Linux

48100 readers

810 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
No misinformation
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

The Hardest of All (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

40 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Which OS has the steep learning curve and is considered hardest?

Gentoo ( I have been using it for 3 years now, until I have to switch to Ubuntu for research sake. I love it's philosophy and I kinda feel even my lifestyle changed after Gentoo. Tried it's successors, redstar, cosmic mod didn't liked much.)
Arch Linux ( when I got into Linux, everyone was like, I use arch btw. So tried it first with gnome, then kde, then i3, then i3 gaps and tui, then used openrc, then used runit. Helped me lot to install Gentoo. But Gentoo transformed me into something else)
Nix OS ( I was hearing about it since 2022. I wanted to try, and now I am gonna install and use it. I'm planning)

My question is, which among these is considered to be hardest and thus by mastering it, one can master linux to atleast some part? (excluding network management, ofsec, netsec, forensics, etc)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On recent hardware compiling everything from source doesn't give that much a of a performance boost. On older hardware (i586/i686 era) this was different. But in my opinion the hassle simply doesn't worth it anymore. My machine has plenty of unused resources and compilers nowadays do a really good job in optimizing the result.

Can't say anything about Nix OS. As far as I know it does some things different when it comes to configuration.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On recent hardware compiling everything from source doesn’t give that much a of a performance boost.

Agreed. The only reason I considered Gentoo is because my laptop is a potato.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it just a potato, or is it an ancient potato? Arch runs on fairly old hardware as long as it's 64 bits hardware. The oldest device I have must be from around 2014 and it runs okay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a normal potato. i3-3120M and upgraded to 12gb ram. Next will be the SSD as it still has an HDD. Works pretty well for everyday use, although forget about gaming.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i3, 12 GB RAM, SSD ... wouldn't call this a potato ... 😆

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

😅

no SSD yet. and I just recently got an axtra 8gb stick of ram lol. so before that swap was used a ton and it was crawling. doesn't help that I use gnome, i guess (i'm not that good with WMs).

i guess gaming-wise it's a potato. lol.