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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't think Arch is as painful as dist-upgrading with Nvidia proprietary drivers installed and a few PPAs enabled.

I no longer use Arch on my main machine, but it was a pleasant experience in general I'd say.

[–] Nibodhika 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I would say Gentoo is more accurate for pain, "oh, I forgot to enable JPEG support by default, guess I'll have to recompile my entire system". Either way both of them might be slightly painful to setup the first time but they're a breeze to maintain, back when I was using Funtoo I could copy my world and config files to a new computer and get an almost identical copy of my system running in a day or so when things finished compiling but without any further intervention from my side.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd say Gentoo fits more for patience

[–] Nibodhika 1 points 1 year ago

Gentoo's patience is measured in hours, Debian's patience is measured in months.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While cool, nearly the same thing can be done with NixOS, skipping the compilation times.

[–] Nibodhika 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, when I first heard of NixOS I tried it, but I found it way more complicated than what I was anticipating, so I ended up desisting. Also it sounds like a great idea for a server or some reproduceable machine, but might be a bit too much for a personal computer. But I do get the appeal, and might eventually try it again, but AUR is such a comfy blanket hahahah

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Definitely. The only major issue I ever had was once with Grub. But it was pretty easy to fix with the right tutorial. Tbh the nvidia issue is what made it painful for me in the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How did Ubuntu teach you love?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It taught me to love Linux

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not my meme, tbh. Lol. But panels 1 and 2 are accurate. Ubuntu was my first experience with linux. My previous company used it on their PCs. 2nd should be Mint as it's my first personal distro and the one I stayed on the longest. 3rd is accurate, but now that I'm trying to get into Gentoo it seems to give me more pain lmao.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Arch gave me unlimited knowledge and power.

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