I have no idea how Windows is the red line in this, it should be the green but even steeper

99% of the time it’s just “make && sudo make install” or something like that. Anything bigger or more complicated typically has a native package anyway.

Fun fact, “fos” means “liquid shit” in Hungarian, applies literally in this case

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Am I the only one who’s fine with typing a password?

I don’t really get what people mean when describing Gnome or any DE as “out of the way”. I’ve never felt like KDE was “in my way”.

Try running a stable distro without them

Arch mentioned btw

Probably because it’s not as flashy as Discord

I see no “hostility” and “talking down” here. You shouldn’t be running GUI programs with sudo, and the fact that you’ve been using Linux for X amount of years doesn’t change that.

“But it’s so convenient” is a close second

“But why would they care about MY data, I don’t do anything special”

Anyone outside of tech when I even passingly mention privacy

Unless you have very niche needs or choose to tinker, everything just works.

I like to dunk on nvidia as much as anyone but really driver support has not been as much of a problem these last few years, other than Wayland it sort of just works for me

That’s something Windows used to do a lot, right? I remember the old HDDs were always noisiest under Windows

CLI:

• git
• zsh
• neovim
• lazygit
• my dotfiles (i have them on gh and then use a bare repo)
• a few extra utilities: htop, ripgrep, tree, exa
• yay (I use Arch btw)
• tools for whatever langs I’m using, usually rust or golang

GUI:

• Steam - games are on a separate disk that I add to /etc/fstab so I just need to add it to Steam and I’m good to go
• Lutris
• Sublime Text
• Spotify
• Discord
• Flameshot
• psensor

It was meant to be a joke… viruses are MEANT to be downloaded by their creators, but nobody would actually want to do that

You wouldn’t download a virus

Piracy is THEFT

Oh boy. I definitely started with Ubuntu 17.04 in 2017 when I started uni, then soon downgraded to 16.04 because Unity was soooo much better than Gnome. But afterwards it’s a blur, I was distrohopping basically every few months, sometimes even more often. I used Antergos (RIP), Manjaro, all flavors of Ubuntu except Gnome, Mint, then I was into the whole minimalistic tiling wm suckless no-systemd rabbit hole with Void, I also did KDE Neon at some point, I definitely did pure Arch as well, and Artix too. Sometimes I even hopped at work when I had a bit more time. God I miss those days…

Right now I’ve settled on Mint for work and Endeavor for personal use and haven’t hopped for over a year which is as long as I’ve ever gone. I miss hopping but I’m so comfy right now. I’ve been thinking about finally giving Gentoo a go full time as I’ve been flirting with the idea forever. And there’s also Nix. And I’ve been meaning to try a system where I fully embrace flatpak (right now I never use it). I’d also like to try something like Qubes eventually. So yeah, plenty to see still after all these years.

Well, when you’re an experienced Linux user it’s kind of predictable what effect each answer will have on the outcome.

I love btw how Arch, a supposedly brittle and unstable distro, is one of the few that you can actually run for this long without ever reinstalling, on desktop at least. Not having to worry about LTS releases, end of life etc because you essentially always automatically have the latest version is so great.

I can recommend Mint, it’s fantasically easy and stable, but take a look at https://distrochooser.de