Linux Distros Explained By An Idiot

[@ikegru4346]

You are already getting spammed into oblivion I see, but really choosing Manjaro instead of EndeavourOS, ARCO or Garuda is a bad decision nowadays. Although I would not really recommend the last two, as I didn't use ARCO and Garuda is a pain in the as in terms of you not knowing, wtf did your distro do with the base arch system. In Garuda my terminal/VSCode fonts broke once and I couldn't even remotely understand wtf was going on. Nobody on the forums even understood, how the hell did it happen, so I migrated to Endeavour. And to be perfectly honest, if you can use Fedora, Endeavour is easy for you to use. A lot of the stuff you need and nothing you don't out of the box. The Arch base actually never broke on me. I once accidentally uninstalled SDDM, but that was definitely a me problem. I managed to do the same on Fedora afterwards. Therefore, if you ever want an Arch experience without putting the whole car together at the start, Endeavour is a very solid choice. Still not a beginners distro though, as it is a bit terminal oriented.

[@Sirfreelancealot]

Thank you for the explanation. I haven't run anything arch based in years. I'll pin this to make sure no one tries manjaro for no reason.

[@apurbosarker112]

@@Sirfreelancealot I am certainly saved. Thank you 👍

[@danhatman3538]

Surprisingly I had the opposite issue with Garuda just spontaneously functioning more than I would expect and EndeavourOS having inexplicable issues. Garuda is really one of the best linux distros for at least having a working OS at the end of the day.. (if you're not unlucky with your hardware)

[@cjweezil5206]

Garuda is notorious for having terrible support as well. Imagine all of the condescending douchebaggery of the arch forums, but without even an ounce of the capability. Arch forums will patronize you and insult you and also give you a complete set of instructions for troubleshooting your issue and offer several solutions. Garuda, you'll just be patronized and never offered any assiatance.

[@B1rtek]

just use arch lol, if you really, really want a gui installer go with endeavour

[@subrezon]

"Red Hat got rich by giving you free software, then charging you to fix it when you fuck up" I never looked at it that way.

[@ataractic]

I think that's fair. Without them linux and foss wouldn't be as good as it is today

[@mynamesaretakenwtf]

That’s why they had to kill CentOS. We started fixing the problems ourselves 😂

[@Minecodes]

I'm currently using Fedora Server on my Server and Nobara (Fedora based gaming distro) on my Laptop and PC. I used arch before but NVIDIA + Wayland + Arch = unusable hell

[@mariandecker3942]

Well Ansible is nice, and the redhat Dokumentation is also suitable for Debian

[@richtigmann1]

That part made me laugh. But it's kinda accurate too, except it's not targeting you, it's targeting big businesses that would save money by having red hat solve their technical issues for them

[@4chaffenel117]

Being voidlinux user is like being from a 3rd world country when you see someone mentioning your distro you just lose your mind.

[@lpnp9477]

UZBEKISTAN MENTIONED

[@dtl5298]

​@@lpnp9477 that's crazy

[@chonkydog6262]

nixos user here

[@joelkronqvist6089]

Void is great. Very little bloat and not exactly as bleeding edge as Arch (I don't like broken systems) + it starts faster bc of runit. Öö, Suomea ei mainittu, mutta tavataan torilla kuitenkin!

[@ごま-r3v]

@@joelkronqvist6089I use arch (btw) and in all 5 years of using it have never once had a breakage i didn’t directly cause. Arch is a hell of a lot more stable than ppl give it credit for.

[@parkman29]

If arch is assembling a lego set without instructions, LFS is 3d printing by hand

[@leap123_]

That's Gentoo, LFS is like building a Lego factory to mold out all the Lego pieces so that you can build it literally all by yourself

[@happygofishing]

Arch has the best instructions

[@paultapping9510]

Arch has really, really good instructions, but othereise that's fair 😂

[@rigen97]

building car chassis by melting copper wires bit by bit with a soldering iron

[@salazar1554]

I think 3d printing by hand is called sculpture.

[@ThatguycalledJoe]

"Read the documentation", including "read the manual" is actually a secret codeword which translates to "I acknowledge that what you're trying to do is not intuitive, however I can't be bothered to explain it and nobody has bothered to actually make it intuitive so I'm going to say something that seems like it's useful advice at face in the hopes that you go away.". Just puttin' that out there.

[@davidioanhedges]

RTFM generally means, I don't know either but I am not going to admit that

[@FranksCreativeCorner]

I'm not even a Linux user (yet), but I 1000% agree. I code and oh boy the amount of people who say that is insane. I mean, what about you give some actual advice? That's why I came to the forum in the first place. Asking people who know can be THE fastest way to learn.

[@ThatguycalledJoe]

@@FranksCreativeCorner My basic outlook is that the only people who should ever be coding anything are the people who like coding for some reason. For anything along the lines of a game making software, there should always be at least an attempt to provide a way to use it that doesn't involve writing code. Writing code should obviously still be available and it's okay if the no-code version is more limited than the code verison, but it should be there.

[@FranksCreativeCorner]

@@ThatguycalledJoe I was really talking about people who ask you to "read the manual/documentation", hahah But yeah, I agree with that too.

[@KatelynTea]

I mean I'd recommend reading it before installing the distro at least skimming through it cause it'll probably contain some common problems

[@ELEC7RO]

As an Arch user, using Manjaro does NOT give you permission to say our sacred mantra.

[@izzyj.1079]

I run Arch btw :3

[@raggebatman]

Running Arch-based distros also can come with its own issues that I'd rather avoid

[@MrDiarukia]

What about SteamOS?

[@ELEC7RO]

​@@MrDiarukia At that point you're not even a linux user

[@MikeyTheA]

@@ELEC7RO well isn't it arch based?

[@vanodon2257]

Manjaro = Speedrun to bricked system any%

[@gingerbeargames]

thanks for reminding me i need to fix my laptop...

[@lpnp9477]

Lmao yep Endeavor too But I like

[@anima94]

@@lpnp9477 I just switched to endeavor... what's wrong with it?

[@panmeek]

@@anima94 nothing, this guy is just being weird

[@Kylian381]

@@panmeekNah he has a point. Manjaro is know for doing oopsies. like DDOSing the AUR. forgeting to renew their keys. imploding when you have mismatched packages due to them delaying packages by 2 weeks in combination when you installed things from the AUR. and the list goes on.

[@MON-zo7ik]

not mentioning UwUntu should be a crime

[@Sirfreelancealot]

Not knowing of it was the bigger crime. Lock me up

[@Nick-rs5if]

@@Sirfreelancealot You're under arrest. 👮‍♂

[@cybernit3]

Ya, I thought you throw in WindowsFX, that Windows Clone Linux OS.

[@MC2738]

@@SirfreelancealotWe now demand a part 2!

[@aperson9950]

@@cybernit3 its not safe iirc

[@mike_diz]

>manjaro >functioning OS Use endeavor for "arch with a good installer", archinstall for "installer that sometimes works" or my favorite CachyOS for "endeavor if it was good". Best distro IMHO

[@lpnp9477]

What puts cachy above endeavouros? I wouldn't mind trying it out on the weekend if it's got something special

[@sliwkaaa]

@@lpnp9477 "optimized" packages that do not make the slightest performance difference so basically bloated arch with an installer

[@mike_diz]

@@lpnp9477 wait I typed an essay did I not post it 😭 I had 2 points: 1. Compilation for v3 and v4 architecture which makes it measurably faster and 2. QoL. The "cachyos hello" app has a bunch of tweaks and fixes for common issues, they include some AUR packages in the repo, they have a tool for ranking mirrors and actually applying the changes automatically, they have meta packages for stuff like gaming so you don't have to install all the libraries and tools manually. I don't think the difference is very noticeable when you just play in a VM for half an hour but when you use it for a long time the experience is just better. Also you can just add their repos to your existing arch install without losing too much, but imho a clean install is better. Also if you use zsh they have oh-my-zsh built in and preconfigured. I'd say it has the benefits of arch without many of the drawbacks of arch for normal users (not everything has to be configured and ran by hand, but no one is stopping you, if you want to). In the end, it's still lightweight as pretty much nothing is preinstalled, has a better repo and it's still arch so you can delete anything you don't want to (which is like 2-3 apps if you choose not to use them). I wouldn't say migrating from endeavour (or however it's spelled...) makes much sense but if you're installing an OS on a new machine/reinstalling the OS, you might like cachy. But adding the repos anyway never hurts lol. Just make sure to install the cachyos-rate-mirrors because like the only drawback of cachy is that sometimes independent mirrors get out of sync which breaks updates 😐. There's a fix for that in the "cachyos hello" but if you don't know about it you'd have to search for it. Oh yeah, there are also multiple kernels available and you can also choose them in the "cachyos hello" for ease of use (or when installing of course)

[@colbyboucher6391]

I used Manjaro once. The people managing it blew up a lot of people's systems, it was completely unjustified and people told them exactly that, and the response was "well, should've read the notes." The notes that tell you that they're blowing up your PC. Yeah, might as well just use Arch then.

[@mike_diz]

@@lpnp9477 I responded twice with 3 paragraphs but it got deleted both times 😐

[@d4c914]

I use arch btw

[@crossscar-dev]

i use arch btw

[@clockblower6414]

I use arch btw

[@niikolasss6806]

I use arch btw

[@LandRiders7th]

I touch grass btw \[.~.]/

[@tanja_the_fox]

I too use Arch btw

[@SimGunther]

2:55 Emacs has everything you could ever want in an operating system. The only thing missing is a text editor ;)

[@libredove]

there's ed-mode :^)

[@_vsnwprintf_s_l]

words of someone that has never used gnu emacs

[@Leonhart_93]

*a good text editor.

[@SimGunther]

@@_vsnwprintf_s_l And yet I have for a few years 🤣

[@kvolikkorozkov]

@@Leonhart_93 vim supremacy

[@wojtmic]

steamos is based on arch, does that mean steam deck users are arch users?

[@Sirfreelancealot]

Legally, yes. If you ask an arch user. Fuck no 😂

[@lpnp9477]

You're not an arch person unless you installed the os yourself, and not from a manjaro or endeavouros installer. But you can still say it, no one's going to question you because nobody fucking cares

[@erin1569]

I'm gonna put "In everyday life, I use a highly specialized derivative of Arch Linux" on my resume

[@Likely_Alucard]

Isn’t Steam OS Debian based, not arch? (Nvm steam OS 3.0 on the deck is Arch Based, it was OG steam OS that was Debian 8 based)

[@HandledToaster2]

​@@Likely_Alucard We don't talk about pre-3.0

[@heroclix0rz]

Everyone jumped ship on Manjaro for Endeavor.

[@Sirfreelancealot]

Mistakes were made

[@justahumanwithamask4089]

Mistakes in an understatement, latest updated fucked both gnome and plasma simultaneously

[@Mr371312]

​@@justahumanwithamask4089 eos failed to boot and did the same to plasma within weeks. (I still use it tho😢)

[@lpnp9477]

​@@Sirfreelancealotit is nice to have my audio work immediately tho

[@justahumanwithamask4089]

@@Mr371312 I would've switched to endeavor/ baseline arch a long time ago if they actually booted to the live environment which they didn't so I'm stuck with manjaro

[@GorgeGrouse]

I have Manjaro installed on a $8 USB drive that I boot to with my laptop. I am currently coding software for a cutting edge particle collider. This is not a joke.

[@Sirfreelancealot]

Do you just not save anything/have everything on github at all times or are you playing sector failure roulette? Im genuinely interested

[@anyvoltage8157]

@@Sirfreelancealot On linux USBs you can re-partition the ISO to have another partition that can store data persistently, but if you dont (And dont have external storage for the USB) everything is amnesic and runs in RAM, so a poweroff or reboot erases everything and dosen't leave a trace, this is how the Tails distro achieves amnesia

[@michaelwright2986]

T420? I guess that goes without saying.

[@altrombone1775]

@@anyvoltage8157 I think he means that usb drives typically use low-quality flash memory, and therefore don't handle many r/w cycles. As a result, data loss is very likely if you don't use backups.

[@Sirfreelancealot]

Yep, that's what i meant

[@Cavi587]

Recommending Manjaro is a crime. EndeavourOS is Arch with preconfigured DE's and a good installer. Manjaro has too many problems these days. Sorry if you've been getting these comments a lot, but yeah. Other than that it's a good video.

[@lpnp9477]

Yeah manjaro is great if you like headaches but not migraines. If you like migraines use vanilla arch. If you prefer a clear head use endeavouros, just don't ever try to update it.

[@Cavi587]

@@lpnp9477 Not sure if you're reffering to updating Manjaro or Vanilla Arch/Endeavours, but updating is a major problem on Manjaro. It's good as long as you don't use AUR, but using Arch without taking advantage of AUR is pointless in my humble opinion. If you use AUR on Manjaro, held back main repo packages might ruin your AUR packages or your system. It doesn't happen on vanilla Arch and Endeavour, though there is an odd case here and there where a fresh package messes something up. But it's rare these days and you can use AUR as you like.

[@Cavi587]

@dalmaronthefirst2237 Do you use the AUR?

[@jinujonn]

@dalmaronthefirst2237 Nah, it's just popular to hate on Manjaro these days. But they did let their SSL certs expire, so there's that !!

[@SeralthSparro]

​@dalmaronthefirst2237Manjaro gets a lot of hate basically because of 5+ year old reasons that have zero actual barring on the modern day. Linux users just like to have a stick up their ass and never forgive any fuck ups ever. Manjaro in it's early days had its SSL cert expire which is frankly a issue so minor no one actually gives a fuck unless they have said stick up their ass. And their update software accidentally caused a ddos cause of a design oversight. Which they fixed, and people won't forgive them cause how dare they not have perfect software from day 1. Manjaro on avg out lasts basically every other arch based distro when it comes to not randomly breaking from updates. It still breaks, but every arch distro breaks at some point and fucking it's not even always the distros fault. A lot of dipshits have recently taken to blaming Manjaro for breaking cause of kde and Wayland issues and incompatibility with unofficial software they installed. People also love to blame Manjaro for breaking when it's some aur packages fault as well. If you want the most normie friendly arch distro then Manjaro is your best option. If you want a power user option then endeavour. If you like cock and ball torture then just go to gento and skip over arch entirely.

[@wileymanful]

It's insane how hard manjaro went from being a good functional system to being the biggest, clunkiest piece of shit distro I've ever used.

[@aaaaaa-hh8cq]

it's literally the same thing with arch or any other arch based distro. arch was never ment to be used as a functional, practical distro. just install debian and NEVER look back.

[@Nova32x]

​@@aaaaaa-hh8cqI daily drive and game on arch and it literally just works. Never had any issues I couldn't fix easily.

[@linuxramblingproductions8554]

@@aaaaaa-hh8cqi have been using arch for 2 years and its been great lmao

[@frosty.archtide]

@@aaaaaa-hh8cq I use Arch frequently, and it's great. I very rarely encounter something I can't fix quickly, and I've never "bricked" my system like people say happens with Arch. EDIT: I use arch btw

[@markh.6687]

@@aaaaaa-hh8cq Arch was never meant for the computing masses; it's pure ubergeek.

[@Pc118Gamer]

if you use KDE neon, you REALLY like spending hours ricing your desktop only for wine to uninstall itself after every update

[@lpnp9477]

I really like ricin

[@EdwardWongHauPepeluTivruskyIV.]

wait what 😭 wine uninstalls itself after every update????

[@mossy_6475]

@@lpnp9477 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricin

[@fairphoneuser9009]

Gaming on Linux isn't complicated, it mostly either works, for everything except AAA and anticheat, or not. Out of the box. Even for old Windows games you can't run on a modern Windows.

[@lpnp9477]

Yup it's been super easy unless you're on a laptop with nvidia

[@jamesflynn6827]

​@@lpnp9477 or on a laptop requiring windows, for the manufacturer custom fan curve software to work.

[@omegaXwolf]

@@lpnp9477which is majority of gaming laptops though….

[@LessThanPeachy]

​@@lpnp9477 Even then, a good majority will still work OOTB unless Asus manufactured it. For context, I have a roughly 3 year-old, all AMD Asus laptop and it'll absolutely shit itself if it has any other memory besides what the manufacturer put in and straight up won't post if more than 12GB are in it. Runs Fedora flawlessly, though.

[@Stravioska]

works or not kekekek, yeah that is the problem, most of the games and windows apps don't work.. so you need to run a VM with windows or another pc to work and play games, at this point just run windows.

[@JasonParmenter]

Normal tech ceos: boring corpo speak Linus: "bro free stuff is like sex its awesome"

[@protonagee]

i use arch btw (not fucking manjaro) edit: i now use nix btw another edit: i use arch again another another edit: i use opensuse tumbleweed btw another another another edit: i use endeavouros btw

[@livegoth]

I use Arch btw

[@jeremymcadams7743]

I use debian btw

[@aaaaaa-hh8cq]

literally nobody asked. f*ck that hellish useless unstable af "distro". I use debian btw, the godfather of stability. keep wasting your time with arch 😀😂

[@JinzoFiter]

I use Mint btw

[@WeldonWen]

I use Nobara btw

[@Hyp3rSon1X]

I had quite an adventure with Linux: - Managed to nuke my system via ‘sudo rm -rf /*’ thinking it would only remove everything inside my current dir. - Managed to get trapped inside Vim multiple times. Had to restart the computer to break free, because I didn’t have internet to ask it what to do - Managed to nuke my system answering ‘yes’ to the question ‘Do as I say’…

[@Herr_U]

Trapped inside vim I get, but you managed to install linux in a console setup without being told how to switch tty? That is what saved me a lot of reboots in my starting days. (Alt+Fn (or Ctrl+Alt+Fn if in X), use Alt+sidearrow to scroll through the ttys. X is usually on tty1 or tty7 depending on your setup) That "do as I say" used to be "yes, I understand that this might harm my system" (or something similar) - kinda miss that variant of the prompt, was clearer.

[@frosty.archtide]

What distro were you using that doesn't have root protection on rm ;p

[@ZNZbane]

I'm sorry but this is like the Linux equivalent of that one gif of Homer making cereal light on fire

[@MthaMenMon]

- Managed to nuke my system by doing chown -R root:root / because I was new and forgot to add a dot before /

[@frosty.archtide]

@@MthaMenMon Rip Probably recoverable, but a huge pain

[@carpetworms_]

I use Arch btw If you leave a computer around me I’m installing arch on it. I’m banned from every microcenter in my state.

[@katanah3195]

I knew a girl who was like that. Also dressed like a stereotypical tech girl (with the socks and everything). That personality and style was sure jarring on an 11 year old kid when I was only 12 myself, lol. Had to go over to her house to hang out, my parents wouldn't let her come to our place - there wasn't an Incident, Dad just knew her type. Didn't want me hanging around her at all but couldn't come up with a reason Mum would take seriously and didn't want to die on that hill.

[@carpetworms_]

@@katanah3195 ur dad sounds smart

[@Cyberfishofant]

​​@@katanah3195And where's the problem with becoming an archer?

[@TomJakobW]

This video is absolute gold. Gotta admit, as a med student, I lol’ed about the doctor saying “RTFM”. Could you imagine? 😂

[@crockstonyt]

Read the textbook on human biology

[@AlexLester-wv9uh]

@@crockstonyt Unrelated, but I wanted to take this chance to mention I use arch btw.

[@yasheebfaridi2888]

He was spot on when he predicted that most of us are watching this video on Android. Because Apple Mac and Iphone user is not gonna watch a video about Linux Distro.

[@damianjblack]

Android forever

[@LiamMcBride]

Idk I use Linux on my computers but use an iPhone for my phone.

[@NomeStronzo-o3o]

Just installed arch on Mac OS with utm 💀

[@hpa4355]

watching from a mac, running macOS. i use arch btw

[@milyrouge]

Not so sure about that. I run macOS for my desktop, Raspbian on my RPis around the house and Debian on my server and am watching this in an iPhone

[@leterdieu]

mentions manjaro. never mentiones eos, arco and garuda. duh. i use arch btw

[@marcusjohansson668]

I mean, if using Manjaro, you might as well use arch after a while. By using manjaro in the past, I got to learn a LOT about how arch works having to fix it when they constantly screwed up my installation. xD You know, tiny things like stuff from systemd suddenly showing up as installed from AUR and such, even though I had zero packages installed from the AUR, just small things like that... I got tired of that soooo... I now use Arch btw...

[@willi1978]

elementary os was mentioned

[@FirstnameLastname-er3py]

​@willi1978 he's referring to endeavorOS

[@SeralthSparro]

Garuda is just worse Manjaro and endeavour... With a ugly theme. So it's understandable to not mention it.

[@sideone3581]

Using fedora minimal is so good that I probably will never switch my workspace to any other distro unless they f* up something really bad imagine getting debian like stability + arch like updates + good package manager + supports mostly everything that is available and can run well on server with no complications I assume well if you got confused : fedora workstation and fedora minimal is different thing it runs on my device with hyprland TWM on 500-700mb of ram and just uses 5gigs of storage with all setup ( it increases as you use system , install stuffs ofc but you got the point : its lightweight )

[@aaaaaa-hh8cq]

Debian and Fedora are the best distros.

[@peterschmidt9942]

Since switching to Fedora 18 months ago, I've had the least amount of issues than on many other distros. Every time I've tried to use Linux Mint Cinnamon I always run into some issues. I want to like it but just can't

[@neonvortex]

i am the only existing mageia user 👍

[@CineverseSculpt]

I thin its possible if u use minimal KDE and a specific install config.

[@IraChesley-hg7eg]

1:30 I thought this was going to be an informative video. I didn't think it'd be a comedy too! Actually laughed out loud

[@lpnp9477]

It's titled "by an idiot" Bruh

[@blzrL]

After switching to Arch ive been so happy with doing pc stuff, computing was made actually fun again instead of "this is painful, i just want it to work and nothing more" like on windows, thank god i never have to deal with that level of instability that everyone pretends doesnt exist on windows ever again Linux is a goldmine of enjoyment, amazing video, loved it!!!!

[@lpnp9477]

Every os is unstable lmao But at least on Linux I can control the instability and script my way into a working os

[@anima94]

@@lpnp9477 maybe I have rose tinted glasses but windows 7 was pretty stable

[@szhadjii8363]

The problem is when you can't make it work, like Fedora was for me. The audio always crackled when I started a game on steam, and I couldn't do anything about it.

[@blzrL]

​@lpnp9477 im sorry but have you seen windows system call graphs? Arch is as stable as you make it, dont just group all unstability together like its the same

[@blzrL]

​@@szhadjii8363pipewire??

[@howdyimflowey4341]

I use Nixos btw

[@angeldude101]

Contrary to what was said, NixOS is _not_ literally one big configuration file. It _can_ be one big configuration file, but if you've been using it for long enough, you've probably broken that configuration file into several smaller configuration files. (My NixOS is currently 7 configuration files, one of which does nothing but list every single Noto font.) As far as Nix is concerned though, there's no difference (so little difference that it literally won't have anything new to build).

[@wumi2419]

I don't for now, but it's likely by end of summer. Which will mean that half my comments under other stuff will still consist of "I use arch btw" while I don't use arch. Or maybe I'll just remain on arch with home manager forever

[@BPL-Whipster]

nixos-rebuild switch

[@ihategoogle-fr7zf]

Nixpkgs and the nix package manager are great if you are caipable of not having a migrane from the nix language

[@Berkshire-Hathaway]

I use Nixos btw

[@Ledplous]

Great video, simple, easy and entertaining for anyone wanting to go to Linux. I'm new to Linux and I recommend Kubuntu

[@призРАК-л2ы]

There is also a nobara. It is like Pop_OS! but based on fedora instead of Ubuntu. They position it as distro for gamers (+-like pop) and content creators. Also they have version with nvidia drivers (again like pop os). Btw, have you heard about bedrock linux? Unique thing.

[@nosepowder69]

Currently using nobara, enjoying it quite a bit. (For context I was dual booting windows 10 with ubuntu a couple months ago, then I uninstalled ubuntu. Well like a week ago power flickered and I booted into grub rescue. couldn't boot into any drive, or windows, so I said fuck it and installed nobara.)

[@jesse7631]

I agree with your opinion on Fedora - it is the best of both worlds, stable and advanced. For all the distro-hopping I have done, I consistently come back to Fedora.

[@1world0]

Very good and funny Video. I think you can cut that even faster to make the jokes hit harder.

[@lemopsone]

The most cursed setup ever: PC: - Arch Linux for everything except games - Windows 11 for games Laptop: - MacOS (mistakes were made and now I have to hold on to the worst of both hardware and software worlds just to pretend that buying this was not a financial mistake) Honestly, the only saving grace for me is that all of my work-related data gets auto-synced between laptop and PC, so I only have to use mac when I have no access to the PC...

[@lpnp9477]

You can also use moonlight or nomachine to access your desktop from your laptop so you don't even have to look at that cursed os for more than a minute

[@lemopsone]

@@lpnp9477 sadly they won't cut it for me, as I often times have to use my laptop outside of the house, and there is no way to get a static IP address for me (at least for now)

[@hansihinterweltler1198]

i think you bought an apple laptop from the worst generation, where apple made them ultraslim and with only usb-c. Am i right?

[@jmm1233]

Carl Sagon best described what it is like to use Linux From Scratch " IF you want to make apple pie from scratch , first you have to invent the entire universe "

[@bestlinuxgamers]

The KZbin algorithm brought me here and I'm glad it did. I've now watched all your videos and I'm very excited to see what else will come here in the future :)

[@chrisquaglio5265]

Zorin Os Mentioned I’m happy now I can like 😂

[@typingcat]

I find Alpine Linux is the most resource-efficient, if you want a computer that does only a few things. After the initial installation it took less than 100 MB of disk. I could install XFCE for basic desktop and FireFox, and the disk usage is still about just 1GB. For comparison, when I installed Arch with XFCE, it used about 5GB.

[@_sneer_]

Slackware a crocodile, that hasn’t changed in 14 million years. Yeah, because it is perfectly adapted to it’s environment as an apex predator. :D

[@Venetas]

I have switched to MacOS + Asahi to complement my Endeavour Rig and finally banish Windows from my private life. Fuck Windows.

[@Sirfreelancealot]

Fuck windows

[@Seraph_1_A]

Fuck windows

[@ArefinKarim]

For me, debian is the toyota of linux distros, for beginners, linux mint is really good. I never gonna install manjaro ever again, because i only just did "sudo pacman -Syu" and the system broke. Currently running debian on my main machine and fedora on my second one.

[@lpnp9477]

Yup that shit happens all the time on manjaro and even endeavouros

[@Pandaxtor]

Mint is also good on most chromebooks, less prone to things not working at all, looking at you manjaro. You have to go to some strange elaborate way to get some hardware to work properly in manjaro. That probably just arch in general with chromebooks.

[@futuza]

I am very happy with my brick toy and will keep playing with my brick toy.

[@cimbakahn]

Happy Linux user here! I've been using it for over 15 years and never got a virus, or malware, or spyware.

[@trannusaran6164]

Apple gives you a free orchiectomy AND a laptop? Sweet deal 👀

[@EricChiEric]

Yeah, if they did that then every man would be using a macboo- OH WAIT NO

[@trannusaran6164]

@@EricChiEric hey now, that's a steal! ;P

[@alua_comics]

Based and pinkpilled

[@Alan-rt3se]

You're right about Zorin OS being the love child of Windows and Linux. I'm a Windows user who just set up a dual boot between Windows 10 and Zorin OS 17.1. The transition was very easy, even for a Windows user like me. The hardest part was getting the dual boot to work right. I had to use Grub-Customizer to do that. Otherwise, pretty smooth.

[@shivanandvp]

Correction: Arch Linux has some of the best instructions in the form of the Arch Wiki. It is much easier to follow than pretty much any other technical document I came across.

[@aaaaaa-hh8cq]

stop spreading misinfo. it doesn't matter that it has a "good wiki". no one should read a long ars wiki just to install an OS. arch is perfect for people who love wasting time

[@shivanandvp]

@@aaaaaa-hh8cq Your opinion of "no one should read a long ars wiki just to install an OS" is not relevant to my point that it has some of the best instructions.

[@linuxramblingproductions8554]

@@aaaaaa-hh8cqshould we not have instructions for how to assemble a table or something? Arch lets people make the distro they want and tells them how to do that. Thats why some people use arch it gives the user all the choices instead of making hardly any for them

[@tobyconner5827]

gentoo better

[@robqwert2696]

I agree with the guy above. Messing with OS is a waste of time. Just let me set it up once and occassionally make changes and be done with it

[@brianbarnes6017]

Best 20 second intro to any video I’ve every watched

[@CEOofCulturalMarxism]

Your channel is underrated.

[@dorklymorkly3290]

Slacker here, accurate description. Edit: The software packages are of course up to date (at least in the current branch, aka the unstable nightly one)

[@maeus8220]

Slackware users DO exist. . . crazy. How long have you been running it?

[@dorklymorkly3290]

@@maeus8220 I don't even remember, but it's at least a decade. I switched after Windows couldn't detect one of my harddrives anymore because it was a bit busted. i tried debian first, hell, I tried a random linux distro that was the backbone of some antivirus CD of all things. The antivirus thing almost worked, debian would not install. Then I figured "my computer is old...Slackware is old. I'll try it" Turned out to be the only actual distro that installed (I think I tried puppy too), AND I got my harddrive to detect long enough to copy stuff. Plus, the full install gave me so much new software to try. After almost 4 days of only looking at command prompts, including windows ones, trying to save my data. It sure was nice to see a fully 'on the metal' (no livestuff) GUI distro again. I played a bunch of KDE games until the backup was finished. Thanks to Slackware I learned of Krita, too, which I ended up contributing to. I do run debian on my raspberry pis tho, but on my personal computers? Slackware forever (probably)

[@pabloqp7929]

Pop!_OS makes my gaming laptop (w/ Nvidia) super performant, can't recommend it enough!

[@lpnp9477]

It is really good as long as you don't have any silly bells and whistles on your laptop that are important to you. Then you're pretty much stuck with an arch distro

[@sirultor648]

Nobara better

[@Autismagus]

@@lpnp9477 „bells and whistles“?

[@Autismagus]

@@sirultor648 smaller community tho

[@sirultor648]

@@Autismagus can always look up fedora for niche problem solving. And it is more optimised for gaming. Just my opinion tho

[@IconOfSin24148]

With u there. I felt always lost by the sudden embrace of Ubuntu. I thought Fedora Core was perfectly fine.

[@Zeka00]

I've been using Arch for about 6 months now and dunno why but I'm seriously considering switching to Fedora or PopOS since past couple weeks. This will probably offend a lot of people here

[@lpnp9477]

No I get it. You prefer a computer to work for your intended use case rather than spend hours going in circles and getting nowhere. I would definitely use pop if I weren't addicted to gimmick laptops

[@plutoz1152]

This is awesome! Can you make a similar video but it's Desktop environments

[@nobodyofconsequence6522]

1:12 "elementary os is great if you're transitioning" -> come on, we all know arch and gentoo are the trans people distros!

[@Stray0]

Kali and Pop!_OS are my two favorites. One is professional, the other is for fun.

[@Ducky_yandere]

which one is which, @stray0?

[@Stray0]

@@Ducky_yandere kali includes many useful tools pre-installed and is good for professional, pop_os is my favorite for personal use, it's based on ubuntu and works good for gaming and watching videos

[@VermeilChan]

where is UwUntu :( i love cats btw

[@lukasutar6411]

most accurate description of linux i ever saw

[@heikkint]

What no Bunsenlabs mention. I am devastated i tell you.

[@DarrenGriffitt]

The pun, "...they aren't on our level." made me nearly piss myself. Subscribed.

[@jholloway77]

I use FreeBSD, it's like Linux but 10x more frustrating, a challenge to get up to date drivers, and lots of software is unavailable But I'll be damned if I didn't learn a lot and find a cool mascot

[@meci6625]

How's the desktop experience with FreeBSD? I know the PS4 uses a custom BSD based software, and it sucks ass

[@Grayscape.]

@@meci6625 i run freebsd via ghostbsd on my desktop. works well and feels good using bsd over linux. and freebsd has over 30.000 packages. plus the linux compatibility layer. ive used strigaht up freebsd its kinda like arch in the since you setup everything manually but its not hard plus the community for freebsd is imo better. they do not care about if its foss/gpl they just want it to work how they want it. and i like the MIT license allot better over the GPL license

[@lesscommonsense1804]

@@meci6625 I believe only hackers who love to tinker would seriously use BSD as their main OS. BSD is mostly for servers with strict resource limitations since they usually take less ram and storage space than linux. BSD is great for a log less vpn on a cloud server, not as a personal OS.

[@jholloway77]

@meci6625 I had to swap wifi chips in my laptop to get very slow wifi working. Plus a bit tricky for graphics drivers since my laptop has dual graphics. But for coding it's fantastic and it's insanely fast. Plus super stable, I've had debian and fedora crash on my laptop a bunch. That said, I can do the majority of things I'd do on a Linux laptop, but honestly it's not quite as convenient for some things

[@Felipe-rn1gf]

😂

[@RedcubeX24]

This has been fun, refreshing, not too serious - but more of a "so true it became a meme". Great.

[@sonychandel1878]

bros roasting goes hard\

[@yaygya]

Loved the Elementary joke. Danielle Foré shall rule us all

[@oglothenerd]

Gentoo is the best distro for learning Linux's internals.

[@Ducky_yandere]

the layers are clear, install gentoo, use that to install arch, then use that to install nix.

[@oglothenerd]

@Ducky_yandere NixOS was such a pain in the ass to use. 2/10, do not recommend.

[@Ducky_yandere]

@@oglothenerd aye, twas just a joke

[@oglothenerd]

@@Ducky_yandere I get that.

[@marcc5768]

Im running Linux Mint, have been for over 12 years. It handles what i need 98% of the time

[@visthj]

0:01 Apple follows the same rule. The catch is that hardware requires your testicles to be sold

[@clanzy8]

The "hardstuck silver" joke was so fucking good that I hate myself for getting it. Great job

[@eironn__]

ubuntu, lubuntu and xubuntu, but where is MY KUBUNTU?!

[@manaskshirsagar7518]

Slow as usual, probably crashed on the way (I use Kubuntu btw)

[@eironn__]

@@manaskshirsagar7518 yup had to change to endeavour

[@rayko12345]

I somehow think you could have mentioned the raspberry Pi OS, but great video!

[@Xara25]

I use EndeavourOS BTW

[@addy7445]

How good is it? Do Wine and Waydroid work?

[@Xara25]

​@@addy7445 What a question of course Wine and Waydroid work, they work on every distro. and in the end EndeavourOS is based on Arch so if it work on Arch it should work on EndeavourOS.

[@JspectraX]

5:27 Cool detail on the fractal.

[@Linuxgymrat]

Bro, Manjaro? There’s endevour, cachy os and many more that are a lot better.

[@lpnp9477]

In the name of your son pop os, amen

[@codingmickey]

This was wayy to funny!!! Keep at it subscribed :)

[@felixfourcolor]

I don't think it's fair to say arch is like lego without instructions, when the archwiki is known to be the best linux documentation.

[@ampex189]

As someone that's daily driven Linux for 20 years, ha ha ha! This is bang on!

[@Micecheese]

Manjaro is just Arch without the "btw" rights.

[@Toll99725]

KDE neon has become my New favorite Linux distro this week

[@johnhricko8212]

Good summary. You're funny too! I started w/ RH3-5....

[@zhaadd]

fedora, peak

[@bvd_vlvd]

Neckbeards unite!! *Tips Fedora 39*

[@mdnan]

​@@bvd_vlvdIt's on 40 now ;)

[@ThatMaverickMo]

Fedora 40 🫡

[@LiamMcBride]

@@ThatMaverickMojust upgraded to Workstation 40 most of my GNOME extensions worked without issues

[@pug-n]

been my daily for over 5 years now and i havent had a single problem!

[@dordijebojovic5582]

League part hurted me on whole different level imaginable💀

[@Kiyoliki]

One question about red hat linux (from a beginner), how can something be commercial/paid but open-source? When your software is distributed and modified by other people is there still some sort of a pay wall when accessing them? How is it done?

[@Sirfreelancealot]

There are many ways you can do that. For example supabase (a database provider) lets you host supabase yourself on your own server but with a few features missing. RedHat developed distributions of linux and gave them for free but if you wanted support (which if you were a massive corp, was a must) you'd pay them X amount. Currently RHEL (as far as I'm aware) is not available for free use and technically is not open source, but is based on other open source technologies and pulls features from Fedora which is open source.

[@coolcool5181]

As a side note, "open source" afaik does not mean the source code has to be open for everybody, just the actual users of the software upon request. If you don't pay for RedHat, you are not technically entitled to the source code. This still didn't stop clone distros like Rocky Linux from appearing, but that's a whole other can of worms. Another common monetization model for open source projects is like Aseprite, where the source code is open to everyone, but you have to pay to access any precompiled binaries. You COULD just compile it yourself, but most people are not going to want or know how to.

[@lpnp9477]

​@@coolcool5181isn't that just "source available"? Like unreal engine isn't open source but you can access and modify it like it were

[@curious_banda]

IT support can only do so much. If something needs fixing, they cannot do it, while RedHat devs can literally fix the bug upstream (which many times they actively contribute to). Also there is bunch of certifications needed for companies and government, which doesn't come for free and also requires effort. These things are what "support" here means.

[@xXstevilleXx]

No, I have to agree, for the most part it depends on your needs, if you want to simply get started and is new to *nix I would suggest Mint/Ubuntu. If you want to do it right then I suggest Fedora (Linus Torvalds - founder of Linux recommends Fedora). For those who want to do OSINT and such then Kali is likely the better option, if you seek speed go Arch, if you need a solid server then CentOS based distro's. Manjaro/OpenSuse is ok, but breaks easily. Try the live version of distro's first, find which works for you and learn the the diff between debian based distro's and ubuntu based distro's, there are FAR too many distro's and remember you can dual boot. I have no real need for Windows/OSX, not in my line of work. I might run say Windows in terms of booting up a VM, sometimes I need to, again it related to what I do. Any rate, go to the CVE site to check why is it probably not wise to use Windows if not needed. if you are a gamer then Linux is not for you. If you are into OSINT windows is not for you... having said that, I agree with the video

[@jcg4350]

CentOS is discontinued, a pity.

[@xXstevilleXx]

@@jcg4350 Indeed, since ISPs used CentOS in terms of hosting globally most are migrating to CloudLinux OS and since it is a RHEL fork, for now it seems to be what most use as an replacement. But to be honest, I have my concerns, mostly in terms of those making use of remote hosting via an ISP, and though it is mostly a 1:1 replacement for CentOS and the promise is that well-tested updates will be released until 2029 and there after ELS for some years after that... my concerns will always be vulnerabilities, exploits and threats. Though I am not a CentOS user, CentOS was stable, for the most part secure and a good Distro. A pity indeed. However there are other projects in the works but for now for those who need a hosting distro but used to CentOS besides the aforementioned the only other alternative for now I see a reasonable fit is Oracle Linux. I am rather careful.

[@xXstevilleXx]

@@jcg4350 sorry mate, not sure what is going on with the 'like' not showing, but I did like your response as in for real but none the less, did so again

[@Leonhart_93]

This right here is why W10 currently dominates the market, and it's not even close. In Linux everyone thinks they can create whatever they want and there is no unified thing other than the Kernel. Therefore, not many want to bother.

[@lpnp9477]

Sigma boomer mindset

[@curious_banda]

By your logic, apple should dominate.

[@Leonhart_93]

@@curious_banda It would if they came first, if they had actual GPUs and if they didn't force your to buy their overpriced crap hardware.

[@damianjblack]

​@@Leonhart_93plus the only game you can run on a Mac is Sims 4

[@Leonhart_93]

@@damianjblack That's pretty impressive 🤣

[@heyfamilyguy]

"Some are reliable" >Yugo pictured

[@jit_x]

2:42 u have a instructions manual its the arch wiki...

[@brainstormsurge154]

I was going to say that. Now, if you want something with poor documentation where it feels like there's no guide then go for NixOS.

[@howdyimflowey4341]

@@brainstormsurge154 Can confirm

[@GSBarlev]

Arch Wiki isn't a book of Lego instructions, though-it's a *computer science textbook.* Even the install guide says things like, "And now it's time to install a bootloader! You can read about that in this completely separate ~chapter~ webpage."

[@jit_x]

@@GSBarlev ya they are like Wikipedia... They say stuff and assume u know it and if u don't then search for a blue hyperlink u noob... Thats insult but if u get used to it then it's the best as no other distros has a wiki that huge

[@joeeburg]

The elder scrolls

[@eswing2153]

Gentoo characterization is spot on.

[@avrenos]

Bro destroyed apple

[@maxilp4952]

The video was so fitting and good, i want to carry you out of elo hell, if you up for it. I quit when i hit diamond, but dw we get you outta there if you want to.

[@Sirfreelancealot]

Haha I appreciate the offer but nothing could make me reinstall that game. RIP 4,000 hours of my life.

[@crossscar-dev]

manjaro is kinda bad now. EndeavourOS is a better arch derivative.

[@icantcomeupwithnames469]

why not just use arch btw

[@lpnp9477]

​@@icantcomeupwithnames469i value My time

[@jebril]

@@icantcomeupwithnames469Endaveour comes with an installer so you dont have to read a wiki and you get some cool space wallpapers. Also it preconfigures the DE for you so you wont have to set that up either.

[@TobiasCastillo-f7u]

​​@@icantcomeupwithnames469why not just use Gentoo?

[@icantcomeupwithnames469]

@@TobiasCastillo-f7u because gentoo isn't an arch derivative

[@henryfleischer404]

I can confirm, I do use Debian because it's a brick. I got it as my first Linux distro at the start of this year, after primarily using Wndows since 2020, and OSX on one imac since 2009. Because an iMac is only expensive if you don't plan to use it for 10 years.

[@tdrkone]

3:10 took me out

[@tvm2209]

Hahaha the LoL reference had me lol - btw alistar top lane only or I afk

[@drspandanroy]

The whole video was to say that Apple users are eunuchs, amiright?

[@Sirfreelancealot]

whaaat? Nooo, who told you that :P

[@michaelwright2986]

Maybe you're a bit young to know this, but a lot of Mac users are cis women.

[@lpnp9477]

I mean it's accurate

[@katanah3195]

At first I thought it was gonna be a joke about trans girls and UNIX based systems.

[@kingyachan]

I don't know how it has happened, but I've just recently been sucked into the void that is Gentoo

[@ДаниилНосиков-ъ4х]

0:16 - communism is not about "make it free and take your property" - it is about "prohibit currency trading on stock exchanges" - and in general using currency as an equivalent with constant value, rather allow people to fluctuate it, all the rest is majourly irrelevant to communism topic

[@luigivids9598]

Yeah people mix up communism and socialism a lot

[@bilbobeutlin3405]

No it's about collective ownership of the means of production and distributing all goods in the society based on needs.

[@kelpermoon23]

It’s literally about taking your property and making it everyone else’s

[@darthkielbasa]

Like attracts like. Once I saw the title I knew I found a new sub.

[@Very_Questionable]

Manjaro sucks, use Endeavour OS instead

[@lpnp9477]

​@BeTechAwareit doesn't. You can install it but it barely works. Better to just use yay

[@Problematist]

Almost wanted to say Clear Linux isn't that buggy, but they recently had a bug that deleted all user data after an update. The real issue is that it has very few of the optimized packages and thanks to the XZ backdoor incident they removed everything that depends on it, even smaller desktop environments. XZ itself is still there to support RPMs with a huge warning on the package.

[@BigOrangeMan]

Windows is great distro if you coming from the Linux Mint

[@jazzyniko]

😂 😂 😂

[@alwasd4975]

Клёвый видос а теперь как на счёт ALT Linux, ROSA Fresh, Red os: ))

[@lollovec]

Android is the worst Linux.

[@willi1978]

but there is no equivalent linux version yet. otherwise i would opt for running linux on my phone too

[@lollovec]

@@willi1978 yep

[@lpnp9477]

It's great if you enjoy spyware

[@damianjblack]

Still better than Apple.