Ok, I know I’m weird (my friends confirm that about daily), but I’m curious how many of you folk have more than one distro installed?
At present count, I have Cachy,POP-OS (only because home of Cosmic, I don’t really like Ubuntu based), Garuda, and AxOS. I think. I just like to stay up on what distros are doing really and I’m very fickle as to which I find most comfortable. For me, it’s what distro shall I run today (to some extent), yesterday was Garuda and AxOS, instead of what wallpaper will I set today. Yes, I know I’m sick…and I want to check everyone to see if they have caught it to some degree.
Please don’t shun me because EndeavourOS isn’t currently among them, it may well return tomorrow lol. I figure I have enough Arch there (3 of them) that I still can fit in and help others from time to time.
This thought brought on because I thought I’d try out Ikey’s (yes a danger word) newly rebranded AerynOS (was previously SerpentOS for a brief time), just to see how their build system looks/works. I know he’ll probably desert it within a year (from past evidence).
I am not sure (not booted it yet, just making ISO, btw doesn’t boot from Ventoy) if I will install it, but if I do, I think PoP must be sacrificed. Yes, I could do a VM, but I probably won’t (also on the table), since you don’t really get the feel unless it’s on bare metal (IMO).
When I first started my Linux journey, I would say that it was my hobby. I had more than one installed and I used to hop regularly and spend time setting them up and playing with them. Now-a-days, I use Linux to get things done and just have the one installed, which is EndeavourOS.
You have a point. I think I’ve regressed in some ways.
In others, I like seeing new things and I like troubleshooting issues.
As for getting anything done, hey, I’m retired. I might continue working on a novel one day
Otherwise, most any distro works for running a browser, watching a movie/show (usually in a browser, but not always), downloading files, burning ISOs, downloading and editing photos. Hey that’s mostly what happens on the PC every day. The rest of the time is cooking, eating, doing garden task (gotta mow the backyard today), etc.
Some days, I might fire up a game for a bit, but usually too ADD these days to sit there for that long. Hey, maybe that plays into the ‘what is today’s distro flavor’?
Productivity? What’s that I am REALLY good at installing distros and configuring them.
Maybe when I retire I’ll get back into exploring distros, but who knows. That said, I recently discovered conky and that led me down the path of lua and python. It definitely counts as playing though.
HomeServer → EOS
Gaming Desktop → Arch
Notebook → Suse Tumbleweed, but won’t last that much longer, don’t like the way the repos work. Will be replaced by EOS or Arch, too.
Yeah, I noticed that when I tried Tumbleweed. It is pretty slow ;( Not sure what it’s doing in there.
I didn’t even mention the server or the laptop (which is so old it’s mostly defunct due to hd size and decrepit mobile nvidia chipset), those are all on my main pc
I used to always have lots of distros installed. I had 4 distros on my main workstation at one point.
IIRC, my laptop had 7? distros on it all in single btrfs partition.
These days, it just isn’t worth the hassle for me.
I test distros in VMs when I want to try them out. If I really like something, I may install it on my laptop to try but I don’t multiboot anything any more.
So, having used *BSDs before, what do you actually do there, since the application base is fairly limited? Other than server ops, I am not quite sure what FreeBSD is good for.
Yeah, convince me, I need another OS lol
Yes, and that’s about 50% of what I want from a PC (gaming)…but every time I’ve used a BSD I find things I can’t use that I’m used to on Linux (memory fails me..been at least 2 years since I last tried it) that aren’t available and/or aren’t ported.
I did my time in compilation hells back in the day, when I had to play with header includes, make adhoc DEFINES, etc. Didn’t sound like fun.
But hey, this thread is about what people want/need for computer use at base, so this tangent still fits (as defined by author)
I am REALLY good at installing distros and configuring them.
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. Maybe if I was a gamer I would, I dunno.