Maybe you think my beloved Gnome desktop is overrated, or that the terminal is unnecessarily intimidating for new users, that Snap isn’t actually that bad, or systemd fanboy. No judgment, but there’s always something.
This is the thread to get it off your chest. Keep it respectful obviously, but don’t hold back. The spicier the better.
For me, besides preaching for several years that Kali Linux can easily and safely be a great generic rolling release daily driver… I also think most people don’t actually need to distro-hop as much as they do. Find something that works, take the time to learn it, and stick with it for at least a year or you might be back to it in future.
I agree. One, two, or three days don’t tell you much about a distro. After such a short time, you just don’t know enough yet. How does the distro handle major updates or graphics card driver updates? Maybe some hardware I don’t use every day doesn’t work out of the box, and so on.
Which has been what’s keeping me from really giving CachyOS or Void Linux a go. I really want to do this as a time I can commit to giving one of those a full long-term go.
(Relatively) low stability and short lifespan of the great majority of Linux distros which are backed by bazaar of enthusiasts.
Most stable and polished distros which are backed by industrial process and belong to software companies/organisations/foundations suffer from Enshittification - Wikipedia.
I think the whole idea behind systemd is incredibly good.
Let me expain.
When systemd did not exist yet, i was experimenting with a small setup where I wanted to launch processes by sending messages to init.
I tried to abuse xinetd as a kind of init and it worked kind of the way I wanted it (not really replacing init at that time but at least I got my launcher) and I wondered if it would be feasable to redirect stderr of those processes via pipes to a logger.
And right at that moment systemd was introduced to the linuxworld and it did exactly that what I was experimenting with, and more.
The idea of launching processes/daemons in parallel, getting them read- and writelocked on pipes/sockets (so they won’t fail) , thereby eliminating the need of a proper launch sequence and wait times, got me stoked
I did took a quick peek at the sourcecode and I was pleasantly surprised of how readable it was and it seemed pretty solid to me.
What I did not like was that it was forced through everyones throat instead of making it an option. It was only logical that it would get a lot of hate because of that.
What I also did not like was the half hearted and often crappy implementation in several distros (I will not mention names), and the sheer overkill of launching hundereds of services.
Still, I regard the basic idea behind systemd as a good and pretty nifty design.
I was a distro hopper when I first discovered Linux on DistroWatch only because the amounts of Distros amazed me and it seemed like I wanted to try them all. It took my about 3 or 4 years to decide there were actually very few Distros I wanted to use. My needs were Desktop OS, Apt/Debian based OS, Traditional desktop (gnome2 or Mate) and a good forum. After I found Ubuntu Mate I quit distro hopping completely as it met my needs so well.
Everyone gets excited about the number of computers as a percentage on Linux. They think Linux will win in the end. I don’t think that because Linux has no money to make slick commercials with people singing and dancing on TV that has nothing to do with how an OS opperates, but hey they are all so HAPPY!!.
Still today most people I tell I use Linux have never even heard of Linux.
My opinion is I don’t care about numbers, as long as Linux exists I will use Linux.
This is why I’m on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and with ESM enabled.
