Following advice from Cred Forums I just deleted OSX and installed Linux Mint
It is good so far but I... sort of was expecting a challenge, Linux Mint is too easy. I feel like I've mastered this part of Linux already. So I'm going to move onto a more challenging distro now
which one is harder Arch or Gentoo
Ryder Myers
>Following advice from Cred Forums
But you didn't install gentoo
Daniel Perry
Arch but it's not really hard either. It just takes work to build.
Joshua Davis
>listening to Cred Forums Enjoy the downgrade.
Jacob Adams
>mastered linux by installing mint kek
Ethan Roberts
no I agree with Cred Forums on this I no longer feel like I'm a cog in a massive botnet and the fans don't make as much noise
Charles Foster
Both, Arch and gentoo are not hard if you can follow instructions.
Aiden Bailey
Mint is pure shit, the way they package that distro is horrid. But it's still just another distro with the same underlying utilities as any other. If you want to learn more about linux just learn what it's doing under the hood
Charles Foster
>fans don't make as much noise I'm sorry but no matter how shill you are there's no way you think you need an operating system for that
Anthony Mitchell
It's not just for the fans, but that's a nice plus
Michael Lopez
Install Arch and try to learn about what you are doing when you go through all the steps in the wiki.
Get more comfortable with the command line.
I get annoyed with Gentoo just because I like to try out different programs and get sick of waiting for things to compile. If you have a known setup that you like to work with, then it's a more feasible option.
Angel Reed
Well mint is meant to be a replacement for Windows, so you won't really need to know anything about Linux or the cli to use it. Personally, I think antergos is the best possible distro. It's pretty mich preinstalled arch, so you can play around with arch without really having to worry about breaking too many things.
Tyler Martinez
>there are people on g who recommended Linux mint What the fuck?
Parker Wood
>Linux Mint is too easy. I feel like I've mastered this part of Linux already And this is why we recommend Mint to newbies.
Lincoln Russell
yeah, I was actually looking at the antergos website before
I just wonder if I'm going to have access to as many apps over there or if it will detect my hardware
Jayden Jenkins
You'll be fine with antergos. The reason I really like it is because it can be used by noobs and experienced users alike. I actually did go from mint straight to antergos and pretty much everything I've learned has been while using antergos. If you decide to go with it just make sure to get the AUR as well, since the official arch repos don't always have everything.
Nathaniel Gonzalez
Do you know bash scripting yet? Basic string formatting? Vi ? Is this just GUI ? If you read anything you'd know GUI in Linux is neglected at best. Its command line life fegit and if you don't realize that then maybe you should go back to sheepintosh
Thomas Hall
Word
David Sullivan
>installs babby's first distro >is now a Linux master
Levi Perez
>>installs babby's first distro >>is now a Linux master I'm not challenged, am 3 l33t 5 u fegutz k? Taking ov3r t3h matr1x n0w die n00bz
Michael Lee
What about Manjaro?
Ryder Jenkins
>tfw you'll never be a linux master
Jeremiah Jackson
>op installs loonix >gets flamed to shit >op stays on win7 >gets flamed to shit you faggots are unreal
Hunter Baker
Not worth it. Antergos is literally just easy arch installation with some people that know what they're doing that make sure no updates break anything. Manjaro tries to be its own unique distros with just a base of arch.
Benjamin Campbell
DEBIAN DEBIAN DEBIAN Arch and gentoo fags: where better than you because we took 1 hour and an insane amount of effort to get something almost objectively worse. You took 15 minutes to install something almost objectively better and it was easy and its powerful? LOL YOU DON"T KNOW LINUX HER DUR
Jason Collins
>deleted OSX >then replaced it with Mint But... why? Why even bother deleting when you can just dual-boot or use a VM?
Brayden Myers
Apple makes it hard and unstable to dual boot now, plus I developed a hatred for apple after a year of using the OS , just a personal thing
Hunter Brown
this.
Dylan King
So I am looking for baby's first linux and need to actually learn linux and shit.
Anyone else suggest Debian?
Bentley Russell
debian or antergos are fine imo
Brandon Cooper
Debians cool.
Brayden Smith
Are you mastering Linux or mastering installing distributions?
Andrew Sanchez
100% debian. It is the natural step up from Linux mint, you have options on the set up/downloads on how much hand holding you want (preloaded packages), and forces you to use the cli a lot more
OP DOWNLOAD DEBIAN
Easton Williams
>Building arch You mean to run pacstrap and arch-rootafter partitioning, then committing fstab and setup bootloader. Normies may also add a wheel user and sync gnome group after installing some driver packages.
Matthew Sanders
If you want to deal with constantly outdated packages and broken repositories from trying to fix the former. Go nuts.
Julian Long
same i did a full wipe on my mac air. even the recovery partition. It is a royal pain to get a get a mac os image and make a bootable usb stick without normal apple machine handy....
fine then. goodridance
Blake Gonzalez
I am Mr Debian..... look at me
NO I am Mr Debian.... Look At Me
NO I am Mr Debian ....LOOK AT ME
Dominic Thomas
>Following advice from Cred Forums >I just deleted OSX >installed Linux Mint AHAHAHAHAHA You should have just dual booted.
Eli Reed
>So I am looking for baby's first linux and need to actually learn linux and shit.
>Anyone else suggest Debian? Debian all fucking day its everything good without the bulkshit
Isaiah Carter
No, he was right is deleting OSX.
>'user's-MacbookPro >'user's-iPhone They broadcast who you are and it's easily identifies personal information about you. Annoying as fuck.
Sebastian Thompson
Go install manjaro network version and try to maintain your original partitions.
Adam Jenkins
Try installing Arch Linux.
Landon Campbell
This, arch is too easy now. install gentoo
Ryan Bailey
Gentoo is "harder", but Arch is the way to go. You probably don't need the same level of granularity of Gentoo unless you do something that really needs it (compiling a certain kernel, compiling a certaing program with speific features, tweaking your hardware in low level, etc).
Kevin James
I felt the same, and also Mint seemed like a reskinned version of Ubuntu. So one route you could take is install regular Ubuntu but with a desktop environment of your choice.
Arch would also be a good distro to try next.
>I no longer feel like I'm a cog in a massive botnet
The best feeling.
James Gutierrez
A few months ago, I installed mint on an imac. It is now sitting in a pile on the floor with the rest of the shit I don't use.
Matthew Edwards
Go with Arch op. It's a pretty dank os besides being hard enough to make you learn. Also whatever you choose, don't give up on linux before trying kde, it's the best de.
Aaron Torres
Gentoo is harder then Arch but Gentoo is fun to do
Josiah Robinson
Why is gentoo so much shilled it's not Stallman approved.
Benjamin Gonzalez
>So I'm going to move onto a more challenging distro now Why??
Oliver Russell
>Mint You must be very edgy kid
Jaxson Baker
Fedora is nice if you can ignore the meme name OP Just works and gives you updated packages without breaking on you
Jace Torres
>op is rating OS's by how 'hard' they are >people actually go with that and recommend 'harder' OS's
If nothing else has revealed the elitist self-purposeness of distribution-discussions on this board then this certainly has.
>a challenge >mastered >more challenging >harder there will never be year of linux desktop simply because the majority of linux users are just a bunch of man-"muh sekrit klub"-children, for whom the OS isnt a tool to achieve a goal but rather the OS is the goal itself. Doomed forever to be stuck on various servers and no-user-interaction-hardware or live as a castrated cuck under the heel of Android
David Howard
you seem far more butthurt than your target audience.
Brody Cook
>Gentoo is bald
Michael Gray
Gentoo is 'harder' but arch lets you do harder things easier.
Juan Allen
Why wouldn't he be butthurt? Anyone who actually likes Linux or even the idea of Linux should be butthurt about people circle jerking over difficulty.
An operating system should not have a difficulty rating. It's a tool. Nobody goes into a hardware store and asks "What's the most difficult tool to use?, I've already mastered hammers."
Carson Stewart
Mint is actually the hardest distro to install. Frankly, we're all quite surprised you never took the bait.
Kayden Peterson
Change your fucking hostname? Ubuntu/Mint does that too, if you let the default hostname.
Andrew Reyes
Explain why... it's practically identical to Ubuntu.
Oliver Johnson
>Following advice from Cred Forums Stopped reading there