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sure thing, just gonna get started on it now so…give me like 20min.

welp guess I’ll set up a Canadian instance for this today. I like it. good idea.

to tack onto this CachyOS is a fantastic introduction to Arch.

Try Pop. They just put Cosmic into Beta and updated the OS so now would be a great time to give it a shot. Or just load up a bunch of distro live isos on like a thumb drive or external drive and try them all and see which one you like the best. There’s zero harm in distro hopping and you should never feel like you need to lock yourself down to one distro for months or years on end. I myself distro hop all the time when I want to switch up my linux experience. good way to learn them all too. I’ll bounce around from Arch to Fedora back to Arch then to NixOS over to Void or whatever I want. I run NixOS on my main machine, have CachyOS/Arch on another and my server is Ubuntu. And all that will change soon as I want to go and try out one of the new KDE distros or something completely different.

Honestly just use whatever you want whenever you want. I mean for myself I’m currently using DOOM Emacs but that’ll change in a month or two when I decide to use something else. I’ll routinely rotate through Neovim/LazyVim, DOOM Emacs, Zed, Kate, whatever really. if something new comes along, i’ll use that for a bit. Hell sometimes I just can’t be bothered and will just use Nano.

But yeah, they’re all fine. use whatever you want.

really? I never had to do that. They’ve left me alone since I originally signed up with them.

I have OVH for dedicated but I’ve also used their VPS and they’re great. They leave me alone, don’t hound me for anything, cheap prices, reliable as I’ve never had issues them. can’t complain. They’re Euro based but they have servers near me in Montreal so I use that which is great when I put my VPN on there cause now I get student discounts everywhere since my server is at McGill University.

Well ends up there’s a nixos package for it so I gave it a shot, been using it for the last couple days. I dig it more than Feishin so I switched to it. it’s not bad, pretty good.

I might, but I don’t have any issues with Feishin so unless it does something way better than I’m happy with what I have.

tried it, but the appimage would just constantly break for whatever reason. just wouldn’t load half the time.

Switched to Feishin for my navidrome server and prefer it, simple and clean.

honestly any distro you want. Try a few out. Load a bunch of live ISO’s on a usb drive and give them a spin. Distro hop until you find one you really like. that’s the beauty of Linux they’re all pretty easy to set up (hell even Arch is easy to set up now) so you can try a bunch of different ones.

You want to tinker and play around with your system? try an Arch based distro. You want something that has great support and will just work out of the box? try an Ubuntu one. Want something really unique that you can take with you where ever you go? give NixOS a shot. There are a ton of options and they’re all pretty good.

I would suggest you get one that’s arch based, one fedora, one ubuntu, maybe nixos, one debian, etc and see which one you like best.

shit all you have to do is try to update/upgrade the thing and it’s like rolling the dice if it’ll bork your system or not so they’ve done an excellent job in people hating them for that one reason.

without fail whenever they roll out an update you’ll see threads on mastodon or bluesky with people saying “welp, my Ubuntu is fucked” after an update.

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eh I’m going to take a wait and see approach.

The early alpha versions of COSMIC I really liked but over time with each new Alpha release it just felt…off? like kinda leaning into GNOME “please don’t actually customize me” territory? and there were a couple keybinds that just weren’t there. also it felt like it was getting slower with each release.

That being said I think if you just want a very simple DE with the option of good tiling then COSMIC is the way to go. It’s been awhile since I tried one of the previous alphas so if his release really is the shit then I might consider switching my WM to it.