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I have a laptop that I'm planning on rebuilding from a failed NTFS/Win10 system to Linux something. Now I know it's not going to be Ubuntu or anything else der
by zentiggr 6y ago
I have a laptop that I'm planning on rebuilding from a failed NTFS/Win10 system to Linux something.
Now I know it's not going to be Ubuntu or anything else derived from Canonical.
- Endeavourist 6y agoWhy not EndeavourOS? It's based on Arch Linux, with minimal numbers of external packages; quite unlike Manjaro actually. You can just treat it as a standard Arch install, and even use the ISO to boot with wi-fi drivers and all and install Arch plainly, without the non-wifi and other regrets. EndeavourOS is pretty great; I personally use it as a live-ISO (XFCE environment) and just install Arch from within the live EndeavourOS booted iso. Just throwing it out there.
- zentiggr 6y agoHadn't heard the name but glad I did. I was going to look for a live CD distro with good NTFS read support for the old drive recovery. This sounds good.
- DoofusOfDeath 6y ago> Now I know it's not going to be Ubuntu or anything else derived from Canonical. Why avoid Ubuntu derivates like Mint or Pop!_OS, though? They're doing the heavy lifting of fighting Canonical on this issue. Maybe using one of those distros instead of vanilla Ubuntu actually strengthens the pressure that Canonical feels on this topic.
- zentiggr 6y agoFair point, but honestly I'm in the "don't have enough time to Gentoo this build" category. If I know I can avoid Snap crap by changing distros for now, that's what I have a timeslice for.
- lmm 6y agoI'd seriously recommend looking at FreeBSD instead. Everything Linux seems to be going down this we-know-better-than-you path.