Eggs in one Linux OS basket (Linux OS ecosystem talk)

[Flame]

Do you put all your Linux OS eggs in one basket or did you install different Linux OS's in different setups?

my thoughts on this matter : - https://gbatemp.net/blog/flame.130770/

 

[Kioku]

You mean like how Antergos is done? I like Manjaro. It's simple enough, gives me everything I need. Updates are a bit... Behind... Considering it's based on Arch. When I was running Linux, Manjaro was my go to. Mint before that. So, I'll say all in one basket.

 

[Flame]

You mean like how Antergos is done? I like Manjaro. It's simple enough, gives me everything I need. Updates are a bit... Behind... Considering it's based on Arch. When I was running Linux, Manjaro was my go to. Mint before that. So, I'll say all in one basket.

so what did you do after Antergos was discontinued?

 

[Deleted User]

so what did you do after Antergos was discontinued?

To my knowledge, Antergos will eventually just transition all installs to basic Arch installs by getting rid of the Antergos repos. Manjaro is still being supported, though.

 

[kuwanger]

If Ubuntu goes the way of the dodo, I'd probably move to Debian. If Debian somehow disappears, then Linux will be probably dead.

 

[Flame]

If Ubuntu goes the way of the dodo, I'd probably move to Debian. If Debian somehow disappears, then Linux will be probably dead.

dont worry Google Fuchsia will take over. :^)

i dont think Linux will be die. its just people are scared of change which is my case anyway.

its like the people who still use Windows XP or Vista. just use a linux which suits your needs instead.



have i become a XP or vista user some how?

 

[Plstic]

I use antergos on my desktop and and user openbsd and debian on my servers.

 

[Kioku]

so what did you do after Antergos was discontinued?

Nothing, actually. I don't use Antergos. Tried to install, but it fought me. So I went Manjaro.

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dont worry Google Fuchsia will take over. :^)

i dont think Linux will be die. its just people are scared of change which is my case anyway.

its like the people who still use Windows XP or Vista. just use a linux which suits your needs instead.



have i become a XP or vista user some how?

No, because you're using a "current" OS .. XP was a big thing for a few reasons, none of which affect Linux. Mostly outdated software that never was properly updated to support newer versions of Windows.

 

[Ryccardo]

Pretty much the only distro I can stand nowadays is Devuan... and that's still a distant second place to the main competing OS family in my opinion

XP was a big thing for a few reasons, none of which affect Linux. Mostly outdated software that never was properly updated to support newer versions of Windows.

That's actually another interesting discussion point:

Microsoft cares about backwards compatibility with decently written software (and then some more) and it generally works (even though you may have to install some older library/runtime, which is annoying but often just one more installer to run, or it's even included directly with the program) - while the typical Linux system has dynamic linking as the far predominant standard, and (except for the Linux kernel, but that only helps if you link everything statically) very little effort/interest is put in backwards compatibility of compiled programs - and on average not too much more is put in ensuring library compatibility at compile time...

If distros actually had "every program ever" it wouldn't matter to the user, but when you need to manually download and install an old program (which mostly by simplicity and coincidence isn't affected by the above issue), contrarily to the way the distro was meant to be used... some questions may certainly pop up...

 

[kuwanger]

its like the people who still use Windows XP or Vista. just use a linux which suits your needs instead.

The major difference between XP and Linux is mainly that there are distros for the age of XP still around and you can usually retain most of the same user experience. XP -> Vista -> 7 -> 8 -> 10 has been a showcase of Microsoft moving things around, adding some things, removing others, and generally just performing the same annoying things that I've seen in Gnome/Apple UI land.

Admittedly, if you used a distro from the XP that died, then it's more or less exactly like the XP story. Usually, though, distros are similar enough that a transition from one to another isn't as painful. It's still a learning curve, and so I can totally understand the frustration people feel. In comparison, the move for most other distros (like Ubuntu) is more gradual change so even though the distro has evolved substantially, you don't tend to notice it if you've followed that evolution and went with it. That, of course, assumes you don't have to do a reinstall along the way. :/

 

[SaberLilly]

Linux is confusing for me, so I usually try to find a distro that is easy for me to use, while at the same time looking elegant with a lot of options to tweak it how i like without having to worry about making UI go thermonuclear. So, on an old desktop I run Zorin OS and on my laptop from like 2009 I run KDE Neon, i know Neon is based on ubuntu 18.04 right now, but i forgot what Zorin is based on, i think that might be ubuntu as well.