I don’t compile anything on it. Everything I need is available as a binary. I use the LXDE desktop, though I used Plasma on a FreeBSD VM for a couple of years before I installed it on a real machine.
I use it for the same reason I use Arch and Debian: because I like it and it’s rock-solid stable. No bigger reason than that.
Currently only EOS, however there is Arch installed on broken laptop and Raspberry Pi OS on old Pi 2 Model B that I came across today while searching a AC-adapter for blu-ray player.
Like many here, I seem to be settling on eos (hardened) on all my machines (right now two… soon three). For light-touch family members, I set them up with LinuxMint (I’m not a*buntu fan but Mint is stable, pretty, easy to see, easy to maintain, Clem’s work is stellar - it just works).
I’ll be building a hardened setup for Mint as well. Trust but verify. Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they ARE NOT out to get you.)
Installing multiple distros is a waste of time. I use eos and if i want to try another linux distro i will do that in a vm but i don’t keep multiple distros installed the same as i don’t use jump sticks and have multiple distros on them. If i do have another distro running it would be on it’s own hardware. Even with vm i do not have multiple ditros on vm’s. I only create them when needed to try but that’s me. One can do as they choose but it’s not for me.
@ricklinux@UncleSpellbinder
Hah, we look at the world differently (for probably various reasons), but lots of respect to you two through interactions on the forums.
I’ve found that my ravenous distro’ing helps me in realizing lots of gotchas. Ie, I guess I’ve been gotten a lot lol…learned a lot about ways to fix/avoid them too. More than I would with only a single distro on my hardware.
Sometimes it’s not always the linux distro. With nvidia for instance if using Firefox there was a bug as referenced here:
Fixed graphics corruption with certain NVIDIA graphics adapters and multiple monitors running at mixed refresh rates after updating to Firefox 139. (Bug 1968876)
Workhorses (PCs, laptops, convertibles) and machines of friends & family I support Linux Mint. After seeing how stable EOS can be, I might migrate a few to EOS (mostly shying the multi-GB update traffic). The few Manjaro installs will be converted to EOS.
Learning, programming, machines needing to have newest software EOS. Also for a few friends who have consciously decided they’re willing to learn and want to be at the technological forefront.
Support, Repairs Ventoy stick with ~20 ISOs on it, all Linux except two (Win11 & HBCD). Seven of these have 8 GB persistence each, for pre-setting local language, keyboard, Wifi, and other parameters.
For now, I’m going to run kernel-install manually. I’ve disabled webengine, by far the longest compile I’ve had to deal with in the past. I also manually install the -bin version of rust.