• Siegfried@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 hour ago

        I think the double input is because while ysing gentoo you are either a szchizo or a chad… there is no in between. Cant confirm, i’m apparently a chad… and a server according to the rest of the community

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
      131·
      5 hours ago

      Hell, Mac OS is even a certified UNIX operating system, something that even Linux (or GNU+Linux) can’t say.

      It’s still a non-FOSS OS which is the real reason it sucks, but it’s a lot better than a lot of people seem to think. Whereas Windows just plain sucks on a usability level too, not just the licensing.

      • harsh3466@lemmy.ml
        13·
        5 hours ago

        I read a deep dive into the macos “certified UNIX” thing and it’s a scam. I dont remember the details but the certification is obtained only through a set of testing exceptions. The macos used by people is not the macos that is Unix certified.

        As a former macos user (2013-2024ish), macos has become IMO a very user hostile experience. Its not quite as bad as windows, but macos is not th le “user friendly it (mostly) just works and gets out of your way” os it used to be.

        I’m full time Linux now and when I have to use macos or windows I cannot believe how user hostile they both are.

        Linux is far from perfect, but at least I control my system/os.

        • Naloxone@lemmy.world
          1·
          56 seconds ago

          Oh hey. You’re me! I’ve historically been a very loyal Mac user who played with Linux here and there, but I’ve been full time Linux for the past few two years.

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          4 hours ago

          The macos used by people is not the macos that is Unix certified.

          Could be that they certified the Darwin kernel, but not the commercial offering?

  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    Cool and Good here (Fedora).

    Tbh fedora feels too easy, but it is technically a corpo distro (IBM/RedHat) so its kinda in their own interest to be easy

      • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 hours ago

        That’ll do it. The work might be impressive, but why care about a project that has one purely spite-driven goal that makes no technical or social sense?

        It uses real init systems

        What a completely childish tagline. Even if there was any merit to all the systemd hate, calling it “not a real init system” is absurd.

        They stopped supporting GNOME based desktops and treat that in the most “sour grapes” way imaginable …

      • furry toaster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        yes in a vm, specificly Debian GNU/hurd, works suprisingly, main issues is lack of hardware support, for usage as a vm guest, I would say it is already better than half of the BSDs

        • Delilah (She/Her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Arch is high skill floor high skill ceiling. Once you get good you can do really cool things with it. GNU/Herd is high skill floor low skill ceiling. If you’re really good and practice really hard, eventually you’ll be able to do things that could have been easier achieved with literally anything else.

  • morphite88@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    14·
    9 hours ago

    After I realized Ubuntu and Mint (the two distros I used the most) are both based on Debian, I switched to Debian with KDE Plasma. I don’t know why I never tried it before and I’m never going back.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
      111·
      8 hours ago

      The reason you’ve never tried it before is probably that they only recently made an effort to make it palatable for the average nerd. It always had a bit of a reputation of being not easy to work with.

      • bus_factor@lemmy.world
        8·
        7 hours ago

        It’s been fine for the average nerd for a couple decades. The installer has been mostly unchanged since 2005 or so, and I don’t see much difference in an installed system either. I think you can live boot it ahead of installation now, maybe that’s a big deal to some people?