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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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which linux distro do you NOT like, and why? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The only one that really pissed me off was a distro called biglinux. It's arch based and very popular in Brazil. It's actually very stable. Everything works great. It's got some nice features.

Butttt, it uses latte dock or panel (kde). They have built in presets for how to arrange the panels and what not. It's nice, however, I was trying to move some panels around from the base options and broke kde. I wasn't doing anything more than changing GUI settings and the whole desktop broke. I seriously don't understand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anything even tangential to Red Hat.

RPM's are hot garbage when it comes to packaging formats.

Having said that, I use Fedora at work and Ubuntu at home.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whyfore the hate for .rpms? I've never had an issue on Fedora in a decade.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Issues with building RPM's. There's no specification for what an RPM is (unlike say deb).

Well the specification is "whatever rpmbuild version x.y.z does" and whatever other tangential packages happen to be installed on the build system.

Try building an RPM for CentOS 6 on a RockyLinux 8 system, or building for both of those on Fedora.

You can do it, but it's real ball ache, and you have to jump through a lot of hoops.

Compare to building a deb for any version of Debian/Ubuntu on Fedora/RHEL it's a doddle and predictable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ubuntu: it's not bad, I just don't like canonical

Manjaro: it starts as arch but more user friendly (by being preconfigured), until it inevitably breaks (being arch) and you end up with a regular arch that you don't know how is configured

Elementary os: it's too elementary os

All those con distros that are just a bunch of reskinned free stuff ask you money for that. Like zorin os

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