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  • The manual is OK, much of it’s out dated and often outright wrong. It is still a great document.

    Edits to the wiki are often knocked back if they weren’t made by the inner circle, discussions on the back page are often closed and frankly the TUs are mostly wankers. The forum policy on necro-bumping leaves half answers everywhere but the notion of “put it in the wiki” is undermined by the toxic community among inner party members.

    Arch is a great middle ground between Fedora and Gentoo, but I had to walk away because the community was so toxic and childish.

    I’m using void and Gentoo now and I’m pretty happy, anything that doesn’t run works in a container anyway.

    TL;DR: community behaviour is much more important to me than technical use.






  • Falcon@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlLaptop companies: which one?
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    5 months ago

    Re your update.

    My framework has been great, I’ve had no issues with it and I’m quite happy. Make sure to go with the matte screen though.

    In saying that, I think I was happier with my thinkpad, but I have no good scientific reason for that, I suspect the nipple and keyboard are a big part of it.




  • Go with EndeavourOS. It won’t “just work”, but it will be the best compromise between confusing abstraction and low level frustrations.

    Fedora is good but it abstracts a little too much away, this is great when you understand how software works, but it’s very confusing when you’re new to Linux and programming.

    Arch is good, but you won’t be able to hid the ground running, you’d have to sacrifice a weekend to learn.

    Go:

    1. [Optional] Fedora
    2. Endeavour
    3. Arch
    4. Learning
    • Ghost BSD
    • Void
    • Gentoo

    Tinkering with those in that order, after about 6 months, you’ll start to feel at home.