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Good choice. I got Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Manjaro, Endeavour, Mx Linux, Fedora, Red Hat, Debian, Gentoo galore. Desktop Linux has come a long way, and if you like tr

Good choice. I got Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Manjaro, Endeavour, Mx Linux, Fedora, Red Hat, Debian, Gentoo galore. Desktop Linux has come a long way, and if you like true unix here let me tell you some more. I got GhostBSD (https://www.ghostbsd.org/ https://www.ghostbsd.org/) rocking MATE IDE, if you want lightweight Linux desktop I got LXDE, LXFC, Gnome, KDE, and a whole lot more. If you want true freedom, ditch the spyware and head on over to desktop Linux where we'll welcome you with open arms. The excuse of 'But this... and that...' let me stop you right there. You don't need to configure anything. Download Kubuntu and have fun with customizing everything in the settings. When it comes to Windows and Microsoft products the answer is 'No.' Keep it that way. Freedom matters.

bilekas 2y ago
Sounds like you have some commitment issues with picking a distro? Or are you just trying them all out to let us know? Because you've named a few that are all the same family. People who are unfamiliar with Linux will look at this list and just ignore it as too complicated. When in reality it's much simpler.
- water-data-dude 2y ago
  It rhymes! I’m assuming it matches the meter/rhyme scheme of a particular song, but I’m music stupid, so I can’t really make a guess. But the point is to be funzies and light hearted :)
  - wrboyce 2y ago
    Could it be Modern Major General?
    - eGQjxkKF6fif 2y ago
      It's just something I come up with when I want to share my love for Linux. No need to look too much in to it. I use to have it rhyme more after my 'tell you some more' bit but, not this time. I just love linux.
stuckkeys 2y ago
I got ubuntu desktop, I love it.
jazzyjackson 2y ago
Gnome Fedora 41 is super pleasant and instantaneous on Apple silicon via Asahi. I haven't run into a single issue since installing, really impressive work. AFAIK thunderbolt support is the only thing lagging behind.
trod1234 2y ago
I hate to reign on your parade but Canonical (Ubuntu) is doing the same thing as Microsoft just to a slightly lesser extent. The same pretty much goes for any of its many derivatives. Redhat is no longer open. Arch and alpine based have hardware issues. The choices you once had with Linux are far less today than they have been in the past. You almost need to know how to build a distro from scratch to get comparable features and privacy to yesteryear.
- zeroc8 2y ago
  The situation is totally different. First of all, it's not comparable with the Recall crap that's going with Windows at all. Second, if they really try something fishy, you can just switch to Debian or any of the other distributions. As for hardware, there is plenty of stuff that doesn't cause any troubles at all. Just do some basic research.
  - trod1234 2y ago
    You are mistaken. Dig into tracker-miner-fs, d-bus activation re-parenting, as well as the snap callbacks that can trigger arbitrary local code execution. Usually found in a directory under /usr/libexec in addition to its regular install location, not touching on the spiderweb of cross-connections. If you try to remove or pull out parts of those distro integrations in Ubuntu, you will find that it keeps launching, despite making a clear choice for not wanting those features. There is a spiderweb of cross connections where if you shut down various parts, it fixes and regenerates its capabilities... like malware. They clearly aren't giving people the choice to do what they want on their own hardware. tracker-miner-fs collects metadata, and Recall is just an accessible interface to metadata that is already collected. The underlying metadata is for the most part similar. You will find this also in the package repository where they have named packages, that those packages have been corrupted in a way that makes the corrupt packages indistinct from their legitimate counterparts (to the package manager), the manager launches fixup scripts without notification, and which are embedded to force and regenerate your use of snap. Debian is certainly not immune since tracker-miner-fs is embedded in Gnome. As for hardware, that is also incorrect. There are very few manufacturers that meet full compatibility requirements, they may allow you to boot into a shell (only as a result of the linux kernel devs), but compatibility for standard desktop or server use is not guaranteed. The manufacturers that dominate the market are those who use proprietary firmware blobs through an embedded intermediate firmware based controller. The ideapad lines of Lenovo, and their many off-name rebrandings attest to the hardware compatibility issues even after significant re-engineering effort done to make it compatible still leaves features lacking. When your thermal subsystem cannot expose temperature, power management, or has severe hysteresis gaps, lack of proper enumeration and lack of control of fans/advanced features, its hard to believe it doesn't cause trouble. That's like saying a flaming pile of brick in your lap doesn't cause trouble. Research fails in the absence of source of truth information. Manufacturers regularly omit, misadvertise/misinform, or don't provide documentation at all (i.e. WD with SMR), or correct technical specs to evaluate it prior to a buy, test, return strategy (which isn't research) and a risky approach. I think you should take more than a cursory look around at the current market. Its pretty bad, expensive (for the circuitry involved) and with few choices.

bilekas 2y ago

Sounds like you have some commitment issues with picking a distro? Or are you just trying them all out to let us know? Because you've named a few that are all the same family. People who are unfamiliar with Linux will look at this list and just ignore it as too complicated. When in reality it's much simpler.

water-data-dude 2y ago
It rhymes! I’m assuming it matches the meter/rhyme scheme of a particular song, but I’m music stupid, so I can’t really make a guess. But the point is to be funzies and light hearted :)
- wrboyce 2y ago
  Could it be Modern Major General?
  - eGQjxkKF6fif 2y ago
    It's just something I come up with when I want to share my love for Linux. No need to look too much in to it. I use to have it rhyme more after my 'tell you some more' bit but, not this time. I just love linux.

stuckkeys 2y ago

I got ubuntu desktop, I love it.

jazzyjackson 2y ago

Gnome Fedora 41 is super pleasant and instantaneous on Apple silicon via Asahi. I haven't run into a single issue since installing, really impressive work. AFAIK thunderbolt support is the only thing lagging behind.

trod1234 2y ago

I hate to reign on your parade but Canonical (Ubuntu) is doing the same thing as Microsoft just to a slightly lesser extent. The same pretty much goes for any of its many derivatives. Redhat is no longer open. Arch and alpine based have hardware issues. The choices you once had with Linux are far less today than they have been in the past. You almost need to know how to build a distro from scratch to get comparable features and privacy to yesteryear.

zeroc8 2y ago
The situation is totally different. First of all, it's not comparable with the Recall crap that's going with Windows at all. Second, if they really try something fishy, you can just switch to Debian or any of the other distributions. As for hardware, there is plenty of stuff that doesn't cause any troubles at all. Just do some basic research.
- trod1234 2y ago
  You are mistaken. Dig into tracker-miner-fs, d-bus activation re-parenting, as well as the snap callbacks that can trigger arbitrary local code execution. Usually found in a directory under /usr/libexec in addition to its regular install location, not touching on the spiderweb of cross-connections. If you try to remove or pull out parts of those distro integrations in Ubuntu, you will find that it keeps launching, despite making a clear choice for not wanting those features. There is a spiderweb of cross connections where if you shut down various parts, it fixes and regenerates its capabilities... like malware. They clearly aren't giving people the choice to do what they want on their own hardware. tracker-miner-fs collects metadata, and Recall is just an accessible interface to metadata that is already collected. The underlying metadata is for the most part similar. You will find this also in the package repository where they have named packages, that those packages have been corrupted in a way that makes the corrupt packages indistinct from their legitimate counterparts (to the package manager), the manager launches fixup scripts without notification, and which are embedded to force and regenerate your use of snap. Debian is certainly not immune since tracker-miner-fs is embedded in Gnome. As for hardware, that is also incorrect. There are very few manufacturers that meet full compatibility requirements, they may allow you to boot into a shell (only as a result of the linux kernel devs), but compatibility for standard desktop or server use is not guaranteed. The manufacturers that dominate the market are those who use proprietary firmware blobs through an embedded intermediate firmware based controller. The ideapad lines of Lenovo, and their many off-name rebrandings attest to the hardware compatibility issues even after significant re-engineering effort done to make it compatible still leaves features lacking. When your thermal subsystem cannot expose temperature, power management, or has severe hysteresis gaps, lack of proper enumeration and lack of control of fans/advanced features, its hard to believe it doesn't cause trouble. That's like saying a flaming pile of brick in your lap doesn't cause trouble. Research fails in the absence of source of truth information. Manufacturers regularly omit, misadvertise/misinform, or don't provide documentation at all (i.e. WD with SMR), or correct technical specs to evaluate it prior to a buy, test, return strategy (which isn't research) and a risky approach. I think you should take more than a cursory look around at the current market. Its pretty bad, expensive (for the circuitry involved) and with few choices.