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The Hardest of All (lemmygrad.ml)
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Which OS has the steep learning curve and is considered hardest?

  • Gentoo ( I have been using it for 3 years now, until I have to switch to Ubuntu for research sake. I love it's philosophy and I kinda feel even my lifestyle changed after Gentoo. Tried it's successors, redstar, cosmic mod didn't liked much.)
  • Arch Linux ( when I got into Linux, everyone was like, I use arch btw. So tried it first with gnome, then kde, then i3, then i3 gaps and tui, then used openrc, then used runit. Helped me lot to install Gentoo. But Gentoo transformed me into something else)
  • Nix OS ( I was hearing about it since 2022. I wanted to try, and now I am gonna install and use it. I'm planning)

My question is, which among these is considered to be hardest and thus by mastering it, one can master linux to atleast some part? (excluding network management, ofsec, netsec, forensics, etc)

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it just a potato, or is it an ancient potato? Arch runs on fairly old hardware as long as it's 64 bits hardware. The oldest device I have must be from around 2014 and it runs okay.

[–] CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just a normal potato. i3-3120M and upgraded to 12gb ram. Next will be the SSD as it still has an HDD. Works pretty well for everyday use, although forget about gaming.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i3, 12 GB RAM, SSD ... wouldn't call this a potato ... 😆

[–] CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 2 years ago

😅

no SSD yet. and I just recently got an axtra 8gb stick of ram lol. so before that swap was used a ton and it was crawling. doesn't help that I use gnome, i guess (i'm not that good with WMs).

i guess gaming-wise it's a potato. lol.