New blog post, as the title says, I use #Arch btw. Here are the general steps I took to do it, some troubleshooting and first impressions.

So far so good!

This is day 51 of #100DaysToOffload

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/i-use-arch-btw

Quick update on the Linux Change I was talking about a week ago, moving from Garuda to CachyOS.

It has stalled while I reconsider. My Garuda install has received a lot of little tweaks while I've been setting up the partition stuff and it's now set up in a way that feels so tailor-made for me that I'm actually starting to dread putting myself backwards in that sense. I think i need the stability of having somewhere that isn't in need ot work to get it where I need it. This is Self-Care: while so much of my life is in the air I need an environment that is concrete and familiar. When things are more stable elsewhere I'll revisit.

Note here: Krohnkite is fantastic. When windows just arrange themselves to be useful...I get a real sense of glee. I don't think I can go back now. Tiling Windows Managers are my future.

I'm also considering re-jigging my partition set up to have my /Home directory on a partition by itself. A concept I've known about for yonks but have never applied. In theory this would make distro-hopping a lot less painful.

#Linux #DistroHop #Prudence #Partitions #SelfCare

Trying out @EndeavourOS. My last #Arch based distro was #Antergos 6/7 years back before moving to Debian based distros. I also read that EndeavourOS rose up when Antergos went down.

Hmm, so CachyOS then...

Got the Live USB working, had a look around. Some thoughts:

​​ There's a limit to what a Live USB can tell you.
They're great for folks coming from another OS: you get a preview of what you're moving to. But for a more advanced user you kind of know all that anyway (unless you're trying a new Desktop Environment [DE]). Cachy shares a lot of the same packages Garuda does.

For the performance improvement I want to see, I think they'll only manifest on 'bare metal', when fully, properly installed to the system. i noticed the graphics were not as slick...though I'm only now thinking I didn't check the monitor refresh rate, probably set to 60Mhz instead of my familiar 144Mhz.

Some of the software I was expecting to see based on research, like Octopi, wasn't there. I'm assuming the Live Environment is only meant to be a cut-down version of the main install...but when I tried Garuda all those moons ago it had everything. It doesn't make much difference, just means I'll have a longer period of adjusting as I slowly build my software library preferences back up.

​​ Niggly Issues
It didn't see my SSD. I could access the 2nd storage drive but not the main system drive. Not sure why not or what that means.

I think this means I'm going to prepare by cloning the drive to the new backup rather than simply copying ./<me>/Home to it, so if I need to I can completely revert back to the dual setup.

Gonna take a bit more time thinking things through, make sure I'm comfy to move ahead.

#Linux #CachyOs #TheBigMove #DistroHop

this might be my final #distrohop

I'm going to try #manjaro community iso with #i3wm

the main reason is

- I like arch
- I like i3wm
- I need Nvidia drivers (a friend of mine told me manjaro installs them automatically)
- arch and endeavour give me headaches when using multiple monitors and/or Nvidia drivers WITH multiple monitors

Jsem live!

Great Reset | Gentoo slow speedrun

#owncast #streaming #linux #czech #chatting #gentoo #distrohop

https://live.janez.cz

Opensuse tumbleweeds pretty great, been using it for quite awhile and have gotten relatively comfy on it, for being rolling release, people were right about saying its quite stable, rarely had issues with it and even if i did, the default setting of snapper allowing you to boot to an older snapshot was very useful

id stick with it but i feel the #distrohop itch again, im thinking of jumping to Guix or Nix!

been on #linux for close to a year now and honestly, if someone asks why, i can ask the question back of why Windows, cause you can do almost everything a normal person needs on Linux, being a different OS, its got its own workings you gotta get used to, but theres more positives than negatives

although the biggest hold backs can be when you have software thats only available on Windows, and even that can be potentially fixed with Wine

Theres also the fact that you gotta choose a distro, know how to install Linux, the switching cost from the default Windows which for the non tech savvy usually requires someone guiding along the way

Talking about switching cost, I was watching a strange loops conference talk on the economics of open source and found that Google pays a huge sum of money (traffic acquisition cost) to remain the default search engine on browsers, and it made me wonder if Microsoft does the same to be the default on hardware like Laptops

Cause im pretty sure laptop manufacturers could bundle Linux and itd be cheaper too, with a good choice for a default distro, the initial experience for a simple user can be really smooth too ( being able to browse, download the apps they need and use, play games)
Maybe another factor that stops them is having lack of experience in bundling their own updates along with Linux and stuff.

Cause so far, where i live, going to the electronics store and asking if they have any laptop that has Linux by default on it, would still not get me an option, id have to buy it and wipe out windows for the OS i want (im not sure if this affects warranty), i know of alternative, Linux first laptops online like Framework and Tuxedo but even then, having one in physical stores would be nice and not having to pay shipping costs and all

DistroBox: Try Out Multiple Linux Distributions via the Terminal
#DistroBox #Containers #KaliLinux #Linux #DistroHop #CLITips
https://linuxtldr.com/installing-distrobox/

fucking hate decision paralysis. the sooner i pick a distro, the sooner i can set it up

I'm in the situation where I might have to #nukeandpave and #distrohop . I really love #GarudaLinux best gamer distro hands down, that I've tried. The underlying #KDE system, as with other kde distros has a tendency to break itself or the distro somehow when you update, love KDE otherwise (I didn't use to). As an DE KDE is the most unstable imo. I'm now finding myself of shopping for a new distro, maybe, not sure yet.

Been daily driving linux for awhile and its been great, at first i had a few tiny usecases i needed to switch to windows for but slowly i found how to use linux for it. Fedora with xfce was my first distro and it was honestly great. Eventually, a few weeks ago, decided okay, for something i use daily i should put it on the SSD rather than the secondary HDD.

So my second distro was Garuda Linux, just for a little more variety and to try Arch without spending a long time customizing it cause i impulsively did this during a busy week. I gotta say, its been really nice but the random graphical glitches, a few crashes and bugs which i dont know how to start fixing make me think yeah, the Arch mindset of building your own system from scratch and knowing whats doing what may help alot here

Anyways, im gonna do my Third distro hop, im thinking either OpenSUSE tumbleweed or NixOS
OpenSUSE seems to have alot of good features off the bat, and i wanna try out YaST
NixOS seems great for trying stuff out on since everythings just a config file edit away. I do have my doubts on how installing software outside the nix package manager would work, i use VMwares vmrc and that requires some manual installation and i wonder how other aspects work but it seems really interesting and worth learning

Any of you guys have a suggestion for what to jump to?

My distrohopper self returned.

LMDE was pretty good but I wanted a 40+ version of GNOME which isn't available for LMDE 5 and I was impatient, couldn't wait until LMDE 6 release
So I installed Debian 12 with GNOME and some extensions (Dash to Dock, Forge, Bluetooth Quick Connect)

When I distrohop I'm often confused what should I do after the installation is complete and what order should I follow so I wrote a list of post installation steps. (I plan to distrohop to Debian so I'll need this list soon)

Do you have a similar post-install todo list? What's on your list?

The laptop was delivered yesterday. Early. I was delighted.

I spent most of the evening yesterday hopping and jumping and formatting...and in the end, I landed back towards the familiar.

I'm still delighted. :) ​

+1 to my #distrohop history and _yes_ I did say I would stay on #Fedora Kinoite for some time, but my blood runs Debian :P

So, this is my distrohop chain

#MXLinux -> #Manjaro -> #GarudaLinux -> #EndeavourOS -> Fedora -> Fedora #Kinoite -> #Devuan (?)

I also just can't help wanting #KDE #Plasma6 because it has _so_ many things I want/need. I will probably distrohop again once Plasma 6 is released, but we'll see.

P.S: I'd stay with MX my whole life time if it had a proper updating solution.

Installing #GarudaLinux for its preconfigured #linux #kernel, chiefly to avoid the hassle of setting up #udevrules with #OpenRGB. A nice bonus is the #zenkernel for additional performance, and the easy GUIs for a straightforward OS. #snapper utilizing the powerful #btrfs is a nice feature too. Overall it's a great OS and will keep me around for a while, until I'm inflicted with the inevitable urge to #distrohop again.

Well, I've been considering it for a while now, but I've distro-hopped my laptop from Fedora to #Debian....mainly since I know I'm probably gonna be using my laptop very infrequently at this point, after it was my main computer that I'd bring to university (and even then it became redundant due to COVID).

I've been thinking about it for a while now, WELL before the current dumbassery that Red Hat's been pulling off this year. That's mostly coincidental. Mostly.

As you can see, I've been supplementing the VERY stable base of Debian with #Flatpak for most of my apps.

Well I took my failure to mount a drive so bad I bricked my OS as an omen, time to #DistroHop! Let's see what #GarudaLinux has in store for me!