Which Linux distro should I use? (42)

1 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-06-01 01:23 ID:45ytmAoH

I’m a n00b when it comes to computers but I don’t want to use Mint or Ubuntu, what’s the alternatives? I just want to learn programming with it but want to make it secure enough so I can fap in secret. Which should I pick?

2 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-06-01 07:04 ID:2Rgofzh5

I've gotten far with Oracle Linux.
Pretty much Red Hat, but for free.
GNOME is supported out of box, while KDE has to be installed manually.
Install all your GUI programs through Flatpak they won't be in the system repositories.

3 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-06-01 23:28 ID:RZWbTr21

>>2
I have no idea what any of that meant..... I'm stupid (-__-)

4 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-06-03 20:58 ID:2Rgofzh5

>>3
I think you are just better off using Cygwin and installing the GCC and MinGW GCC compilers for programming.

To explain what I said in the previous post:
Red Hat is a company that sells Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
They also own Fedora and CentOS, but these should not be used because Red Hat uses Fedora for development and CentOS for beta testing so you will always run into problems.

Oracle Linux is just Red Hat Linux, but for free.
Oracle only charges money if you want support which is typically only need by big businesses.

GNOME is a desktop environment that tries to act like macOS's desktop. Officially supported by Red Hat (and thus Oracle), but it is very painful to use with how bare boned it is.

KDE is a desktop environment that tries to act like Window's desktop. Not officially supported by Red Hat or Oracle, but is more tolerable to use.

Flatpak is a system that tries to make Linux programs run on every distribution possible since this task has always been impossible most of the time.
So you won't be able to install Steam or Mumble if your distribution doesn't include it, but with Flatpak you can install Steam or Mumble.

So to summarize, anything dealing with Linux is going to be a pain. Just focus on using the actual tools you need or else you'll waste time working on your operating system.

5 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-06-04 12:49 ID:bJIQ2QMQ

>>1
Could you explain why you don't want to use Mint or Ubuntu?

6 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-06-05 14:07 ID:Qo4Ykc3y

Just use Mint. Don't fall for MES and waste your time with gentoo and whatnot.

7 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-06-05 18:09 ID:Heaven

I use Mint. It's simple, has plenty of desktop environments, and respects your privacy. Pretty good. If you are a noob with computers why are you trying to overcomplicate things? Boot up a Live CD with Linux Mint in the different desktop environments and see which one you like the most by default or which one you find easiest to configure to your liking. I really don't think you can go wrong with Linux Mint Cinnamon edition though, it's made by the Mint devs and looks pretty similar to what people are used to with things like Windows 7 before it went all corporate mobile whatever.

8 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-06-10 21:31 ID:F08gFGOo

Is there anyway I can make my Mint desktop look and feel like Windows XP?

9 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-06-14 07:30 ID:Q/0HLRir

>>1
It is not as hasslesome to reinstall linux distros as it is to reinstall windows, it can be fairly easy because you just copy over your home directory with your settings and files (or not destroy the partition it was on). With that in mind just view your first distro as training wheels, which you can change once you've learned the basic concepts. So just give those a try for a few weeks and then you'll know what you want and don't want in a linux distro.
Personally I started with MX Linux because it ran off a USB, was advertised as beginner friendly, and I was told to avoid systemd (which has caused problems sometimes because many packages (applications) forget to list it as a dependency). I would recommend it.

10 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-06-15 14:13 ID:Heaven

>>9
systemd is fine.

11 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-06-27 23:51 ID:IXwUm6Mr

Use OpenBSD

12 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-07-07 14:43 ID:3vpgbO3L

No, use Slackware.

13 Name: sage : 2023-07-07 18:57 ID:Heaven

No, use Ubuntu. No, use Gentoo. No, use Arch. No, use Fedora. No, use openSUSE. No, use Mint. No, use PopOS. No, use Debian. No, use Trisquel. No, use

14 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-08-16 10:11 ID:rDTQAUYN

For a complete beginner in the *nix world, in my experience, for pedagogical purposes, installing Arch from scratch taught me best to respect the command line, sudo'ing, updates and package managers, debugging (your own stupidity), window managers, and ***this. Just consult the almighty archwiki and you can learn all by yourself.

***being cozy with the command line teaches you how the names of the default bash/gnu/linux commands/programs don't make a lick of goddamn sense and why the *BSDs are a godsend. fuck all of that shit. also, *BSDs are complete operating systems (so there's cohesion in the default programs shipped) instead of "Linux"'s "modular" approach. never been a fan of that

15 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-08-20 12:31 ID:hriZzgpQ

best linux distro here https://9front.org/

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17 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-08-20 18:41 ID:2Rgofzh5

best linux distro for homosexuals here https://9front.org/

18 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-08-27 01:15 ID:j/Wa7usl

Just go with FreeBSD with KDE and Tor. Use linuxlator and wine to run Linux or Windows software. It’s a pain to install but pretty straightforward.

20 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-09-29 10:57 ID:InQj5XRr

NixOS is only useful for programmers and developers. If your a noob then start with FreeBSD. The manual and install instructions are straight foreword and well written (unlike the Archwiki). You can learn a lot with BSD. Like how to partition your drives, how to manage an install packages, compiling ports Gentoo style, using the command line. Whenever one of those Arch monkeys acts all smug, just tell the ape your OS is better.

21 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-09-30 19:24 ID:HCHEK17t

Just use debian. It is very commonly used and easy to look up
how to solve any problems you might have on the internet.
Its also very modular, its fitting for a justworks desktop
environment setup, but you can also strip it of all packages
and get a very solid autismwm minimalism setup

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22 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-09-30 19:27 ID:HCHEK17t

>>21
man that neofetch logo really didn't work out as I expected

23 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-10-04 02:36 ID:6UTOlyn/

Deb Ian…. and he broke up with Debbie. I guess the name didn’t age well. Let’s hope Ian doesn’t go gay and start fucking the burnt out corpse of Adolph Hitler so it becomes Dolfyian. A common Armenian name which would lead to confusion.

Basically OP just do what anon said. Just get Debian with KDE and configure it however you like. Just remember to Encrypt the hard disk.

24 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-11-15 15:32 ID:1EimGUw/

Debian is fine for 99% of people. No need to fight over what OS is better than what. It’s a waste of time any Unix-like OS will do fine. Don’t like Mint or Ubuntu? Just go with vanilla Debian.

25 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-11-16 03:33 ID:vYAwCCmx

interested in gentoo, overlays are quite useful along with app-eselect.

26 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-11-24 13:31 ID:o83AKTIw

>>23
No chance of Ian doing much since he killed himself several years back.

27 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-12-04 18:49 ID:GNuXQxis

>>25
Gentoo is endlessly customizable and pretty much the literal endgame, you can keep a system running it maintained indefinitely. Anything that may cause distro-hopping on another system, e.g. init systems, can be easily changed.

It's probably the best distro if you plan on keeping a single install long-term.

28 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-12-05 20:30 ID:sRsE/uiw

>>27
Huh? I've avoided Gentoo because it takes so god damn long to install and you can easily get bored, loose focus and make a dumb mistake and have to wait another 4 hours while it does its thing.

29 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-12-07 22:43 ID:fSmeAmrf

>>28
While the installation itself is quite long, albeit rather simple if you're following the handbook, once it is installed there isn't much more customization you have to do. I feel on other distros you end up having to work around them to do certain things, even something as simple as changing the DE or using an unstable version of a package, while on Gentoo everything is set up to my liking and will remain that way forever.

30 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-12-24 00:07 ID:So+6jPiq

>>12

Christmas is approaching, so I just want to remind everyone to use Slackware. If you begin installing it tomorrow - Christmas Eve - you will have a brand new present to enjoy on Christmas morning: a Slackware Linux installation.

Let me get you started: http://www.slackware.com/

31 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-12-25 17:39 ID:l/8znPyN

>>30
You call this a present ヽ(`Д´)ノ ohh its preddy good actually. So wait, what's slackware for exactly? Had fun setting this up but why should I use slackware?

32 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2023-12-31 00:25 ID:So+6jPiq

>>31

It's stable, secure and has a lot of nice quirks. It's the oldest maintained Linux distro out there due to that and having a real dedicated community and group of contributors behind it. It is a bit of a challenge to fully understand and use - it makes Gentoo or Arch look like a toy - but it's worth it for how much of a power user it lets you be.

33 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2024-01-15 14:23 ID:64DIKRv7

Deuvan is Debian without the systemd, but all the UNIX. It's maintained like it's still 1999 -- but really, nothing of any positive worth has been added to the Unix environment in the past 20 years..

34 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2024-01-29 15:17 ID:+oGZu3qF

i saw one distro are so cool the name is hotdoglinux i think

35 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2024-01-29 23:24 ID:GlvNV6cU

>>34
Isn't that the distro you could install on your PS2?

36 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2024-02-17 22:47 ID:oc3h40Jl

>>33
Is it Linux or Unix like? I need something that's usable and is like Debian but no Linux kernel monolithism and no gnu bloatness.

37 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2024-02-19 00:30 ID:BV9pTyCt

>>36
So just use FreeBSD? Its (mostly) usable. No idea if its Debian like though.

38 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2024-02-19 08:26 ID:nWnZSsz9

>>1
Linux Mint Debian Edition.
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39 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2024-02-21 01:49 ID:n2fuvRQp

>>38
with XFCE

40 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2024-02-21 09:07 ID:nWnZSsz9

>>39
I'm more of a MATE chad, myself.

41 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2024-02-22 00:31 ID:IfQ1PlSi

>>40

>chad

kill yourself

42 Name: Anonymous Techie : 2024-03-01 16:31 ID:oc3h40Jl

>>41<<
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