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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I swear that when I was a student, my department had a good mix of distros.

    • Most students were on Ubuntu and Mint VMs.
    • Students in system or HPC labs had to learn CentOS. However, my entry condition to my lab was to install FreeBSD as a guest on VMWare ESXi. Everything must be specifically partitioned and must be done in one sitting. (This happened illegally in the server room. I could not exit and hope to reenter, hence the rule.)
    • Enthusiasts learn Debian.
    • I don't know what happened to SlackWare people.

    Kids these days? WSL or Mac.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    To be fair, installing MacOS on a PC is harder than most Linux distros.

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Except openSUSE. Fuck that, it breaks with the smallest thing and is just odd. But this was like 5y ago on Tumbleweed, so maybe it’s changed.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    No way! Opensuse has always been perfect for me, I do usually use leap though.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I believe you, given how many people love it. Maybe I’ll try it again sometime. I love its KDE for some reason (and the boot animation beats other distros easily).

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Eventually, they'll start criticising your choice of DE or text editor.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    VIM FOREVER

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Am I the only one around here that uses MX Linux?

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Let me get you convinced that you should install it then use whatever the fuck you want. It's all the same.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    More like unicorn

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Open Suse Tumbleweed is the way to go. Fight me.

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    I use ArseLinux btw

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    That's pretty much me. I've introduced a few of my friends to Linux. I recommend Ubuntu because it generally has the most documentation, support, largest userbase, etc but they are of course free to pick whatever distro they want. I use Ubuntu LTS myself, it works well enough. In terms of software, I like static linked builds and AppImages since they work on pretty much any distro.

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