Distros based on ArchLinux, that ship breaking changes and expect users to read .pacnew config files and update their own config accordingly (CachyOS)
A bunch of shell scripts and Hyprland config masquerading as a distro, made by a white supremacist and used to promote their brand (Omarchy 🤮)
NixOS. I don’t even known where to begin with this one.
To be 100% clear, I use and like CachyOS and Nix (home manager).
CachyOS and NixOS are great projects with good technical performance toward their respective goals (good defaults and performance on Arch, and declarative configuration, respectively), but they are not beginner friendly.
I’m on Bazzite now, but I was on Fedora for a looong time and I even moved the same installation from one laptop to the next, just dd’d the drive, zero problems.
Distros based on ArchLinux, that ship breaking changes and expect users to read .pacnew config files and update their own config accordingly (CachyOS)
You’re absolutely right. The other day I ran into a guy using arch who didn’t know what a tarball was or how to compile software. I was like ‘the fuck?’.
I should have thought of the newbies who just follow guides and might not know they’ve gotten in over their heads.
In some ways I think NixOS is good for beginners. I started with Ubuntu, then Arch, then NixOS.
I managed to break Ubuntu and Arch in some really weird ways which made reinstalling my root directory easier than diagnosing the issues.
You cannot break NixOS unless you do some funky chroot shit or rebuild with temporary partitions.
This isn’t to suggest newbies should choose NixOS as a first distro, learning NixOS will give you a skill set which will not translate to knowledge about how other Linux OS’s work (because it breaks file system conventions).
However… If you know how to use NixOS, you’re living a post distro-hopping life, having ascended to godhood, and letting the Arch users know you use Nix BTW.
Third top post of all time to r/r/unixporn is a slick hyprland + quickshell rice and they linked their dotfiles + configs. how is a brother to resist trying it?
I am a newbie with hyprland. Got introduced to it with a bog video, and because it was keyboard only, it was a good fit for my dell nuggetbook with a poor trackpad. It isn’t my only machine, so I felt safe enough in doing so.
It has taken a bit of configuring the files, but I have really enjoyed the process of learning.
So for me it was a way of reviving a machine that was painful to use.
Also most rice I have seen are hyprland. Probably doesn’t help
Are newbies really installing hyprland? I would think they’d stick with kde/gnome/cinnamon.
In an ideal world.
But in our world, newbies are being recommended:
.pacnewconfig files and update their own config accordingly (CachyOS)To be 100% clear, I use and like CachyOS and Nix (home manager). CachyOS and NixOS are great projects with good technical performance toward their respective goals (good defaults and performance on Arch, and declarative configuration, respectively), but they are not beginner friendly.
Meanwhile my Fedora ass whos done nothing but run updates for like five years
I’m on Bazzite now, but I was on Fedora for a looong time and I even moved the same installation from one laptop to the next, just dd’d the drive, zero problems.
You’re absolutely right. The other day I ran into a guy using arch who didn’t know what a tarball was or how to compile software. I was like ‘the fuck?’.
I should have thought of the newbies who just follow guides and might not know they’ve gotten in over their heads.
In some ways I think NixOS is good for beginners. I started with Ubuntu, then Arch, then NixOS.
I managed to break Ubuntu and Arch in some really weird ways which made reinstalling my root directory easier than diagnosing the issues.
You cannot break NixOS unless you do some funky chroot shit or rebuild with temporary partitions.
This isn’t to suggest newbies should choose NixOS as a first distro, learning NixOS will give you a skill set which will not translate to knowledge about how other Linux OS’s work (because it breaks file system conventions).
However… If you know how to use NixOS, you’re living a post distro-hopping life, having ascended to godhood, and letting the Arch users know you use Nix BTW.
AntiX, fast, lightweight, and proudly anti-fascist…
AntiX is nothing like Omarchy from my quick look at it. It’s Debian vs Arch (btw) and systemd-free.
Third top post of all time to r/r/unixporn is a slick hyprland + quickshell rice and they linked their dotfiles + configs. how is a brother to resist trying it?
That’s how they get ya…
I am a newbie with hyprland. Got introduced to it with a bog video, and because it was keyboard only, it was a good fit for my dell nuggetbook with a poor trackpad. It isn’t my only machine, so I felt safe enough in doing so.
It has taken a bit of configuring the files, but I have really enjoyed the process of learning.
So for me it was a way of reviving a machine that was painful to use.
Also most rice I have seen are hyprland. Probably doesn’t help
Love some Bog. I wish more Linux enthusiasts would give him a watch, as he even makes me go WTF every now and then, and I’m just a noob myself!
Yep, then they are going to complain and claim Linux isn’t ready for then entire computing industry; not even grandmas just using a web browser.