this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
428 points (97.8% liked)

Technology

59597 readers
3907 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'::Got error 0x82d60002 on your Xbox accessory? There's no fix, Xbox is going to block the use of detected unauthorized accessories with its consoles from November 12, 2023.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] msage@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arch is for newbies, real Linuxers use Gentoo (it's very comfy and let's me use anything and everything)

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would you say Gentoo is better than Arch for semi-newbies wanting to experiment with multimedia, coding and AI, with only few obstacles?

(I am one myself, looking to switch to a Linux distro on an old MacBook Pro soon!)

[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No.

Gentoo is mostly for people who like to have maximum control over their OS and custom compile software they use.

Even if you have a beefy hardware, updates will take some time, and unless you want to study the compile flags, you will end up with the same binary builds you would on any other distro.

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for this useful answer. In this case, I guess e.g. Zorin OS, Pop!_OS or simply Mint would be better recommendations?

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, unless you actually care about compiling blutooth out of your packages (it's fcking everywhere, whyy), just go with anything else.

The beauty of Linux is that you can do everything in every distro. Nothing stops you from installing Zorin and putting Portage (Gentoo package/build manager) on it. But if you just want to use software as-is, just use whatever. Pop should have better nvidia drivers for cards they ship with System76, Mint is less corporate Ubuntu, Zorin I've never tried.