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From Windows to about 6 recommended distros for gaming.

I am not bad with computers and have a beginner+, maybe intermediate level knowledge of Linux and I kept running into some problems here and there with different distros. Most claimed to work out of the box (which may be the case for some users, but I have a shit ass Nvidia 1060 and that was not at all the case, until I...

whoami ,

Just responding to say I love your username OP lmao

whoami ,

que digo?

Planning on moving over from Windows 10 to Linux for my Personal Work Station. Can't decide which OS I should switch to.

Windows has been a thorn in my side for years. But ever since I started moved to Linux on my Laptop and swapping my professional software to a cross platform alternative, I’ve been dreaming on removing it from my SSD....

whoami ,

debian stable with backports and flatpaks will get you up to date software and a very stable base

whoami ,

I have to use it at a job. It’s awful, the ads on windows 11 especially.

whoami ,

could always get a used pixel…don’t have to buy directly from google and recycle a phone that might have been thrown out otherwise

whoami ,

same

whoami ,

started with ubuntu in 2008, moved to debian a few months into it. Tried other distros at other times, but the stability of debian keeps me coming back to it. Plus I like the fact it’s a community distro

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NetBSD, from their own website:

The NetBSD Project’s goals

A project has no point if it doesn’t have goals. Thankfully, the NetBSD Project has enough goals to keep it busy for quite some time. Generally speaking, the NetBSD Project:


<span style="color:#323232;">provides a well designed, stable, and fast BSD system,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">avoids encumbering licenses,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">provides a portable system, which runs on many hardware platforms,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">interoperates well with other systems,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">conforms to open systems standards as much as is practical.
</span>

In summary: The NetBSD Project provides a freely available and redistributable system that professionals, hobbyists, and researchers can use in whatever manner they wish.

Based on the name of have assumed it’s be used in things like network appliances but in 20 years I’ve never seen a single device use it.

The name comes from being develop over the internet, when that was still a pretty new concept. It’s pretty popular among Japanese ISP’s iirc.

If you’re at all interested in unix, you should try NetBSD. Open has security as a focus…although some of that is overstated imo. FreeBSD is clearly targeting servers, even if it is all purpose.

NetBSD is less popular, but it’s clean, lightweight, portable, has pkgsrc. Think of Net as a cross between Open and Free.

whoami ,

No, but I think someone made read only support for ZFS available on OpenBSD. Freebsd is obviously the best for ZFS. It works on NetBSD too.

whoami ,

you’re more likely to find BSD communities on reddit, each projects mailing lists, freebsd forums, and unitedbsd.com (which is a great forum, although not too active).

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NetBSD didn’t fork from Free iirc. They took 4.4 BSD and started developing it themselves of the net.

Theo de Raadt was kicked out of netbsd, and started OpenBSD.

whoami ,

no fundamental differences between net and freebsd?

whoami ,

you mean chimera using BSD utils instead of gnu?

whoami ,

Debian stable.

whoami ,

No it’s not widely used. But I think it has a small loyal community. Some people really love it. I’ve only tried it a couple of times, and only on virtual machines. I liked doing admin via text files, and I like that using the “kitchen sink” option you basically have a tool for every task after install. It’s linux but sort unixy or bsd-like in how it approaches some things. That works for some and not so much for others. I might try it out again, but most likely I will stick to Debian.

If you want more software it’s up to you how to do it. With 3rd party tools like sbopkg it’s easier than before, and with tools like flatpak install other software is even easier.

There is also slackware current, and all the other repos, like the work alienbob does to provide plasma desktop etc.

whoami ,

the thing it offers is no systemd, and the mx-linux gui tools to configure your system. Also the advanced hardware support (AHS) is a neat feature. They basically take Debian and make it slightly more user friendly. It’s just less well known than something like ubuntu or mint.

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vlc

for just music/audio musicolet is a good one

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I heard about this a little while back. I think it’s interesting, and it’s nice to see someone try something slightly different. The creator is obviously opinionated about how their distro should work. At least it’s not just another debian/ubuntu based distro.

Ran into an issue with the latest arch Linux update, how to prevent in the futur

I’ve been using Linux for the better part of 4 years so I’m not new to it, but I’ve always learned stuff on an as-needed basis. Today I ran into an issue that I want to prevent in the future since I had a mini heart attack thinking about how my last backup on this system was… Never since I’m an idiot who forgot to set...

whoami ,

btrfs and snapshots is one solution

Also, it looks like you were able to solve the problem, even if you aren’t 100% sure why. Maybe the difference in package versions lead to some problem with the bootloader, causing it to go to emergency mode, and updating it fixed the problem?

Another is using a more stable distro…

Is there any reason NOT to use openSUSE Tumbleweed as a desktop OS?

It seems like its a perfect distro. Rolling release so you get recent packages and dont have huge upgrades every few months, but not so bleeding edge that it breaks often. YaST is pretty cool but you are not forced to use it. Basic installation gives you enough essential stuff, but its not too bloated. The only thing its missing...

whoami ,

yast can be ugly, but effective. And aesthetics are definitely subjective. Agree about zypper though.

whoami ,

I actually kind of like that.

I remember using Icewm and it had a theme that mimicked XP lol.

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