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Rentlar, in The Distro Wars are good actually.?

I haven’t minded the tongue-in-cheek jokes about distros since forever, but people who take it way too seriously, and don’t see that each distro has its benefits and drawbacks are kinda annoying.

WeLoveCastingSpellz,

I think I feel the same way about it

lordnikon,

I kind of feel that could be said about any product or service. very well put.

CrypticCoffee, in Manjaro OS

I’ve had it break many times during update. Don’t get me wrong, I liked it at first, but if you want a system that works after update, you’re probably better checking elsewhere. Linux Mint, and Kubuntu are far better simplicity wise. Open Suse or Arch if you want rolling updates.

governorkeagan, in The Distro Wars are good actually.?

I think it’s a double edged sword.

On the one side, you can see it as bringing more attention to Linux and allowing a broader audience to find Linux.

On the flip side, the threads about which distro is best can get very toxic.

flashgnash,

Made infinitely more entertaining by the fact they’re all more or less the same under the hood with minor differences packed ontop of the same Linux kernel

kbal, in The Distro Wars are good actually.?
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The only way to avoid having disagreements about which choice of distro is best would be to avoid having any choices.

x3i, in The Distro Wars are good actually.?

Always reminds me of the console wars… people attach their whole identity to all kinds of things nowadays and fight for it like it was a religion. Did not see much good come out of such threads yet.

danileonis,
@danileonis@lemmy.ml avatar

Divide et impera

kugmo, in What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop?
@kugmo@sh.itjust.works avatar

Whatever distro you install, make sure you enable zram, it makes old computers with low ram much more usable, and an out of memory killer too.

piexil,

Ooms are much less necessary with MGLRU if they keep to a new kernel

kugmo,
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I’d still use an oom killer even on 6.1 which is the kernel Debian uses, mglru got improvements in following kernels like you said.

dan, (edited )
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The Linux kernel already has OOM killing… Do you mean something like Facebook’s oomd where you can more easily control it from userspace?

kugmo,
@kugmo@sh.itjust.works avatar

yeah, from what i remember the kernel’s oom killer isn’t that fast and external ones work better

Doll_Tow_Jet-ski,

Thanks! Great advice 👍

digdilem, in The Distro Wars are good actually.?

Because it triggers the tribal instinct, innit.

“I use A, so A must be better than B. Otherwise I’m wrong, and I don’t like that.”

The reality, of course, is that there is no “Best distro” for all use cases, and personal choice is absolutely a qualifier in defining those use cases. If your personal requirement is for a neon pink desktop and rather aged theming aimed at little girls, then you’ve absolutely chosen “The best distro” for you and don’t let anyone tell you differently.

dessalines, (edited ) in 100% vanilla distribution challenge

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Hominine, in Pyradion, internet radio TUI client, with recording functionality, written in Python
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Neat! Going to give this a go on my lunch break. Thanks!

christos,
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Hey let me know how it goes, any feedback is welcome!

Yerbouti, in Surface Go 2 with 4GB Ram and 4425Y worth it?

I have the 8gb model and I cant recommend. Battery life is ridiculously low, it struggle with windows, but got a little better on fedora. Keyboard broke after a year, it was about 90euros to replace Overall it’s really overpriced, you can find better.

ipsirc, in The Distro Wars are good actually.?
@ipsirc@lemmy.ml avatar

The threads about distros are the really bad ones.

andremariyo, in Surface Go 2 with 4GB Ram and 4425Y worth it?
andremariyo, in web/low memory alternatives to Krita and GIMP please
andremariyo, in Manjaro OS
Neikon, in Manjaro OS
@Neikon@lemmy.world avatar

It works for me, I have KDE version. I have AUR apps, SNAP (VSC works better in snap than flatpak), official repo apps. I have not had any errors in the 6 months I have been using it.

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