in a world where everything is dominated by convenience, eg. AI being a convenient source of information, GUI’s being a conveniet way of navigating information. I chose my distro to do the complete opposite. I wanted a distro that if an error arises it would give me a detailed message, not some vague response like “check the logs” where It doesn’t explain how to navigate there.
you may know where im going with this, I went with Cauchy OS and hyprland primarily for the speed of the kernel and the surplus amount of information and documentation with AUR. I cannot leave arch on the basis of how fast it is, for a massive update to install the latest core packages of the OS it takes about 2 min whereas fedora takes 15 and well windows (comediaclly, stereotypically popularized by space force) takes 45 minutes, we’ll leave it at that. The reason I chose hyprland is strictly on the same notion that learning skills does make the tools you use convenient, hyprland uses keybind over traditional mouse for navigating, launching apps, opening terminals, etc… and you become much faster with keybinds whereas a mouse is limited by the performance of it. using hyprland came to me as an extension when my professor taught me emacs (a TUI based text-editors). its why over the years (despite having used one initially) I just continue to despise IDE’s for writing code especially with most editors shipping proprietary AI into the mix. It’s not convenient anymore when I have to delete every code suggestion the AI makes.
“convenience” has effectively lost all of it’s meaning in technology. To me, convenience has been popularized to justify intellectual laziness, and embraced by tech orgs because they can capitalize off of it.
Hannah Montana Linux
It works, has the packages I need and they are up-to-date
Because it was my first distro that got me away from Windows. And yes, it’s Mint.
Does what I want and gets out of my way.
You mean my distros?
Different distros are the best for different purposes.
My Fedora is the best for my laptop because it just works and all the hardware is supported.
My Arch is the best because it’s a super fine tuned setup that prevents distractions and doesn’t waste memory or CPU doing things I don’t care about.
My mint is the best because it’s simple, stable, beautiful out of the box.
My debian is the best because servers are no nonsense.
My puppy Linux was the best when I was a developer for the distro because it was the smallest lightest and fastest distro I’ve ever used.
Etc.
i’m using Alpine, but I’m not considering it as the best. It’s minimal, no bloat and doing all what I want.
Can’t say it’s the best, but I love Alpine. It’s light, fast, versatile and easy to use, runs on anything, and despite it being used mostly in containers and VMs, it makes for a great desktop distro aswell. :)
Mint is Ubuntu minus everything that makes Ubuntu annoying. That’s why I like it.
I considered to go back to Debian but… eh, I’m too old and impatient for that. Nowadays I mostly want things that work out of the box.
