Recommend me a distro, Holla Forums

Solus check all of your requirements, plus it is rolling release written from scratch while being completely stable.

NixOS
Atomic rollbacks and reproducible builds force it to just werk, not break and is as minimal or as bloated as the config file you want.
nixos.org

Slackware.

This.
Beginner using Mint Cinnamon and everything works. Even my wife likes it better than MSWin.

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Gentoo.

I have actually tried most of the available distros, and can say that Salix is the best. I have low patience for bullshit, and if after an hour of using a distro I'm still not satisfied with it - it's going to the trash. But I've stuck with Salix for years now and I don't see a need to try anything different.

It has one application per task (that's a big one for me - no clutter), verions available for many desktop environments, and everything works right after installing.

You might as well just install Arch. It'll be a good experience for you, OP.

Did you know that Lignux distribution developers actually like systemd because it makes use of a declarative way of managing the system.

Oh boy, haven't had this stupid fucking thread before. Nope. OP certainly isn't too fucking stupid to make his own basic decisions.

just installed Salix with openbox in a new VM. it's pretty nice so far
would recommend/10.

Just werks for me anyways. If you can't deal with the rare problems that come up you shouldn't be touching linux anyways. Also the benefit of AUR outweighs most downside especially if you work with linux professionaly.

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The only problem with debian is the outdated packages.

StickyOS. Been there awhile now.

testing and unstable are pretty stable in my experience

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Everyone in this thread is a memeing fuck

I use Mint

How's that a problem? Be honest here: besides Firefox and maybe stuff like LibreOffice and Krita, why do you need the latest version of every package?

Your shit might get broken after every update and nobody really uses or cares about the new """features""" of programs (there are almost none, most updates are to adress bugs.)

I literally stopped tapping to version numbers once I realized the comfiness of Debian.

elementary OS has been my daily driver for over six months now. I like the design choices they've made.

Pick one.
SolusOS is pretty good, though. Would use that as a daily driver if I wasn't happy with arch.

Did you know that distro developers who like systemd are young smartphone-era assburgers with short attention spans and profound retardation?

Manjaro

Puppy, either Slacko64 or Tahr64: puppylinux.com/
It's tiny, has a fuckton of configuration tools for convenience and uses a vidya-like save file system, so if you fuck up you can reload your save or delete it. Only downside is that it looks a little ugly, and comes with JWM/IceWM, but you said you wanted minimalism. Only reason I don't use it is because I like having a bigger DE.

Alternatively try Porteus: porteus.org/
It's Puppy-like, but more of a normal distro. It's like a portable Slackware, and is fully compatible with Slackware's repos. Building packages for it is as easy as doing it for Slackware. It's also a lot less uglier than Puppy, and comes with much newer software. It's got Puppy's save file system, but it uses it's own thing by default where it sticks all your changes in a folder instead of a file. I install it on the family computer, because the save system lets me reload to an older save or just go fresh if something fucks up.

Or you can just do what I do and use stock Ubuntu. It just werks, runs nicely on my Thinkpad and I don't have to fuck around with compiling software because everyone targets Ubuntu.

windows 10 is best linux distro

Stock Ubuntu actually isn't as bad as this board likes to ramp it up to be.

Has been my daily driver for 6+ years. I play games, watch movies, look at porn, make stupid memes, browse the internet, shitpost, whatever. It does it all.

In terms of design or system load? In both cases, I'd argue that stock Ubuntu is acceptable.

Not sure what you mean by this. So far everything I've tried to do, I've been able to do with relative ease.

Depends on how much tinfoil you wear on your head. In 14.04 LTS upon a fresh install, the unity launcher sort of acts like a search engine, fetching results from the internet for whatever you might be searching for. This can be disabled with a single click, and I believe is disabled by default in the current versions of Ubuntu.

Pardon my shit hardware, too poor to upgrade atm.

I think you're on the wrong board, friend!

>>>Holla Forums

2/10, made me reply.

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Anything using youtube (mpsyt, yt-dl) has to be updated constantly as youtube keeps changing it's algorithm. For most other things though you're right.

I'm beginning to think Fedora is the only comfy distro out there…

It just werks, everything needed is here but it is not minimal. It is a real pleasure to use it after trying Debian and trying to fiddle with everything to get a decent system or Arch and having to spend most of time copy-pasting from the wiki…
I tried to install manjaro but I couldn't get past booting on the usb stick, for an unknown reason…

I would really appreciate if someone could prove I'm wrong because I still want to try out new distros…

But so far I'm sticking with fedora on my main machine so I recommend it to you OP.

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I personally don't know Fedora but I am a Plebian user and I am pretty satisfied so far. You really don't need any knowledge to install it. It has a graphical UI and you can just browse through the procedure. You can even choose to only install the necessary files without all the other Debian bloatware programs.

However installing custom programs was sort of annoying as I had no idea of linux commands and still don't know today so I had to look up forums and copy paste commands into the console whenever I wanted to install something that wasnt in the apt library or whenever I wanted to edit some system file. After a few weeks it was set up and ever since it was working rock solid. Not a single system crash or problem.

Oh that is something that is sometimes lacking in fedora, stability.
I experienced a few crashes or bugs, but at the same time I am happy having relatively recent packages…
Maybe at one point I will reconsider my priorities between stability and bleeding-edge…

BTW my current debian build was installed in late 2014

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

What is singularity pepper?

Holla Forums is shitting itself again

It's the Singularity Viewer, a third party Second Life client. I just edited in the gimp pepper as a joke for a friend.

Is Mint still good? I like Cinnamon but people say Mint went to shit after becoming popular with winplebs.

I already run Arch. It fails on #3. I like it overall, but it's even their official stance that you're supposed to spend significant time doing your own sysadmin shit. Not really "just werks", it doesn't even come with cron.

I've got an idea for you: Instead of raging and saging how about you write a copypasta so the issue can be resolved properly?

Holla Forums should really put together a distro infographic. Group the important distros by tiers, then briefly cover the interesting properties of each. Pretty easy and useful project tbh - I'd do it myself but I'm patchy on some distrolore.

Nah man, one of my biggest peeves is fucking with drivers to begin with.

Thanks for the suggestion though, I was interested in slackware but it seemed too much work for me.

How is debian really? People on here either say it's the best or the worst. Seems like a Debian LTS would fit my needs, and not give me any driver headaches. Is it loaded with spyware/bloatware like Ubuntu though?

IMO you rarely need the latest. Especially when you have major plebware (like FF) trying to leverage its popularity to push retarded "new features" on users.

But rarely new versions will introduce an actual improvement, but if you're on a slow distro it can be annoying to get the latest version for that one program.

How does elementary differ from ubantoo, mint, manjaro, etc?

A non-ugly UI isn't bloat. I just don't want unnecessary crap that doesn't improve my experience, I'm not trying to do some masochistic convenience fast.

Yeah, it would definitely solve a lot of problems I have in Arch. But then I'll have to get rid of all the bloat.

That would be hard to agree on in Holla Forums. Any distro infographic would just have every distro in shit tier for one reason or another, with TempleOS alone in usable tier.
Different people use Linux OSs for different reasons. You've got the just werks fags, the anti-systemd fags, the FOSSfags, the anti-GUI fags, the antibloat fags, the antiGPL fags, the suckless fags, and the people who believe that if you aren't on their level of hiding from "the botnet" you might as well stretch your asshole out for the 3-letter agencies to fuckvestigate.

Here's an attempt at least:
Ubuntu, Mint
Void, Slackware, Devuan, Gentoo
Trisquel, Parabola, Debian with nonfree stripped
Knoppix Adriane
AntiX, Puppy, Bodhi, Tiny Core
>Cuck license tier Whether you consider BSD or GPL the cuck license is up to you
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, whatever PCBSD is called nowadays
I have no fucking clue
A typewriter, I heard IBM Selectrics are good

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You can blame 13-18 year olds coming over from /g/.
They'll grow up eventually, but have to ruin another board in the process.

Infographics have always had their contrarians, even in cuck/g/. The goal isn't to have everyone agree.

Exactly, which is why an infographic that explains those reasons and how they relate to which distro is useful. Then, given each use case, the relevant distros can be judged as good or bad for that purpose.

Aside from their own Stali linux thing which is unusable from a daily driver perspective, I think I've heard the devs themselves favor alpine, probably because of musl.

But to answer your point, I'd probably point to something like Xubuntu or Lubuntu.

I find that Xubuntu rides the line between friendly and effecient, as Lubuntu's DE (LXDE) seems a looser coupling than Xubuntu's (XFCE), and I think XFCE's default looks nicer.

Both of course come with all the support that Debian and Ubuntu have, too, but without the bloat of KDE, Unity, or Gnome (and its forks).

So yeah, I think Xubuntu could probably tick all those boxes except possible minimal, but a few minutes removing some apps you won't use will correct that.

I have been using Lubuntu sice I started having trouble with Debian and fglrx. It's very easy to use and almost everything can be done through the GUI. I would recommend it to anyone that wants a just werks distro. If someone is looking to actually learn more about Linux, I would say stick with Debian because I found that resolving the issues I had, encouraged me to become more involved and interested in how it works.

And I'm pretty sure that for vast majority of Linux distros that are not rolling, youtube-dl should be updated via

sudo youtube-dl -U

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

That's why I would recommend Manjaro. It's literally arch except it's meant to also just werks. It's great.
Literally from their about section on their homepage:

Manjaro is a user-friendly Linux distribution based on the independently developed Arch operating system. Developed in Austria, France, and Germany, Manjaro provides all the benefits of the Arch operating system combined with a focus on user-friendliness and accessibility.

I agree. Manjaro is the most usable linux distro for actual users (no debian, you don't belong here).

It's bretty gud

'If it's not a mac I won't bother using it :^)))))))))))))))))))'

Well it's a problem when you have a problem that's been fixed but the package isn't updated for a long time.

The kernel broke my soundcard and wasn't updated for 6 months, of course I just switched to the old working kernel. GNU Global was infamous for being out of date, but I believe that's fixed now. Valgrind was broken for a number of months too.