I am just very curious what peoples stories are. And if you are not using Linux what is holding you back?
No judgement of any kind, just pure curiosity.
I started with Android, of all things (first android phone in the froyo/gingerbread era, iirc). Got really interest in modding so I signed up for XDA. It was pretty cool while it lasted, and it introduced me to the world of GPL and open source stuff. Still didn’t install Linux.
After a few years, my now ex-company started using Ubuntu and it worked pretty well for such shitty PCs, so I got more interested in Linux. At home, I got interested in building kernels, so I started reading up more about it. Finally installed Virtualbox and installed Mint and built my first Android kernel from source. Stuck with Mint for a few years.
Got interested in Arch but was intimidated, so I went and installed EOS on my laptop. Learned more about Linux (Still using EOS there now) Kept using VMs for hobbies and tried a lot of distros.
Saw iusearchlinux.fyi in lemmy and it called out my name. As an asshole whose whole life revolves around bragging about using arch, i signed up for this instance. 😎
I didn’t even think of Android, I guess technically correct is the best kind of correct :D I been using it since Dount, but never did anything more fancy than rooting and running cyanogen/lineage.
EOS? I never heard of it, is it just EndeavourOS shortened? At least it seems to make sense in context. Sorry if this is a bit of a dumb question.
Since you said you used a lot of distros, is there any you would recommend to try/stay the hell away from?
Yep, its quite handy when your username tells everyone automatically so you don’t have to use your macro (that I assume every arch user has) to tell everyone.
Yeah. Got hooked on cyanogenmod. It was fun specially when Xposed was introduced later on. I don’t follow the phone scene much nowadays, though.
Yeah, it’s Endeavour OS. It’s pretty lengthy and I’m lazy so EOS it is. Lol.
I’ve tried Puppy, various Ubuntus (can’t remember which, but mostly the lighter ones and the main distros), Debian, OpenSUSE, Pop, Fedora, Mint, most of the popular ones, etc - mainly looking for something for a daily driver on my laptop but still ended up on EOS. Most of them stayed just a few days, though, so I can’t really give you any comprehensive answers. Although I’ve had trouble with OpenSUSE the most iirc. No idea why - might just be me. Or is it zypper? 🤔 Idk, pacman just works for me (and apt, of course). RN I’m trying out Nix OS on my VM. It’s actually pretty cool, although I’m still not familiar with everything.
And yes, an arch users let’s everyone know they use arch.
I wish I could install it still, was so good.
Yea, I literally couldn’t spell the name if I wanted to, I gotta look it up and copy paste it so can’t blame you for just going with EOS :D
That is a lot of them :o You are the 2nd one who mentioned issues with OpenSuse in this thread, do chances are its not you.
I use Arch btw.
It was a low-spec laptop I was gifted as a teen. To give you an idea:
- 32 GB soldered-in SSD
- 4 GB RAM
- dual-core celeron
It came with Windows 10, and on day 1 it said I had low storage 💀. The huge bottle-neck for me was the un-upgradeable storage for sure, because a lot of programs I wanted to install (i.e. for art/music/programming) wanted to live on the C: drive rather than on my usb. And in general it was atrocious to use.
I got introduced to Linux from the Godot Engine discord meme channel of all places. Lots of Linux users seemed to live there, so I thought maybe I ought to learn Linux to understand the memes 🤣 (and escape my insanity)
I still was very unsure about wiping Windows in case something broke or still had info on there (i think i still do in my browser). So if not wipe the OS, I could have ran Linux off my USB, but it stuck out a couple inches so I didn’t wanna risk it unplugging 🤣. But my buddy suggested an idea to use the small MicroSD slot on the side. I was able to get one (128GB) for my birthday and decided to go with Mint. Things mostly just worked but there was some strangeness cause it was a persistent live usb install. But still so much better than Windows
This was about 2.5 years ago now. And don’t worry, I saved up to build a desktop PC, running Arch, of course ;)
Only 32 GB of storage is insanely low, what the hell. They shouldn’t even be allowed to make laptops like that unless you are able to replace it…
I would never think about running something of a MicroSD, good thinking on your buddys part!
I hope the new desktop has decent storage now :D
I know!! I think the idea with those types of laptops were that most people just needed a laptop to browse the internet and could live off of web apps / the cloud if needed. But still, I agree, no computer should have their storage soldered in. In the end the silver lining to it all was it pushed me to try out Linux
Yupppp. I think these days the read-writes on the SD card are a little too slow now, but it definitely served it’s purpose. It worked great because it was flush with the frame of the laptop, and didn’t require any compromises at the time. Awww thanks 🙂
In the desktop I got a 1tb nvme ssd, I haven’t even used half of the storage yet and there’s plenty of room for upgrading 🤣
i tried installing windows XP on my computer, and it wanted me to activate it? wtf? so i said F that. it was like 2003 or so and it was redhat 7.3 that i bought at circuit city or somewhere
Loaded up 40something diskettes of Slackware, on a ship anchor of a PC in an effort to learn a Geographic Information System back in 1897, er I mean 1997. Pulled out chunks of hair trying to pick swap file sizes. Was dazed by /, /boot, /usr, /var,. Never got the GIS working. Sang magical incantations to bosses about how Linux would smite their god MSFT. And they laughed. You know the rest.
My first installation was in around 2006 when I bought my own computer, but I heard abou Linux from my middle school IT teacher. First distro was mandriva, but I jumped from one to another on weekly basis. I think that first Ubuntu I tried was feisty fawn. I remember as well the ubuntu netbook remix as well. Why? Dont remember. Probably curiosity , being tired of bimbows.
OMG I was trying to remember the Ubuntu distro name of the first version I tried, and I think it was feisty fawn! Yeah! Thanks for jogging my memory.