The one you fucking feel like using. God, stop trying to make tribes mandatory.
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Never heard of it. What packaging system does Tribes use?
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.
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*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.
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It depends on whoβs asking. But if itβs someone who is curious about Linux, itβs always Mint.
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.
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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.
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I made this mistake once and every comment was a different distro, they were all upvoted, and everyone was saying good things about all of them.
I just went with Ubuntu.
It's the canonical choice
Linux is like dogs, theyβre all good bois.
That's okay, chances are half the different distros people were talking up were Ubuntu.
Excuse me sir or madam, do you have time to talk about our lord and savior NixOS?
no one likes a smart guy. you can keep your dot files /s
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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.
Don't forget Biebian
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.
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There is a slight difference there. You don't ask the first two because social norms have pressured those groups to focus on those elements to unhealthy levels, so asking is, on a certain level, disrupting the peace of the other person by touching a sensitive area. The third is not. The third is poking your own peace because whether they have an extreme loyalty to one or a nuanced understanding of why different ones are better suited to different use cases, you are about to be talked at for an hour about it.
i only use this linux
oh god I'd be so so happy if someone asked me that! Whenever I say i use Linux people look at me funny π
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.
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That's easy, it's Debian
Yeah why would someone ask a question when the answer is so obvious?
You either use Debian, or Debian With Extra Steps, so I went with Debian
Pretty much any distro can do any of the things Windows/Mac users are hoping a computer can do. So just pick one and stick with it. Once you're familiar with Linux, the benefits/drawbacks of each distro will become clearer, and you'll be able to make an informed decision. People will tell you "Arch is more lightweight than Mint" but compared to Windows/MacOS, all Linux distros are going to feel blazingly fast and lightweight. The only decent advice is, if you are just starting out and you have an Nvidia GPU, use a distro that sets that up for you automatically. It's not super complicated to set up, but it's definitely going to feel like a foreign experience the first time.
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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.
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Hey can y'all help me out? I wanna start switching over, but I need a beginner friendly distro that can work well with my 2070 super for gaming. I need something simple to set up or I'll get ADHD paralysis and never do it.
I'd also love if it worked well with my Valve Index, but if that still has a lot of issues across the board I may still have to dual boot :c
If you like the color green pick linux mint. If you like blue pick zorinOS.
If you really want to use arch as noob pick Garuda.
80% of recommendations will be an Ubuntu/debian child so pick whatever looks good and works. See the first two.
If you really don't like Ubuntu/deb check out Fedora. If you want a big screen steam mode pick bazzite.
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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
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