Ketata Mohamed

@RmDebArc_5 @figjam
“… while there are efforts to make it work on desktop I would advise against using them…” many people including me use Proton on desktop and everything just works smoothly & flawlessly, Proton in reality came out on desktop before on handheld console, I mean Proton was able to be used on PC long before the SteamDeck was a thing, problems are mostly user-end outage

@deadcatbounce @Lost_My_Mind 🤣
no seriously, in my case, even it they ran HarmonyOS, it still sucks in tunisia, it is impossible to get a stable & reliable internet connection, this resulted on me searching for a long time for a good AUR helper that can pause downloads automatically & resume them because of the shitty network access in tunisia, many times a year we remain without internet because there are either TT or the ISP problems

@qyron @cm0002 the question is not do you need it? But will you need it one day? Linux is evolving every day and everything can happen

@lancalot I understand the list I provided is not necessarily complete, because Void & Solus are also independent, however, for them to be “main”, they should have “derivatives”, I don’t claim that I have a big Linux experience, but I tried & documented myself about the distros on the list, & can confirm that they are “main”, I also tried Nix OS, the use of 1 config file is refreshing, however that ease comes at the cost of some flexibility, installing Steam there is too complicated for me

@lancalot the “main” that are alive today are (like on this graph) https://rreinold.github.io/explore-linux/ :Debian, Slackware, RHEL, Gentoo, Arch & android
These are only the alive ones, however, I couldn’t find any info about Nix OS so it remains on the maybe category cause I tried it and could not find any hint to the past

@lancalot OpenSUSE is based on SUSE (created in 1994)
Fedora was developed as a continuation of RHEL
Maybe “main” is not well appropriate, I wanted to say “distros that have no precedence & not based on anything”, for example, 0.12 was a “main” distro, MCC Interim Linux was a “derivative” distro

@lancalot none of the “main” distros default to BTRFS, just “derivatives” default to BTRFS, Garuda is based on Arch, so it’s normal that it’s one of the rising new distros, Garuda rose because gaming on Linux received a huge boost from sources like Valve so I doubt that it (Garuda) will deviate from its path with time, plus, they provide multiple flavors for multiple purposes, gaming requires stability & sometimes a rollback mechanism, that’s where BTRFS shine, not so much stability BTW

@lancalot @possiblylinux127 eh, also Garuda defaults to BTRFS, EOS does not default to BTRFS, but it has an option on their Calamares

@jon@vivaldi.net Zen

@cyborganism @zloubida it’s strange that you never heard of it because it is a live-only Linux distro that is one of the most privacy-preserving OSes out there, it is mostly used to access the dark web, however its nature makes it that it can be used for many, many things, like testing an otherwise 100% OS-breaking thing

@drspod @SatyrSack Ventoy has bad parts yes but many things either are only supported by it or rely too much in it, for example, as a sysadmin I need to have at all time a winlol ISO (even though I hate myself every time I use it) and also as an IT I need to have a MediCat USB at all time, both cannot be done with Glim, so until a better solution sees the light of day, Ventoy should remain my main tool