I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, there’s always something that doesn’t work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I haven’t been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but there’s always something that’s broken in every distro.

I’m sorry I’m just venting, do you people think Ubuntu will work for me? I think I will try it next.

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    1 year ago

    Conversations about what distro to pick are often the biggest reasons it is hard to pick a distro.

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      I mean, people say that, but for me it wasn’t a problem, I just picked one when I got started. Didn’t feel like a major decision since you can just switch again if you are unhappy.

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        1 year ago

        I feel ya. I was the same way. They said don’t distro hop so that was the first thing I did 🤣 I guess the thing with a lot other people is they are used to the thing that “just works” (whatever the fuck that means).

        For them, I just tell them use PopOS. Good distro. Little fuss. Maintained by a company with interest in keeping it going.

        That said, I’m teaching a class this afternoon to CS majors and the first thing I’m having them do is install Arch in a vm 😉