#Linux Distros

[pixelcesspool]

Openbox made me mad.

[vvatchword]

As you may recall, I got the Linux Mint distro for my old netbook, which has 250 GB HDD, 2 GB of RAM, and the Intel Atom N455 (1.66 GHz). This netbook has always been cheap and terrible but I find myself repeatedly needing to access a Not-Phone for various purposes in very strange places and hey, the money's been spent, I can just use this thing, right?

Anyway, Linux Mint has been a terrible idea. 2 GB of RAM is on its low end and DAMN do I feel it. The internet hurts. Word processing hurts. Manuskript hurts. Obviously, this means I chose the wrong distro.

But looking at other low-end distros is terrifying. They're for more advanced users and my Linux know-how is shit. xfce and LxQT expect me to know what I'm doing. I need to get this fixed up in a few days and what if it doesn't work for what I need?

My goal is to use spreadsheets and word processors, Manuskript, and the internet. I'm going to install some further add-ons to Firefox to disable scripts etc. I don't think my Internet experience will ever be stellar, but I would like to access pages within you know. a minute or two.

Another possibility is that I could buy a laptop before Our Wise White Leader uberfucks our collective shit. If I do that I'll have to act fast. Like today fast. Shit is selling like hotcakes for exactly the reasons you can imagine.

At one point I looked up the Macbook Pro, which frankly is one of the best products for graphic design, and it's like. what was I THINKING. I am unemployed. Where am I gonna get money like that

I thought about trying to crowdfund but that just seems... idk. It feels like a want and not a need. It's just that I keep having to leave my desktops behind so often, which has never historically been a problem until literally the last two years. Why does this KEEP HAPPENING. Should I lean into it and just admit I'm homeless

Do you guys have any opinions

should I just throw myself into a pit of lions perhaps

[kali-official]

fastfetch config :3

it even tells me how long ive been on E

[nixcraft]

Do you like Linux distro/OS, or do you like complaining about other operating systems?

[fagulous-af]

Isn't arch supposed to be finicky? This shit works a hundred times better than Ubuntu.

[dewberrybramble]

btw if anyone has any recs for a lightweight linux to dualboot on a 10 yr old hp pavillion, PLEASE tell me

im currently using lubuntu, bc this was my second go at using linux (first try was manjaro and I hated it) I do not have the time atm to learn arch. I just need something that may work a little better than lubuntu.

[q4os-tde-official]

okay, since yall know distros much better than i do and im stumped, i need yall to help me pick a distro for my netbook

the specs are:

CPU: Intel Atom N270 (single-core @ 1.6GHz, 32-bit)

RAM: 1GB DDR2 800MHz SDRAM

Storage: 200GB 7200RPM HDD

GPU: Intel GMA 950 (Lakeport iGPU, uses shared memory, max 224MB)

Display: 1024x600

WiFi only (i think whatever handles the ethernet died)

[0-p01ssum]

Linux Mint Cinnamon on a Dell Inspiron N4030 (2010)

Wallpaper 🌌

[sl33py-g4m3r]

ramble about FreeBSD and Unix~~

how out of my depth would I be trying to install FreeBSD?

would it even boot on my machine?

am I smart enough to go through the install for the system itself as well as get the GUI that I want?

I think you have to go through the command line for quite a bit of time before you get a GUI up and running....

I started off being really interested in BSD/Unix in high school, and tried to fiddle around with a BSD live disc thing in a book (that I don't remember the name of) and then only fiddled around with Linux.

I've been watching videos on youtube of people expressing how stable FreeBSD's modern release is~~

I want to use it on my own hardware; but that's a problem with it I believe, is that it works on sort of limited amount of hardware, as opposed to Linux, that you could even run on a toaster...

Is it really that much harder to deal with than Linux?

Of course I've only dealt with a few distros~~ the rundown of distros I've messed around with are;

Ubuntu (not anymore tho)

Debian (current os being Linux Mint Debian 6)

OpenSUSE briefly (tried to get my sibling to use it on their laptop, with them knowing next to nothing about Linux, sorry...)

Fedora back in high school, I ran it on a laptop for a while. I miss GNOME....

Mageia (I dual booted it on a computer running windows 7, also in or right after high school, so a long time ago)

attempted GhostBSD but it wouldn't boot after install from the live CD (also many years ago at this point)

I like to hop around and (hopefully now I have, yeah right...) I can't make up my mind which I actually want to use permanently.

Linux Mint Debian edition is really good so far tho~~!!

Current PC is an ASUS ROG Stryx (spelling?) that I bought on impulse many years ago~~ Was running windows 10, fixed the issue and now use the OS stated above~~

or maybe I should maybe ditch Mint and run straight Debian... Thought of that too. and it might have an easier time installing and actually booting than FreeBSD on this machine...

but then BSD and by extension unix is meant to be used on older hardware and to be efficient both in execution of things, and space.

"do one thing and do it well" iirc was a bit of the unix philosophy...

yeah, no I HATE technology /heavy sarcasm/

[ghostlymentalitykitty]

First ricing attempt, Gnome

[autismbedamnedmyboycanworkagrill]

just got my monitor i got from a garage sale working, rate the setup

[thatelitra]

AND AGAIN BECAUSE I FUCKED IT UP AGAIN

Please give me distro suggestions in notes and rbs, I’m considering Arch but idk

[blorbonk]

Judge people by the content of their character when you can, but in a pinch you can use the number of distro blogs they follow on tumblr instead.

[verdx]

Heeey, can anyone help me find a great linux distro guide that recently went around here??

I remember it didn't mention Ubuntu, which I loved :)

[toonabby]

Linux distro-tans

As said in the title, these are my old OS-tan OCs based on the Linux distribution softwares, respectively: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro, Slackware, SailfishOS, NixOS, Open SUSE, Knnopix, and Gentoo. Some of these design (specifically Slackware and SUSE) were based on another artist's versions of the Linux distro-tans, while others were based on my own preference (like Manjaro looking a lot like Rushia Uruha). Note that these are just concept designs, not the final look.

[the-mercs-as]

The mercs as Linux distros

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