By age 40, a Linux user stops trying to install Arch on a toaster just to prove they can.

Daniel Quinn

@nixCraft I really don't get this joke. Arch isn't Gentoo. You install it, and it just works. You never need to do a system upgrade 'cause it's on a rolling release, and its packages are always modern with the features you want.

Meanwhile Debian is perpetually antiquated, forcing creative hacks to get recent versions, and requires a tricky system upgrade every year or so just to remain relevant.

Odd

@nixCraft I switched to a macbook as my main driver for these reasons. But now I really want Linux back on desktop. Don’t trust anything anymore, but at least with Linux on my laptop, I won’t suddenly wake up with some forced AI having taken over my whole OS without my consent. 3 years until 50 now. Hope I’ll have the bandwidth to put Linux on my macbook by then

Baixa Auto Meia-lua-estima

@nixCraft any thoughts on Fedora?

Tipiak75 :kirby:🍜

@nixCraft Right. Especially just to watch netflix on the toaster.

Dustin

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FOSStastic

@nixCraft Funny, I already reached that point when I was 15 (or so) and had been using Arch for 9 months.

Since then, I've only used distributions that I can also recommend to non tech-savvy people.

I like tools that hide the bloat from me, like metapackages, Flatpak, Podman or rpm-ostree.

debgl

@nixCraft I can never deviate from debian+gnome for my main home laptop. I cannot say enough good things about its stability and reliability. paired with a good browser it has turned out to be the best combo for me. I can print, attend zoom calls, browse and do all office work with libre office. Stared with a older macbook pro and now use older surface laptop. Even the dell docking station works allowing me to have dual monitors.
Switching to Linux has never been easier for home!

Michele Adduci

@nixCraft as an over 40, I have Arch (CachyOS) only on my personal laptop. On all other PCs from family, it's just Debian 13 - zero stress with upgrades, especially for those who never run them

sola

@nixCraft 48 here. Two years without anything breaking. Afraid It'll come at any moment now. But I doubt it would take more than half an hour.

John Quentin Heywood

@nixCraft So very true

Mark

@nixCraft Honesty, you don't have to be 40 for that to be the case. I switched to Linux to avoid the headaches of Windows, why add headaches to Linux?

m3t00🌎

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seemed like a challenge at the time. other fish to fry now.

Ben Evans

@nixCraft I was there by age 30. I got a Mac for personal use and RHEL for work.

lopta

@nixCraft Tried Debian on a couple of PCs but important things didn't work and I couldn't get help so I switched to Lubuntu for my son's PC.

Sea Sgt

@nixCraft lol I’m pushing 50, can attest.

Dreaming of dad jazz.

@nixCraft

It pretty much exactly happened like this.. Mint user from the early days of Mint.

Dingo

@nixCraft
God damn I feel called out

dykexis

#I-feel-this-in-my-bones. #I-use-arch-btw

Expired Token

@nixCraft I can totally relate, but by approaching 50. This is why Debian logo is a whirl: you can't escape from it .

First contact with Debian 30 years ago, and still in love. Event considering switching back to Debian on my laptop.

FynnND

@nixCraft I am 23 and somewhat there. I do not use Debian, as I have newer hardware that needs newer Mesa and I will be honest I do want newer Mesa as well

But because I want stable I went with OpenSUSE Slowroll. Fedora 43 is the worst fedora I used so far. (40 and 41 were great). v4l2loopback just decided to break sometimes, so I had to test updates in a VM before updating. So I decided I couldn't be asked and switched to Slowroll once I made sure my software runs on it