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What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"? (feddit.uk)

submitted 11 months ago by case_when@feddit.uk to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not too ick someone's yum, and this ventures outside of Linux.

I dislike the BSDs. Great for getting pf, and not being a homogeneous shop, but just different enough to be difficult outside of one specific use case.

Gentoo was similar. It may be different now, but a pain on the Xbox.

Mint was too dumbed down and ugly.

Ubuntu is useful, but likely harmful with it's constant pushes to commercialize everything.

Redhat is needed for work, but the commercialization drives worse quality. Documentation seems purposely bad to drive training courses.

(Yes, I like Debian.)

[–] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Gentoo because while it was fun to try I sure as hell won't be waiting around for my stuff to compile.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Ubuntu. I initially downloaded it for my sibling's pc but now that I've downloaded and configured all these things on their computer, I don't want to reinstall a new OS and reconfigure and download everything again.

[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

anything with GNOME or xfce. modern cinnamon is ok ig but KDE plasma just makes anything bearable for me

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I game a lot, so I need the latest drivers. So anything with a slower release schedule than Manjaro is a no go for me.

[–] tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

GNU Guix. Need to do an Ayahuasca ceremony sometimes and try again with a much more radiant mind.

[–] scriptGoober@linux.community 1 points 3 weeks ago

manjaro.

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

EndeavourOS - I have tried Arch as well but EndeavourOS is just nicer out of the box. The AUR is awesome, and I generally find answers for any problem more easily than I did for any other distro.

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[–] NixDev@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago

Garuda. Looked pretty and tried it for a day or two and noped out. Went back to Manjaro before I figured out how to install Arch without the installer

[–] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 0 points 11 months ago

Linux mint waaaaaaay back when it first launched.

[–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Anything that's not Ubuntu, because it's the "mainstream Linux", so guaranteed I'll find anything I need there.

[–] anthoniix@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Gentooo, the only reason I' use it is so I could bring up systems on old architectures. Besides that it really isn't worth it.

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