• Ignotum@lemmy.world
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    This is why you have to switch to more and more difficult distros over time, to keep yourself on your toes

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      It’s a bell curve. Eventually you switch back to ez mode for your main machine and have alternative or niche distros on spare kit

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        14 hours ago

        Ken Thompson, who invented UNIX first in assembly and then rewrote it in C, is now running a Debian derived OS as his main daily driver.

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        15 hours ago

        Can confirm. Study laptops are on Linux Mint Debian Edition, gaming PC is on CachyOS currently but it changes all the time, had Bazzite on it beforehand

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      Me going from Mint to Ubuntu to Kubuntu to Neon to Arch. My experience with the Arch installation process is just the command shutdown

      Someday I’ll be comfortable enough with this nerd shit to trust myself with unsupervised access to a CLI. Until then I’m happy just knowing what a DE is

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          Or Gentoo? I haven’t used nixos yet so cant speak on it but Gentoo has been awesome to tinker and learn with.

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              28 minutes ago

              Genuinely curious cause i don’t know much nixos, does it support an equivalent to USE flags or slots?

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                I don’t know much about gentoo, but use flags sound a lot like overlays to me, but like I said, i’m not familiar with gentoo.

                nixos is versioned by default so slots are already a thing essentially.