idk, is it really that bad? I’ve heard of many people using debian sid for daily

it’s not that hart to upgrade, just change the sources list and run apt dist-upgrade

Don’t have one. I just took someone else’s post and put white squares over the ones I disagreed with

Well, you asked for it.

I started my Journey on Mint. The Install broke, but I wasn’t gonna give up that easily. So I used AI to troubleshoot it (not my best times, but I was desperate). I customized mint, I cherished it and loved my escape from the grasps of Microsoft.

Eventually, I noticed you couldn’t do rounded corners on Cinnamon (I didn’t understand DEs at the time, thinking you could only use the DE that came with the Distro).

It pissed me off so much that I went and tried something with Plasma. I went with OpenSUSE, in part cuz I liked the Chameleon, in part because I did like the concept. Bluetooth and wifi didn’t work ootb and for me as a beginner that sealed the deal, I wasn’t able to fix it.

Next, I went to Kubuntu, thinking it’ll be stable and have Plasma. And it was. It was all i’d ever hoped for. Stable, many features, super customizable. I even messed around with config files etc (mind you, this was like 3 weeks into my journey). I loved it. Even disabled snaps eventually.

But eventually I got bored. I started trying out other Distros, not hopping but just trying out their live installs. I no longer liked the corporate backend of Canonical. I wanted something new.

I also watched a lot of Linux content at the time, and I was confused and annoyed that I wasn’t getting the newest updates to stuff. That’s when I really started learning about DEs, Rolling releases etc.

I didn’t even really think of Debian as an option at the time, I kept hearing it was old and outdated, which I didn’t want.

That’s when I fell down the Arch rabbit hole. Cool logo, cool concept, hacker mode.

I wanted that, So, I tried Cachy and Endeavor. No. It wasn’t enough. I wanted that Arch logo natively in fastfetch. I wanted to say “I use arch btw”. First, I messed around in VMs. from 3pm to 3am, all I did was try and install arch in VMs. Manually, of course. I decided it was the only way to get the experience needed.

I was able to do it eventually. The Step to bare metal was… not as smooth as expected. what the hell is NVMEp02?? And stuff like that. It look a long time until I was done. And it was buggy, I had messed up. Shit didn’t work. I decided, well, it works except for weird stuff, strange issues I didn’t care to troubleshoot. So I used Archinstall, and no I don’t feel guilty, I can still do it manually if I wanted to I was just lazy.

Aaaand here we are. Arch is amazing and fantastic. But Debian Testing is almost as fast in terms of releases and I like the extra stability. Using Cosmic on Arch, actually. I love the tiling functionality. We shall see what the future brings

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

I don’t hate it, it’s just so far the worst one i’ve used. It’s not necessarily bad, I have friends who use it.

I mean… fedora is RHEL, which is very corporate

Do you wanna hear the whole backstory?

Currently triple booting Windows (very rarely for gaming)/Arch (Main system)/Debian (fun)

No, no don’t worry, no offense taken 😅 I should have expected it lol

wow… and what DE do you use with Slackware? I assume you just use pure CLI though

Well, maybe i’m not your average Arch user then… Don’t see the appeal in Nix, honestly, and i’m too lazy to learn. What is GNU Guix? Never heard of it.

I’m kinda tinkering with Debian Sid atm.

oh come on. I don’t ever say it outside of meme contexts. I just personally enjoy rolling releases and don’t really like the corporate feeling of Fedora, so i’m left with only really Arch as a good option.

oh, huh. Maybe it’s a SystemD service then, which would be disableable with sudo systemctrl disable akonadi

really? usually KDE based distros have it preinstalled, in Kubuntu for example there’s literally an app called “system services” or “background services” where you can do this. but i’m glad you figured it out

thanks mate, this helps a ton

It’s not. look up “services” in your app launcher

what did they do? like genuinely, I just don’t know

Disable it by going to “system services” and disabling it

What’s wrong with Omarchy? I keep seeing hate about it, but never found anything to really hate… it’s just a preconfigured arch based distro…

I’m sure it’s fixed on all rolling releases too already.