I’m really enjoying Pop!_OS, but their logo could use some workshopping imo. I’ve been considering trying an upstream distro as an educational experience anyway, yet somehow this is what I’m feeling excited about. I don’t know why - nobody but me is ever going to see my neofetch output. Lol

(NixOS isn’t really in the running… I just wanted a 3rd example and like the logo)

  • illusionist@lemmy.zip
    76·
    9 days ago

    You can just use a distrobox …

    The package manager isn’t that much of a reason to choose a distro anymore.

    Neofetch is not maintained anymore. I can recommend fastfetch.

      • funkajunk@lemmy.world
        22·
        9 days ago

        Fastfetch is better than neofetch, and it can look the same:

        fastfetch -c neofetch

        EDIT:

        Forgot to mention, I like to put it in my .zshrc file so it comes up whenever I open the terminal, but I had some formatting issues until I changed it to this:

        fastfetch --pipe false -c neofetch

    • iopq@lemmy.world
      12·
      8 days ago

      Disagree, nix is a lot better than standard package managers. For one, you can have packages installed that rely on different dependecy versions

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        8 days ago

        That’s neat how that’s been a standard feature of enterprise Linux for 20 years. They call them alt-packages and, even before a succession of environment juggling and subversion swapping, they worked really well.

        (Still do, except all the people who knew how to figure dependencies have left RH. I’m looking at you, Ansible who will soon need containers for even client install)

      • illusionist@lemmy.zip
        12·
        8 days ago

        Is nix already “normie” compatible? It has to become much easier.

        I really like home manager but even that is too difficult right now.

        Same for flatpak, it’s on a good path but there is still lots of room for improvement

        • iopq@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 days ago

          the UIs for things like configs are not really usable in my experience, unless someone found something that works better

        • GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          Complex things that someone has already done are infinitely easier in nixos - stuff like having zfs as root filesystem is literally two lines in the config (and the magic is that it is very, very hard to break).

          Complex things that are your own edge case will make you want to pull your hair out - I wanted to run immich on a raspberry pi 5 with native 16k page size, long story short, I still don’t have immich.

          On the other hand, if by “normie” you mean “running a browser and some flatpaks”, nixos is likely the best distro that will work right out of the box - the graphical installer will generate a good config, the out of the box hardware support is the best in my experience, breakage is almost impossible. Automatic updates will not work though and there’s no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.

          • illusionist@lemmy.zip
            2·
            8 days ago

            Nix is awesome but has a steep learning curve imo.

            I’ll have a look into the installer nowadays whrn I get to it, thx for the hint.

          • luciferofastora@feddit.org
            6·
            8 days ago

            Automatic updates will not work though and there’s no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.

            That’s probably a disqualifying feature for laypeople-suitability. “Normies” ad in “non-techies” won’t easily dare touch the command line and certainly not think of frequently using it to check for updates, but not having any security updates is a bad idea.

            • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
              3·
              8 days ago

              The one exception here: it’s great to have it installed on your parents’ PC when you’re the one doing the update once in a while when you are around. Rock solid in between, no nagging, and if something did break, easy to roll back.

  • DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    7 days ago

    The coolest I’ve seen? Artix of course!

    (There’s also Kali, but it’s disqualified because A: not a daily driver distro, and B: dragons are automatically the coolest thing ever)

    “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear”

    (don’t know why it’s green)

  • Hello_there@fedia.io
    4·
    9 days ago

    If I switch from discover to some other manager like bazaar, is it still going to default to my distro’s flatpaks? Or will I have to manually choose?

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      I’m not super deep into Flatpak, but is there such a thing as a “distro’s Flatpaks”? Normally, it uses central repositories like FlatHub, which are intentionally distro-independent.
      A distro-specific repository would only make sense, if your distro maintainers are developing custom tooling…

      • Qwel@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        8 days ago

        At least Fedora and Elementary have distro-made repos. They use them to package their apps for all distro versions without having to rely on Flathub infra and admins

    • Qwel@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      8 days ago

      It should. Install it to find out, you can keep both Bazaar and Discover while you make up your mind

  • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world
    8·
    8 days ago

    neofetch is pretty but it is slower than the alternatives: pfetch, fastfetch…etc. I either use those 2 or no fetch whatsoever: I want my terminal pops up and is ready to type.

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 days ago

    Eventhough i’m a void user i really like the artix logo and i think it’s on of the best looking logos in neofetch/fastfetch

  • Caveman@lemmy.world
    10·
    8 days ago

    I want to do the Nix thing so bad. It’s tempting me but I don’t have any time for that.

  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    9·
    8 days ago

    Personally I like fastfetch with dacrabs tweaks.

    In terms of distributions, I’m not a good example of “so cool!”. Its pretty much just Debian. Stable for servers (with proxmox mostly), stable for my main desktop, two machines with Trixie and Sid respectively, then two test boxes with arch and endeavouros (for laziness purposes).

    I like LMDE as a rec for others, though I prefer it with KDE which is no longer explicitly supported, so meh.

    For family, if I’m doing it, its Deb stable all the way. Even my htpc’s are deb stable.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    10·
    8 days ago

    Most of the *fetches (and clones by other names) have an option for showing a different distro’s logo without having to go through any major changes. neofetch, moribund though it is, has --ascii_distro for that purpose (Weird choice of an underscore in an option. Most programs use more hyphens to separate words in long options).

    This did get me to install screenfetch (superseded by plain old fetch but realised that too late for this comment), cpufetch (a year old, still in active development) and archey4 (likewise) after I did a bit of research on similar programs though, so maybe the sirens got me one way or the other.

  • This2ShallPass@lemmy.world
    8·
    8 days ago

    You can customize the logo. Raspberry Pi OS displays as Debian by default but you can force it to be the Raspberry Pi logo.