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@Waffelson@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world • 1 year ago

Don't make a mistake in choosing a distro

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Don't make a mistake in choosing a distro

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@Waffelson@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world • 1 year ago
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  • @DannyMac@lemm.ee
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    45•1 year ago

    What are the distros that would align with these categories?

    Cool, more free stuff:

    Not again!

    Ooh, only Ubuntu pro:

    • Ubuntu
    • @KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
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      49•1 year ago

      1st: Fedora
      2nd: Arch

      Debian would be: “nothing changed!” (with a sad or happy guy depending on use case)

      • @Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
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        44•1 year ago

        With Debian it’s more like “cool, everything still works as expected.”

        Source: I don’t use Arch btw.

        • @Successful_Try543@feddit.de
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          4•1 year ago

          indeed

      • @FiskFisk33@startrek.website
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        22•1 year ago

        Your arch system would probably have updates unless you just updated within the last few minutes. Being suprised seems a bit unnecessary.

        • @RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          I sometimes update out of habit almost immediately after I updated. That’s always a little disappointing.

          • SaltyIceteaMaker
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            4•1 year ago

            And then you actually have a new update available… Happens to me to often

            • @asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml
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              2•1 year ago

              deleted by creator

          • @bluewing@lemm.ee
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            1•1 year ago

            Oh god, me too. It’s a Pavlovian response!

        • JackbyDev
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          1•1 year ago

          Finally, a use for the * * * * * * cron expression!

      • @Tyoda@lemm.ee
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        19•1 year ago

        If you’re on Arch, then you want those tasty hourly updates om nom nom

        source: I use Arch btw

        • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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          12•1 year ago

          All I wanna do is sudo pacman -Syu

          • @TwilightKiddy@programming.dev
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            1•1 year ago

            paru -Syu, you don’t want to forget your AUR packages, right?

            • @bitwaba@lemmy.world
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              6•1 year ago

              You can do the same with just paru. No flags necessary.

              • @blackstratA
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                4•1 year ago

                Or save yourself a character and just yay

                • TurboWafflz
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                  2•1 year ago

                  Heathen, using any software not written in rust is sacrilege

                  • @mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                    3•1 year ago

                    pacman -R linux-*

                • SaltyIceteaMaker
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                  1•1 year ago

                  I’ll even add some characters and use pikaur

              • @TwilightKiddy@programming.dev
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                3•1 year ago

                I like to be a bit more explicit than necessary.

                • @luciferofastora@lemmy.zip
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                  1•1 year ago

                  Explicit is better than implicit.

                  Unless you’re trying to get a movie or game to get a teen-friendly rating, in which case you might not want to make the sex scenes quite as explicit.

            • SaltyIceteaMaker
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              1•1 year ago

              I have seen horrors beyond comprehension because i tried updating aur packages

              • @TwilightKiddy@programming.dev
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                1•1 year ago

                Well, it’s easy enough if you only use precompiled packages. Beyond that you should probably have a better understanding of what you are doing.

                • SaltyIceteaMaker
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                  1•1 year ago

                  Oh no i know what im doing. I just had dependency hell way to often with aur packages so i just dont update them anymore unless i need to do so

        • @Laser@feddit.de
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          5•1 year ago

          Not being able to Syu every 5 minutes and only being able to update once a day was the biggest challenge when I changed to NixOS

    • @Tyoda@lemm.ee
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      12•1 year ago

      I don’t think the first two are distro specific, more a question of mindset. Unless there are distros that force update your system like some other OSs, which could cause the second picture to happen more often.

      • @GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml
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        On fedora atomic all updates are automatic. I don’t even see that they happen. They just happen in the background. I love it.

        • @Tyoda@lemm.ee
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          Neat! I was just thinking, if it starts updating the kernel as you turn it off, you’d have to wait a minute for it to finish. M$ style. Has that never happened?

          • @GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml
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            No. That’s not how it works. It installs a new image alongside the current one and once you boot again it simply boots into the new image. Never ever wait for an update again.

            • @Tyoda@lemm.ee
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              8•1 year ago

              Oh right, atomic distros work differently, didn’t think about that! That is convenient!

              • Rustmilian
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                9•1 year ago

                Very convenient because if something happens where the update breaks something, you can just boot the previous image.

                • Tippon
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                  2•1 year ago

                  Does it give you a choice at startup, similar to the Grub menu, or do you have to do something to bring the option up?

                  • Rustmilian
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                    5•1 year ago

                    During boot up.

                  • @MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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                    2•1 year ago

                    Literally is the grub menu…

                  • @jmf@lemm.ee
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                    Nope thats exactly how it works, gives you an entry in grub for the prior image.

        • @bluewing@lemm.ee
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          1•1 year ago

          If Fedora plays nice this time around, I’m seriously considering Kinninte and Atomic Budgie for 41. (But Fedora always ends badly for me)

        • @BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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          1•1 year ago

          How are you getting it to do that? Fedora wants to reboot every day for me, even for the simplest update.

          • @GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml
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            3•1 year ago

            Fedora atomic, e.g. silverblue, not traditional fedora. It still wants to reboot after each update but I don’t see it and when I reboot, it boots into the update.

        • Rustmilian
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          1•1 year ago

          They’re also very stable do to the image-based VCS.

    • @mlg@lemmy.world
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      8•1 year ago

      The first could be any decent distro like Debian, Fedora, Mint.

      The second would probably be rolling release because of the amount of packages lmao.

    • @tuna@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6•1 year ago

      I was thinking that the user intentionally chose their distro, because of the Ubuntu character.

      Cool, more free stuff

      Arch, you want more free stuff faster

      Not again!

      Debian, you want to set and forget, so any updates that do come up are still a nuisance

    • @smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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      3•1 year ago
      • Arch
      • Arch
      • Ubuntu Pro

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