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Your first distribution (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes.

Currently on Fedora GNOME now but what about you? What made you choose your first distro diving into the world of Linux?

I wanna hear your thoughts!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Gentoo as a first distro is scary as fuck as a common person. How did you manage?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Great. The Wiki explained everything I needed to do to get a working system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Any distro that's well-documented is not a big deal to install and use. Never understood the big deal people used to make (still do sometimes? though I think it's mostly ironic now) about Arch. I did my first install Arch when I was kinda a dumbass but I just read the wiki (very thorough, btw, still use that wiki nearly daily) and followed the instructions. Especially with Arch, the wiki is so informative it explains the things you don't know so you understand what you're doing even though when I first installed Arch I didn't know what an fstab file was, what the initramfs was, etc. I'll disclaim that I've not installed Gentoo myself, but I hear from people who have installed it that it's very well documented, so makes sense that newcomers could install and use it if they're willing to read and learn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What would you say is a distro that is badly documented? Genuinely curious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Tbh, as a current Artix user, I think the Artix documentation is lacking. Their full disk encryption installation guide doesn't have any UEFI instructions and while they have a wiki, it definitely doesn't cover a lot of the things that differ from systemd, which is the purpose of the Artix Wiki, ie to cover everything from Arch Wiki which needs to be changed without systemd. I get most of my info from the Artix forums. I even used the Arch wiki installation guide for installing Artix instead of Artix Wiki's installation guide (it's only like 3 commands that are different, they use basestrap instead of pacstrap and you install a different init system with basestrap, they use fstabgen instead of genfstab, and artix-chroot instead of arch-chroot (that last one should be obvious though)). I still like the distro ofc, otherwise I wouldn't use it, but I think it's lacking in good documentation. Maybe that's just my perspective after being spoiled by the Arch Wiki for so long though lol. I can't really speak for many distros though, I've not daily-driven many