It’s been just over a month using Fedora silverblue (Ublue ) for me and the experience has been pretty good.

What I do is just setup a distrobox container with the arch image and install software using paru from AUR. So far this workflow has been working really well. for me.

Also if you decide to use any Ublue spin, you’ll also get homebrew pre-installed. So that can also be considered as an alternative option to AUR.

At that point BSD will take the place of linux I guess.

I have tried Buyvm when I was getting into selfhosting during the pandemic.

They were pretty cheap too, not sure about the pricing these days but you should take a look.

I still try interesting distros but the ones I daily drive are usually Arch or Tumbleweed (Void linux came close)

My favourite arch based distro is CachyOS so far, been working really well for me for the past 5 months or so.

I daily drive Window managers but occasionally I also check out Desktop environments. Here is my personal preference -

DE

1. XFCE
2. KDE
3. Cinnamon

WM

1. Hyprland
2. BSPWM
3. Openbox / Labwc

Don’t wait. Get Linux Mint Cinnamon / LMDE on a USB and install it.

If you don’t like Debian based or Linux Mint for some reason, then check out Nobara or Fedora KDE spin. EndeavourOS is also great.

Dualboot works well for people especially if they play games like Valorant and LoL which has rootkit anticheat.

The Xfce logo looks like it’s for rat poison.

My first distro was ubuntu 11.04 if I remember correctly.

Thanks !

What anime is that from ?

A few days ago I started using NixOS as my daily driver. I am yet to understand how to use home-manager and the nix language but right now I’m good with the main configuration.nix and fleek.

Do yourself a favour and try opensuse tumbleweed. You won’t regret it.

Also even on arch things doesn’t break unless the user installs a whole lot of stuff from the AUR. Since there are flatpaks around most people can get their day to day apps working without relying on community repos.

I prefer Super + Return

I always use the status=progress argument.

Also check out Spiral Linux. It’s a pretty good distro.

I also hate it but unfortunately have to use it for work.

You do you. No offence to KDE, I just prefer gtk over qt. Xfce has been my fallback desktop for a long time. So maybe I got attached to it.

Just use Bottles or Heroic Launcher to play the pirated games on your computer. Most of the games I tried have worked.

The only exceptions are Multiplayer games like Apex and valorant. Apex is not smooth enough to play competitively (last I checked was a few months ago) and Valorant doesnt work on Linux because of it’s rootkit anti cheat. If you only play single player games Linux is definitely worth a shot.

If it weren’t for a few Multiplayer games and my crappy epson printer I’d have completely wiped windows off of my computer.

I just use whatever that does the job. Sometimes I switch to systemd free distros just to know what it’s like (currently checking out dinit version of Artix)

I think most of the discrimination arises from a way of thinking which puts minimalism, simplicity and speed as the first priority and starts a unhealthy obsession over it. Sometimes keeping things too minimal can require more work than doing the actual work. This can also be seen in people who rave about WMs vs DEs and Wayland vs X.

Oh and I use XFCE btw. I feel like that’s the DE which gives me enough control over everything while not bombarding me with a truck ton of settings. I started using DEs again because I was spending all my time ricing away with window managers (and none of my rices were not even that good).