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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"? (self.linux)

submitted 10 months ago by case_when to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[–] UNY0N@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No downvote here my friend. I love arch, but that doesn’t mean it’s for everyone. Plug-and-play distros are great too, they just have different strong points.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Haha, I've been daily driving slackware since the late 90s. I like to tinker and install a lot of stuff. I seem to break anything with an automated package manager and dependency resolution.

[–] UNY0N@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oops, I seem to have misread you. Haha, ok, wow I am a total linux noob compared to you.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

Nah, I'm just a hobbyist. I'm a n00b compared to all the regulars in the slackware channel on IRC. But I love tinkering and learning. I'd need your help to install vanilla arch, just like you'd probably need mine to get started on slackware. (The slackware install is actually super easy).

I've been trying to distrohop the past couple months, see what else is out there. I wasn't paying attention installing Garuda and borked my EFI partition. I did manage to chroot into my still working slackware partition, but I couldn't figure out how to re-install grub. So I formatted and did a fresh slackware install.