Hello,
first I installed Gentoo with glibc and it worked fine, I got sway up and running but after some time I got bored and wanted something new. so I decided to go with Arch with rEFInd bootloader but I couldn’t make it work. Arch dropped me into a rescue shell. so I went back to Gentoo but this time with musl and this time I tried Hyprland on Gentoo. there were 133 packages to install for Hyprland, so I went for installing those packages but the build failed probably because using musl. now I thought I just pick that’s easy to setup and I went with Debian and it got installed successfully. so yeah, right now I am using Debian after the back and forth between Arch and Gentoo.
sadly I pissed of some Gentoo devs on IRC #gentoo :(
maybe it was my fault I shouldn’t have distrohopped when Gentoo was installed succesfully and working fine.
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I feel like I’m the only one that doesn’t just hop all the time in the community.
I run Debian and it does basically everything I needed to, what it doesn’t do I have a distrobox container on it which allows more or less seamless integration to my current system. I currently only use it for Final Fantasy XIV via lutris for some reason the arch version of lutris will work fine but the debians version of it when I launched Final Fantasy XIV will white page after logging in. It’s so weird.
It’s so weird to think about, cuz everyone I talk to has stated do not use that OS if you plan to actively game, because it’s considered a stable release so therefore everything’s outdated. But I very rarely ever have any issue with gaming it just works
distrohoped
This should be a word. It would mean “trying yet another flavor because it might be The One”
Now nixos
I have tried nixos in the past and it just works and it’s surprisingly stable!
sadly I pissed of some Gentoo devs on IRC #gentoo :(
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
The adventures and perils of a Distronaut.
distrocoped
“distrohoped”?
As in you hoped this next distro would be the one that worked well?
Sounds like S.O.P
Easiest way of installing hyprland is a combo that only needs 30 min.
- Install Arch Linux with “archinstall”
- Don’t choose any DE or WM
- reboot and Log into just arch Linux commandline.
- choose one of these hyprland dotfiles devs from github with an install-script
https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles https://github.com/JaKooLit/Hyprland-Dots
PS. For your hopping experience: time to meet fedora.
I feel those who try gentoo, arch and nix wouldn’t accept the fedora compromise
I am an Arch guy, and my servers runs Fedora/Debian.
Then find out you cant stream stuff out of the box and find uburnu vor mint? :D ( i would recommend mint, just installed it on my desktop. Laptop still runs ubuntu)
All in a day’s work?
Yeah, I have distrohoped from morning to night. It’s 9:17 here.
I did it because I really want to learn Linux and want a job related to Linux. I am really obsessed with Linux and BSD
To distrohope! Way to inadvertently coin a useful word.
For refind on Arch, you have to fix the entries it creates in
/boot/refind.conf. Those point to the ISO drive when created in the chroot, so change them to point to your real root drive.Thanks, I didn’t know that, I thought
refind-installwas it.Glad to help :)
