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Done, back to Arch with Niri
I’m a break hopper. If I like a distro. I’ll use it. Months and sometimes years. Then, if there’s some kind of breakage and I can’t figure it out and I decide to do a fresh install, I’m like “why not try something new”
I'm at that point with Solus right now. They messed up so many things when they switched to Wayland. Definitely wasn't ready for release. Trying to figure out what to try next.
Love this song, "Play me online. Well, you know that I'll beat you. If I ever meet you I'll control-alt-delete you" is gold.
I feel the line "While your computer's crashing, mine's multitasking. It does all my work without me even asking'" is very relevant today.
"I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM"
Even almost 30 years later it's still a flex 😭
"Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half"
Somehow still relevant too.
turned one on a half hour ago. still waiting for the disk and cpu activity to mellow out.
expected, though. it is a scrap-tier laptop with slow hdd and win11 that is not completely up-to-date.
And on CachyOS I often do "upgrade my system at least twice a day, I'm strictly plug and play"
We need to find out if Weird Al uses Arch, BTW.
I'm just gonna stick with Fedora cause I'm white and nerdy.
I used to be a Linux Mint user, but Fedora has become my mainstay for a while now. It feels like the perfect blend of stable yet cutting edge.
Hit install and never stop
I'll tell you how I distrohop
There's no flavor I'd say no to
'cept that faschy one (you know who)
got a hundred boxes runnin'
and a vendor ain't locked one in
Drop a new one and I'm on it
jumping ships like the bubonic
keeping ancient silicon churning
endless new OS smell burning
I'll be jumping 'til I drop
to the beat of the endless distrohop
They say its all about distro hoppin baby
There so many options it is gettin crazy
I’m ferrin and carryin my files from SSD
Gonna need that when I reformat my PC
Its gettin hard in this economy
to find all the right parts at an honest fee
And the only option left that I can see
switching to an OS that will work for me
Ubuntu I adore ya
But this week is Fedora
Linux Mint got me through March
By the way I used Arch
Every day the list grows
an endless number of brand new distros
One thing every homie knows
we all hate on windows
I use Debian since the early 2000s. Never had a reason to even think about changing the distro.
Years ago I saw a picture of yuri that said "Debian is the distro for lesbians" and that sold me on it.
It's all about the pentium's baby.
Your grammar just blew my mind. Thank you.
After all these years I just now realized Pentiums should be Pentia.
I always end up back at Arch, its the old reliable. Although I do have one system running just Nix these days as well.
Arch is the "old reliable?" 🥲
it's what they have the most experience re-installing.
Honestly, it's the OS I can usually fix without having to resort to a reinstall. Sure it breaks sometimes, but those breaks are pretty easy to repair.
Once you get used to its quirks, yeah.
Distrohopping is just OS tourism.
You gotta live the ecosystem. Vote in their elections. Contribute to their package managers. Then you can hop if its not for you.
Hey fella, I bet you’re still living in your parents cellar, downloading picture of Sarah Michelle Gellar
And posting “me too” like some braindead AOL-er I should do the world and cap you like Old Yeller
You’re just about as useless as JPEGs to Helen Keller
Weird Al did not need to make these lyrics slap so hard but I’m so glad he did.
Part of me is like "just run a VM" other part of me is like "hardware comparability is a major part of choosing an OS".
Also, just friggin at least run a fedora VM and shove every DE in it until you figure out what you like. Maybe you actually just want to try a different DE.
Certified fresh meme every time lol.
Nixos is where it's at
Or is where it at is?
It's where IT is at :P
suggestions for better rhythm:
I distro-hopped every Linux system,
gave some props, the rest I dissed 'em.
You had your OS more than a week?
Pave that shit, man, it's antique!
Tell Weird Al, he wrote it
Wait, seriously? I mean, editing is easier than creating from scratch, but that literally took me less than a minute. He must have written it in the car on the way to the studio.
Weird Al didn't write that, he wrote "It's All About The Pentiums" which is what OP is riffing on
They based it on these two phrases:
I beta tested every operating system
Gave props to some, and others? I dissed'em
And
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique!
Along with the chorus line "It's all about the Pentiums, baby"
Also, the rhythm of the Weird Al song is fine, it's worth watching even if a lot of it is pretty dated since it's thirty years old now
It's also a parody, he borrowed the cadence from Diddy
Ok my bad, I'm not at all well versed in rap.
I'm not either lol, I knew it was a parody but I had to look up the original
At least you knew it was a parody with an original. I assumed it was just somebody's comment.
I've been distro shopping since the late 90s. Think I've finally settled: Bazzite (+distrobox) and CachyOS. 🤞
I jumped from Windows 10 straight to CachyOS (which you should've mentioned is Arch btw). Haven't looked back since.
I've been meaning to switch and was gonna do it when I get a new computer (any decade now..). Funnily enough it was my frustrations with getting Docker running that led me to pull the trigger.
Arch purists might get offended, since I didn't build it from scratch 😆
Yeah, if you didn't code the kernel yourself you're a newb.
Us filthy casuals, using a polished Calamares installer, dare not claim the stolen valor of those that manually tune their OS for more time than I spend using the OS...lol
I believe yours says, "Copilot" on the side.
I hopped mainly among a few. Then it was Debian for a long time. Then hopped again for no particular reason. My Mint kernel panicked once a few weeks ago, so I might hop again.
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