Done, back to Arch with Niri
I’m a break hopper. If I like a distro. I’ll use it. Months and sometimes years. Then, if there’s some kind of breakage and I can’t figure it out and I decide to do a fresh install, I’m like “why not try something new”
Makes it easy as a gamer. My only worry is all the wear from installing my games each time with the high cost of storage nowadays.
But it’s always nice to start from scratch with a new distro and not bringing any baggage with you.
You can always have a partition for your data separate from your boot partition. Then you just mount that on any distro you run and you’re good to go. I have a drive from when I used Windows for media, and I’ve never reformatted it. Your distro doesn’t care where data came from, as long as it can read it.
If you’re still using a data drive formatted as NTFS, and you’re not using Windows anymore, it’s best to change the filesystem.
Linux NTFS drivers are pretty good, but it’s still reverse engineering a proprietary filesystem. Sometimes it misbehaves.
If you’re using something like ExFAT then ignore me.
Yeah, I need to switch it at some point, but it’s a 4TB HDD, and my other drives are smaller. I need to delete a bunch of stuff to be able to reformat it.
Depending on the amount of data, you might be able to shrink the existing NTFS partition, create a partition next to it of the proper filesystem type, move the data between the partitions, delete the NTFS partition, and expand the replacement.
But I wouldn’t attempt that on ant data you care about unless you have backups. I’ve done things like that a lot working in the tech industry, and sometimes things just break.
So with hdd prices, not super tenable but i keep all my games on a 2nd drive formatted as ext4.
I’m at that point with Solus right now. They messed up so many things when they switched to Wayland. Definitely wasn’t ready for release. Trying to figure out what to try next.
I always end up back at Arch, its the old reliable. Although I do have one system running just Nix these days as well.
Arch is the “old reliable?” 🥲
it’s what they have the most experience re-installing.
Honestly, it’s the OS I can usually fix without having to resort to a reinstall. Sure it breaks sometimes, but those breaks are pretty easy to repair.
Once you get used to its quirks, yeah.
Certified fresh meme every time lol.
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ugh that’s totally me. I’ve literally tried everything, even all the BSDs, and there are many that I like.
I don’t know I just find it fun to install a linux distro or BSD and set it up, see what will work, what doesn’t, etc.
The beauty of it is now I can install anything with ease and i’m familiar with pretty much every package manager out there. Favourite install: Gentoo. Least favourite: Slackware.
Part of me is like “just run a VM” other part of me is like “hardware comparability is a major part of choosing an OS”.
Also, just friggin at least run a fedora VM and shove every DE in it until you figure out what you like. Maybe you actually just want to try a different DE.
Love this song, “Play me online. Well, you know that I’ll beat you. If I ever meet you I’ll control-alt-delete you” is gold.
I feel the line “While your computer’s crashing, mine’s multitasking. It does all my work without me even asking’” is very relevant today.
“I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM”
Even almost 30 years later it’s still a flex 😭
And on CachyOS I often do “upgrade my system at least twice a day, I’m strictly plug and play”
We need to find out if Weird Al uses Arch, BTW.
“Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half”
Somehow still relevant too.
turned one on a half hour ago. still waiting for the disk and cpu activity to mellow out.
expected, though. it is a scrap-tier laptop with slow hdd and win11 that is not completely up-to-date.
I use Debian since the early 2000s. Never had a reason to even think about changing the distro.
Years ago I saw a picture of yuri that said “Debian is the distro for lesbians” and that sold me on it.
Nixos is where it’s at
Or is where it at is?
I’ve been distro shopping since the late 90s. Think I’ve finally settled: Bazzite (+distrobox) and CachyOS. 🤞
I jumped from Windows 10 straight to CachyOS (which you should’ve mentioned is Arch btw). Haven’t looked back since.
I’ve been meaning to switch and was gonna do it when I get a new computer (any decade now…). Funnily enough it was my frustrations with getting Docker running that led me to pull the trigger.
Arch purists might get offended, since I didn’t build it from scratch 😆
Yeah, if you didn’t code the kernel yourself you’re a newb.
Us filthy casuals, using a polished Calamares installer, dare not claim the stolen valor of those that manually tune their OS for more time than I spend using the OS…lol
I hopped mainly among a few. Then it was Debian for a long time. Then hopped again for no particular reason. My Mint kernel panicked once a few weeks ago, so I might hop again.
Hey fella, I bet you’re still living in your parents cellar, downloading picture of Sarah Michelle Gellar
And posting “me too” like some braindead AOL-er I should do the world and cap you like Old Yeller
You’re just about as useless to JPEGs as Helen Keller
Weird Al did not need to make these lyrics slap so hard but I’m so glad he did.
Hit install and never stop
I’ll tell you how I distrohop
There’s no flavor I’d say no to
‘cept that faschy one (you know who)
got a hundred boxes runnin’
and a vendor ain’t locked one in
Drop a new one and I’m on it
jumping ships like the bubonic
keeping ancient silicon churning
endless new OS smell burning
I’ll be jumping 'til I drop
to the beat of the endless distrohopIt’s all about the pentium’s baby.
After all these years I just now realized Pentiums should be Pentia.
Your grammar just blew my mind. Thank you.
