I'm having serious doubts about what distro to use, long term, for my dev machines. Recent developments have me a bit worried... Ubuntu definitely pushing for snap-only, and now the Red Hat, uh, issues... I'm not sure about a rolling release (Sid, Void, Arch...), and Debian stable can get stale with the ~2 yrs release model. The 6-month stable release model has been a sweet spot, but because reasons Ubuntu and Fedora don't appeal much to me now. I'm running out of options... :(
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Understand that fully 😉 #Slackware for me is part of my #Linux journey back when I started - lot's of nostalgia 🙂
It still servers me well, next to #Debian and the #BSD's 😎
Chose what you like in the end 😉
Just realizing that the #raspberrypi desktop I set up for my monsters today is the one they’ll be nostalgic for, like I am for the first university lab computers I got to play with running #KDE on #linux.
I still preferred my terminal-only #slackware at home, but that little gear icon always represented the sort of machine real programmers used.
if you use Linux on your personal computer: what do you like about it?
I used to be super into customizing my window manager, but now I mostly like that it's so easy to install software, and that the environment is the same as on a Linux server
(please no arguing about whether people "should" use Linux on their personal computers, I'm just curious about why you personally like it)
I remember #Gem, great GUI for the time although I never adopted it, but did use Ventura publisher and AmiPro intead of Aldus and Word, respectively, on Windows
Everything else though, yah, very, very similar history for myself except for the Apple 🍏 stuffs; like you, I'm quite proudly Mac stupid.
It's always good to meet a fellow Slacker, and "frinds don't let frinds run ewb00ntew!"
@swagpussc The basic thing to understand is that this is not a world of Windows.
There have always been other operating systems, and in particular there has been, since the late 1960s, a large class of operating systems that are: Unix; one of the many flavours of Unix that #Unix split into in the 1970s; or someone creating an operating system that's very much like Unix, from the ground up, a decade or 2 later.
#Linux is (the kernel of) the last sort of operating system.
@swagpussc (...continued)
What you need to know at this point in your learning process is simply that around the Linux "kernel" there are different flavours of the "shell" part, hence different "distributions", in the jargon, of Linux-based operating systems.