I took a bunch of stuff from work that was gonna get recycled including a decent laptop and a flash drive. I work in network admin and IT if that narrows it down. Never used Linux before though.

Edit: Thanks everyone! I'm down for some problem solving so I think I'm gonna go the Arch/Manjaro direction so I can learn my way around Linux generally.

  • flowernet [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Manjaro. The package manager is great, and Arch Wiki is one of the 7 wonders. Some gainsayer always replying saying "Manjaro is great, but it's pretty advanced for a beginner" and this person is an NPC, because I legit run into more problems with Mint and Xubuntu than Arch. Installing an AUR is really easy, unlike whatever the process is for getting something that isn't on Apt-get.

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      11 months ago

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    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Arch / Manjaro are good distros if you want to get into fucking around (and incidentally, finding out). All Red Hat-derived distros (i.e. Fedora) as well as Debian-derived distros (i.e. Mint, Ubuntu) separate development packages from runtime packages. Gentoo, Arch (and Manjaro, as an Arch dirivitive) combine them. For people who don't care about tinkering, this only results in additional bloat on the hard drive. But for people who do care about tinkering, this means that everything comes with batteries included. Of course, you can still do all this stuff on Fedora/Debian, but when you already have things like Portage / AUR set up on your system, you get a fully functional build toolchain out of the box. Makes grabbing things from Github and trying them out a lot easier.

      I've never used Manjaro personally though. Just Arch. My understanding is that Manjaro is significantly easier to set up.

      • raven [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Manjaro isn't just Arch, it's significantly changed and has become pretty approachable, while Ubuntu has become quite a bit less so in recent years.

          • raven [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I'm just mad they killed unity :rage-cry: I was using that

            • neo [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              unity was great. in some ways gnome3 still hasn't caught up to some of the nice parts of unity

              • raven [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                They took away my global menus :bawllin-sad:

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              • raven [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                I tried it, it runs really well actually, except for the constant crashes. Real bummer. A taste of ambrosia.