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Beautiful
Fairly accurate. SUSE is more like an IT guy forced to wear a suit to work that is not tailored well.
This guy is Kali Linux or Qubes/Whonix/TailsOS:
The higher the socks the downer the foo’
I went from Ubuntu to Bazzite (OpenSUSE was my first choice, but there was a weird error trying to get it running and installed). Since Bazzite is basically Fedora… Should I get myself a hat?
So Linux Mint Debian Edition would just be a middle-aged person?
Weird. Just turned 47 and I JUST tried Debian tonight.
So far it’s very good.
Get off my lawn
Don’t forget the Gentoo crowd
I resen… Shit he even has a DrPepper. I guess I need to wash my cloak.
Hoodie, MX Master and Gentoo, that’s literally my old stack, except it was a desktop not laptop.
I am sorry, but that notebook is way too modern for a proper Gentoo user. Anything above 500MHz is wasted energy with useless kernel flags
He has to use a separate mouse! A mouse!! Never seen a mouse user in the tiling wm world.
I guess tiling WM users never need to edit an image, eh?
Any web developer needs a mouse.
Or anyone who works with any ticketing system.
If it compiles too fast, you don’t have time to properly savour it.
Had gentoo as my daily driver for years, then it turned out that I was worse at optimizing my system than the debian guys who create distros professionally, so I just… stopped.
Spent too much time fiddling with gentoo because it was fun, now I’m on fedora because it just works and is modern enough.
(The amount of time spent fixing my system once I discovered “breakmygentoo” we probably shouldn’t talk about)
+1 for Dr Pepper -1 for non Lenovo machine
Now that we can game, we need the horsepower.
Wouldn’t a real Gentoo user use a genuine IBM era Thinkpad?
Oh. I didn’t even notice the Dr Pepper. … Also… I did not know there was any correlation between Dr Pepper and gentoo. I stopped my Dr Pepper addiction 5 years before I used gentoo. … I was on 4L a day for months, and didn’t realise I had a problem until I drank 9L in 24hr.
+1 for “-1 for non Lenovo machine”. [… unless it’s like tuxedo or system76 or something like that or some pure custom job on a different architecture]
The total is zero, the Force is in balance. All is well
Genuine question: is that cloak yours and how did you make it?
This is a random internet image for shitposts and giggles. I considered the face to be obscured enough for the guy to be sufficiently anonymous, though he deserves fame and fortune for his awesomeness.
That’s a badass
capecloak.Right! I want one.
We really need to bring back cloak-wearing…
Debian user here. I want to switch to arch but dont want to troubleshoot my pc after each update. How do u folks deal with that?
As far as I can tell, the first thing you have to do as an Arch user is convince yourself that you’re smarter than the package maintainer.
It isn’t an issue. I just left Arch because the AUR seems to be imploding. And without it Arch looses one of its big advantages.
I rarely have to troubleshoot. The only issues I’ve run into lately is the package manager (pacman) refusing to download an updated package. Refreshing the mirrors or a quick internet search is usually enough to fix that.
From my experience, the only times troubleshooting is needed is if you tinker with things or use programs outside of the package manager.
[ps. preface warning: dangerous whimsy here… rtfm… don’t dive in eager and blind and then “break” your system and come blame me.]
Debian user here. I want to switch to arch but dont want to troubleshoot my pc after each update. How do u folks deal with that?
I don’t [switch]. Instead I [(having already thoroughly read through all the documentation several times)]
- go to https://bedrocklinux.org/
- click on Installation Instructions
- click on the first from here link
- scroll down select the correct line for my architecture, e.g. https://github.com/bedrocklinux/bedrocklinux-userland/releases/download/0.7.31/bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh and paste it to a terminal as target for wget,
wget https://github.com/bedrocklinux/bedrocklinux-userland/releases/download/0.7.31/bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh - make it executable
chmod +x bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh - run it
./bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh - run it again remembering the need to add --hijack
- run it again remembering the need to run it as root. (… I know, I could just remember to do sudo and --hijack first time, but I like this silly ritual).
- and type in the “Not reversible!”, knowing how non-trivial a change to my operating system is about to happen in an instant.
- reboot
- enjoy seeing the new init select screen after the grub screen (albeit with only one option yet)
- once back at a tty or once back in gui with a terminal emulator (… maybe after some more configuration tweaks, e.g. in /bedrock/etc/bedrock.conf),
brl fetch arch - et viola, done. can do
sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade ; sudo pacman -Syu.
… And more likely I’d do
brl fetch void ; brl fetch gentoo ; brl fetch -r ceres -n ceres devuan ; brl fetch artix. But ^ that’s for if “I want to switch to arch but dont want to troubleshoot my pc after each update.”Could also do frequent
brl copy arch arch-fallback-(date)or some such, so then if something goes wrong with an upgrade, you could just carry on unperturbed, or even disable the stratum that had something go wrong, or even delete it, andbrl rename arch-fallback-20260806 arch, and carry on with your day, sure it’ll resolve the upgrade properly next time tomorrow. ;)But of course, this is a bit overkill, like starting a huge complex science and production logistics project just to crack a nut.
But it is my honest answer of how I deal with that. ;)
I update weekly ish and very rarely have issues. And if I do it’s the usual suspects hyprland, pw, proton and video drivers.
You can either lock these and make them not update as frequently or use more stable software instead.
I personally like the troubleshooting because it means I’m learning something so that helps.
how many years more i have to use mint until i rejuvenate?
debian 16 estradiol
distro memes should be updated for 2026. i.e. with cachy,bazzite,steamos.
sparkling arch, sparkling fedora, and diet arch
Yeah. Surprisingly cachyos had the largest userbase om steam after steamos
Using steam statistics is going to bias your data toward gaming-oriented distros.
Cachy is pretty good and just works for a lot of stuff
Cachyos is Arch for people who want to use their computers
Arch is for people who yearn to control the parasympathetic nervous system with iron chains
The funny thing is I though Arch would be lighter but after trying debian it isn’t.
Not that surprising. It advertises itself as a gaming first distro and is very stable out of the box. It would be either that or bazzite for the top spot.
Bazzite surprisingly far down the list
CachyOS user
I installed it last week. If just kinda works, is there supposed to be something bad about it?
Don’t take those memes seriously, I think the only bad thing I’d have about CachyOS is that it’s probably getting popularity as a trend, which doesn’t reflect on the distro itself.
In my particular personal opinion it seems like a good choice if you already know what you’re doing, since it’s mostly just Arch with a nice installer, which I consider to be a solid choice with good support.
I’m mostly just asking because I figured the meme was based in something.
I’m no experienced software guy, mostly just a guy who isn’t dangerously stupid, but I’ve been having a good time so far. Or rather, a boring time because the only thing I had to really do was edit the fstab so my other drive would auto-mount. Otherwise it’s delightfully unexciting.
What’s bad about the picture?
a distinct lack of thigh high socks
Just because you don’t see them doesn’t mean they’re not there.
We literally put the :3 right there and no one saw it
Just in the context it’s very “performative hipster”. I’m not taking offense, just new to this and like to know people’s opinions/perceptions until I can eventually form my own.
Oh don’t worry, start working on that twirly mustache and you’ll get there in no time!
Can confirm. Run OpenSUSE and my neckfolds run for days.
Meh…use what you use, don’t judge others for what they use… unless it’s windows, fuck those guys.
I just assume that everyone arguing over distros has been using Linux for less than 3 years. If you’re an experienced user you’re just happy more people joined the
cultcommunity.yeah I’ve tried just about all of them and at the end of the day it really boils down to “how do you like to install your shit”. a DE/WM is probably more important than the distro at this point as you’re going to get similar performance no matter what you’re on.
I use NixOS only because for me personally it makes dev work slightly easier than other distros. that’s it really. Some people want to constantly tinker, some people just want to install and forget about it for a year and have it stay out of their way. It’s all about personal taste and how you want to install stuff really. I know a guy that uses Bazzite for everything not just gaming and he loves it. it works for him. My dad uses Slackware and will never use anything else, he loves it. If I had the time I’d probably switch to Gentoo but NixOS works for me right now. Like I said the DE/WM is more important.
All that being said if you use GNOME then I’m worried for your well being. /s
I LOVE keeping my configs in source control. I add something to my laptop in my shared config, it also adds it to my work desktop and my travel box. I need it just on the prime laptop? there’s a spot for that too. Stuff that’s not needed every day? nix-shell -p it. I even setup some shared nix-shell project folders so if i need something like yt-dlp, nix-shell in the directory pulls down a specific python, installs the latest yt-dlp, ffmpeg and deno, even leaves me a shellhook reminder of what the command line is. when I close that shell, it’s all gone.
yeah nix shells are awesome. I use a few suckless things to the point I have my own #suckless nix development shell. Just load that up whenever I need to change or build someting and i’m good to go. for my other dev things I just use flakes which makes it just as easy. all I have to do is CD into a project directory and then my environment is instantly setup. CD out and it’s gone. All that on top of my system config being in a repo I can reinstall my system on any PC within minutes.
Really NixOS is the end game of Linux Distros. Once you finally figure it out you’ll never distro hop again.
I’m not sure that I’m what anyone would call “experienced”. But I’ve used it for a long time. And people wetting their pants over one or another distribution seems like a total waste of time. they’re all very similar.
I’m very much not happy to be associated with the community depicted in meme - i sincerely hope most of them are just taking the piss out of themselves.
I think even if there were quadruple the user base it’s not going to materially change the number of developers making decent linux native programs. So you either use open source stuff. or webapps and wine stuff like that. Size of userbase is pretty irrelevant to me.
Distros are a matter of taste, and you shouldn‘t judge someone over it. But a bit of friendly fun-poking is alright (e.g. „NixOS user spend all night configuring their PC“). Insults directed directly at a person are never OK. And there are of course distros that are objectively bad (like Ubuntu), and you can criticize their creators, and maybe try to convince the users to choose something else (that‘s where Mint is from, kind of), but you cannot. hate. on. them.
I don’t judge Ubuntu users for using it, but I do wish they’d try out a linux distro.
So true lmao. I have been using Linux for 4 years. Recently three of my friends have switched, each went for a distro I would never go for myself, nor recommend to anyone. Yet I was just happy for them and hopeful for FOSS.
Saying this as a person who once said systemd is bloat, proprietary drivers are backdoors, Firefox is bloated spyware, use only FSF approved distros.
I’ve been using linux for almost 30 years. I’ll stop arguing about distros when I’m dead.
Also, let’s be real, this ain’t that serious.
I’m actually hoping the Windoze losers stay away…last thing we need is a flood of “make it more like windows” requests… Ugh…
Yes - they should stay in another subculture, far away.
Ideally they’ll also be locked behind a paywall, safely protected by shit like “HP sure start” so that they don’t accidentally open some dangerous csv file in anything other than excel.
The experienced linux nerds argue about DEs, not distros.
I sleep as cozy as a baby in a cable knit onesie with Mint on my computers. Looks pretty accurate.
