Hello,
first I installed Gentoo with glibc and it worked fine, I got sway up and running but after some time I got bored and wanted something new. so I decided to go with Arch with rEFInd bootloader but I couldn’t make it work. Arch dropped me into a rescue shell. so I went back to Gentoo but this time with musl and this time I tried Hyprland on Gentoo. there were 133 packages to install for Hyprland, so I went for installing those packages but the build failed probably because using musl. now I thought I just pick that’s easy to setup and I went with Debian and it got installed successfully. so yeah, right now I am using Debian after the back and forth between Arch and Gentoo.
sadly I pissed of some Gentoo devs on IRC #gentoo :(
maybe it was my fault I shouldn’t have distrohopped when Gentoo was installed succesfully and working fine.
distrohoped
This should be a word. It would mean “trying yet another flavor because it might be The One”
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Ever try Mint? I’m thinking of it as I finally exit Windows.
I love Mint! It’s not for those who like to tinker and break and fix thinks, because it just works out of the box. External audio, Intel CPU, Nvidia card were no problems in my setup. Calling Mint a beginners distro is like a car mechanic calling a sleek, fun car that’s going smoothly a beginners car. I’m not part of some elitist cult, my OS isn’t my personality, I’m not a masochist and I don’t crave innovation just for the sake of it. I tried a couple other distros but none felt as polished and accessible as Mint.
Be sure to use workspaces (strg+alt+arrows), I ignored them for too long because Windows doesn’t have them.Trust me, the closer you get to the linux community, the more you’ll realize that the “elitists” are just a small and abrasive minority.
They’re not even enthusiasts; they’re just trolls trying to send others down bad paths.
Free software is for everyone. Not just nerds who know how to tinker.
It’s known as a beginner-friendly distro, exactly for the reasons you say. There is nothing wrong with using something like that as an intermediate or advanced user if that is what you prefer. You don’t have to go “Well, I have been using Linux for four years now, guess I am an intermediate user so now I have to switch to Arch”
I’ve noticed a pattern in distrohopping among my linux using friends. Many started with ubuntu back in the day, then switched to a less preconfigured distro like arch, gentoo, etc. You learn a lot being forced to tinker and fix things. But after that, many seem to have landed on distros of the debian or fedora kind, because they want to get actual work done and you can make any distro do almost anything anyway.
If you game, try Bazzite
sadly I pissed of some Gentoo devs on IRC #gentoo :(
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
The adventures and perils of a Distronaut.
“distrohoped”?
As in you hoped this next distro would be the one that worked well?
Sounds like S.O.P
distrocoped
I feel like I’m the only one that doesn’t just hop all the time in the community.
I run Debian and it does basically everything I needed to, what it doesn’t do I have a distrobox container on it which allows more or less seamless integration to my current system. I currently only use it for Final Fantasy XIV via lutris for some reason the arch version of lutris will work fine but the debians version of it when I launched Final Fantasy XIV will white page after logging in. It’s so weird.
It’s so weird to think about, cuz everyone I talk to has stated do not use that OS if you plan to actively game, because it’s considered a stable release so therefore everything’s outdated. But I very rarely ever have any issue with gaming it just works
Now nixos
I have tried nixos in the past and it just works and it’s surprisingly stable!
Easiest way of installing hyprland is a combo that only needs 30 min.
- Install Arch Linux with “archinstall”
- Don’t choose any DE or WM
- reboot and Log into just arch Linux commandline.
- choose one of these hyprland dotfiles devs from github with an install-script
https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles https://github.com/JaKooLit/Hyprland-Dots
PS. For your hopping experience: time to meet fedora.
I feel those who try gentoo, arch and nix wouldn’t accept the fedora compromise
I am an Arch guy, and my servers runs Fedora/Debian.
Then find out you cant stream stuff out of the box and find uburnu vor mint? :D ( i would recommend mint, just installed it on my desktop. Laptop still runs ubuntu)
All in a day’s work?
Yeah, I have distrohoped from morning to night. It’s 9:17 here.
I did it because I really want to learn Linux and want a job related to Linux. I am really obsessed with Linux and BSD
For refind on Arch, you have to fix the entries it creates in
/boot/refind.conf. Those point to the ISO drive when created in the chroot, so change them to point to your real root drive.Thanks, I didn’t know that, I thought
refind-installwas it.Glad to help :)
To distrohope! Way to inadvertently coin a useful word.
