I don’t use arch btw
i only use this linux
Toss up between Slackware, Gentoo or Linux From Scratch. Learn the hard way.
LFS is a distro in the sense that a cookbook is a buffet
Shame on all of you for not knowing Hanna Montana Linux is the best possible OS ever.
I thought that it’s a fact everyone using Linux just instinctively knew.
What about Manjaro Linux?
I’ve been using Manjaro with Cinnamon for about a month now. It works great on an old Lenovo with 12gb ram. Probably going to stick with it when I build my desktop.
it is OBJECTIVELY linux mint. Why? Because.
this comment was written on June 2025. So as of this day Mint is fabulous. And if I were to save a single distro from a burning building of all the popular distros, i would grab mint twice.
I know I know, there are many good distros, even texhnically better ones. But having used Mint as a secondary dual boot to my primary Windows, I have felt that Mint has been least annoying and actually worth retaining and updating and maintaining.
oh god I’d be so so happy if someone asked me that! Whenever I say i use Linux people look at me funny 😭
Yeah man. The amount of times I have to shoehorn into the conversation, that I’m using Arch btw. is tiring.
Would be so much easier, if they just asked.
Are you using Arch btw?
The one you fucking feel like using. God, stop trying to make tribes mandatory.
*Except for beginners
Try a beginner distro, and when you’re done with the tutorial, go ahead and install your arches or nixes, IDC
SteamOS was my tutorial and today I run Arch on my main system. But I like learning and I like the fact that I can build my own system and choose my own components. I understand that Arch is not for everyone but for me it’s perfect.
Steamos is a great introduction… If you touch desktop mode of course.
Personally I recommend Linux mint, or even KUbuntu or Cinnamon Ubuntu (gnome is not meant for windows refugees so better not show it yet)
Also, fuck GNOME. When I tried Ubuntu in 2009 it was GNOME that made me hate Linux until I learned that KDE Plasma was a thing.
GNOME is horrible. Looks pretty, but it’s opinionated approach means that nothing works as expected and you have to relearn how to use a stupid window manager.
Never heard of it. What packaging system does Tribes use?
SHAZBOT!
Well, it’s built to use Ooga, but it’s also set up to be able to handle Booga as well. It depends on the driver set you need to load Fire and Club.
I prefer Ook! Ook! over Ooga.
I feel like there’s a lemmings reference to be made here but I’m tired. Internet, do your thing.
Never ask a woman her age.
A man the length of his penis.
And Someone who posts memes like this how long they had to dig to get to this ancient stereotype.
It depends on who’s asking. But if it’s someone who is curious about Linux, it’s always Mint.
If someone is new, show them DEs and recommend based on that
Yeah. “I use OpenSUSE tumbleweed, but have reasons I’ve been thinking about switching. I consistently hear that mint is a good place to start, or maybe pop!os if you’re looking to run games”
I don’t actually even say the first sentence unless the question was “what do you use?”
Sometimes, if it’s clear they’re trying to revive very old hardware I might help them search for something built around being lightweight.
I’m mostly happy with tumbleweed, except that I have the nvidia repo set up and am convinced that it’s causing issues. One of these days I’ll look into how to try the nouveau drivers and/or how to get from my current setup to dualbooting pop!os without disrupting things I need for work.
Also, an update straight up broke emacs while i was in crunch time once, but I learned to be more careful about my update timing.
My guy just uninstall the Nvidia driver, it will fall back to the driver in the kernel, which is the Nouveau driver.
I’ll try that soon. Tbf, it’s absurdly easy to roll back with snapper if I make a change and it’s not better, I just haven’t gotten around to it.
I try to avoid telling people what I use as they will wonder why I don’t use mint if I recommend it.
I like Fedora + plasma, but I don’t want to explain rpm fusion and Fedora flatpak problems.
Would Aurora be a better recommendation these days?
Not familiar with it, but one thing mint has is a long history. That’s important to me.
And a lot of support, especially aimed to the beginner userbase. Most basics questions a first time linux user will encounter are usually answered to by searching the forum
Great point! I hadn’t even considered that.
It’s NixOS
This is my favorite comment on the thread.
I use coasters, btw.
Your a Linux user?
What’s the best distribution of Windows?
React OS
Windows XP Black Edition (xD)
Windows Vista.
XP was
Windows 7 Embedded.
Windows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC.
Pfft Linux is too mainstream… I run BeOS and OS/2 Warp.
Pfft, those are still maintained (Haiku and ArcaOS respectively) and so corporate man.
TempleOS all the way baby. Nothing is more powerful the the almighty HolyC.
Haiku! 🍁 exists :3
I’m a simple man, but I love Fedora
I’ve bounced around to plenty of distros, Fedora KDE is my current daily driver.
Fedora is the best because it fits my use case the best.
