Hi. I am using macOS. so, what UNIX like OS are you using?

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    2 years ago

    I use NixOS on my pc, laptop, and server, although I dual-boot windows on my pc to play some games.

    My phone is android, I have a pinephone but I can’t get discord and other things to work well on it so it can’t be my daily driver right now. (I know Matrix chat is better than discord, I even host my own instance, but everyone in my school uses discord so there’s no way to switch).

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      2 years ago

      How easy is it to setup nowadays? I tried it 3-4 years ago and it was a pain to set almost anything up, even after learning the NixOS way.

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    I want to like macOS but Apple, IMO, is doing scummier and scummier things with it. For instance, I haven’t signed in to iCloud. Once a day it seems, I’ll get a little notice telling me that not all functionality will work until I’ve signed in. Ok… So I click the little ‘X’ on the notification. It opens the settings to the iCloud setup screen. That’s not what ‘X’ is supposed to do!

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    2 years ago

    Arch. I got it working 3 years ago, it’s still working, stable. On my main laptop, though, I’m running windows, and planning to install Fedora when I get the chance.

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    Run Arch on my main PC. Proxmox on my home server with Ubuntu server as VM and random containers.

  • Robert Ian Hawdon@feddit.uk
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    My work machine is macOS as the company won’t let us use Linux. My home machine is Arch Linux (obligatory “BTW”) which I migrated to after Ubuntu dropped Unity and started forcing Snaps on everyone.

    However, a nice shameless plug for my Terminal file manager: DF-SHOW which is designed to work on all Unix like systems.

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      2 years ago

      this advertisement is ok, I’ll check it and see if I can use it with tdsr. if not, I’ll report back with issues that I found.

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    I’m a grumpy old man when it comes to OSes. I started on Gentoo, used Arch for a while, a few years of Ubuntu, then a bunch of different Ubuntu-based distros, Fedora and all the Fedora spins, even ran the Hannah Montana OS as a meme for a week.

    Eventually, got bored of the latest shiny things and fixing the best thing ever, and am using Kubuntu with Wayland. It just works, got no complaints.

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      even ran the Hannah Montana OS as a meme for a week

      We should both commit to exclusively using TempleOS and see who can last the longest.

    • imperator
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      2 years ago

      I use Ubuntu on my laptop, but Arch of the desktop. Having the rolling release for gaming is nice. Just easier that way for me at least.

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    Arch Linux. It’s too convenient. The AUR hosts a massive amount of packages, wiki is super detailed and covers solutions for all sorts of edge cases. Needs a bit of tinkering to get started but once things are set up it’s very stable, and still gives you a lot of freedom to tinker with your system however you want. The only other option I’ve considered is NixOS which has some pretty interesting features

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      1 year ago

      I wonder if we could feed the AUR Wiki into a GPT and get a useful support desk for all Linux distros.

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    2 years ago

    Slackware - it’s very utilitarian for me.

  • Starfish@kbin.social
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    I have tried them all. The one wo never let me down was Debian stable. I use it for 8 years now on desktop, gaming rig and server.
    The ones that come close are Alpine Linux and Ubuntu LTS.

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    2 years ago

    Linux Mint Xfce here - just right for me - not too splashy, not too hard core :-)

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    It used to be MacOS, but I jumped ship as soon as iOS stuff started creeping in years ago. Because I had already jumped ship from iPhones for the exact same stuff. Arch is my *nix of choice these days, or Linux Mint if I’m recommending it to someone else who doesn’t want to learn Arch.

    But with that said, my daily driver is a Windows machine these days. I’m getting lazy as I get older, so (relatively) effortless compatibility is king.

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    I’ve been a linux user since 1996. I’ve used a lot of distros over the years slackware/gentoo/debian/arch/redhat/ubuntu.These days I’ve been running Fedora and find it pretty great. I’ve gotten a bit too lazy for distros like Arch and prefer something that just works without too much tinkering.

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      The new Arch Installer makes it pretty darn streamlined. If you can get your box onto the internet, it’ll work almost like any other installer. Just all text based.

      Fedora/Ubuntu is what I tell casual users to use though.

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      Same here. I hopped all over, but these days I even run fedora on my server. Probably not a very good idea, but I really didn’t feel like googling shit for hours to get my stuff up and running

      I’ll probably regret it when they drop support for the current version, but that’s a problem for future me

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    Arch because my installs keep working, and I’m really used to it at this point. In the future I’d be interested in trying something like NixOS/Guix, Silverblue, or Qubes.

    The mobile landscape is just a privacy clusterfuck. I flip flop back and forth between Android and iOS a lot. Maybe one day I’ll take the Graphene plunge, not sure.

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    Linux Mint has always been my recommended for beginners to Linux and if I just want something stable and quick to set up.

    Arch (usually EndeavourOS) when I want to do fun stuff.

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      linux mint is not good if you are trying to have new software.

      • Nora
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        2 years ago

        Not true? Obviously rolling releases have newest software but they have their own drawbacks. Debian distros still get normal updates