• vithigar@lemmy.ca
    5·
    16 hours ago
    • Luggable gaming rig: CachyOS
    • Surface Go 2: Mint
    • Old laptop strapped to the underside of the gaming table: Debian
    • NUC home server: Ubuntu Server
    • Steam Deck: SteamOS

    Non-linux:

    • Gaming tower: Windows
    • Previous gaming tower repurposed as NAS: TrueNAS
    • massacre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      14 hours ago

      That’s crazy talk right there. After decades of who knows how many Linux distros, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX, AIX (and a splash of FreeBSD), the proper answer is this:

      • Mint
      • Already correct! >Mint
      • Mint
      • Mint - hardened if external
      • I’ll allow it

      Non-Linux

      • por que!? OOF… this should be Mint or really any Linux is better
      • I’ll allow it, though I find OMV to be better for various reasons

      Not gatekeeping - just having a bit of fun. You do you, but I found it crazy supporting so many distros after all these years. At some point you go for “works great out of the box with minimal tinkering” that covers like 99% of use cases and frees up your time. That being said I’m sure I have a system or two around here still running Ubuntu or Debian or whatever that I just can’t be arsed to change.

      • vithigar@lemmy.ca
        2·
        13 hours ago

        I do like the dedication to Mint! To be honest it’s generally my default pick if I need to slap Linux onto something. I actually tried putting it on the gaming table machine but for reasons I didn’t feel like digging into it just did not cooperate, and Debian did.

        CachyOS on the luggable gaming machine is mostly just because I hadn’t used it before and wanted to give it a spin. So far so good.

        As for the Windows machine, it’s a gaming rig and at the time it was built, pre-steam deck, Linux wasn’t quite yet in as good a position for that as it is now. I just can’t be bothered to switch it mid-stream as it were. It’s almost certainly going to be the last Windows machine I ever own though.

        • massacre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

          Totally get using others if something isn’t working. I’ve been known to (gasp) throw on another distro to get past a problem until a new kernel release or bug fix comes in, but it’s the rarity now. I gotta be honest that I’m surprised it was Debian which solved a corner case for your gaming table. Maybe it was a monitor issue or weird (old) hardware?

          Good call on the final pass with Windows. With Steam, you really can’t miss on hardly any game these days unless it’s bloated with DRM, but who am I to speak - I have XBox that can actively spy on me for those DRMed games… Carry on.

          • vithigar@lemmy.ca
            1·
            10 hours ago

            Old hardware is certainly possible. I salvaged it from my parents who were going to throw it out. It’s got an A10-8700P and is limping along with a single 4GB DIMM. The thing doesn’t even have a second memory slot.

  • Cora@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 hours ago

    Ubuntu 8.10-12.04 Ubuntu MATE 14.04 Debian 8-13 with GNOME

    I’ve played around on a lot of other distros, but Debian with Gnome (set up like Gnome 2) has been my home for a while.

  • Lazer365@feddit.nl
    2·
    13 hours ago

    I tried Ubuntu, Mint, CachyOS, PopOS, Manjaro, Bazzite and Nobara. I stuck with Nobara.

  • Daerun@lemmy.world
    7·
    18 hours ago

    Anybody not using Arch, by the way, must wear an arm band with the logo of their distro.

    Windows users, hop in the truck!

  • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    12 hours ago

    Long term casual? I’ve been using it in some form since the early 00s when I installed Ubuntu 6 on an aging laptop. Currently I’ve got an HP Stream 13 that only functions thanks to Lubuntu, and Mint is on my work PC. Unfortunately thanks to a music hobby and a bunch of shitty VST vendors who refuse to support Linux I run Windows at home.

    I rarely open a terminal.

      • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Well, ‘casual’ in that I never did get into the nitty-gritty too much. I had to learn to sling a few terminal commands for this-and-that, but otherwise I almost never touch it. It browses the web, edits documents, prints pdfs, plays audio files, and does a little video editing in Blender just fine.

        If there were Linux competitions, I’d definitely be out in the early rounds.

  • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    18 hours ago

    I’m these 2 kinds:

    • Cute queer nerd
    • Stallman-like privacy and libre software enthusiast and anti-capitalist

    i use openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE btw (it just works)

  • jimerson@lemmy.world
    16·
    22 hours ago

    It’s a bucket list item to someday have a pull request merged into a branch of the Linux kernel.

    • ragas@lemmy.ml
      14·
      21 hours ago

      I was once the first to report a bug in the kernel. I’m still pretty proud of it.