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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've got to go with Endeavour. I'm not sure it's so much that it's overrated, but more that the community talks about it as a replacement for Manjaro which is far from the case. The installation may be easier than arch but once it's all up and running you're going to need to be comfortable in the terminal to sort things out. The documentation for endeavour is incredibly lacking too. It's an unnecessary middle step between a "beginner" distro and arch. If you can't follow the arch installation guide on the wiki then you're going to have even more trouble when it comes to endeavour

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

NixOS for sure, it's poorly documented and even worse designed.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Seeing a lot of Manjaro here, what's the deal? I installed it just yesterday on a test machine to check it out as I plan on steering over from windows long-term so just browsing what's out there. Don't really have issues and it ticks the boxes of a more user-friendly installation and comes out of the box with Plasma. I may try out pure Arch or the GUI fork just not to have the hassle of setting up the DE

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Gentoo. There's way better methods to learn Linux, compiling, and the filesystem hierarchy standard. Start with Linux From Scratch and go from there.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

the whole user demographic is like 5 dudes. I agree why go for Gentoo when you can go for Linux from Scratch. Maybe simply because it has a catchier distro name

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Linux Mint. It really is not that polished and their denial to support Wayland means I will never use it.

And no, nobody outside the 0.1% of Linux community cares about intentionally hating Snap like a witch hunting cult.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Pop_OS!

Manjaro

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Pop_OS - Fragile Beginner Distro, this is fine to use so long as you’re not a power user, but you’re using Linux so…

Manjaro - Maintain your damn repos, why is it whenever discord updates, the repo is so far out of date I literally have to circumvent it and install it through some hacky bullshit?

Ubuntu - Snap? More like Thanos Snapd off my damn drive thank you very much.

Fedora - just overrated, nothing terribly against it, just don’t think it’s all it’s cracked up to be. It’s just a RHEL adjacent Distro.

Linux Mint - aside from Debian edition, its pretty overrated. It’s easy compatible Ubuntu. It’s not super Ubuntu or anything.

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