Honestly I just love that Plasma closely resembles the Windows 10/11 UI. Not that I like Windows, but because I have to deal with Windows from time to time.
Switching between Gnome UI and Windows 10/11 UI requires an effort to me. Switching betweek Plasma and Windows - almost no difference.
Plasma is removeding great!
If you still want Gentoo, but you are human who don’t have infitive amount of time - Arch would do.
I am so happy that my parents didn’t buy me a better laptop a decade ago, so I was forced to use a removedty thinkpad laptop. After reading online, I figured out that Linux makes it faster…
What’s your story? :)
Then find sysadmin/devops/sre/younameit job 😅
Try to browse Lemmy without finding anything about Linux 😅
On X I can do everything, on Wayland I can’t:
Depends. Whatever choice you pick - go with Plasma (KDE) desktop. Most of below choices have alternative desktop flavors that offer Plasma instead of Gnome.
If your goal is to play games - something like Bazzite might work.
If your goal is to have a desktop experience with some gaming, something like NobaraOS or PopOS would work.
If your goal is only desktop experience - ubuntu will work.
If your goal is to learn and have super awesome Linux desktop - Arch Linux.
Personally I am in Arch Linux for the past decade. Tried many different ones and Arch Linux is the only one that simply “just works” for me. Not suitable for beginners.
Before that you have to download it. Well, using p2p mechanisms.
Best use-case of AWK is that you can avoid using grep for picking a Nth word in specific line. I tend to ask GPT4 to write one-liner for me. Works super great.
I am pretty sure many would disagree, but Kodi is complete trash. The whole software is a one massive utter slow bug.
Anything else is better. Jellefin, Plex, VLC, but NOT kodi.
EDIT: Honestly expected downvotes. Looks like I am not the only one who found Kodi basically unusable on any platform.
Focus learning on how to install Arch Linux and use it without breaking. This not just gives you a rock-stable distro, but also the required knowledge on to maintain Linux OS.
Or go with “Ubuntu” level of easiness. You choose. :)
I’ve been considering installing Arch the traditional way, on my X220, as a way to force myself to improve. Is this a good way to learn more about Linux and a Linux system in general?
Oh yes, that’s exactly how I learnt. Also I have 1000+ edits in Arch Wiki, but stopped contributing to it (as well as AUR) few years ago.
Learned that when dealing with Ansible:
Do you update it often?
For example, it was grub issue that prevented me to boot after system update. No AUR was involved.
My Arch Linux devices were not affected.
Just a single example. I don’t recall what was the issue previous 2 times…
Manjaro is suppossed to be “easy to install Arch Linux” and oh hell nah I am never going to use it. If Arch Linux breaks once per 1-2 years, the Manjaro breaks in 1-2 months… Had it installed for “daily driver” like 3 times and all of those times it broke.
Disclaimer - it might require lots of tinkering depending on what the goal.
For example, install JRE from Flatpaks. It will “succeed”, but due to some partition mounted in read-only mode, no binaries would be installed. 🙆
And features 😅