linuxmemes

Hey now, thats not fair....

My chair is black, too.

I love Debian for its stability, but I hate Debian because I can't get anything to ever work on it properly.

You'd think but here's a picture of a Fedora user.

Nah, we onto shiny crystal psuedo-gems that grow out of mostly granite.

m'distro

Some people put so much time and energy in this kind of stuff. Imagine we could harvest this level of motivation from everyone and put it at the service of the sustainable transition, we would have stopped global warming at the +1.5⁰C mark.

nyay

I fucking cannot

A lot of arch users are kids fucking with thinkpads ricing up their systems and putting anime wallppapers while not doing anything serious.

Ubuntu is commonly used by researchers and hardware developers who don't really care about distro as long as it's linux. The amount of times I saw people use the entire distro with default gnome skin just to launch a terminal to run their black hole simulation, the crypto cracker or some centrifuge control script... I myself am neither but ubuntu has been my go to as well since I usually don't have time to screw with archinstall, so I just use ubuntu as good starting point and then tweak the internals as I go.

Arch users have the most whacky, customized computers you can find. Meanwhile arch itself is a small distro with very little features out the box.

Ubuntu as a distro has tons of features out the box but ubuntu users generally just keep the default without adding or using any features.

I think the joke is on how people customize the visuals of their distro vs how the distro presents itself.

Arch, a community-driven distro that hostorically required heavy use of the terminal to even install. It presents itself as very sleek and utilitarian (hence plain black girl). Arch users tend toward enthusiasts also commonly in the anime, furry etc. fandoms. Wearers of "Programming socks" almost certainly use arch (hence rainbow girl).

Ubuntu was historically marketed as the distro for everyone. Ready out of the box, polished GUI, media codecs, marketing materials made by someone who got paid to do them (hence rainbow girl). Ubuntu these days is an exceedingly corporate distro, Canonical really wants to be Microsoft. Ubuntu is very commonly used on servers for commercial and enterprise solutions and end-user desktops are vestigial at this point (hence plain black girl).

Arch is hard to install, hard to configure, and hard to use, because it requires cryptic commandline knowledge at every step.

People who use Arch generally know very well what they are doing, so their system works with no issues, which they never forget to mention in every conversation.

Ubuntu is a novice-friendly Linux distribution, but since the majority of it's users are novices or Windows 11 refugees, they generate a lot of complaints on forums.

+1 to Mint. It is a very easy transition & you will not have ragerts.

Pros:

1. prettier than windows while having a similar interface

2. more responsive than windows

3. more stable than windows

4. zero spyware/bloatware

5. basically the same level of software compatibility as windows

Only things that take some research ahead of time or getting used to imo:

1. deciding how you want to partition your drives during installation (you can let it automatically do this, but there are reasons to create a different partition structure across drives/have different sized partitions),

2. mounting drives. There are GUI tools for this (file explorer for mounting, gparted for formatting), so it really isn't a big deal, but it is a little more difficult than with Windows and you may need to reformat your drives depending what file format they're currently in.

3. make sure your motherboard/video card/cpu all work well with linux. They should, but just check first.

4. note that games requiring kernel level anticheat (aka spyware) won't work. So if that's a deal breaker, then dual boot or don't switch.