Distro Hopping - For People That Can't Make A Decision

Reuse old ~diskless server

2023-01-26T15:45:21+00:00

Looking for advice. I have an old server with some potential (12cpu, 64GB ram) but without HDD, only a small flash module of 4GB of space. I want to reuse this server as a management endpoint so I need only to install a browser, small java utilities and a rdp client. No particular fancy UI.
In your opinion which is the best ditro that could stay in 4GB of space (preferably Debian based but is not a constrain). Thankyou!

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What is the best way to hop distros?

2023-01-25T21:45:56+00:00

So I have been using gentoo for a couple months now because I heard some nice things about it but even though I really like it unfortunately It’s too inconvenient to be practical for me so I would like to go back to arch but I would like to be able to do it fast when I switched to gentoo it took me about a week to fully switch everything over but I would like to do it in a single day while keeping all of my documents and downloads.

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What distro has the best font rendering?

2023-01-26T03:30:39+00:00

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Recommend a distro - Ubuntu based, BTRFS, latest vanilla GNOME, Wyland?

2023-01-25T02:25:28+00:00

Can you guys recommend a distro with out-of-the-box installed BTRFS, latest vanilla GNOME and Wyland support?

Currently running Arch with all of the above. But was wondering if a Ubuntu based distro exists with these features with standard installation?

Latest Ubuntu comes close but doesn't yet support BTRFS in standard installation. Yes, it can be configured manually, but its not ideal. This would be a distro I could install for friends and family.

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arch vs endeavour

2023-01-24T01:20:35+00:00

hello :) i've seen lots of posts with cons of exchanging arch to endeavour, because of the latter being more begginer-friendly and its community being really supportive

but what about the opposite? is there any advantage of getting back to arch?

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What Linux distro should I use for gaming on a NVidia GPU?

2023-01-23T20:33:17+00:00

I'm asking this because I found my old laptop and wanna use it for gaming, however I was looking for HoloISO, but unfortunately it doesn't support nvidia gpus,.Anything similar? I will ONLY use it for gaming and MAYBE for streaming movies. Thx in advance!

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what distro should I install on my 2011 macbook pro

2023-01-23T20:34:51+00:00

Here are the specs:

intel i5-2415M

4gb ram

Storage 320 GB

intel HD Graphics 3000

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Grub, Multi-boot and an unlisted OS type.

2023-01-23T16:58:30+00:00

I've recently begun exploring the Alternate OS world in earnest, and have managed to install Debian 11 Gnome from DVD iso, then Haiku from USB. Access to Haiku was done boot sequence interrupt.

Next, I installed Manjaro KDE, which loaded via grub, and added the multiboot menu. The bootable partition that had Haiku is now "unknown", and the BeOS is not a selectable OS type in the drop down menu. Interrupting the boot sequence as I had done before doesn't offer the "Haiku" partition as a bootable selection, either. I can still run it (Haiku) live, but I wished to run it on the metal to pick up older BeOS programs I have from way back when for testing.

Any ideas?

(edit spelling)

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Those that use Ventoy, is there a way to return to the menu without having to reboot?

2023-01-23T00:41:00+00:00

I must say, that is freaking annoying. It seems like it'd rather simple to implement a way back to the menu after your live session. Anybody know a solution?

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What distros' application menu can show eg Firefox when you type 'ffox'

2023-01-22T08:05:39+00:00

Can

Mint XFCE
what else?

Can't (the default menu)

Mint Cinnamon
Mint Mate
KDE Neon

I don't need this function for Firefox. I often run VirtualBox and would like to type vbox, instead of typing box and have multiple icons shown (Rhythmbox). Same as smon for System Monitor.

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Anybody know of a way to make a live usb for Deepin full version?

2023-01-21T23:37:33+00:00

Man I have searched and searched and tried many different ISO's but I have had little luck getting Deepin to boot live. I was only able to boot MicroCore or TinyCore version and I definitely dont wanna see that. way too minimal, I want to see everything Deepin has. Thanks

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Best distro to use KDE Plasma in?

2023-01-21T13:55:42+00:00

In the past two or three weeks i used Linux Mint (21.1 Vera) but with KDE Plasma as the DE, and for some parts it has been a nightmare since Mint's support for Plasma is not the best these days.

I REALLY love plasma but i just want to use it somewhere else it's probably much better and more supported, and after doing some research i narrowed down these results:

• Kubuntu

• KDE Neon

• OpenMandriva

• EndeavourOS

what do you think i should use out of these four?

EDIT 28/01/2023: After thoroughly researching all possible choices and looking at them extensively, i ultimately made my choice of going with KDE Neon, since it offers a rolling release with the most up-to-date KDE Software (including Plasma of course) while offering a stable and Ubuntu base, so that I can still install .deb packages without going down any other rabbit hole of compatibility layers in other distros.

Thank you all for your suggestions though, I'll definitely keep them in mind if I'll ever switch from KDE Neon.

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Looking for a distro to dual boot with Pop OS on a GPT disk

2023-01-21T17:24:50+00:00

I have Pop OS running on my secondary PC, an 8th gen Intel NUC, which has a single NVMe SSD in it. Lately I've been feeling like trying another distro, but I'd prefer to not have to erase Pop OS. Problem is the majority of distros use grub while Pop OS is using systemd-boot. I thought about trying an Arch derivative, since they're the only ones I've found via internet search that use systemd-boot, but it sounds like it installs grub initially and you have to go back and install systemd-boot manually. This is something that I was hoping to avoid.

Any ideas? I may just say f-it and get a sata ssd to install as the second disk in my NUC and use that for the second distro. Having 2 disks seems to be the easiest way to do this that I have found on my own.

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Desktop environment whit best UX ?

2023-01-21T04:03:15+00:00

In kde you need to press shift and drop the file to move it from a to b

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What's the benefit of an immutable distro, specifically MicroOS?

2023-01-20T16:43:04+00:00

I see a lot of hype lately for MicroOS (and other immutable distros,) but I'm trying to figure out what the gain is compared to Tumbleweed. MicroOS snapshots are actually derived from Tumbleweed snapshots, so you're getting the exact same set of packages in a MicroOS snapshot that you would in a TW snapshot. It seems like creating a lot of extra hassle (being unable to easily switch packages, needing to rely on flatpak, etc.) So what is the actual benefit for a desktop user?

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#popOS it just works.

2023-01-19T20:58:36+00:00

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Eltanin Glacies - the contrarian distro

2023-01-18T05:29:01+00:00

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Multiple installs across multiple drives

2023-01-17T11:14:24+00:00

Okay, I've used Linux since 1992, but I've never had it where I can install it on multiple separate drives (not partitions).

My set up is as follows:

250GB SSD - Main with Windows 11 using EFI.

2TB SATA HDD - Installed Garuda on it with EFI boot partition and it found the Windows 11 EFI and added it to the GRUB menu.

3TB SATA HDD - Has an extended NTFS partition.

On the 3TB HDD, I resized it to free up 300GB at the front of the drive so I could test drive Nobara. I installed Nobara using manual partitioning. I created a FAT32 EFI partition there, swap partition and then root partition. I set the EFI partition to have the boot flag and installed. All went well until I rebooted.

The GRUB menu from Garuda showed up but no Nobara which I figured was correct. Once I got into Garuda, I did "sudo grub-update" and as it went through it's steps, I saw that os-prober found the Nobara on /dev/sdb4.

However, once I reboot, it doesn't show up in the grub menu. Also, if I go into my firmware's boot menu, when I try to boot into Nobara, it instead shows a text grub menu and only shows the Garuda and Windows boot.

Here is the output from the update-grub on Garuda:

update-grub output on Garuda

Any help would be appreciated as to what I might be doing wrong and how to rectify this so I can get Nobara added to the GRUB menu.

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Alternating between distros with the same /home partition

2023-01-17T07:10:47+00:00

Always wanting to try Arch, and KDE. I've tasted it on VM. Now using Linux Mint Mate 20.3, which have things I can't bear with. Used Cinnamon before but had issues, that was why I switched to Mate.

Now if I install two distros on two partitions,

Mint Cinnamon, or XFCE
Arch KDE

mounting /home to the same home partition, and login as the same user with the same UID so ~/ is always say /home/Kafatat, and switching between them for prolong use, say half a year,

will they conflict?
how to keep track which new folders/files are created by Arch? I already have git managing ~/ for configs, particularly ~/.config. I found that I still need to look at each file to decide which to push, since many files are caches, one time hashes, and some files constantly make change like window size, which is unimportant to push.

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Fresh out of hops

2023-01-15T05:38:23+00:00

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A huge change in ElementaryOS leadership that seems to have gone unnoticed.

2023-01-15T02:25:47+00:00

I haven't followed the project in a while, so I decided to see what's new, turns out a bunch of drama happened:

side a: https://cassidyjames.com/blog/farewell-elementary/

side b: https://twitter.com/DaniElainaFore/status/1501029682782695430

I'll let you decide who is in the right, personally I've followed the project since 0.1 Jupiter (yes, I'm old) I was a big fan of Cassidy, to me he was the face behind eOS. It must be heartbreaking to have your name erased from a decade of work.

I've founded startups in the past, so I know from personal experience that when you're passionate about something, you end up sacrificing a lot to see it succeed. It seems like he was just looking out for himself and ended up being pushed out.

Kinda ironic how a generous donation is what unravelled everything.

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Been researching like a mad man. Got a huge list but just can't narrow it downl

2023-01-14T19:52:13+00:00

I have a Dell Xps 13 9310, about 8.5gb for the os and a 2 gb swap, intel i5 evo, I've been running mint cinnamon for a long time and it works great! I'm just tired and looking to switch things up. currently on Xubuntu as an intermediary

so what I'm looking for, I don't have any distro preferences really. I want something aesthetically pleasing and tweakable. something more on the graphical side rather than terminal. something stable or runs smoother, I fear I will run into issues where I wont fnd packages I need considering Ubuntu has everything; so something with good package support. I like to be able to see and change all my settings. I've come across OS's where the simplest settings are not available. I'm a heavy user, I am basically on the web all day everyday. Not a gamer or huge downloader, but I do alot of streaming (like watching movies, not twitch shit), sometimes i'll have a billion tabs open on chrome and it freezes up my cpu. so anyway, any suggestions based off all of this would be life saving.

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Need help changing distro

2023-01-13T16:05:01+00:00

I am fairly inexperienced in distro hopping and dual-booting. Some time ago I followed this guide (https://askubuntu.com/a/843649) to install Ubuntu on the HDD along with Windows 10 installed on the SSD. Now I wish to switch to PopOS but I am kinda skeptical about how to. I first plan to delete Ubuntu partitions and delete the grub bootloader but am confused about the bootloader part as the guide made me create a separate EFI partition. So how do I go around deleting grub, do I just need to delete that efi partition or do something more.

Furthermore, how do prefer installing new dual booted distros, on a separate efi partition or same as windows?

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Pardus - A GNU/Linux distribution supported by Türkiye

2023-01-11T04:05:20+00:00

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Reasons Ubuntu is so buggy in my computer

2023-01-11T03:58:07+00:00

I installed Ubuntu 22.10 on an Asus desktop computer with an Nvidia GeForce graphic card. So far, I've encountered the following bugs:

- Sometimes the system crashes (or all the windows close) if I bookmark a folder.

- When I open a mp4 file, the system crashes (or all the windows close).

- Sometimes the "[app] is ready" notification pops up when I'm simply switching windows (e.g. when I'm using Inkscape).

- The default screen-recording app doesn't record the cursor even if it's set to record the cursor.

- The Dropbox icon on the top right sometimes becomes three dots (...). The icons returns if I disable and enable dark mode.

Question 1: Is this because Ubuntu 22.10 is still new? Or because I'm running it using an Nvidia graphic card? Or maybe because I bought my computer 8 years ago?

Question 2: Will I experience fewer bugs if I switch to another distro?

Note: I'm running Nouveau/X11/Xorg.

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