what you use?
i use artix
I use Manjaro (XFCE variant) because I am too lazy to switch to Guix.
Manjaro (XFCE)
I would be running Linux Mint but Nvidia says "no" >:(
windows vista
gentoo
Arch
void
arch
>>7 is there any good reasons to run void over arch?
slackware
debian
im an archy boi
>>9
Void Linux boots faster (just try it) and there is a musl variant available.
>>9
In my experience
(1) it boots faster and runs lighter;
(2) it is more stable
the tradeoff is that there are fewer packages but I have generally found everything I use on the main repo.
I love void.
debian stable
bunsen
void is indeed amazing
>>14
I have yet to find a Linux distro that boots faster than just dumping busybox in an initramfs and calling it a day.
>>2
>>3
you are both faggots for using this burning pile of shit
>>9
no
NixOS. It was kind of hard to use at first for a retard like me, but now I'm never going back.
gnu guix
Arch
But what wm do you use
>>22
I used to use IceWM because OpenBox project is pretty dead these days. Then I discovered Ratpoison (it's like Screen/Tmux but for X windows). After that I got convinced that StumpWM is better Ratpoison. But then I got memed into using Wayland and Sway (because it's the only usable Wayland compositor).
Parabola Linux
>>21 guixsd
>>23 I use bspwm, no polybar, no compositor. Sxhkd allows you to write shortcurts and reload them on the fly. I had interest in ratpoison, some people told me about awesome, but I honestly can't see the advantage thoses wm have in comparison to bspwm in my case : every info and software I need are one finger away from my "normal" position on the keyboard, and I honestly don't need much except vim/emacs/repl/browser/clock/htop/gotop/terminal.
NixOS with xfce.
MacOs
Stable Debian GNU/Linux with XFCE. I've been using Guix on top of apt for a few things and after getting it to play nice with XFCE's application menu, it's not bad. Pulling and updating programs takes a fair bit longer than with apt but I like the generations concept, and it's nice to have newer versions of certain things like Emacs and OpenMW.
>>26
I've been using BSPWM for a while, but I always used polybar just because I liked to have something display the time for me accurately
I could spawn a terminal and run date I guess, but I do wish there was a more lightweight bar than poly.
I have been xmonad. It is quite comfy.
>>30
I personally binded Super + c to a command that allows urxvt to appear in the middle of the screen in floating-mode with terminal-clock running inside it.
But if my desktop was really "coherent" I would bind super + c to something like epoch > espeak.
"one six seven five seven one six three zero seven four seven six"
at the moment linux mint with xfce
>>30
I always have a window running watch cat /sys/whatever/bat0. That way I get the time and battery level in one window.
I use artix too
gentoo with CWM + sxhkd + wmutils
>>30
lemonbar
>>36
lemonbar isn't even in the main gentoo repos
I know that doesn't say anything about the quality of the bar but how good can it be if it's not there?
>>37
Polybar's much more popular these days due to how feature rich and easily configurable it is, maybe that's why nobody's bothered maintaining lemon in the gentoo repos. But hey, it's more lightweight as asked. And it's the bar used in the bspwm example panel scripts, that a good enough endorsement?
Polybar, lemonbar, niggerbar. Fuck off with your bars, ricing is for degenerates. Stock CWM or DWM, get shit done.
>>39
This is a textboard written in LISP
Getting things done is not the MO around here
>>39 Sit here and tell me the things you get done with CWM or DWM. Also optimize your quotes,``faggotbar''.
>>41
I got through my last year of college running CWM. I switched to it from FVWM which I had been running since I was 12.
I maintain 8 open source libraries, and am a senior developer at a large company all with cwm. Enjoy your rice queer.
>>41
I did try using CWM for about 1 week. It's actually not missing much. The man-page contains the default keybindings, and It comes with a dmenu style application launcher.
FVWM
I have been thinking about trying it. Is it hard to configure?
>>44
I inherited my config from my father. I'd recommend starting from someone else's config but starting over probably wouldn't be too bad. IIRC it comes with a GUI that can generate one for you.
Salix.
Mint on laptop and gaymer pc, debain on shitbox pc
Kubuntu & Debian
Used to run Arch and rice the shit out of it, but then real life shits hit and I no longer have time to fiddle with my OS.
I think Ubuntu flavors are great for inexperienced users of GNU/Linux but I really hate Snap package manager.
It has all flaws of Flatpak (like using more disk space and RAM vs traditional package manager) but the SnapCraft repo is also 100% controlled by Canonical Ltd. and there is no way to make your own repo which sucks. At least with Flatpak you can make your own repo if you want to (even if in practice everyone uses Flathub). Also, I wish there was way to disallow installation of proprietary software packages on Snap/Flatpak config (bonus points if you can make exceptions on per package basis like on Gentoo/Portage). I don't think there is way to disallow installation of Snap/Flatpak packages from unverified accounts either.
void linux. I hate it slightly less than other distros. Will probably buy a macbook to stop caring at all.
I use Debian with Gnome. Switched from Ubuntu because it was getting somewhat laggy.
I wish there was a distro which was minimal and feature rich. I used debian with XFCE on an old laptop and it was the perfect experience. I can't use XFCE on my new laptop because it looks weird on hidpi screens. Only Gnome looks normal on my screen. Even KDE looks inconsistent.
hidpi screens are really more of a liability. I would pay a premium not to have one.
I think Mint is a pretty solid distro, I don't really get why anyone would go for anything else.
This board is as good as dead. Go back to /g/
I use Mint Debian Edition, all is fine here. Just works.
I used to use Linux Mint Debian Edition but it was unstable. I guess they have improved.
Since I couldn't find a more relevant thread, I will ask it here. Which is the best Linux file system for general use on a desktop PC? Based on my limited research, xfs seems to be the best choice overall. Link: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-58-filesystems/2
I have always just used ext4 but I would like to hear whether xfs or btrfs are better than good old ext4 (OpenZFS would probably be better than btrfs since it's more stable but it has pretty much same features). Also, is F2FS useful for SSDs? I heard that some Android phones use it. But I have heard that F2FS has some data corruption problems but I don't know if it's just FUD? Also, Would ZFS/Btrfs cause less wear on a SSD vs. ext4 or xfs?
1 more question: I have heard that Linux JFS has lower CPU usage (and thus power consumption) on laptops vs other file systems but is it true? I have also heard that it doesn't like power outages at all (probably because it's enterprise quality?). Also, I don't know if it would be wise to start using JFS now because it may get deprecated soon, like MurderFS: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Possible-Orphan-JFS
Any answer and/or pointers are much appreciated! Thanks!
GNU Guix System.
devuan
I use vanilla Debian
Plan9
fr
CentOS, anyone?
I use Ubuntu, since this machine is new, currently thinking of switching to Devuan.
Debian stable with BTRFS on root, GNOME, and i3 window manager.
Mint
On my desktop, I use Arch Linux mostly because I'm too lazy to install Gentoo or Artix Linux. On my laptop, I use Void Linux, and on my old potato laptop I use Alpine Linux. I can recommend all of these distros I mentioned. My parents run Xubuntu LTS and they don't have any problems with it (the HP printer works after I installed hplip (without the hplip GUI!!), cups, printer-driver-all and simple-scanner). They mostly use Firefox, though.
i was using funtoo for a bit, then gentoo, and i've finally settled on slackware as my linux of choice. i've used a lot of distros and after enough time you realize there is no fucking difference between distros aside from packages
as for bsd i use freebsd since it works nicely with intel wifi cards, netbsd's installer became retarded or i'm using the wrong livecd, openbsd wiped my hard drive with no y/n prompt
A y/n prompt is superfluios and annoying. Why would you boot an installer image other than to whipe your harddrive and install the OS?
>>68
i duel boot, so i was going for a partition install
Duel booting is a crazy hack. People should normalize using kexec.
kexec is dangerous on the account of the system not being in the initial "safe" state.
Implying EFI will have it in a "safe" state to begin with
>>72
By definition hardware init is the process of setting the hardware state to be known and "safe" in preparation to load the OS.
If the hardware manufacturers have a published procedure for doing this then the kernel can implement it as well. Otherwise it's just a nice definition.
Qubes OS. Daily. Every waking moment. Qubes OS.
Also GrapheneOS.
I love ZFS. Bcachefs catching my eye lately though.
How about gobolinux?
>>78
I don't get why Gobolinux was made. I tried it once. I think the dev team is maybe a bit too small because I remember (IIRC?) that some packages were broken.
>>78
The devs had an idea and implemented it. Fortunately they had the common sense and humility to put it in their own distribution unlike freedesktop.org and poetteringware which demand everybody adopt their garbage ideas and do free testing.
i LOVE nixos kek
>>81
mutable yucky
I LOVE Linux! MY favorite distro is Ubuntu.
I LOVE unix! MY favorite unix is linux.
I LOVE LAMP!
But, seriously; I got Linux Mint for my toaster-grade laptop, I'm going to try to upgrade and re-life an old chromebook with prolly graphineOS for DIY cred, and, AND.. I'll be picking up a decent 4core w/ a real graphics card and trying (and failing) to harden and instal Slackware or Artix. Endgame on that is a Pen/For and hard education platform.
No Windows for me. About 4 hours ago, i had to untrojan my mom's HP. Again.
>>85
just tell your mother to stop clicking on dubious links while browsing obscure websites for extreme pornography
Debian GNU/Linux.
Trisquel Linux and Guix
Void, mostly because I have a reasonably new computer and don't trust OpenBSD to support any of my hardware. Kinda want to switch to Artix, if that is what I think it is— I want a source-based, non-systemd distro, and to change it so that if anything segfaults I can click the syslog notification (you DO pipe `tail -f /var/log/messages` into notify-send, don't you anon?) to have $EDITOR pop up, opened to the offending line, with a stack trace visible. And obviously, I should be able to git branch, edit, make test, send a patch upstream, and reinstall on the spot until the fix gets merged.
I also want to be able to inspect the sources of anything installed by the package manager, which should know the file and line of any function and let me search all available code by function signature. There's probably a wealth of reusable code in all these packages that we ignore because it's the custom to treat binaries as black boxes.
I'm also using BSPWM, piping slstatus into niggerbar. I used to use StumpWM, which was a lot of fun. Pressing C-xC-e in Emacs to manipulate the state of the WM is absolutely wild. Writing a bunch of CL modules and integrating them into the modeline was great and I want my system to work like that, but without having to use Emacs or write FFIs.
>>68
So you can discover that your wifi chip isn't supported and back out gracefully.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux,
is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component
of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell
utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day,
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU
which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are
not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system
that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.
The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself;
it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is
normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system
is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux"
distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
GNU!
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>>91
It's GNU/Over
GNU Emacs is my distro.
arch
Python will get optional JIT in version 3.13. They also support disabling GIL. They are planning on releasing it on 2024-10-01.
https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html#free-threaded-cpython
https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html#an-experimental-just-in-time-jit-compiler
Looks like Gentoo's Portage package manager will finally get faster!
In the past some users tried switching to pypy: https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2020/10/06/speeding-up-emerge-depgraph-calculation-using-pypy3/
Trisqel
>>41 I dearly miss CWM's regex window title search on my work mac. The OSX window manager is actually pretty bad.
Emacs GNU/Linux :-)
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Currently it's Debian stable.
openbsd
NixOS (with bspwm+sxhkd+polybar+mpd+s6), currently eyeing OpenBSD
>>88 >>102
The problem I've had with these is that they make quickly rigging things to just work very hard. You don't notice it but you're doing this all the time on something like a laptop and it means you'll end up delaying things that normally take a few minutes for entire days while you fiddle with package definitions.
Maybe it's better on servers but on an interactive personal computer it doesn't work.
Gentoo + AwesomeWM :^)
Yeah, edit-save-rebuild-test cycle is really long (my nixos-rebuild lasts approx. 2 minutes). When fiddling with ~/.config, I usually remove NixOS's symlink, do the fiddling, and only then save my changes to configuration.nix.