/g/ using currently fagbuntu and want to switch to another distro my prefs are debian, opensuse and arch? wich ist the best?
>>54564498
debian is for stability, Arch is for the latest updates and i haven't tried open suse.. yet
>>54564498
>opensuse
This. You'll love it. It's a fully featured KDE distro
>>54564498
manjaro. easy to use, stable, fresh.
Zorin OS
I know /g/ memes are great and all but ubuntu is legitimately not a bad OS. If you're intent on switching and you liked ubuntu you'll like debian.
>>54564764
>>54564829
still works better than your os.
I am replacing Vista with a Linux OS for university use next year. Which one will work best on the older machine: Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Arch, or Elementary OS? My roommates and I will be doing software development with it.
Why not Manjaro
All the arch cool things + "just werks"
>>54564981
On an older machine?
Lubuntu or Arch (with some lightweight DE)
If you are a noob choose Lubuntu, Arch is not noob friendly
Using anything else than Ubuntu is only for enlarge your e-penis on Taiwanese cartoon forums.
Linux user all my life here (that's 29 years).
Coming from Ubuntu, Debian will feel very natural. You can basically configure to be a clone of what you had before. It's nice and stable. Perhaps you want something different.
Opensuse will probably feel the most different from what you're used to. Nice if you want to try something new and stay in safe waters. Not my personal favourite though due to me not liking KDE that much, but you'll never know until you try it.
Arch will be quite the adventure... You can configure it however you like (and it's not that difficult, you can do the installation in the same time any automated installation takes). Very good for learning, but expect your computer to stop working from time to time due to updates breaking things (like the graphical environment). Not worth it for work/production machines, but nice if you want to go deeper.
>>54565080
arch hasn't broken anything in over a year. the meme is dying a bitter end.
>>54565118
Even the mantainers warn you about this. If someone is coming from Ubuntu, they should now stability is not what Arch is about, just that.
>>54565197
>now
>>54564498
It really depends on what you want to do with the system and what your priorities are.
If you're after learning how the system works (which may not be the case) take a look at this thread,
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ikaor/for_the_best_learning_experience_lfs_gentoo/
Yeah, I know. Reddit. Nobody cares.
>>54565118
same here.
and right now i got 955 packages (yeah fuck me right) and that causes nearly a daily updates...
>>54565416
i have 1414. I don't really bother unless it's kernel upgrade time.
>>54565416
>>54565480
how many packages is a normal quantity?
>>54565519
dunno.
>>54565519
I've got 930, average is probably like 1500 depending on how many different things you use your computer for
Elemantary OS is the best
>>54564498
opensuse leap, awesome installer, rock stable, good DE integration, great package manager you can even use apt-get and it will convert in correct zypper command, yast is freakin best, obs. snapper need i say more?
>>54565893
I have less than 700
>>54564498
Debian. Thank me later.
>>54566508
why debian over opensuse?
Where is the difference between opensuse tumbleweed and leap? is tumbleweed like Arch(rolling Release) or an experimental/ Beta Version?
>>54566600
its rolling yes but should be more stable than arch. I recommend leap software is new enough and it works great + long support.
>>54564498
A 7 year debian user, installed once, solid, never had to reinstall. I can get my shit done on it. Never used OpenSuSe, so can't comment.
is opensuse safe? (no backdoors etc.?)
>>54564817
This desu
>>54566876
I never read anything to the contrary so it should be safe.
>>54564847
Fuck off with the minimizing of this screwup.
Security underpins computing as a whole, and this was an egregious mistake.
Desktop Linux is a hobbyist OS at the best of times - this amateur hour shit is just unforgivable though.
>>54564981
How 'old' is this machine? Lubuntu should work great, xubuntu has more shiny though.
>>54567447
The memes never fail to arrive...
>>54564498
So this is unrelated, but I'm a new Debian user and I have a shellscript I want to execute with root privileges on login.
Is there a simple non-retarded way to achieve this?
>>54567447
>Caring about free software and its philosophy
What free distro do you use, faggot?
>>54564498
open suse is still slightly better then ubuntu
debian is much better, very great
I prefere the package management of arch.
You just know about apt, so debian should be the best for you
>>54567811
why is debian better than opensuse?
>>54567858
yast had override configuration files in preverios version. don't know current state...
in debian the mirrors can be configured, so the versions can be changed without reinstallation
>>54567909
Oh i started using it with 42.1 so i never encountered that.
>>54567715
make systemd do it.
I'd imagine googling with that would turn something useful up
>>54564761
opensuse has nice kde. so does arch akshully, but opensuse is easier to install.
Hey im also searching a new Distro i like Gnome and Arch should be the best for it? But im not that pro for Arch now how ist opensuse tumbleweed? I want the newest Version of Gnome 3.20 and was reading that it could be possible on opensuse? and how about Debian?
>>54568152
Install both and you decide. Pretty sure you'll end up in Arch
>>54567994
Googling is giving me a bunch of bullshit about where to put the script and how to make it autolaunch. I might be doing shit wrong.
Was Debian a bad choice for a newb Linux user?
>>54564498
If you're unsatisfied with Ubuntu for reasons you can't articulate, it's unlikely another bistro will make you more productive or whatever. Top tier developers working at places like Google use Ubuntu, because their time is valuable.
Debian Sid is pretty good. "Unstable" is a bit of a misnomer. It's fine as a personal operating system. I've never had it crash. I've had emacs crash when accessing it from a phone app and rotating the screen.
>>54568180
I've tried but failed to install arch
>>54565519
>>54565851$ yaourt -Q | wc -l
1124
>>54568241
On that case just use tumblweed. It's a decent distro
>>54568267
Ok I will Thanks for your help
>>54568236
Agreed. I went with Ubuntu Mate and I'm perfectly satisfied with it. The shit just werks.
>>54568189
this looks useful
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=189541
