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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • honestly, it’s going to take a lot for me to switch distros. i had Gentoo for 5y. finally ran out of time to compile and dispatch config. used Debian for 10y. finally bought a new machine where I needed latest Wayland, kernel and drivers, and Debian testing didn’t cut it. switched to arch.

    to switch now id need something essential that absolutely can’t be done in arch.


  • thanks for this. I’ve been using xournal since 2006, and switched to xournal++ maybe 7 or 8 years ago. didn’t think I would ever switch again. but rnote looks like it’s good enough for me to make the switch.

    1. strong defaults. most things did what I wanted without me having to configure anything. i configured xournal++ a lot

    2. invert brightness!! i basically start a new file everytime I had to switch from dark to light with xournal++. with rnote I can just hit the invert colors button…

    3. better handwry, zoom, drag, interface


  • arch.

    though honestly the distro doesn’t matter that much, as long as it supports the majority of your software stack. almost everything is in the big distros (arch fedora Debian), so just pick whatever ur most comfortable with…

    i must say I like the rolling release of arch. and the fact that it’s very up to date…







  • I went Gentoo to Debian to Arch.

    Gentoo took too much time to maintain. (Not just compile time. But also human time editing config files).

    Debian was great, until I had new hardware that needed a recent kernel and Wayland. i tried testing but that wasn’t stable enough and took too much of my time maintaining.

    I’m using arch now. i would only switch if they do something egregious (push ads, malware or snap)



  • honestly most distros will be fine. what matters more is your desktop environment. pick something light where Bells and whistles can be turned off. i used fvwm for many years on a lower spec system. now I use kde/plasma on wayland.

    I’ve used arch and Debian on low spec systems. both were fine. slightly prefer arch cause it’s more up to date



  • why exactly do you prefer run0?

    with sudo I can allow certain actions I do myself (e. g. system upgrade or change timezone) to proceed without a password, but require a password for everything else. this is important because some scripts elevate privileges via sudo. if I allowed all sudo without password I might be ruined byone badly written script…