I went Gentoo to Debian to Arch.
Gentoo took too much time to maintain. (Not just compile time. But also human time editing config files).
Debian was great, until I had new hardware that needed a recent kernel and Wayland. i tried testing but that wasn’t stable enough and took too much of my time maintaining.
I’m using arch now. i would only switch if they do something egregious (push ads, malware or snap)
honestly most distros will be fine. what matters more is your desktop environment. pick something light where Bells and whistles can be turned off. i used fvwm for many years on a lower spec system. now I use kde/plasma on wayland.
I’ve used arch and Debian on low spec systems. both were fine. slightly prefer arch cause it’s more up to date
save 80gb for root, sone swap (if not on an ssd) rest for /home. that way reinstalling or switching has minimal risk of losing my /home
i use arch. I’ve got it set up and it works really well for me. I’d only switch if I had some feature I needed in atomic that I can’t have in arch. (not just a feature atomic has, but a feature I need that atomic has)
what has red had done that makes you say the law is meaningless to them?
thank you. I’ve been burnt by the lock screen bug and happy to see it fixed
oof. blue sky was created by the guy who made twitter wasn’t it? if he sells to the next bond villain, blue sky will just become twitter 2.0.
open source, decentralized.
thanks. I keep Firefox updated. the fact that changing the user agent gets the delay is pretty damning evidence
how do I find out more about this and what scripts do I need to make the sites faster again on Firefox
Founders were looking for a 1bil payout 😂. they settled for 116mil 🤯…
why would anyone pay for a company that flopped so fantastically? this makes no sense at all…
lol. so I guess fedora is pushing flatpacks now? I know Ubuntu was pushing snap, so I guess fedora followed suite with a different standard. yay.
thankfully arch isn’t getting into this nonsense
honestly the distro doesn’t matter so much as long as the hardware i supported. run a minimal desktop, disable CPU hogs and file indexing etc.
I used fvwm on Debian for many years on old computers. worked great. now I have kde/plasma on arch. my 10 year old laptop handles it fine…
out of the frying pan, into the fire
does it run Linux? I’m waiting for a good low power CPU laptop that I can install a standard distro on. preferably arch…
lol ditto. but the first thing I do on new installs is chsh /bin/zsh, replace caps lock with control and enable vi keys. otherwise I’m dysfunctional
you should especially do this on Friday 5:00pm in production, right before going on an international vacation with bad Internet.
i used to use zfs for backups via snapshots. but I find using rsync and hard links is much more convenient. i can use standard tools to look through backups and track which files changed if needed.
why do you want to make the switch?
can u boot Linux of a USB? some USB drives give 1000mbps read so should be nice and snappy for a root fs