I’ve been using Linux Mint since forever. I’ve never felt a reason to change. But I’m interested in what persuaded others to move.

  • downhomechunk [chicago]@midwest.social
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    9 months ago

    Get that downvote finger ready!

    Arch.

    I know it’s what all the cool kids are using, and I keep trying to like it, but I just can’t get into it. I’m a slacker for life.

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      9 months ago

      I am ok with that. If you would consider keeping the baby after ditching the bath water, maybe give EndeavourOS a try.

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        9 months ago

        Are you your own dependency manager too?

        Some day I’m going to get someone in one of these “what distro should I try?” posts to install slackware and fall in love with it.

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          9 months ago

          Sbopkg has a slackbuild queue generator sqg which builds the dependencies for applications in it for you. apart from that I’m trying to package ROCm.

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            9 months ago

            Holy crap, how did I forget that existed? I would use that for complex stuff like vlc back in the day.

            I’ve not heard of ROCm, but I think I get the gist. It’s something like Cuda for AMD?

            Are you going to upload and maintain it if you get it working?

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              9 months ago

              Its easy to forget it cause the name is forgettable lol.

              yeah basically. Its annoying af to build from source.

              yeah i would like to do that but baby steps it needs to build and work.