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ugh that’s totally me. I’ve literally tried everything, even all the BSDs, and there are many that I like.

I don’t know I just find it fun to install a linux distro or BSD and set it up, see what will work, what doesn’t, etc.

The beauty of it is now I can install anything with ease and i’m familiar with pretty much every package manager out there. Favourite install: Gentoo. Least favourite: Slackware.

what I changed more were DEs and WMs. I could never find the right one that I absolutely loved for years. Finally I just ended up building my own and put in all the stuff I wanted.

it’s a lot more than wordpress…

, microfetch

yeah especially with archinstall. now installing arch is a cakewalk. Void is probably harder to install than Arch.

I use the dendritic approach for my NixOS configuration. put everything in individual modules. then I go back and further cut up those modules to be even more specific. It’s gotten so bad I even have modules for almost every individual WM/DE to just turn them on and off within the flake. They’re just so fun to build. it’s addictive. I need help.

man as a NixOS user i’m too busy perfecting my configuration to care about what other users are doing.

It. Is. Never. Perfect.

DOOM Emacs ruined me. I love it.

I assumed the same as you when I tried out the BSDs. I went with FreeBSD first because I assumed that was the better supported one. Wifi was absolutely horrible on it. connection would constantly drop, or was slow, etc. on OpenBSD i haven’t had those issues. Also had a lot of issues setting up a VM on FreeBSD and getting certain USB devices to work correctly. neither of those issues on OpenBSD.

I daily drive OpenBSD. I found it easier to set up than NetBSD which apparently is ass backwards as open is supposed to be harder. for the life of me I just couldn’t wrap my head around getting the amdgpu drivers working on NetBSD.

I also found OpenBSD slightly better supported for various hardware than FreeBSD. Wifi works better on it, these old ass logitech headphones I have work flawlessly on OpenBSD when on FreeBSD they just didn’t work at all and gave off horrible feedback or I couldn’t turn the mic off. Also found setting up a Debian VM much easier on OpenBSD than FreeBSD (still a chore though)

Also OpenBSD for whatever reason probably has the most solid and decently sized gaming community than the other ones.

It’s a great OS that just stays out of your way. really fun to tinker with. Just don’t expect to do EVERYTHING on it. for surfing, certain dev work, etc it’s great.

honestly just installing Gentoo is a great way to learn various aspects of linux. It’s a process, a lengthy one, but if you manage to install it successfully you can pretty much install any distro or BSD with absolute ease and not even think about it.

meanwhile I’m over here making NixOS look like NeXTStep

“depends”.

When I first switched to linux I used Mint and it was a horrible experience with my laptop at the time for gaming. the laptop itself was a hybrid Nvidia/AMD GPU so…I mean…Not a great experience for most distros but it was REALLY bad on Mint.

on other Distros it was better but I was regulated to Wayland only as hybrids on X11 are just a no go.

So depending on your setup gaming on linux can potentially just be as easy as installing steam or it can turn into a chore.

it has something called “Shelly” which is funny because months ago when the dev of Shelly released the thing I said “you should honestly get in contact with the CachyOS folks” and now it does have Shelly.

It’s a pretty great GUI for installing AUR stuff, packages, and flatpaks.

I like CachyOS and it’s my go to if I want to use Arch. Everytime I install Arch I always forget something, always. so then it’s trying to remember what I did the last time to get something to work correctly. With CachyOS it’s just good to go for me. and they’ve really improved the install process and cut out A LOT of bloat. Before it would take forever to install Cachy but now it’s quick and the only thing I really have to remove when it’s done is alacritty and firefox. Paired with KDE it’s smooth sailing and great performance.

it’s a shame too because it’s a REALLY good WM. it’s very lightweight as it’s based off DWM. It can do what Hyprland and Niri do but at a fraction of the memory usage. It’s just the damn config is a mess.

so as an example say you want to switch workspaces. normally in pretty much ever DE or WM it’s going to be mod+1 or 2 or whatever right? if you have a window on workspace 1 and you want it moved to 2 you’d do mod+shift+2

with mango it’s ctrl+1, 2, 3 etc to switch workspaces THEN alt+1,2,3 to move windows to them. Or focusing windows is alt+h,j,k,l BUT switching windows suddenly introduces the super+shift key. focusing a different monitor is alt+shift BUT moving windows to another monitor is now super+shift. It introduces a lot of confusion trying to remember all the combinations.

naturally you can reconfigure all of this to a single mod key and it won’t conflict with anything else thus the reason why the dev introduced 3 different mod keys is head scratching. Also depending on what apps you use you pretty much have to reconfigure the keybinds because there could be conflicts.

mangowm. it’s lighter than both Niri and Hyprland and does a better job at what those two are supposed to excel in. That being said I do suggest you clean up the config for mango because some of the keybinds will leave you scratching your head as you can literally use one mod key for everything. For whatever reason the Mango dev decided using THREE mod keys was the way to go.

this is by design. NO COMPANY in the entire world is going to provide a product in hopes that one day you won’t need to use it anymore. So dating apps, by design, provide you with horrible matches so that you keep using said app. They don’t want you finding the “love of your life”, it’s bad business if they did.

You don’t actually have to be 1337 to use arch

Omarchy users in shambles right now. oh who am I kidding, they can’t read.

honestly once you learn how to install Gentoo and/or NetBSD every other install is an absolute cake walk.

Really though like you said it’s valuable knowledge to learn.