Hello,

I try out new distro every week since I have a lot of free time and want to learn more about Linux. I was thinking that it would be interesting to make a Lemmy post every week talking about my experience with the distro and what I did with it. right now I have alpine linux installed and thinking about using it till next sunday.

feel free to suggest next distro that I should try out. (I have tried out a lot of distros but never wrote anything about the experience but now on I will be making post about it here on Lemmy :) )

  • Shareni@programming.devEnglish
    241·
    2 days ago

    If your goal is to learn about Linux, a single manual arch install will teach you more than going through a 100 near identical wizards. And that’s before going into actually useful resources like those that prepare you for Linux cert exams.

    If your goal is to compare distros, a week is not nearly enough time.

    • anothermember@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I second this. Not wanting to shoot down your idea, quite a big deciding factor for me is the release cycle and update process and you won’t experience that in a week. Might be a good idea to list what you’ve already tried though.

      • whoareuOPEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        how much time should I spend with a distro to actually get the gist of the distro? a month maybe?

        • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
          8·
          2 days ago

          how much time should I spend with a distro to actually get the gist of the distro? a month maybe?

          Why change would I change distro to begin with? I mean, you do as you like, quite obviously, but I never considered my objective to switch distro and test them all. I would see that as a waste of my time, as I’d rather be doing stuff with that computer.

          The distro I switched to (approx 3 years ago) I only switched because I could not solve an issue I had using the previous distro. A silly issue that simply was non-existent with that new one ;)

        • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          Enough to find and overcome issues with how you use it.

          If you quit a distro before you run into an issue then that’s not very helpful when it comes time to make a choice

          If you aren’t able to overcome and fix an issue that you run into while using the computer the way you would normally, then your probably not learning much about Linux.

          My recommendation is to go for at least a minor kernel upgrade.

          If all you want to do is test out distros before you commit to an install, then check out https://distrosea.com/

          • whoareuOPEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            I mean to know/learn about it ( sorry bad english )

            • Shareni@programming.devEnglish
              3·
              2 days ago

              I meant it in a philosophical sense.

              Let’s say the gist of Debian is stability. How can you understand it? If you install now and use it for a week, you’ll just see packages that are 2 years out of date, and call it crap without going into the reasoning behind it, or finding your solutions to outdated packages. If you install it after a new release and use it for a week, you’ll think it’s fedora with apt, and call it a day.

              • whoareuOPEnglish
                1·
                2 days ago

                You are correct, maybe 1 week is not that much time, I should try to use it for at least a month.

    • whoareuOPEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, I mainly do it because I want to learn more about Linux and see what different distros offers. but yeah you are probably correct that I should just learn single distro properly.

      • Shareni@programming.devEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        A distro is essentially the package manager, defaults, and release schedule. Sure, some have new ideas (like the immutable ones), but that’s the only difference for most of them.

        You need to learn Linux properly, then it won’t matter what distro you’re using.

        • whoareuOPEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Yeah, I am trying to learn Linux(also BSDs) by using and tweaking them, I don’t know if this is the right way to learn it.

  • PushButton@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Void Linux.

    It uses runit, you can also use musl if you like.

    It’s a simple and efficient distribution that is “its own thing”.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    2·
    2 days ago

    kudos and when you stop would love a final post giving your opinion across the board. im lazy and use zorin but honestly may be a bit boring for someone willing to hop every week.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    Distros can all be classified into a few different categories

    • Debian based

    • RHEL/Fedora based

    • Arch based

    • ostree based

    • obscure distro doing its own thing

    Almost all distros use exactly the same software under the hood such as systemd, network manager, Linux and others

    I would install virtual manager and run a bunch of stuff. Just make sure you install spice-vdagent and qemu-guest-agent

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    You could install any distribution and use distrobox to get the hang of all distros. At the end of the day a distro is just a starting point of a configuration. Once you learn to customize it to your liking other than what Repo and package management you use. Every distro is the same and the community around the distro is more important. At that point distro hopping is not a tech thing at all. But most people distro hop because they thing if I just find the better distro then everything will work but there is no better distro. They can all be configured the same.