edit: for anyone curious, the problem was Xorg wasnt loading or something (stuck on systemd ‘graphical interface target reached’ with no graphical interface). because of a typo in a config file.

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    1 year ago

    my current install is 3 yrs old, if you select a decent distro and dont fuck with its internals it works pretty well.

    i suspect most of the people complaining are either on a meme distro or they poke too much into the system

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      You seem to implying that doing anything other than using preinstalled apps like the web browser is “poking too much into the system” and are therefore idiots. As I have had a system break just by installing or upgrading packages on Ubuntu. Now I always use ZFS on root and make snapshots of everything beforehand.

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        I installed Ubuntu on my desktop I wasn’t using for a while, then had to wipe it again a couple hours later after I seemingly bricked my OS installing a package necessary to run AppImages, except it uninstalled some pretty critical shit

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      What would you suggest is a meme distro, I’m using endeavour os, it is imo perfection almost.

      Whatever distribution I tried something didn’t work or failed to boot

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        I don’t know what they meant by “meme distros”, but I can say that the thing that immediately comes to mind is TempleOS.