/ult/ - Unfriendly Linux Thread
<span class="quote">>You will be able to land your Linux distro by the end of this thread.</span><br><br>• Google what a `desktop environment` is, this is like the core layer that will make your Linux look AND function like Windows XP if you choose the wrong one, or will make your Linux look like MacOS and function like Windows 10 if you choose correctly.<br><br>•• Most Linux distributions will be packaged around what desktop environment they come with, e.g. Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu are the same Ubuntu OS packaged by Ubuntu themselves, but they come with Gnome/KDE/Xfce (respectively) desktop environments.<br>••• Google different desktop environments and choose the right look and feel of the system for yourself next steps will depend on it.<br><br>• Now that you decided what kind of look you want, you have 2 choices: <br>1. Choose distribution that comes prepackaged with it, benefits are they are unit tested to hell and more stable.<br>2. You get naked arch and assemble it from binaries, and install any desktop environment you want, it will be buggy, crashy, your life will revolve around fixing your computer after it updates. No you do not need bleeding edge libraries. If this is you, fuck off here <span class="deadlink">>>109529010</span><br><br><br>• Congrats you picked option 1, so what are the distro options out there. Study this image:<br><span class="quote">>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List<wbr>_of_Linux_distributions#/media/File<wbr>:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg</span><br><br>As you have just learned there few main branches of linux:<br>1. Debian<br>2. Fedora/RedHat<br>3. Arch<br>4. nobody cares, shut up<br><br>Each distro spread out to subdistros, sometimes a subdistro becomes so popular for its stability and good packaging and ease of use that it becomes a launching pad for others like Ubuntu which is under Debian.<br>• Ubuntu on top of having several versions of itself like I mentioned earlier (Kubuntu, Xubuntu and like 4 others), is forked into:<br>• • Mint<br>• • PopOS<br>• • Original SteamOS (New SteamOS is forked from Archlinux)<br> <img width="1080" height="1080" style src="https://imgproxy.citrusreader.com/p5wINpXQcliMsFg3QrsREq6p9en4GKji_uFXRKz2SQA/raw:1/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLjRjZG4ub3JnL2cvMTc4OTUzMzA4OTA3OTYyOC5wbmc" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"> <br>