I distrohoped many times today
from kionite231@lemmy.ca to linux@lemmy.ml on 18 Dec 15:18
https://lemmy.ca/post/35191920

Hello,

first I installed Gentoo with glibc and it worked fine, I got sway up and running but after some time I got bored and wanted something new. so I decided to go with Arch with rEFInd bootloader but I couldn’t make it work. Arch dropped me into a rescue shell. so I went back to Gentoo but this time with musl and this time I tried Hyprland on Gentoo. there were 133 packages to install for Hyprland, so I went for installing those packages but the build failed probably because using musl. now I thought I just pick that’s easy to setup and I went with Debian and it got installed successfully. so yeah, right now I am using Debian after the back and forth between Arch and Gentoo.

sadly I pissed of some Gentoo devs on IRC #gentoo :(

maybe it was my fault I shouldn’t have distrohopped when Gentoo was installed succesfully and working fine.

#linux

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Sanctus@lemmy.world on 18 Dec 15:28 next collapse

The adventures and perils of a Distronaut.

exu@feditown.com on 18 Dec 15:35 next collapse

For refind on Arch, you have to fix the entries it creates in /boot/refind.conf. Those point to the ISO drive when created in the chroot, so change them to point to your real root drive.

kionite231@lemmy.ca on 18 Dec 15:45 collapse

Thanks, I didn’t know that, I thought refind-install was it.

exu@feditown.com on 18 Dec 15:49 collapse

Glad to help :)

tacostrange@lemmy.ml on 18 Dec 15:39 next collapse

All in a day’s work?

kionite231@lemmy.ca on 18 Dec 15:48 collapse

Yeah, I have distrohoped from morning to night. It’s 9:17 here.

I did it because I really want to learn Linux and want a job related to Linux. I am really obsessed with Linux and BSD

BearOfaTime@lemm.ee on 18 Dec 16:00 next collapse

“distrohoped”?

As in you hoped this next distro would be the one that worked well?

Sounds like S.O.P

LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Dec 16:23 next collapse

distrocoped

Samsy@lemmy.ml on 18 Dec 18:38 next collapse

Easiest way of installing hyprland is a combo that only needs 30 min.

  1. Install Arch Linux with "archinstall"
  2. Don’t choose any DE or WM
  3. reboot and Log into just arch Linux commandline.
  4. choose one of these hyprland dotfiles devs from github with an install-script

github.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles github.com/JaKooLit/Hyprland-Dots

PS. For your hopping experience: time to meet fedora.

WbrJr@lemmy.ml on 19 Dec 00:56 next collapse

Then find out you cant stream stuff out of the box and find uburnu vor mint? :D ( i would recommend mint, just installed it on my desktop. Laptop still runs ubuntu)

OmegaLemmy@discuss.online on 19 Dec 15:41 collapse

I feel those who try gentoo, arch and nix wouldn’t accept the fedora compromise

Samsy@lemmy.ml on 19 Dec 16:43 collapse

I am an Arch guy, and my servers runs Fedora/Debian.

JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world on 18 Dec 18:46 next collapse

To distrohope! Way to inadvertently coin a useful word.

drspod@lemmy.ml on 18 Dec 21:31 next collapse

sadly I pissed of some Gentoo devs on IRC #gentoo :(

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

noodles@sh.itjust.works on 19 Dec 09:51 next collapse

Now nixos

kionite231@lemmy.ca on 19 Dec 10:40 collapse

I have tried nixos in the past and it just works and it’s surprisingly stable!

fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org on 19 Dec 14:49 next collapse

distrohoped

This should be a word. It would mean “trying yet another flavor because it might be The One”

Pika@sh.itjust.works on 19 Dec 17:55 next collapse

I feel like I’m the only one that doesn’t just hop all the time in the community.

I run Debian and it does basically everything I needed to, what it doesn’t do I have a distrobox container on it which allows more or less seamless integration to my current system. I currently only use it for Final Fantasy XIV via lutris for some reason the arch version of lutris will work fine but the debians version of it when I launched Final Fantasy XIV will white page after logging in. It’s so weird.

It’s so weird to think about, cuz everyone I talk to has stated do not use that OS if you plan to actively game, because it’s considered a stable release so therefore everything’s outdated. But I very rarely ever have any issue with gaming it just works

KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml on 19 Dec 18:31 collapse

If you just want to try a Linux distro out, you may use distrosea.com