tech-savy geek and queer disaster
(I also hate capitalism and have a general interest in social sciences)
Nowadays it’s easy AF pretty much everywhere. Sometimes there are simple GUI tools that get you there with just a few clicks. Hardest it will get is having to look it up in a wiki for the distribution you are using (if it doesn’t have them preinstalled) and then following simple step-by-step instructions
My first was Ubuntu 14.04. and then 16.04. at school 💀. as early as 2015 iirc
Though Blackbox or Kali might be a contender too (one of the distros my father had installed for fun)
I had rly cool CS teachers, which also administered our infrastructure
then we used Linux Mint in the “Linux” club run by one of said teachers
For personal use, my first one was Manjaro in 2018 (I switched to it with a Windows dual boot, I got rid of Windows entirely in 2020 I think?). Somewhere I switched to Endeavour OS, tried out OpenSuse Tumbleweed on my laptop and eventually settled on Fedora bc of the Grub fiasco Arch had. Am using it to this day.
Though it’s in the form of Nobara on my desktop; I also plan on switching to Bluefin eventually
I get you, like “been there, done that”
Nowadays I have like 10 if not 15 extensions (most of which are not essential to my workflow) and they make the already wonderful Gnome base just better for me personally
this is why I usually wait with recent distribution upgrades, another upside is: it saves me a bunch of headaches too since – by the time I do upgrade – all the little bugs have usually been fixed
On Fedora, Btrfs has been the default for years now iirc. It’s modern and rock solid too (as long as you avoid Raid 5/6) and has some features I can’t live without nowadays:
I (unfortunately) have to heavily recommend against using Nobara, especially if you have an Nvidia graphics card. It’s an amateur distribution in the original sense of the word and also lacks a large community, neither does it have a company behind it.
This leads to a lack of proper QA and testing in general. It’s OK but I would not recommend it to anyone
If you want to go with a “traditional” distro, go with Linux Mint, simply the most solid out there. I’d also recommend you check out Bluefin, it’s atomic (meaning that you are basically guaranteed to always have a working system, even after upgrades) and quite modern
This is why – if you want to keep your extensions – you wait with upgrading to a new Gnome version until your extensions support it…
AFAIK there is no stable extension API, leading to breakage with every version upgrade
Its’ lead dev is also so full of himself, it’s insufferable
FILE, File, file, and FilE should all be the same thing at all times.
“Let’s point many completely different combinations of characters at the same file”
sentences dreamed up by the utterly deranged /hj /lh
valid, I just feel like Gnome is a rly solid base for me, with one of the most intuitive workflows and consistent designs out there
the ecosystem of apps is just superb too