Any BSD folk 'round here?
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Former. Migrated to linux 20+ years ago because of...Flash support. Didn't realize back then how quickly Flash would disappear and FreeBSD only supported it via its linux binary compatibility, which stopped working at that time.
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Not Linux, but 9front or that thing they wrap the gnu Mach kernel in.
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Arch is fine... It has good documentation.
NixOS or Gentoo is probably my pick.
Or Linux from scratch
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LFS
The nixOS slander in these comments would be valid if nixOS were simply a distro and not a cultβ¦
that's absurd. cults kill people, and we only ruin marriages.
Is that a really young Brodie Robertson on the right??
Honestly, I can't tell if it's not an anime girl avatar anymore.
NixOS
gnu guix?
Sitting on a broken install of it now. It was working fine for a couple of years, but because I'm just playing with it ATM, I don't get back to it often enough. The latest guix pull has left me with a guix system reconfigure... that errors out :(
Slackware still exists, if they survive they'll be nigh immortal.
slackware
Mind you, still had to write all of your own /etc/init.d scripts, and every other config file under the sun, but you could get almost any machine up and running before all them fancy new modular kernel drivers came into existence.
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Who TF is scared by Mint?
Did a clean upgrade/install of Mint about 10 hours ago. I'm back to business as usual. Minor tweaks, no tinkering.
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Kali Linux as daily driver
I honestly don't think Arch is that bad or complicated. It's just that you have to go into it knowing that you're in for some reading, tinkering and following step by step instructions along the way. I'd start with something like Mint or Ubuntu for a first look for sure. But once you're ready to learn a bit more about how the Linux system works and is put together, Arch would straight up be my first recommendation. Even if it's something you play with on the side in a virtual machine, for me at least, starting on Arch was when my Linux experience went from clicking at things and copy pasting commands into the terminal to still copying and pasting commands lol, but actually learning why and how and what too.
Brodie's beard is pretty yikes in this picture
No grey in beard? Shame π€
Great, now I've got the phonk walk in my head