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Are they providing the arch based version for download now? I was under the impression they’ve only set it up for steam decks but not for general use?

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Oh, an openSUSE fan! There’s dozens of us! :)

I do really enjoy Tumbleweed with Plasma to be honest. It just feels so polished.

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Yeah I remember it happening for me at some point as well and I think this fixed it. It was quite some time ago though so I’m not sure at all. :P

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Gentoo is… well I wouldn’t exactly call it nice, but neat? :)

I’ve played around with it a bunch but grew impatient with it. The compile times was terrible for me back then.

Gentoo and Arch do have their niche though. Takes a bit longer to set up but they’re quite customized to your liking when you’re done.

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Yeah, thought so. Hope they’ll publish their newer versions as well soon.

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Yeah, that’d be a no for me.

Especially problematic since I’m on a laptop so I can’t really switch out the GPU either.

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One thing that bugged me last time I wanted to try out Pop was that my Efi partition was considered too small. It was 500mb, you’d think that’d be enough?

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Got to love the wife rating :D

But yeah, I had manjaro on an old chromebook at University, it was pretty nice!

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Ah cool!

Not something I’d use now then but still neat that you can get it :)

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What bugged you about Manjaro?

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Geez… you guys are making this hard… now I’m bouncing between ubuntu, pop, endeavour and manjaro…

Nicely formatted post by the way :)

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You know… at least for me, I think I’m past the stage of being horrified over having to use proprietary drivers. I know it’s not as nice as a pure open source system, but still… it gets my system to run better, it’s free and it’s still Linux. So in my opinion it’s a good tradeoff still.

I do get why purists would hate it though and I wish you’d get the same performance with a completely free system.

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Good points all around. I suppose AMD would be a better choice when the time comes to upgrade. There’s no real down sides to them either compared to Nvidia except maybe not supporting the same ray traving tech?

I’m a bit out of the loop there though.

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Sounds like a keeper! :)

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Good for you guys!

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We used to run Ubuntu at my last job, it was so nice! I’m back in Windows land now though…

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It looks pretty nice straight out of the box too. You used it long?

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Sure, there are some bad mistakes in there but that site feels like a personal vendetta though.

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Ok, I want your setup. Can I have it? Please? :)

Sounds pretty nice!

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I’m currently stuck with a laptop thats creeping towards potato status so it’s a bit hard to upgrade parts of it. :)

I’m happy just being able to run it almost to the ground as it is!

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Yeah, that’s basically what I figured. Plus some bells and whistles in the design department. Might just as well go with *buntu and install drivers then.

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Sounds like a sweet setup for controller based gaming!

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That’s another one I’ve heard of but never tried. Sounds pretty nice. Rathet Arch-like in a KISS approach l?

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It’s pretty nice that linux has gotten far enough that we can have that luxury these days. :)

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Well that’s what’s fun though isn’t it? :D

I ended up installing Kubuntu 20.04 for now… I was going to install Pop but they require a 1GB EFI partition and I didn’t have the patience to move my Windows partition around to resize it so… Kubuntu it is.

Knowing myself I’ll probably distro hop in a few days again.

Trying out different distros are almost as much fun as actually using them (probably more fun at times!)

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You’re really selling it :D

…I looked it up. You’re correct. That… was flashy.

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Oh I’ve tinkered with Gentoo plenty in the past (I still miss OTW if that rings any bells) and no, I really don’t have the patience for it these days. :)

And yeah, I’ll probably end up installing something a bit more fancy soon-ish… for now I plopped Kubuntu 20.04 on there and Diablo IV is downloading as we speak!

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Don’t worry!

They’ll quadruple…:)

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I installed Kubuntu… I couldn’t be assed to resize my efi partition to a gig and disrupt windows… Done that in the past with varying results. Wish they didn’t require it to be that big tbh.

I do miss Arch… wouldn’t surprise me if I’ll install it again soon.

Kubuntu works. But where’s the fun in that? :)

It’s like… I installed it, messed with lutris a bit (needed a newer version) and installed Diablo 4, everything works… and now I feel like I’m missing out somehow. :)

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These days Ubuntu can install the nvidia drivers for you during the install as well if you just click the “install proprietary blabla” so you get a pretty game ready system there as well tbh so I’m starting to feel like a more gaming tweaked version of Ubuntu is a bit redundant?

That’s a surprisingly pleasing font by the way!

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I stumbled upon Comic Mono myself a while ago and have been meaning to set it up in my IDE’s but haven’t gotten around to it yet. Might just have to though. It looks strangely easy on the eyes. Almoat relaxing somehow? Cant really putn my finger on why however.

I can agree with the fact that fonts feel different depending on your OS. I usually use Source Code Pro and I never got the feeling that it looked quite as good when I went from Linux to Windows after getting a new job.

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That or setting up a retro gaming sysgem… gathering and scraping roms, setting up a nice frontend with cover art and everything just to never touch it again when it’s done. :)

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I can see the charm in that tbh.

I like the idea of Gentoo, it’s a pretty cool concept. Just a time consuming one as well. :) I remember my problem with it was that I couldn’t really decide how I wanted my system to end up while I was setting it up… which kind of defeats the purpose a bit I felt.

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Feels like that’s pretty common these days. Most of the big distros are polished enough to get the work done without jumping through too many hoops really.

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Sometimes I wish I had a machine dedicated to nothing but reinstalling different distros. :)

It can get a bit disrupting to do it on your main rig too often.

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I’m starting to want to try Pop… they seem to have quite a few fans around here!

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Or openSUSE Tumbleweed :)

Is Debian Testing actually rolling I thought they froze it before new stable releasea?

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Arch really is a documentation project rather than a distro, their wiki tops most everything out there :)

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It’s strange really. I’ve used Ubuntu on and off since… 8.4 or something like that but I’ve never tried Debian. Don’t even know why.

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Been there, done that eh? :D

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Isn’t it kind of strange that a lot of us equal stable with boring? I know I do at times as well.

There’s something satisfying with stuff breaking and managing to fix them I suppose

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I know, I do that too but it’s just not quite the same for some reason.

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Yeah, that’s basically where you go if you ever have some obscure problem, it’s incredibly useful really.

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Sounds pretty nice tbh!

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I’m still happy WSL exists, it’s definitely better than nothing if you’re stuck in Windows land!

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I am starting to realize how handy flatpaks can be!

I’ve been distro hopping like a madman these last couple of days and it’s gotten so much easier to get going with my games now!

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Ubuntu does make things easier.

I had everything set up the way I wanted it in Ubuntu the other day… but something still itched a bit so now I’m on Tumbleweed and feeling better. :D

Though Diablo 4 tends to crash after playing it for a while… not sure if I’d have the same issue in Ubuntu or not, might have to triple boot for a bit just to try it out. I really do want to stay here in chameleon land though so it would probably be better to just try to find the cause of the crashing.

I do think this is a pretty common thing among us linux geeks though, never really feeling content and just wanting to try everything. :)

Never did try BlackArch or Rainmeter though!

I’ve played around with plenty of distros though… Slackware, Redhat, Gentoo, Arch, *buntu, SuSE (before they split into openSUSE), openSUSE, Manjaro, Endeavour OS and probably a bunch more that I can’t even remember but those are probably the ones I’ve played around with the most.

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