What if the perfect distro were the configs we made along the way?
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Only to drop them all in favor of nixos. However you mostly can translate your config into configuration.nix
That's my goal. When I tried NixOS 3 years ago I didn't had time and there was a lack of documentation to make a .nix for missing packages. Community was... something not very welcoming. I will try again during college break.
Well documentation is still not great. But I can deal with it.
The first step is to really understand how nix works and how nix-shell -p works.
Then probably know that autoPatchelfHook exists
And sth. You have to watch out for if you install sth. With a daemon or a service you need to enable it additionally to the installation.
So for example for open-iscsi you need to enable the service.open-iscsi = enable so it can work.
Flakes are still a nogo for me. I don't understand them and I don't want to deal with them until I get the rest into my head.
But like...yeah, that's kinda it IMO. None of the distros come out of the box absolutely perfect for me and my use case, but Debian is close enough, well-documented enough, and flexible enough to be configured into a "perfect distro". I haven't really had a reason to distro-hop on any of the systems I installed Debian on.
I keep switching between Debian and Arch cause they're very different but both close to perfection. I think I'll stay on Arch for my gaming PC (newer drivers) and Debian on my laptop (just works).
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There’s no single perfect distro.
Some are stable, some run light. Some are fully featured. Some are bleeding edge.
And some are for plotting world domination.
But there’s only one for saving the world.
Wrong, my distro is the perfect distro, everyone else is just adding to fragmentation
So, you’re on the world domination kick.
and them there's nixOS being everything that you said
Dude. Why are you telling people how to stop me?!
Arch can be whatever you want it to be 😇 you just have to form it yourself.
Endeavor. It's just Arch but approachable, or Manjaro without the AUR issues
99% of distro hoppers quit before finding the perfect distro
My experience tends to be
For me it's become all about convenience. Is Ctrl-Alt-T preconfigured to open a terminal? Can I move it around with Super-[arrows]? Are all the drivers and codecs I need in the standard repos? No (or little enough) bloatware? Then I've found a distro for me. I don't care about anything else anymore.
so anything kde
Fedora KDE Spin also does not have a lot of the mentioned feature. I don't think it's about the de but more about the maintainers
MABOX Linux may be the distro for you!
The perfect distro doesn't exist, YOU make it then you add it to distrowatch
I was hopping several distros.
Ubuntu. Nah not my thing.
Fedora. Mhh yeah but I have Nvidia isn't there sth. For me?
Ah yes Nobara. Nice a distro from the glorious eggroll guy.
Switched because of stupid reasons..... To:
Debian-trixie. Cool that's the distro I will stay.
My system gets somehow into a boot loop after 60 seconds of logging in....
Ok let's try Linux Mint. Mhh on my laptop it works better... Nah my hardware doesn't like Mint.
Nixos. Holy shit is that difficult to use. I love it! Stable as fuck. Bleeding edge almost. Newer gonna use sth. else. That thing is amazing and a ton of work to do anything.
NixOS? Ain't nobody got time for that. I still try to not struggle with weird flickering while gaming using EndeavourOS + Hyprland using Nvidia graphics. It's a pain. But one day I'll make it work and it will feel so good.
I think that's entirely a Hyprland problem. Iirc there's some option in the misc config group in the config to help mitigate that.
E: I meant specifically opengl:nvidia_anti_flicker
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Debian. It gets shit done.
Debian users try not to tell everyone at every opportunity to use Debian challenge (impossible)
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NixOS for the exact same Reason.
At some Point you just stop hopping.
Ironically i started using NixOS in order to distrohop. I thought it'd be nice to have everything in one config file so i can easily recreate my system if one of my hops explodes.
Well, that didn't quite go as planned. Using it for 2 years now.
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I’m distro hopping because Ubuntu was perfect for me in basically every way, but I don’t want to be locked to a closed distro..
I haven’t found anything I like yet, and I don’t have the skills (or motivation) to make core Debian feel the same.
I’ll probably end up back on Ubuntu, at least for my server machine.. it just worked the way I wanted it to, and the ui was lovely for me. Plus it’s stable enough that I can just keep it up indefinitely without issue.
I use Ubuntu too, because it works and has wide compatibility for everything, any software that supports Linux is generally tested on Ubuntu, etc. I use Ubuntu because if I tried anything else I'd end up becoming a distro hopper lol
You comment gives me vibes of "I don't do heroin because I know I'd get addicted". I say this as someone who is currently flirting with distro hopping. I wouldn't call myself a distro-hopper yet, but I'm certainly en route to that
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We all end up using fedora.
Fedora made me stop hopping.
the only perfect distro is gentoo
I haven't been converted to a Linux person just yet but I love all the watamote around here
Try linux mint in your free time :)
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Not gonna lie it's an addiction at this point.
Distrohopper should listen to Distrohoppers' Digest podcast... https://distrohoppersdigest.com or found at any podcatcher
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