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[–] 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

I’m a break hopper. If I like a distro. I’ll use it. Months and sometimes years. Then, if there’s some kind of breakage and I can’t figure it out and I decide to do a fresh install, I’m like β€œwhy not try something new”

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    I'm at that point with Solus right now. They messed up so many things when they switched to Wayland. Definitely wasn't ready for release. Trying to figure out what to try next.

    Edit: I should clarify, I'm on the Budgie version and Budgie is the cause of most of these problems. I'm considering switching to the KDE Plasma edition of Solus but so far I've been holding out hope for fixes.

    In general, Solus Budgie has been solid prior to this mess.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    Love this song, "Play me online. Well, you know that I'll beat you. If I ever meet you I'll control-alt-delete you" is gold.

    I feel the line "While your computer's crashing, mine's multitasking. It does all my work without me even asking'" is very relevant today.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    "I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM"

    Even almost 30 years later it's still a flex 😭

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    "Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half"

    Somehow still relevant too.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    turned one on a half hour ago. still waiting for the disk and cpu activity to mellow out.

    expected, though. it is a scrap-tier laptop with slow hdd and win11 that is not completely up-to-date.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I use Debian since the early 2000s. Never had a reason to even think about changing the distro.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'm just gonna stick with Fedora cause I'm white and nerdy.

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  • Hit install and never stop
    I'll tell you how I distrohop
    There's no flavor I'd say no to
    'cept that faschy one (you know who)
    got a hundred boxes runnin'
    and a vendor ain't locked one in
    Drop a new one and I'm on it
    jumping ships like the bubonic
    keeping ancient silicon churning
    endless new OS smell burning
    I'll be jumping 'til I drop
    to the beat of the endless distrohop

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  • [+] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago*

    ugh that's totally me. I've literally tried everything, even all the BSDs, and there are many that I like.

    I don't know I just find it fun to install a linux distro or BSD and set it up, see what will work, what doesn't, etc.

    The beauty of it is now I can install anything with ease and i'm familiar with pretty much every package manager out there. Favourite install: Gentoo. Least favourite: Slackware.

    what I changed more were DEs and WMs. I could never find the right one that I absolutely loved for years. Finally I just ended up building my own and put in all the stuff I wanted.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    It's all about the pentium's baby.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Hey fella, I bet you’re still living in your parents cellar, downloading picture of Sarah Michelle Gellar

    And posting β€œme too” like some braindead AOL-er I should do the world and cap you like Old Yeller

    You’re just about as useless as JPEGs to Helen Keller

    Weird Al did not need to make these lyrics slap so hard but I’m so glad he did.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago*

    Part of me is like "just run a VM" other part of me is like "hardware comparability is a major part of choosing an OS".

    Also, just friggin at least run a fedora VM and shove every DE in it until you figure out what you like. Maybe you actually just want to try a different DE.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    I always end up back at Arch, its the old reliable. Although I do have one system running just Nix these days as well.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Arch is the "old reliable?" πŸ₯²

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    They say its all about distro hoppin baby
    There so many options it is gettin crazy
    I’m ferrin and carryin my files from SSD
    Gonna need that when I reformat my PC

    Its gettin hard in this economy
    to find all the right parts at an honest fee
    And the only option left that I can see
    switching to an OS that will work for me

    Ubuntu I adore ya
    But this week is Fedora
    Linux Mint got me through March
    By the way I used Arch

    Every day the list grows
    an endless number of brand new distros
    One thing every homie knows
    we all hate on windows

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    I've been distro shopping since the late 90s. Think I've finally settled: Bazzite (+distrobox) and CachyOS. 🀞

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I jumped from Windows 10 straight to CachyOS (which you should've mentioned is Arch btw). Haven't looked back since.

    I've been meaning to switch and was gonna do it when I get a new computer (any decade now..). Funnily enough it was my frustrations with getting Docker running that led me to pull the trigger.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Arch purists might get offended, since I didn't build it from scratch πŸ˜†

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago*

    Yeah, if you didn't code the kernel yourself you're a newb.

    Us filthy casuals, using a polished Calamares installer, dare not claim the stolen valor of those that manually tune their OS for more time than I spend using the OS...lol

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Certified fresh meme every time lol.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    suggestions for better rhythm:

    I distro-hopped every Linux system,
    gave some props, the rest I dissed 'em.
    You had your OS more than a week?
    Pave that shit, man, it's antique!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)
  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    Wait, seriously? I mean, editing is easier than creating from scratch, but that literally took me less than a minute. He must have written it in the car on the way to the studio.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago*

    Weird Al didn't write that, he wrote "It's All About The Pentiums" which is what OP is riffing on

    They based it on these two phrases:

    I beta tested every operating system
    Gave props to some, and others? I dissed'em

    And

    You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
    Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique!

    Along with the chorus line "It's all about the Pentiums, baby"

    Also, the rhythm of the Weird Al song is fine, it's worth watching even if a lot of it is pretty dated since it's thirty years old now

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    It's also a parody, he borrowed the cadence from Diddy

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Ok my bad, I'm not at all well versed in rap.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago
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    I hopped mainly among a few. Then it was Debian for a long time. Then hopped again for no particular reason. My Mint kernel panicked once a few weeks ago, so I might hop again.

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  • I believe yours says, "Copilot" on the side.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Done, back to Arch with Niri

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