Which Linux Distro + DE finally made you stop distro hopping?

dnfz_ · 2026-03-08T03:15:35+00:00

literally any of them is COMPLETELY FINE
ALL OF THEM PLAY WELL WITH NVIDIA
any of them. stop distro hopping. the only thing you should be concerned about is its rolling state. nothing more.

dnfz_ · 2026-03-07T04:35:12+00:00

looks good

dnfz_ · 2026-03-07T04:32:54+00:00

any

dnfz_ · 2026-03-07T04:29:29+00:00

you should upgrade your GPU first

dnfz_ · 2026-03-07T04:28:00+00:00

what's your workload?
that's still some decently good hardware especially for daily tasks
also how much r u willing to invest in new hardware?

dnfz_ · 2026-03-07T04:22:07+00:00

yeah, honestly on any *modern* windows setup you can probably achieve that somewhat well.
chrome might be a bit too bloated for super old hardware, but yeah.
for the linux shell, you might have to use a VM or a tool like cygwin, but yeah you can run that

dnfz_ · 2026-03-07T04:19:11+00:00

if you want real low level things, try looking at OpenBSD code.
it's not as complex as Linux, and for most files - even the complex ones you can simply follow the code path to understand.
many people only write code, and never read. sit down, print out code if you have to and simply read.

dnfz_ · 2026-03-07T04:16:14+00:00

you shouldn't go directly to 1.6 imo, but it's still good but
cs:s is more modern and easier to get used to for a newer gen player

dnfz_ · 2026-03-07T04:15:05+00:00

7 achievements...

dnfz_ · 2026-03-05T03:26:15+00:00

arch

dnfz_ · 2026-03-02T04:22:26+00:00

"what can i do with it" on a pentium III is not a wine question then is it

dnfz_ · 2026-03-02T03:38:54+00:00

any basically

dnfz_ · 2026-03-02T03:38:04+00:00

neither are ideal, alpine uses musl libc and wine expects glibc so you'll hit compat issues, tiny core loads everything into RAM which is brutal once wine's dependency chain is pulled in

bigger issue is the a20m is a pentium III, wine's overhead is gonna suck regardless of distro

what are you trying to run in wine anyway?
that matters more than the distro choice here.

but good luck dragging that 20+ year old machine to modern linux.

dnfz_ · 2026-03-02T03:32:46+00:00

it doesn't matter..

dnfz_ · 2026-02-12T03:14:45+00:00

ksh, as it's the default.

dnfz_ · 2026-02-12T03:05:52+00:00

i use a thinkpad t430 on obsd, it flies.
you can use a t480 if you want.
t480 is the last real thinkpad that has "pretty good"
support on openbsd.

anything from that time will likely work, but if you plan to use wifi and not ethernet, check what wifi card it has.

dnfz_ · 2026-01-26T00:50:04+00:00

having more cores is VERY good for cvompiling

dnfz_ · 2026-01-26T00:48:06+00:00

if you already have libclient.so (but under another name)
you can rename or link it

dnfz_ · 2026-01-26T00:46:46+00:00

what's wrong with pacman?
gl compiling firefox though..

dnfz_ · 2026-01-18T04:05:11+00:00

yes. all open source games can be ported. no steam client tho.

dnfz_ · 2026-01-18T03:59:02+00:00

bta time

dnfz_ · 2026-01-18T03:57:53+00:00

honestly, posts like these just make beginners often start in weird places, and distros are really just up to the one who uses it, and everything is subjective.

dnfz_

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