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    [–] [email protected] 93 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

    I feel like most everyone* who cares about distros likes Debian. It may not be the right distro for your use case, but you're glad it's around.

    * I'm sure even Debian has it's haters. But I think it's a minority.

    [–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I use it because it feels like the most Linux-ey of Linuxes (Linuxii??). I don't know how else to describe it. It's like, no bullshit, just Linux. Here's the Lego pieces, go have fun.

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    As a long-time Debian user, I'd have to throw my vote behind Slackware for the title of most UNIX-y, which is I guess a bit different from most Linux-y.

    Debian got me through grad school, but Slack got me through undergrad on a hopelessly underpowered old ThinkPad


    Volkerding is a legend, and Slack will always be dear to my heart.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Never experienced Slackware so I can't compare, sorry. When I got into Linux in like, 2002, I was using Mandrake before they died, and didn't hear much of Slackware at the time.

    I had a friend that was a couple years older that was running it on a home web server though. Back when people ran home web servers. This dude would sit there and use the keyboard the entire time even in OSes like Windows, he memorized every goddamn shortcut and macro that exists. Had a dusty mouse next to his system almost never being used. Probably just to satisfy the BIOS self test.

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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I feel like most everyone

    Beware the false consensus. Not all birds are seagulls, but get a plate of chips and that's all you'll see.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    That's a new metaphor for me. I like it! And I want some chips now. Either the British or American kind.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    Do seagulls even eat crisps? (I suppose I'm more interested in how they'd go about it)

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I don't really like debian. I can respect it as a good distro that's based and all, but It doesn't fit my use case of 'just works' the same way my steamdeck does (in regards to gaming and Windows similarly). For that I've found Bazzite or Kubuntu for their usage of KDE. (also manjaro was buggy 🤷‍♀️)

    I still can't decide if I want to use Arch based to be similar to my SteamDeck, or Ubuntu based because dealing with packages is confusing.

    However I have semi-given up on Linux for my desktop PC because Nvidia sucks and I'll try again on my semi-anually "ooo let's try Linux again!" after Microsoft makes another dumb change. I'm gonna stick with it one day lol

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

    Give up on nvidia, IMO.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Try Fedora KDE spin next time. It handles my Nvidia GPU without any trouble.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    That might just be your GPU. If you've tried different distros and had issues on others then you're probably right but different Nvidia GPUs can have varying success. I use two machines with different Nvidia GPUs (both running endeavourOS) and one needs drivers from flatpak to play games at more than ~20fps.

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Debian is independent, OG, a base of so many distros, it is objectively the most stable Linux in existence, it has its own libre kernel...what's not to love?

    Ah, right.

    systemd.

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    [–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (16 children)

    Two individuals agree on an objective fact. Is this really a joke?

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    [–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

    I hate myself too.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

    I use Debian for any of my servers. Its stability is unparalleled.

    My personal computers are a playground though.

    [–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    So you probably have to go and fix it now. Good luck.

    It's a joke..... Before I'm sentenced to death by downvotes.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

    I've been fixing it since I installed it...

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    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    Everyone knows that Windows 7 was peak Windows

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

    You misspelled Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.

    tada.wav 4eva

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    It peaked somewhere between 2000 and 7. Personally, I place it in XP, but opinions vary.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Fire up React OS one of these days

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

    I run Debian at home because "Microsoft evil", but I kinda think the Windows 10 image we use at work is alright. I work at a Forbes 500 company with a huuuge IT department, so I'm guessing they've done well at setting up group policies or something to make a de-cluttered experience for us. At least I never see any ads or Bing bullshit, and the Start menu works like I expect from ye old days. I could never make W10 work just as sleek at home, so I gave up and moved to Linux.

    That said, most developers here still use a local Linux VM for actual developing lol.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

    2K was my jam.

    The death of the DOS line of Windows (3.x, 9x, ME) lead to the decision to inject clown DNA into NT in order to appeal to the masses and that's how we ended up with XP.

    Vista was an attempt to eradicate the clown, but it was still there, people hated it and because Microsoft thought they had eradicated the clown, they thought people wanted more clown, and that's how we ended up with Windows 8.

    What about 7? The clown gene skipped a generation.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    98SE, XP, and 7 each were relatively solid for their time. They all had issues, but were far better at being an OS than what we have now or are trying to be sold to constantly upgrade to.

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

    It's true. Add scrolling of non-focused windows and it's unbeatable.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

    Has there ever been a good version of Windows? Old versions were functional but terribly insecure and newer versions are reasonably secure but cloud connected ad platforms.

    Windows 10 is probably the middle ground although the newer versions come with the same anti features Windows 11 has

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I think Windows 10 has nailed it UI/UX-wise.

    Too bad they enshittified it into oblivion.

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    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    The one asks how to do something. The other gives 13 steps of instructions. The 14th step is "???? I don't know. This is where I got stuck too in the same way as OP."

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

    The two started updating before you could read the end of the comic strip

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Debian. Vista. And somewhere around Snow Leopard, though I stopped getting upgrades around that time so fuck you apple.

    These are the selections of the peak power user, and they shall not be questioned, as the punishment is using Windows 8 for a month, followed by death, which will be merciful after that month.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    What?

    Vista was ass until the very end.

    Windows 8.1 is the last best windows OS

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    You're gonna get downvoted because of 8.1.

    But yes, I do agree, 8.1 was great, a lot better than 10. The problem with it was the start menu (easily fixable) and the fact that MS didn't invest money or time in it after 10 came out, so a lot of bugs went unfixed.

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I always think that Vista was alright, it just took a bullet for every version of Windows that followed. It introduced overdue changes to many long-standing Windows conventions, changes that still stand now. If Windows 7 had been the next one after XP then everyone would have hated that instead.

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    If we weren’t a bunch dickheads who love fiddling with things, and instead just wanted a sensible OS that worked, we’d all be using Debian on everything.

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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

    Your use of Liberation Serif will not go unnoticed.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

    "The Bartender yells at them to use the door like a normal person, and get out."

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I was looking for the bonus panel on the website and I realized this isn't a real smbc comic when I looked again!

    It references https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/a-bar-joke but it uses totally different panels. Someone was very dedicated to make this.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    One can like multiple distros. e.g. i run Debian on my media center because i have no need for bleeding edge software and want just a stable system that changes as rarely as possible and only receives security patches. Its a perfect OS for shit that just needs to be setup once and then runs in that configuration forever.

    If you try that with e.g. Arch, it is very possible that after a week you have suddenly a different theme installed for your frontend and your plugins stopped working.

    For my webservers i tend more to ubuntu because of newer packages as Debian but being still relative stable in terms of versions. (but looking into others. i'm just an lazy fuck right now)

    And on my desktop system i run EndeavourOS (Arch) because i like to have the newest shit for gaming and i like some of the design decisions the dev made like the early merge of /bin.

    And on some of my ancient android phones i got Alpine to run very nicely in a chroot. Primarily because it is very very lightweight / compact and uses OpenRC as init system because Systemd gets very pissy when its not running as PID 1 / detecting it is in a chroot and then refuses to start services (there are hackarounds, but why bother?)

    And then there is of course things like Raspian, etc.

    Use the right tool for the job.

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    The meme equates 'popular' with 'better'. There's a very good reason we didn't try to make an ubuntu back in 2002, and that reason - weak/bad validation of deployed package payload - is still true today.

    If you care about build/release, precise validation is important to you. It's one of the holy trinity of build/release.

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