No.2789
What's your favourite desktop distro for actually getting shit done and why is it Debian Testing?
No.2791
>What's your favourite desktop distro for actually getting shit done
Windows.
Sorry guys :^)
No.2800
Mint is my "it just works" distro of choice.
No.2806
>>2789
Some variant of Enterprise Linux. I've been administering {RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux} boxes for so long that they hold few surprises for me, and that's good when you're trying to get shit done.
No.2811
Debian:
>packages'r'us (except for depictions of women)
>almost nothing compiled with hardening flags
>can use FreeBSD kernel
Void:
>no systemd (that's a feature)
>libressl (and various openbsd utils)
>blazing fast
No.2813
Fedora has always worked fine for me.
No.2819
>>2811
Preach it. The only problem I had while using Void was that there was a lack of packages and I was way too lazy to compile shit like PyQt. I'd use Void full time if it had the selection of packages Arch has.
No.2820
Manjaro, bcuz gotta love the Manjaro settings Manager which handles drivers and kernel version. Based on arch so I get AUR but it also has a nice gui when I'm lazy
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No.2859
>>2789
- Linux Mint
- Fedora
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No.2879
what the fuck is debian
........
linux from scratch / #! -_-
No.2887
>>2828
Switched from Arch to NixOS, and it's absolutely wonderful for development. However, I switched back to Arch because packages weren't all there and I don't have the time to maintain them. :(
No.2910
>>2869
>>2879
Crunchbang is dead.
Move to debian. :^)
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No.2988
>>2813
same here. fedora was the only distro i've used so far with my hardware and it works out of the box. even ubuntu wouldn't recognize some of my hardware.
i see no reason to switch to another distro for now
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No.3010
>>2879
how do you not know what debian is?
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No.3026
Testing is not fast-moving enough to have all the latest stuff, nor stable enough.
So to answer the original question: Debian Unstable on desktop, Debian Stable on home server and a few VPSes.
No.3029
>>2800
My nigga.
I used to fix my mom's pc on XP all the time before she passed awa. Her and my sibling would either would either get a virus (youngest sister still used frostwire) or fuck up the drivers somehow. I upgraded at one point and gave my old pc to my mom which had mint on it. I didn't bother to reformat to windows cause the DVD drive was faulty and I didn't know how to install a distro via USB at this point.
Ever since I gave her that mint computer, I never had to fix anything ever again. It was too solid for her or my sisters to fuck up. My mom was probably the least techsavvy person I knew and even her could find her way around it.
Mint is my go-to distro for anyone who wants to learn how to use linux. I tried ubuntu and even that was not noob friendly. Mint almost literally took me by the hand till I could do shit on my own. Never looked back since.
No.3045
Arch is literally the only acceptable answer here.
No.3082
>>2789
centos LITERALLY STABLE AS MY MARRIAGE
No.3100
Opensuse Tumbleweed rolling.
No.3103
Slackware mustard rice representing
No.3206
>>2789
Ubuntu LTS and Debian Stable. They are both pretty stable, although I'm thinking about replacing my Ubuntu system with Debian and using XFCE or Mate. The reason being, Ubuntu has some packages that are broken, such as PyMOL (some plugins crash the whole program) and macchanger (the -r flag doesn't work).
No.3210
>>2800
MINT SHILLLL
use no systemd fork of debian, DEVUAN
No.3266
>>2789
Let's say I have Debian Stable and I am a beginner. Should I upgrade to Testing? Is Testing the same as Sid?
No.3311
>>2789
>Testing
>Not Wheezy
No.3314
>>2789
Linux Mint Debian Edition.
No.3401
Arch because it just werks and I'm used to it
No.3405
>>2789
I use Debian stable for the laptops, as they're more important. Testing can go on just the desktop, since I'm a bit fussed with having to update every machine, as well as a few cosmetic errors here and there.
Few major distributions offer the default of running without firmware blobs, so Debian has stuck with me for a while.
>>3266
Testing is similar, but it does not accept packages from Unstable unless they meet the guidelines shown here:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting
No.3406
>>3266
Also it's not advisable to upgrade to testing if you're a beginner, unless you can put up with constant changes and notable bugs once in a while.
No.3434
>>2813
>>2988
Absolutely agree, I've been a distro hopper for the longest time. I've been using linux for about 7 years non-stop but never had a distro for more than 2 or 3 months, and fedora was one of them, however this time around fedora has become the distro gets to stay, fast, secure, everything I was looking for, and yeah I still get curious about other distros but i try them on gnome-boxes, I see no reason to switch and I doubt it'll happen any time, specially because f23 is about be released pretty soon which come with even more features.
No.3436
>>2791
Fucking this, GNU+Linux is great as a hobby os but you need windows for real work to get done. :^)
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No.3573
Great amount of customization for workflow ricing, godsend wiki, and no bloatware.
Also
>>3436
>>2791
Fucking Plebs.
No.3576
>>3436
Windows is terrible for getting things done. All their products have gone from decent to use to absolute shit. Point and case the abomination known as Visual Studio. Looks like a faggot made it and often I feel like I have to be gay to use it. Plus it's slow, doesn't render pixel fonts (What the fuck?), slow, has almost no customization, slow, slow, oh and fucking slow.
Not only that, Windows is shit these days too. I don't know why they want to make everything flat as fuck, but it's annoying when you can't tell when one window ends, and another begins, or one field begins and another ends.
Honestly, if you're too much of a Pleb to use Linux, just go install Mint.
No.3581
Debian Testing is annoying. It's buggier than stable but still has ancient packages, and occasionally packages go missing. Debian now has systemd, which is really quite unfortunate. I might try out devuan at some point but it seems overall a lost cause.
Gentoo Stable has newer packages than Debian Testing and is overall more reliable, while being vastly more configurable as well.
Enterprise Linux uses an ancient kernel patched to hell with weird garbage. Fuck that. 4.x.x or bust. Also has a systemd problem, pulseaudio problem, etc, etc. Fuck Leonard.
I assumed by "getting shit done" you meant for use as a workstation computer. For a server OpenBSD is usually quite good because of its simplicity and low maintenance, although if I wanted maximum performance I'd use Linux. Linux has better performing filesystems, a faster network stack and the best scheduler known to man. The only problem is that most of the distros are too high maintenance or are filled with garbage.
No.3615
>>3581
I feel the very same way. I also prefer the BSD way of doing things so I use Slackware for personal computers and Free/Net/Open BSDs for various servers and appliances I build. It's not for everyone but it works for me and I choose stability over new and shiny every time. I have a hell of a lot less headaches that way.
No.3626
>>3573
Agreed, I can do so much with my system on Arch :^)
No.3640
I am surprised no one posted Ubuntu yet
No.3648
Mint.
I've tried Debian, but it seemingly purposely makes things more difficult than they need to be.
>>2791
You quoted but didn't even read what you were quoting. Fucking retard.
Windows
Is not
A GNU+Linux distro.
You fuck.
No.3657
>>3210
>DEVUAN
>The current release series is ALPHA2 meaning not ready for production, mostly targeted to developers, contributors and testers.
How about fuck you? I'm all for a SystemD free OS, but is there any such thing as an "it just works" OS without SystemD?
No.3664
>>3657
Nope, but systemd 'just works'. Kinda why it's been adopted by almost everyone.
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>>3753
>>3753
is it the best option for a small file server for work?
No.3853
>>3210
>>3657
just use wheezy, it has no emacs
No.3854
>>3853
what is this gay shit, swapping system d for emacs
No.3872
>>3666
>trying to use a peasant OS for sysadmang work
>trying to use a peasant OS for coding
Please tell me, anon, why are you so hell bent on being unproductive in your dev environment?
Unless you are a .NEET developer, of course.
No.3876
>>3872
dude he's obviously retarded
No.3885
>>2819
Void needs to have their own AUR (VUR I guess)
No.3943
Do any Mint users here know if there's a way to evenly align icons in Mint the way Gentoo does? I'm using MATE and the align option only works in one dimension if I remember right. My desktop looks terrible and it's triggering my autism.
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No.3978
>>3943
*the way W i n d o w s does
No.4001
I run Sid. Nio major issues. apt-listbugs catches most shit, and anything that's really awful gets fixed REALLY fast.
You get security updates faster than Testing as well. And while testing is still good, sometimes packages (good examples right now being filezilla and krita) aren't in the repos, while unstable generally has a version available.
No.4040
For me it's Arch, I tested Debian Stable and I didn't liked it all, it felt very weird and not good at all, but I'm also a lazy fuck
No.4063
>>2789
>work
>/g/
Haha, did /g/ ever finish writing the code for Tox or that shitty torrent client? 😳
No.4078
>>2910
>>2968
Bunsen Labs is the successor to #! I've been using. It's fucking awesome. They're about to finish the second release candidate at the end of the month.
No.4080
>>4040
>or me it's Arch
> I'm also a lazy fuck
MFW?
> Debian Stable
> not good at all
Debian Stable, although not the distro I use, is one of the best. No shitpost here, and if you can use Arch then Debian should be like Windows is to Normies.
No.4099
>>2813
Hear hear. Fedora is excellent
No.4236
>>2789
I'm actually using Debian Stable. Why? Because I can get shit done in it without facing bugs and shit I need to report.
No.4237
>>4099
Enjoy your bleeding edge distro.
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No.4310
i enjoy crunchbang on this laptop
>tfw can't watch any video over 640 width or so without major artifacts and lag
No.4388
>>2789
What do you mean with "working" faggot?
All distros of gnu/linux work.
No.4389
Mothe fucker!!
That doesn't work is your brain.
No.4401
I go for Windows. It's just better.
No.4402
>>3576
At least we have some products, faggot.