I’m pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?
Edit: i dont wanna distro hop people cool your jets, i just wanna look around cos i find it neat :3
You could try a rolling distro like OpenSuse Tumbleweed, or something from the Arch lineage (Arch, Endeavour, Garuda, Manjaro in order from less to more handholding).
You could also try something from the Red Hat rather than Debian world,.for example Fedora has several interesting editions, there’s the WorkStation desktop edition and Silverblue which uses Android immutable principles.
please for the love of god do not use Manjaro and if you do forget about using the AUR, Manjaro claims to be more stable by waiting 1 week before adding Arch’s packages to their repo, this breaks the AUR packages you use which may need newer dependencies. They also often forgot to renew the security certificates of their website.
Arco is better but frankly all being Arch distros the differences are close to none.
Oh no, too late! 😲 I’ve accidentally used Manjaro for 4 years and it’s been an amazing distro that’s one of the top three most used in the Steam Survey and you don’t know what you’re talking about! If only you had warned me sooner! 😔
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I’m sure you can have a good experience on it just like you can have a good experience on Windows, etc. But first of all if we are recommending stuff then either Arch & derivates shouldn’t be recommended at all if it’s a newbie or one should recommend straight up Arch (if it’s not a newbie and needs Arch) and frankly if you want Arch made easy either going to OpenSUSE tumbleweed if the issue is stability or EndeavourOS/Arco if it’s the installation will probably net someone a better experience, so what’s the point of Manjaro anyways, and secondly none of that invalidates the bad practices by the manjaro team
I did mention both Tumbleweed and Arch so not sure what the problem is. Unless it’s that you just had to comment because you saw the word Manjaro.
It’s very tiring to get this sort of comments at the mere mention of it, “hur dur manjaro.org didn’t renew their certificates” — which is not even relevant in any way for the distro since it’s not the distro maintainers managing the site. So it just comes out as stupid.
If you don’t get the point of Manjaro you can just ask. All distros have a point, none of them exist just to be pointless and they definitely don’t rise to the top of Steam charts by being pointless.
Manjaro serves a useful niche of people who would like a rolling distro but don’t want bleeding edge and the risks that to with it. Manjaro takes the unpredictability down a notch. It also includes all kinds of helpful management tools.
I can apreciate that it’s not for everybody but some people find it useful and shitting on other people’s distro choices is crass. Especially if you don’t even know what point the distro serves, and especially in a thread about trying out new things.