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Well - all the options are part of the problem. I use Pop!_OS because it was the balance between getting things done and spending hours tinkering with my machin

Well - all the options are part of the problem. I use Pop!_OS because it was the balance between getting things done and spending hours tinkering with my machine. It's not that I don't enjoy it. It's just a question of where I need to be spending my time.

pantalaimon 6y ago
Will you have the Ubuntu family of distros that will all work equally well. All those niece distributions are nice, but I wouldn’t recommend them to newcomers as it’s harder there to get support.
anaphor 6y ago
I've tried many different distros (Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, OpenSUSE, etc) and I actually find it much harder to get things done with Ubuntu or Debian than I do Arch or other lightweight distros like Alpine. The reason is that I often have to (or want to) do things that aren't supported by Debian or Ubuntu because it either requires using very new versions of software or it requires modifying a bunch of system configuration files. When you try to do that on Debian/Ubuntu you'll quickly run into problems because you're doing something outside what they expect you to do. Everything is hidden behind a big layer of abstraction (like a maze of symlinks and custom patches, etc). So, you may find things like Pop! easier to get things done with because you're ok staying within the realm of what they support, but once you try to do something outside that, I guarantee you will quickly get very frustrated.
- DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago
  That's usually a slow transition though. I started out using linux mint a few years ago and since then I've gotten annoyed more than once at the way things are structured. What I've ended up with a "One box, two systems" aproach, where I do most stuff "the ubuntu way", but compile certain software from source and install it however I want it. The separation of `/usr` and `/usr/local` that's already common on Linux makes this work very well.
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pantalaimon 6y ago

Will you have the Ubuntu family of distros that will all work equally well. All those niece distributions are nice, but I wouldn’t recommend them to newcomers as it’s harder there to get support.

anaphor 6y ago

I've tried many different distros (Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, OpenSUSE, etc) and I actually find it much harder to get things done with Ubuntu or Debian than I do Arch or other lightweight distros like Alpine. The reason is that I often have to (or want to) do things that aren't supported by Debian or Ubuntu because it either requires using very new versions of software or it requires modifying a bunch of system configuration files. When you try to do that on Debian/Ubuntu you'll quickly run into problems because you're doing something outside what they expect you to do. Everything is hidden behind a big layer of abstraction (like a maze of symlinks and custom patches, etc). So, you may find things like Pop! easier to get things done with because you're ok staying within the realm of what they support, but once you try to do something outside that, I guarantee you will quickly get very frustrated.

DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago
That's usually a slow transition though. I started out using linux mint a few years ago and since then I've gotten annoyed more than once at the way things are structured. What I've ended up with a "One box, two systems" aproach, where I do most stuff "the ubuntu way", but compile certain software from source and install it however I want it. The separation of `/usr` and `/usr/local` that's already common on Linux makes this work very well.

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