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Yeah, I don’t either, and I don’t attach USB drives very often. I’m now tempted to try it, but I’d have to wait for the next kernel update, and I will 1000% forget to do it by then

It mostly happened when I was using Arch, I’ve since switched to Gentoo. That also has update issues, but those tend to not always be the same issue xD

Usually I only remember to restart after an update because my USB drives stop working :D

Yeah, I’m very interested in the user side of Linux, less so what’s under the hood. There’s some degree of it there, I do use Gentoo, which is more manual than any other distro I’ve come across, but that’s about as deep as I want to go for a daily driver. I am a little tempted to do LFS on a VM once I have a computer that can handle it again

Personally when I stopped using Ubuntu (this was years ago), I hopped around different Ubuntu distros for a long time. Probably a good place to start, especially since Mint is based on Ubuntu.

After that I used Garuda (fairly user friendly, does require some terminal usage), then Arch, then NixOS, back to Arch, and now I’m pretty happy with Gentoo.

My main piece of advice when doing this: Set up the install to use a separate /home partition. It makes things way easier. You keep all of your configurations and such, just have a different OS under the hood.

I did, for a while, subscribe to the RSS feed of a Linux forum to help people xD

Ehh, having used all 3 Arch and Nix are about the same level of difficulty, Nix just doesn’t have documentation (or at least didn’t when I was using it). Flakes make it more complicated, but those are 100% optional, and I didn’t use them

Gentoo is a notable step up. Shit actually breaks there, horrendously. Still love it tho.

HMLinux does, in fact, scare me. I’m debating doing LFS, but I don’t think I could handle the difficulty that HML would offer

Omarchy is a Linux distro developed by the guy this article is about.