Gabu!! ☁️ ΘΔ

i think i seriously need to move to linux for my own sanity, and i'm just planning out what linux distro i'd want to move to and i could use some help

backstory

for my work i heavily use docker. i work on my home windows PC. a few weeks ago i updated from like a version of docker desktop from 2020 to the latest version and initially there were no problems at all

the last few weeks i've been having MASSIVE problems with docker just... containers becoming unkillable and WSL itself becoming completely unresponsive until a reboot, and slurping up all my RAM and CPU until a reboot. these problems even happened after switching from WSL docker to hyper-v docker desktop, and it just seems like a common problem for a lot of people... and i'm sooooo tired of it

so what i ask is: recommend me a linux distro.

i'm a big fan of "out of the box" experiences and not a big fan of tinkering. it just needs to work and not crash and be easy to update. i think i don't want to use ubuntu again but graduate to something a liiiitle more "mature". my friend always pushes for NixOS but it sounds to me like it'd be constant tinkering whenever i want to install or update something.

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dead flag blues custom stepmania chart @MxSelfDestruct3/27/2023, 2:44 PM

NixOS will in fact be constant tinkering, go for something like Mint, or an Ubuntu variant

Gabu!! ☁️ ΘΔ @gabu3/29/2023, 8:49 AM

yeah haha, he sells it as "write once, deploy forever" but i don't even want to write once!! ill give Mint a try i think!

David @sdave-b4/12/2023, 5:34 PM

I know I'm late, but I wanted to give my 2¢ents here, as an ex-Ubuntu fan.

Despite ArchLinux being considered scary and difficult to set up, I found that by going with endeavourOS, and I got a working Arch system out of the box, with desktop services working, and a firewall with a nice GUI. From there, following guides on the Arch wiki has worked out very well for me when I want to do anything complicated or advanced.

I believe another Arch-based distro,, Manjaro Linux comes a GUI package manager called pamac that might be more your speed.

I cant't speak to Manjaro, but the endeavourOS installer gets you a no-fuss system, and from there, it's pretty easy to reach the Arch wiki to figure out more advanced stuff. I expect Manjaro to be similar.

Ubuntu for me has been a bad experience with outdated software, and strange over-engineered solutions. Not only are the software packages and drivers very outdated, but they also try to cram their not-app-store down your throat.

In Ubuntu, I once downloaded an emulator that was only available as a snap package. When I found out it was missing some features, I uninstalled it to replace it with a more up-to-date version of the emulator. When I did so, it deleted all my save files because they were in the snap filesystem instead of my home folder. The app store packages don't even save their work files in the correct place.💀

In the end, I wound up liking Arch-based linuxes a lot better than Ubuntu for a lot of reasons, but mostly, I've been able to run recently-released Windows games with near-native speeds using Steam with the latest Linux and Vulkan drivers.

Ubuntu for me has been a bad experience with outdated software, and strange over-engineered solutions. Everything is outdated and slow, and Canonical makes very odd business decisions, trying to be a lot more like Apple, but not doing so consistently well.

It's like the world turned around. I expected ArchLinux to be a nightmare to maintain, but it's relatively easy, and Ubuntu caused most of my headaches.

Gabu!! ☁️ ΘΔ @gabu4/14/2023, 9:17 AM

yeah i've had similar experiences like this with Ubuntu before, and also things like not updating for a while and then when i did finally update it half-broke the entire installation

and yeah my main reason for not wanting to go for Ubuntu again is 100% Canonical's bullshittery

i'll keep your recommendations in mind, thanks!! i like arch linux, the steam deck OS is based on it too, but of course all the hard part of setting it up is already done for you there

@whispersilk6/9/2023, 2:26 PM

I’ve been using OpenSuse Tumbleweed for a few years now and have been very happy with it. Like Arch (and unlike Ubuntu) it’s a rolling-release distribution, so you’ll typically get the latest and greatest software updates really quickly. You’ll also typically want to update once a month or so. I use it with the KDE desktop environment, which was really easy to move over to from Windows.

Gabu!! ☁️ ΘΔ @gabu6/10/2023, 7:53 AM

gosh, i'm gonna have to try out a bunch of these distros from a VM i think because theres just so many options. this one looks interesting too!

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