• Meow.tar.gz@lemmy.goblackcat.com
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    1 year ago

    I’m not s fan of ranking distros. Choice in the GNU Linux ecosystem is a good thing. What works for one person does not necessarily work for all.

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        1 year ago

        Yes. Gentoo is a metadistro - it gives you the tools to create your own Linux OS. However without binary package repository (which is something that Gentoo’s Portage system supports) your system updates will be as slow/fast as your computer can compile. For lightweight binary distro, I’d probably go with Alpine. I used Arch for a while, but it was too bleeding edge for me.

        That said, I’ve been using Gentoo for almost 20 years. I don’t use it for because it can be made fast, but because “Gentoo is the choice edition” and stable rolling releases.

  • ForbiddenRoot@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Sadly, I don’t know if Fedora is “Amazing” for new users anymore. For non-free codecs, Nvidia card support, Steam etc you need to enable RPMFusion and get correct packages / setup some stuff like h/w acceleration, which seems to trip up a lot of new users (based on countless Reddit posts I have seen around this). Secondly, due to the frequent updates, they have had a couple of major issues in recent times (e.g. most recently with Flatpaks and a few months back with Nvidia cards), which were quite difficult for new users to resolve. Probably Pop OS! should be in that category instead, since it pretty much works out of the box.

    Lastly, while I probably know why you put Ubuntu in the “Devil” category, I think it could be there in the “Amazing […]” section as well, because for new users it’s probably the easiest distro to setup and troubleshoot simply because of the large amount of information / tutorials centered around Ubuntu that are out there.

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    1 year ago

    Apparently I’m migrating from “superior” to “creative and unique”