What distro and Desktop Environment are you currently using, is it what you always use and depend on or are you trying something new out?
Currently running Ubuntu with Xfce on a craptop with 1366×768 screen
>>745I'd like to try gentoo or arch next, but for now it's plebian
I bought a new laptop earlier this year after Windows 10 made my last one of 7 years practically unusable. I dual boot with Mint 18.1 and it feels a lot like Windows 7. I use it for school and internet as well as storage space for pics I've found around the web.
I think the main reason I like Linux, coming from Windows, is the freedom of choice, such as how it only updates what I want when I want. I've had more than several occasions in class where I'm taking a test or a quiz and Windows 10 decides that it's the perfect time to install updates.
>>745Messed up by trying Fedora only to find out I couldn't install or use any of the programs I usually run so I'm swithching back to Manjaro with MATE. I've heard good things about OpenSUSE but to be honest I'm just going to stick with what I like.
Manjaro (Arch based) with deepin, pretty slick from my personal experence. the task bar is a bitch though.
>>745Got a blank gentoo I'm setting up and a cinnamon arch. Thinking about swithing from arch to deb.
Any opinions on i3? While it is very useful I prefer some comfy shit for entertainment and if I want to I can just use Terminator or something.
Use Gentoo (& XFCE4 where applicable) on everything for everything. It's far from flawless and definitely not suitable for a first timer but there's no other established distro that is as versatile and controllable that I know of.
>>1006>Any opinions on i3?It's good but consider sway if you have modern hardware. It's a i3 clone that uses Wayland instead of X11
>>1006>Thinking about swithing from arch to debIn deb format there are tons of soft available, but appimage is getting more prevalent by the day.
Using KDE Neon here.
NixOS with KDE, used to use sway after gettin into i3 through Regolith, but KDE has been comfy lately. Should probably install sway on the side just to keep from getting rusty at it.
At one point on a dying laptop (running Arch) I was just using opening applications that needed GUI in cage, but gave up on that because minecraft wouldn't capture the cursor right and would just spin around. Now that I'm not really using a mouse anymore (using a gamepad) I might try tinkering with that again.
currently using fedora, but my version will soon be at its EOL so i'm thinking about switching (i have had this for a few years now). no idea what i should switch to thou
Guys, are there any good Distros with NVIDIA driver support?
>>3581Quite the loaded question. Native drivers, or NVIDIA released ones?
>>3581novideo releases proprietary drivers years after the product. Outside of them, if they work, you have nouveau.
Remember that the main difference between distros is the package manager.
>>3582A good question. I'll have to defer to NVIDIA released drivers, as I downloaded them directly from their support page ages ago when I made the first backups for my rig.
I ask because I'd attempted to install ZorinOS and was baffled by the distorted resolution, that is until I realised that it wouldn't load certain drivers (presumably due to their proprietary nature.) Apologies for any ignorant fuckery on my behalf as I've only used Mint before on a shitty laptop and nothing else.
>>3583Thank you very much. I would have figured this out by now but decided to not use ZorinOS because it sends telemetry (which kind of defeats the point of using Linux in the first place)
>>3585Not to worry Anon. Everyone has to take the plunge eventually. I favour Gentoo, however that's a bit steep for a novice. Arch is pretty straight forward, especially with the installer it has these days, but can glitch if you tweak too many things. Debian might be the best stable distro if that's what you're after.
>>3586The top three I was recommended were Manjaro, Mint and Debian. Arch seems cool too.
Eventually I'd like to try LFS, or Linux From Scratch. However I'll have to take it easy and try something more my speed for now.
Thank you again.
>What distro
Debian Stable
>Desktop Environment
LXQt
>is it what you always use and depend on or are you trying something new out?
Debian FTW, I can use any desktop that isn't footDE
desktop is an old machine with 1050Ti so gonna update it an AMD card when HL3 gets released
>>3587I'd suggest that being a goal to look into in a few years time. Figure out how to install video drivers and compiling your own kernel first before building LFS.
>ManjaroBuggy Arch from my experience.
>MintDiet Ubuntu, clunky UX but stable-ish
>DebianSolid. Doesn't go tits up unless you make it so.
I'd also suggest looking into different Desktop Environments. GNOME is a bloated mess, KDE Plasma is most windows like, and i3 is just autistic.
Gentoo here. Herbstluft as my WM. It's comfy.
>>3587Mind you LFS is a project you do for fun, not an actual OS you then run full-time. Unless you want to become a distro maintainer (which is a non-trivial amount of effort).
It's cool to learn what goes into building a custom distro, though, so don't let that discourage you - just don't plan on it replacing whatever your current daily driver distro is.
Gentoo and XFCE are what I'm comfortable on.
I've distro-hopped so much they all feel the same to me now. Gentoo is probably my favorite for messing around, and Fedora and Ubuntu as my "just werks" distros. But every now and then I end up on Windows again.
>>3591Absolutely. I want to do the research and learn on my own, so that I may one day help other Anons. Thank you for your input. I've played around with Desktop Environments before, and like with Windows I want something minimalistic and streamlined. KDE Plasma seems like the most likely of the environments I've observed. I know when I was running Linux Mint Tricia 19.3, I took XFCE for a spin and was pleased.
>>3594I appreciate your input. A user had brought LFS to my attention several years ago, and like you've stated I wanted to try and compile my own software so I may better understand its structure and underlying mechanics.
Unrelated, but do any Anons here recall Derpian or PonyOS? I think the latter is an April Fool's joke but I think it would be funny to put one on a Frankenpad.
>>3598>Derpian or PonyOSThe former was actually an april fool's joke, just like My Little Void was. Unfortunately I think the installation mediums for both of these are mostly lost. That said an anon in /mlp/'s /pts/ actually dug this quite recently:
https://github.com/derpian/derpian Problem is it's eight years out of date so probably not only not functional, but likely would be a huge pain to make functional again, unless anyone already has experience with bootstrapping and packaging debian from scratch.
PonyOS meanwhile is an official variant of ToaruOS, which is a functional but afaik not otherwise particularly remarkable hobby OS. I'd be quite surprised if it had the hardware support to run bare metal on a frankenpad (though I suppose you could always use a hypervisor like proxmox or xen as the host and run PonyOS on top).
>>3599On the subject of hobby OS, might you have any recommendations for Frankenpads in general? I want to gift a rather peculiar machine after I get my chops. Ideally, it would be a Terry A. Davis schizo hodgepodge, and the desktop environment would be tweaked to reflect vapourwave aesthetics, if such a thing were possible. The machine itself would have Lisa Frank stickers to make it seem even more deranged.
>>3598>I wanted to try and compile my own softwareYou could give Gentoo a go, it's a bit of a meme but it's very powerful, depending on what you want to do