I’m really enjoying Pop!_OS, but their logo could use some workshopping imo. I’ve been considering trying an upstream distro as an educational experience anyway, yet somehow this is what I’m feeling excited about. I don’t know why - nobody but me is ever going to see my neofetch output. Lol

(NixOS isn’t really in the running… I just wanted a 3rd example and like the logo)

  • illusionist@lemmy.zip
    39·
    5 months ago

    You can just use a distrobox …

    The package manager isn’t that much of a reason to choose a distro anymore.

    Neofetch is not maintained anymore. I can recommend fastfetch.

    • iopq@lemmy.world
      5·
      5 months ago

      Disagree, nix is a lot better than standard package managers. For one, you can have packages installed that rely on different dependecy versions

      • illusionist@lemmy.zip
        8·
        5 months ago

        Is nix already “normie” compatible? It has to become much easier.

        I really like home manager but even that is too difficult right now.

        Same for flatpak, it’s on a good path but there is still lots of room for improvement

        • GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Complex things that someone has already done are infinitely easier in nixos - stuff like having zfs as root filesystem is literally two lines in the config (and the magic is that it is very, very hard to break).

          Complex things that are your own edge case will make you want to pull your hair out - I wanted to run immich on a raspberry pi 5 with native 16k page size, long story short, I still don’t have immich.

          On the other hand, if by “normie” you mean “running a browser and some flatpaks”, nixos is likely the best distro that will work right out of the box - the graphical installer will generate a good config, the out of the box hardware support is the best in my experience, breakage is almost impossible. Automatic updates will not work though and there’s no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.

          • luciferofastora@feddit.org
            5·
            5 months ago

            Automatic updates will not work though and there’s no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.

            That’s probably a disqualifying feature for laypeople-suitability. “Normies” ad in “non-techies” won’t easily dare touch the command line and certainly not think of frequently using it to check for updates, but not having any security updates is a bad idea.

          • illusionist@lemmy.zip
            2·
            5 months ago

            Nix is awesome but has a steep learning curve imo.

            I’ll have a look into the installer nowadays whrn I get to it, thx for the hint.

        • iopq@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 months ago

          the UIs for things like configs are not really usable in my experience, unless someone found something that works better

  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
    15·
    5 months ago

    Fulltime Linux user since 2001 or so. Tried so many distros…

    I have never once used neofetch. I never really understood why anyone does, but maybe I am missing out…

    But if you find a distro you like that makes your neofetch look cool, post it here, I will give you a view so you aren’t the only one seeing it!

  • tengkuizdihar@programming.dev
    8·
    5 months ago

    debian when you need image for your docker, nixos when you need stability and reproducibility, arch when you…

    i have no idea actually, why arch?

  • Caveman@lemmy.world
    8·
    5 months ago

    I want to do the Nix thing so bad. It’s tempting me but I don’t have any time for that.

  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    6·
    5 months ago

    Personally I like fastfetch with dacrabs tweaks.

    In terms of distributions, I’m not a good example of “so cool!”. Its pretty much just Debian. Stable for servers (with proxmox mostly), stable for my main desktop, two machines with Trixie and Sid respectively, then two test boxes with arch and endeavouros (for laziness purposes).

    I like LMDE as a rec for others, though I prefer it with KDE which is no longer explicitly supported, so meh.

    For family, if I’m doing it, its Deb stable all the way. Even my htpc’s are deb stable.

  • Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org
    6·
    5 months ago

    but their logo could use some workshopping

    The Tumbleweed logo too. Used to be a classie infinity symbol. They tilted it 45° and put some weird corners in there, and now it looks like Fedora fanart.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    6·
    5 months ago

    Most of the *fetches (and clones by other names) have an option for showing a different distro’s logo without having to go through any major changes. neofetch, moribund though it is, has --ascii_distro for that purpose (Weird choice of an underscore in an option. Most programs use more hyphens to separate words in long options).

    This did get me to install screenfetch (superseded by plain old fetch but realised that too late for this comment), cpufetch (a year old, still in active development) and archey4 (likewise) after I did a bit of research on similar programs though, so maybe the sirens got me one way or the other.

  • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 months ago

    neofetch is pretty but it is slower than the alternatives: pfetch, fastfetch…etc. I either use those 2 or no fetch whatsoever: I want my terminal pops up and is ready to type.

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 months ago

    Eventhough i’m a void user i really like the artix logo and i think it’s on of the best looking logos in neofetch/fastfetch