• greencactus@lemmy.world
    4·
    12 days ago

    Ubuntu actually. I hated Ubuntu for a long time, until there was a game which only ran on Ubuntu. And now, after installing it, I’m actually pretty impressed and like it a lot. Yaru is a very good-looking theme, and the customizations Ubuntu made to stock GNOME are actually pretty logical (like adding windows buttons). It has among the best documentation and package support in the whole Linux universe. I’m a guy who likes to tinker, but for whom it is more important that the PC runs well, and I haven’t encountered a single problem with Ubuntu yet - no kernel panic, no weird Bluetooth stuff, no apps which don’t run for some reason,…

    Everything just works. And that makes me happy. So Ubuntu it is.

    • imaging2162@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 days ago

      My first try at linux was ubuntu 8 on a 2008 or 09 Lenovo idea pad. I left linux shortly after for windows based products for a little while for mostly pc gaming. After learning more about the current state of linux in 2022 i return to Ubuntu long term release and I’m very impressed with how well it works.

      I have been tinkering with different things like large language models and a few other tools which has caused me issues with graphics drivers recently but overall it works well every time

    • massacre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      13 days ago

      F-that! Take pride… Mint is ridiculously good. Well managed, stable, “just works” and yet has all the capabilities you want, including auto-running near the edge for current kernels (backed down to stable) without doing jack. You can run at the bleeding edge if you want to manage it yourself.

      And for any haters - here’s my take: I’ve been working with Unix for 30+ years, I installed Slackware off of floppies when 16MB of RAM was god-like. I have built, compiled and managed nearly every distro at some point certainly the upstream giants. I’ve been there for the birth of all of them. I’ve also professionally worked on AIX, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX. Yes there’s a lot of fun in maintaining and running things to your satisfaction, but when you hit a certain inflection point of balancing your real life and maintaining distros across multiple machines and decide “This is the way” - Mint just fits the bill on so many levels.

      Mint is the bomb and I’m done pretending. Fight me (not you, OP, you’re cool)

    • Owljfien@lemm.ee
      2·
      13 days ago

      All my homies love mint, just because it’s friendly doesn’t mean it’s bad!

    • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 days ago

      Mint is the basic bitch of distros. Sure she shows up in fugly ugs, leggings, gripping a pumpkin spice drank. But she shows up! Works hard. That girl fucks! Make no mistake, basic bitches make the world go round.

      Mint is the shit!

  • xycu@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    12 days ago

    Gentoo for the last 20+ years. Slackware before that.

    Ran something or other off dual floppy drives at some point in the ancient times… A boot diskette and a root diskette.

  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world
    1·
    12 days ago

    Started on the 'buntu in 2005 or 2006. Distro hopped for a decade until I found Solus. That had some dark times a few years ago but seems to be back now but I moved to Debian anyway. Feels right.