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Linux Mint or Linux Manjaro
| Manjaro. I haven't used Mint, but Debian made installing any version of software more recent than 6 months an absurd pain in the ass.
| I used anything debian based because apt was easy to pickup
Arch based things scare me because I can't remember all the switches I need for pacman
| >>852180 >Arch based things scare me because I can't remember all the switches I need for pacman
You only need a handful and ask google for the others when necessary. The most common are:
-Syu --> update everything
-S [package name] --> install AND reinstall [package]
-Qq > file.txt --> save an alphabetical list of every currently installed package. Quite useful for backups
sudo paccache -r --> clear pacmans cache. Pacman never deletes outdated packet versions...
| ... and paccache deletes all but the three most up tu date versions of each. aditionally use -k [number] to keep the [number] most recent versions.
| Manjaro, then convert it to pure Arch.
| I would recommend KDE neon over mint, if you insist on debian-based distribution.
But Manjaro with KDE is also great, once you are familiar with pacman and pamac.
| >>852230 S is sync? y is yes? u is update right
Q or q are odd it feels like one of those should be quiet, I assume one is query?
And paccache -r is just apt autoclean
basically
| I think I kinda understand just not sure why they went with -S to install and reinstall
| >>852150 the updooter
>>852230 >using google on Linux
Arch users really are treating it as a hobbyst OS
OP. I. WILL. Tell you to go with Mint. It gets more recent packages from Debian and it provides stability and glorious Cinnamon DE optimized for this system. Manjaro soydevs claim it themselves that their toy OS is unstable and it's a part of the experience.
With regards
~me
| guix
| L Mint because dev is a bad goy
| >>852363
S = sync
u = update
y = update the list of available packets. y is just conveniently next to u on a qwerty keyboard
Q = querry
q = quiet
| Just looked at the man page because -y was confusing, long arg is --refresh
So I assume they added (-r --root) first or they thought it was more important than refresh?
| If I wanted something Debian/Ubuntu based I would use Debian/Ubuntu. Same with Arch.
| guix
| What do we think about Pop OS?
| PopOS is a gimmick os that got popular because LTT tried to install it as a 'gaming' os because that's what it said on the buzzfeed article.
Use Linux mint, the cinnamon version. It's easy to install, supports secure boot better than most other operating systems, is fast, and has a variety of themepacks made for it.
Check out https://b00merang.weebly.com/ to get themes from other operating systems. I recommend installing the windows 10 icon pack if you're switching from windows.
| >>852385
>software literal years out of date
>lol just don't update fgt muh stability
I've found Manjaro more stable than Debian, since I don't have to try and break the package manager to get anything written earlier than four-score and 7 years ago working.
>>853156
>rec'ing making your OS look as ratfuckugly as win10
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