what linux distro has the best user community, and why is

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>>58779839
You post bullshit and get no answer.
What did you expect?

>>58779839
PCLinuxOS

>>58779974
if you love bloated garbage then yes
if not then arch or gentoo or slackware

>>58780183
If by "bloated" you mean "not timesink shitware like arch or gentoo or slackware", then yeah.

>>58780216
bloat

bloatis a process whereby successive versions of a computer program become perceptibly slower, use more memory, disk space, processing power, and have higher hardware requirements than the previous version—whilst making only dubious user-perceptible improvements or suffering from feature creep.

>>58779969
>arch
>retarded faggots getting advice from faggots with USI

>>58780216
>timesink
well meme'd
setup, package management, system maintenance, and troubleshooting take as much if not less time than on other systems that offer the same simplicity and flexibility in performing those tasks (and very few actually do)

but I was specifically asking about the user community
>>58779974
>website uses wordpress and is covered in ads for sponsors
>recent forum topics include "[Solved] How change default wallpaper for MATE"

>>58780251
gtfo wikipedo

>>58779839
>tfw you are a lazy ass who depend on abandonware (lilo) and won't make a proper fucking package manager
>tfw the BDFL of the project failed, but they won't admit it

>>58779839
>postulating an initial open ended question then changing the question to one that seeks validation for your own opinionated answer to the initial question disregarding that the initial question is open ended and has no definitive correct answer

Use any distro.
Google problem.
See archwiki result. check it out. usually gud.
see 17 ubuntu forums different solutions. 10 don't apply, poster misunderstood problem. 4 cause other unrelated problem. 1 works if lucky.
See gentoo wiki result. Same as arch but fewer details.
Fix problem. Go to /g/. 200 asshole posters, 25 of which are arch advocates. Conclude arch community is made of assholes.

Linux looks very interesting, even if some of the screen colours and menu options appear to be a little out of the ordinary.
But you are missing a vital point, a point which takes some experience and depth of knowledge in the field of computers. You see, when a computer boots up, it needs to load various drivers and then load various services. This happens long before the operating system and other applications are available.

Linux is a marvellous operating system in its own right, and even comes in several different flavours. However, as good as these flavours are, they first need Microsoft Windows to load the services prior to use.

In Linux, the open office might be the default for editing your wordfiles, and you might prefer ubuntu brown over the grassy knoll of the windows desktop, but mark my words young man - without the windows drivers sitting below the visible surface, allowing the linus to talk to the hardware, it is without worth.

And so, by choosing your linux as an alternative to windows on the desktop, you still need a windows licence to run this operating system through the windows drivers to talk to the hardware. Linux is only a code, it cannot perform the low level function.

My point being, young man, that unless you intend to pirate and steal the Windows drivers and services, how is using the linux going to save money ? Well ? It seems that no linux fan can ever provide a straight answer to that question !

May as well just stay legal, run the Windows drivers, and run Office on the desktop instead of the linus.

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>>58780893

I use antergos. Being antergos is basically an installer for arch, I can seek help in both communities.

Typicall I search for "Arch problem here" and as you said, get a fairly decent wiki with pretty detailed problems and solutions for them.

Plus - It's BEAUTIFUL.

>>58780806
slackpkg is an extremely proper, simple, and flexible package manager
sbopkg is an extremely proper, simple, and flexible build manager
both are shell scripts

you can use grub if you really want to. the distro comes with official packages for it in /extra

>>58780918
sauce? retarded or troll?

>>58780893
>usually gud
if it's a basic overview of a basic system concept or major, commonly-used software, yes
if it's something distro/systemd specific, usually unusable
if it's a program that is not used by 85% of people, it's usually outdated or incomplete

nearly all dedicated Slackware users eventually reach a point where they can analyze and fix any OS-related problems (virtually none in Slackware :^) ) and most software-related problems aside from bugs in the actual programs without any assistance within 2-5 years of first exposure, less if they have prior Linux experience.

>>58781057
>using the smiley with a carat nose

>>58779839

Slack, CentOS, Fedora, and Debian. In that order.

Those 4 represent the part of the Linux community that is trying to accomplish shit with their machines and, more than likely, make money as opposed to a bunch of tardmonkeys that concern themselves more with ricing.

>>58781166
i can agree with that, although Debian devs are a bunch of socialist sjw cucks

>>58779969
this. Im currently using debian because I value stability over all, but the Arch community was utopic, as well as the documentation.

>>58781262

I forgot to add OpenSUSE to that list. Their community is pretty good and, like the rest of them, they seem to be more concerned with real work than rice.

Has anyone killed themselves or heir wife yet? That seems to be the main advantage of linux distros nowadays. "Slackware Linux: Because we haven't killed our wives yet".

>>58780918
mmm tasty! Is this new pasta?

>>58781262
In what way are Debian devs socialist sjw cucks? Serious question here.

Slackware had the most fanatical users back in the day. It was mainly the .rpm days of redhat though and their system was still utter shit so the pure .tgz binaries of slack were amazing sometimes. But, after debian when someone actually didn't do a shitty job at packaging (at the stable distribution at least) then slack became shit and cumbersome to have a point to exist, kinda like gentoo and arch.

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>>58779839
>Slackware
>best user community

What user community?

>>58779969
I find it funny that people always shit on the Arch community, when every time I've checked the forums they've generally are pretty helpful

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Is LMDE good for switching from Winfag to Linux?

>>58779839
GNU/Linux*

>>58781494
did some research, it's vintage pasta from 2007. Jerry Lee Cooper.

>>58781529
it was the original "community" distro. before they even started working on the project in full, they drafted a constitution and a social contract. they have an official debian for women project. they have official anti-harassment policies. i can't provide any links off the top of my head, but i've seen plenty of mailing list threads in the same vein as firefox dev ones.

>>58781683
:^)

>>58781747
if you want a windows replacement, probably, but if you need to use any niche commercial windows-focused software for enterprise, scientific, medical, design, AV, etc., be prepared for it either to not be supported or require at least some arcane workarounds or extra configuration that you won't understand but will have to perform
if you want to "learn" linux, i recommend something simple and basic, like Slackware

>>58781747
see >>58781759

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>>58781795
All I want is lurking on Imageboards, watching Youtube, using Libre and sometimes playing LeagueOfLebians.

>>58781853
a) so why don't you just use windows
b) idk if LoL has a native linux client but I'm sure you can just do a one-click install if you use PlayOnLinux

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>>58781874
>a) so why don't you just use windows
I want my freedumb back.

>b) idk if LoL has a native linux client but I'm sure you can just do a one-click install if you use PlayOnLinux

Yes it's working on Wine and PlayOnLinux.

>>58781930
>Wine and PlayOnLinux
PlayOnLinux is a set of python scripts to automate the process of configuring wine to run various windows software using user-submitted installation scripts. It has a number of shortcomings but is better than having do to shit yourself if you don't know how and don't care to learn.

I agree. Kids cannot into Slack.

Why is slapt-get and slapt-src such a mess? Any alternative?

>>58782249
yeah. just use slackpkg. it's not hard to "manually resolve dependencies". if you have at least passing intermediate-level knowledge of bash, you can write your own "dependency resolution" script
(hint: all you need to use is

slackpkg info

, grep, and for loop)

>>58782296
oh, and awk

>>58782296
Can slackpkg install packages from slackbuilds?

>>58782326
if you build a package from a slackbuild, you can install it using installpkg
if you want to interactively build a slackbuild, use sbopkg, a full-featured dialog and menu driven build manager that lets you customize and save .info, .SlackBuild, and build options, makes it simple to build different versions of a package or build 32-bit on a 64-bit system (providing you have required compat libraries, can check for potential updates, lets you create and save build queues, and comes with a script to automatically generate queue files based on dependency trees (i.e. automatic dependency resolution)
and it's a shell script

>>58782388
Thanks. I'll get rid of the slapt-* madness right away.

>>58782445
after several brief experiences trying to use ubuntu and debian, I decided to avoid anything with "apt" in the name

>>58782483
I was using one of those to give me a list of installed packages and the other to install stuff from slackbuils, but the inconsistency between both is making my blood boil.

>>58781795
>using the smiley with a carat nose

>>58779839
I'm guessing because it is a community of educated old men

>>58782514
if you want a list of installed packages, just do

$ ls /var/log/packages

or put

alias lspkg='ls /var/log/packages | grep '

in your .bashrc to search for specific package names, check the installed version, etc.
or if you want to scroll through a list of installed packages sorted by installed size in descending order, you can do something like

$ grep 'UNCOMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE' /var/log/packages/* | perl -pe 's{/var/log/packages/(.*):UNCOMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE:\s+(.*)}{$2\t$1}' | sort -rh | less

>>58780893
You have to admit though that those arch assholes are extremely vocal.
Besides, the Arch forums are also filled with underage, toxic, elitist hacker wannabes.
I used to post there often, but I felt like it was just /g/ but with usernames and avatars.

>>58783036
>the Arch forums are also filled with underage, toxic, elitist hacker wannabes.
this is my point. I have never met a Slackware user online or in person (yes, I have met them in person) who was immature, incompetent, immodest, or consumed by self-importance.

>>58781746
People that complains usually come from ubuntu forums where they spoonfeed you everything. Arch forums can get harsh on stupid/newb questions.

>>58783682
Yeah, something a lot of people don't realize is that if you ask a question on the arch forums/IRC they expect you to understand what you're asking and also to have at least researched a little into potential solutions. If you show up and ask something like "how do I install AUR package I downloaded the snapshot and it says it's not a valid package," you're gonna get derided because that's a stupid ass question that you could answer with 5-10 minutes of reading the wiki.