The Linux cummunity is very diverse.
We have people who:
・just came from WinDOS or macOS (Linux Mint or Manjaro)
・want to stick to something as pure as possible (Slackware)
・are minimalists want to have full control over their own PC (Arch Linux)
・are minimalists want to have even more control over their own PC (Artix)
・are minimalists want to have as much control as possible over their own PC (Gentoo)
・love bloat so much that they're willing to work with a broken by design soystem (Ubuntu)
・want to run a server that just werx (Debian)
・want to run a server that just werx and has more freedom and more reasonable maintainers (Devuan)
・always want to have the latest version of Gnome and in its most original state possible (Fedora)
・always want to have the latest version of KDE Plasma and in its most original state possible (KDE Neon)
・want BSD but don't want to give up on Linux just yet (Void Linux)
・want to use it in Docker and/or want to run a Linux distro without GNU (Alpine)
・want to use it on a PinePhone, Librem 5, or an old Android phone (postmarketOS)
・just use something that exists for no real reason (openSUSE)
・don't want to have anything to do with Linux (OpenBSD)
We have people who:
・just came from WinDOS or macOS (Linux Mint or Manjaro)
・want to stick to something as pure as possible (Slackware)
・are minimalists want to have full control over their own PC (Arch Linux)
・are minimalists want to have even more control over their own PC (Artix)
・are minimalists want to have as much control as possible over their own PC (Gentoo)
・love bloat so much that they're willing to work with a broken by design soystem (Ubuntu)
・want to run a server that just werx (Debian)
・want to run a server that just werx and has more freedom and more reasonable maintainers (Devuan)
・always want to have the latest version of Gnome and in its most original state possible (Fedora)
・always want to have the latest version of KDE Plasma and in its most original state possible (KDE Neon)
・want BSD but don't want to give up on Linux just yet (Void Linux)
・want to use it in Docker and/or want to run a Linux distro without GNU (Alpine)
・want to use it on a PinePhone, Librem 5, or an old Android phone (postmarketOS)
・just use something that exists for no real reason (openSUSE)
・don't want to have anything to do with Linux (OpenBSD)
@ryo I just never bothered learning shit like Slackware or Gentoo. I haven't even fully mastered bash and I have been using Linux in some form for over a decade. Most of my computer knowledge has been going towards game development which is all done in an environment that is frowned upon in the Linux community (.NET/Mono).
@xianc78
> an environment that is frowned upon in the Linux community
Because on FOSS operating systems the most productive workflow is different from proprietary operating systems.
On FOSS OS's there's the Unix philosophy of do 1 thing and do it well, have smaller apps work together with each other, and so on.
On proprietary slave OS's on the other hand you have giant all-in-one environments with no philosophy at all, so they're basically a jack of all trades and a master of none.
Also, I personally prefer zsh over bash.
> an environment that is frowned upon in the Linux community
Because on FOSS operating systems the most productive workflow is different from proprietary operating systems.
On FOSS OS's there's the Unix philosophy of do 1 thing and do it well, have smaller apps work together with each other, and so on.
On proprietary slave OS's on the other hand you have giant all-in-one environments with no philosophy at all, so they're basically a jack of all trades and a master of none.
Also, I personally prefer zsh over bash.
@xianc78 @xianc78 @ryo Nothing wrong with Mint. It's great if you just want something out of the box that works or you want to dip someone elseps toes in to Linux.
I got my wife comfortable with not only Mint but with dual booting a couple of years ago, to include the fact that Windows will refuse to show her anything on the Linux side.
I got my wife comfortable with not only Mint but with dual booting a couple of years ago, to include the fact that Windows will refuse to show her anything on the Linux side.
I only noticed that what is considered "beginner friendly" or "advanced user" is decided based on how much bloat is pre-installed out of the box (the more bloat the more "beginner friendly"), and whether the installer is done using Calamares or something else.
But nowadays it's very easy to get used to Linux, even the "hardest to use Linux distro ever" can easily be learned in a matter of an hour or 2.
In the end, the best Linux distro is whichever you're the most comfortable with.
What truly matters is the desktop environment or window manager.