trying it out at some point.
How I went about choosing a distro was that I needed something lightweight for my old 15 year old netbook, and liked AntiX. They have a focus on anarchy and dislike of SystemD which are both things I liked, but I wanted something a bit more modern looking and therefore went with MX Linux, which is related to AntiX.
I'm thinking of switching to Artix or something less Debian based down the road, because I think wayland is starting to look appealing, a switch I won't see for years on MX Linux.
Thanks for commenting! I'll likely switch to Wayland in the next year or so. It's far better than it was a few years ago compatibility-wise, and X is starting to lag behind. Artix might be a good choice, or Void as well. :-)
Why did i choose Fedora for daily driver? I got some free Ubuntu install media back in mid 00's and all of them were broken :D
My first Linux install was in mid 90's with slackware, it was part of my education. I've used Fedora since core 3. and started using it as daily driver since core 6. I did some work with centos environment back then and it was good to have same kind of system on my livingroom machine to know how it works. Now i'm writing this with Fedora 41 KDE. After Gnome became some kind of tablet UI i switched to KDE.
hmm, not yet at 10k, but still congrats to 6k though, we will get there
ok little woman in the corner of my tv, if you don't like systemd i wonder if you ever tried void as an alternative to arch. i mean, of course i'm asking because void is what i use and i'm biased as every linux user is but i actually don't mind systemd or its lack to much, i picked void because it's more stable and the equivalent in void for the AUR in arch is more restricted and therefore not that cluttered
anyway i would love some content about pywal because i have integrated it heavily in my whole system(like beside the terminals it changes colors of the window manager, panel and my rofi theme) and i'm curious how you did put it into dwm without having to recompile it everytime.
Thanks! 10k eventually, I hope :-)
I will try Void - it's been suggested a few times, and I like it more than Artix (which I have tried).
Pywal is a superb program and I will make a video about it soon. For dwm, if you have either the xrdb or the Xresources patch, it shouldn't need to be recompiled.
For the beginning arch have you looked at Garuda or cachy-os instead of 🤮 manjaro?
Those are both good options as well!
There are 18 different species of penguins:
1. Emperor Penguin
2. King Penguin
3. Adelie Penguin
4. Gentoo Penguin
5. Chinstrap Penguin
6. Macaroni Penguin
7. Royal Penguin
8. Yellow-eyed Penguin
9. Little Blue Penguin
10. Fairy Penguin
11. Humboldt Penguin
12. Magellanic Penguin
13. African Penguin
14. Galápagos Penguin
15. Fiordland Penguin
16. Snares Penguin
17. Erect-crested Penguin
18. Crested Penguin
5 of those species are currently endangered, and 4 are in vulnerable status, sadly
@@BreadOnPenguins :(
I like the Humboldt Penguin😊
Speaking of choosing a distro, many people's relatives might be switching to Linux soon due to EoL on Windows 10. I mean the kind of people with old hardware, maybe are tech-unsavvy or don't have many needs, and Win11 wouldn't run well for them or they wouldn't want to run it. I got my mom on ChromeOS Flex for those reasons, it runs & looks great out of the box, is intuitive and it runs better than Win10 has in years or ever on her laptop 😁 For most people it'll probably come down to ChromeOS vs Mint, they seem to be the most popular ones for ease of use.
That's true. Given privacy concerns I'd always suggest staying away from Google, but that said, it's a toss-up between Microsoft and Google.
But for overall usability, I'm guessing ChromeOS runs far better than Windows 10. Glad it's working for her :-)
Thanks for commenting!
I've been playing around with Kali Linux 😄👍
Kali is especially useful for learning security/pentesting, just have to make sure you're using the tools legally haha
Its either qubesOS
Or arch
Theres no in-between 😞
Lol
@@notafbihoneypot8487 There is - Arch in Qubes. 😄
@mrcvry 🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿
I started with kali (yeah i know), went to debian, landed at arch for the longest time, now I'm at debian unstable with a lot of debian experimental components. Tried gentoo too, but it was too complicated after I installed it lol.
Nice! Sounds like a good variety :-)
It really gave me a chance to pick out what works the best for me. I still plan to try Exherbo soon enough, but other than that I dont really do any distro hopping anymore. A good video I would like to see if an explanation on how to run more than one distro from a common /home. Just an idea.
A bit off topic, but what are your thoughts on the surf web browser?
I think it does a great job at its intended purpose, but for many workflows, a full browser is needed. I might make a video about it at some point!
Linux Mint is a great choice for new users, I have family members using it that know nothing about Linux, no news is good news touch wood Lol, desktops are a tough choice, they're all pretty good these days, you're right though, it comes down to personal choice!! Thought I would check out your channel, not sure if you're aware, Distrotube gave you a shout out, I give you a sub to support :)
Awesome, I've heard that Mint is becoming pretty popular for anyone without technical knowledge moving away from Windows 10!
I did see his video - thanks so much for coming over and checking out my channel, and for the sub :^)
Linux Philosophy advice : If it's working, don´t touch it!!! hahaha.
True!! Lol
I just woke up... I have not recompiled my kernel yet today...
Unix philosopher could be my job, lmao
If it's working then it's acting suspiciously and should be changed
“If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it” applies to everything
Great video!!, i am personally using cachyOS and i never looked back for gaming :)
Thanks! Awesome :-)
In the morning.
I've tried many distros and the majority have Debian based but I always seem to end back on Mint.
It just seems to work for me without too much faff.
Recently tried Debian 12 and while it was great I ran into issues, issues that I just don't want to have to trouble shoot.
Christ Titus did a video a while ago and he put Arch and Debian in the God tier, which I agree with.
Fair enough! It makes sense to stay on whatever works best for you.
Good to know, I don't think I've seen that video - Arch and Debian are among the mother-distros (ie. many distros based on them)
Debian is a bit annoying sometimes but I've personally found it really good once you get it setup how you want it. Plus there is a fair bit of support out there for commercial software .deb packages seeing as it's been around so long.
Surely, for me it is a better experience than Manjaro breaking on me a couple years ago fairly regularly, which pushed me back onto Windows until a couple of months ago.
For Debian 12 the wiki is your friend, and so is github if you have a specific use case you can't solve through the wiki/manual. Once again, the wide support for Debian and related distros means that solutions for say, Mint or Ubuntu generally also work fine on Debian 12 especially if it is some kinda edge case stuff - which I ran into setting up my music production linux desktop I'm currently on. Solved all my issues with bumbling around search engines and github when a first party solution wasn't available, or was a bit outdated.
A bit of searching and trying out solutions may be required, but I understand not wanting to do that as well. Above all, use what you're comfortable with and enjoy.
I used Debian for years due to stability.
Then systemd happened. For a year or two it negated the benefit.
That's why I switched to Devuan for my main box. I've been running it for many years now. I could go back but why move off something stable? 😉
Makes sense. I had a server running Debian for a while and then switched away, if I ever head back in that direction I'll have to go with Devuan.
Most important tip: If you are switching from windows to linux avoid GNOME Desktop Enviroment like a plague.
Why is that?
Why does no decision lead to NixOS? :D
NixOS is a great choice too, I might do a video about it eventually!
For me it is that it acts so different from a standard Linux distro that you can't say you learn Linux on NixOS, you learn Nix on NixOS. Businesses mostly use Redhat or Ubuntu. Other than that NixOS is so cool.
@@hopelessdecoy After more than 20 years of distro hopping, I've finally arrived with NixOS! I don’t need another distro anymore!
Hi, I've tried several Linux distributions on my 14- and 15-inch laptops, and the main issue I often encounter is display scaling. With all but one or two distributions, the display appears very small, to the point where it's sometimes unreadable. I've tried adjusting the scaling, but that often causes the screen to flicker. Does anyone have any suggestions for me?
Assuming these are hiDPI displays (high resolution in a small form factor), I would recommend looking at this ArchWiki article: wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI
You can also adjust fonts, icons, and panels individually in most DEs.
Hope that helps!
Arch is objectively the best distro.
Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm in the playlist..
me likey!
One of his best :-)
Key 🔑 is personal preference…👩💻🥰⭐️💎
For me my journey was kinda forced, because my laptop wich im confident about using linux is bios locked, therefore I can’t disable secure boot. I started with openSUSE but I never got warm with it and eventually got into Debian. And I really love Debian currently, I love minimalism, but a minimal Debian install as I have is enough for me and on Debian everything just works. But it’s not as bleeding edge as I like, but I also like the stability. Eventually I will probably dual boot Debian and Arch, to have the best of both.
I could probably already compile Gentoo and I tried it, but I don’t like the compile thing, takes way to much time for me and isn’t necessary, because my hardware is decent. But at the end of the day the distro doesn’t matter, it depends on how you install/use it. I only need a tiling window manager, because I mainly code on linux and you can probably configure almost every distro to your likings 🤷♂️
I agree with you about compiling Gentoo, I've tried it but not my preference lol. Tiling WMs ftw :-)
Isnt there a stigma against manjaro in the aech community? Breaking packages, security vulnerabilities, bad practices?
Aside from a certain portion of Arch users inherently disliking anything that isn't vanilla Arch, I've only heard of problems with Manjaro being user-based (ie. users treating Manjaro as if it's Arch, and then going surprised pikachu). If I'm missing something, let me know - always good to be more informed :-)
Good video whats do you recommend for a programmer?
I hate the term "beginner" distro, like at some point you need to move on and "get better". Arch/Gentoo/LFS doesn't fit every use case and with the advent of FlatPacks/Snaps/Appimages/Distobox they aren't even needed for the latest software (mostly).
I just think it is funny because you can modify and tinker with Linux Mint a lot past the GUI tools and "beginner" stuff. I am a Software Engineer, so not exactly a Dentist in Nebraska and I have used Mint for 4 years now and Mint or other distro's are just software layered on top of other software.
Luckily with all distros you can tinker with them all and do a lot with them if you know what you are doing.
That's a fair criticism. Usually distros that require less upfront knowledge are considered "beginner" since those are more accessible to new users, but of course someone can tinker further - there's no limit, especially with open-source.
Someone called it „Babys first Linux“. 😂
Mint has been great for my Family computer setup. I have used CentOS for most of my servers but now likely changing that due to all the hoopla with RedHat going on.