I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, there’s always something that doesn’t work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I haven’t been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but there’s always something that’s broken in every distro.

I’m sorry I’m just venting, do you people think Ubuntu will work for me? I think I will try it next.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
      4·
      10 个月前

      Naah I think it’s super useful to know a bit about all popular distros. This makes you able to actually take part in conversations about what distro to pick for example.

      I’ve ran them all at some point in my life, which makes me able to understand that it’s not just “different package manager” as some people say.

      • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
        3·
        10 个月前

        Conversations about what distro to pick are often the biggest reasons it is hard to pick a distro.

        • 1984@lemmy.today
          4·
          10 个月前

          I mean, people say that, but for me it wasn’t a problem, I just picked one when I got started. Didn’t feel like a major decision since you can just switch again if you are unhappy.

          • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
            3·
            10 个月前

            I feel ya. I was the same way. They said don’t distro hop so that was the first thing I did 🤣 I guess the thing with a lot other people is they are used to the thing that “just works” (whatever the fuck that means).

            For them, I just tell them use PopOS. Good distro. Little fuss. Maintained by a company with interest in keeping it going.

            That said, I’m teaching a class this afternoon to CS majors and the first thing I’m having them do is install Arch in a vm 😉