What is the most badass, hardest to use distro ?

ingvildr · 08-13-2005, 05:29 AM

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He was asking about linux, but of all *BSD's I recommend OpenBSD - was much harder for me. They do not even provide ISO's (as far as I know). Also Solaris is pretty cool.

Hahah yeah i second the idea of openbsd, but they do provide a minimal boot iso you use to do a ftp install. But the icing on the cake is pure text, no ncurses hehehe that AND disklabel pfff that thing used to give me headaches.

MeCrumbly429 · 03-02-2021, 12:27 PM

CRUX Linux,
Because the Source package manager, PRT-get, fails quite a bit
And they expect you to write your own packages.
And configuring X is a pain in the ass.

igadoter · 03-02-2021, 12:37 PM

Try Gentoo. You will never ask again this questions.

MeCrumbly429 · 03-02-2021, 01:24 PM

This is a pretty old thread, so this will probably get buried [hello from Reddit (^@^)].
My favorite advanced distribution is probably CRUX [even more transparent than Gentoo!], and SMGL(source mage), cause it's even more minimal than CRUX, and the package manager [called Sorcery] is probably one of the best. however, the required partition scheme is ridiculous, they make you create seven Friggin partitions just so you can use it, and when I created two partitions instead of the required ones for basically every directory and meta-filesystem you can think of, /bin wasn't there and I was only left with the Coreutils. PLD sounds nice but I've never tried it. Lunar Linux is similar to SMGL but the documentation is offline so don't bother. NuTyX is also very nice but they removed the CLI image from their website, and the repositories are way too small (but it ain't CRUX level small, though). Exherbo is nice, but the Package manager is so confusing I couldn't use it [because the syntax is terrible and I get unexplained repo errors whenever I install something other than htop, even after syncing the repositories]. oh, and they make you install your own init system, and the default is systemD for christ's sake [and Paludis is available for installation on Gentoo, obsoleting the entire distro]. People seem to like NixOS, but I can't get the config file to work for crying out loud. GuixSD freezes during installation, but that's just me (guixsd is very similar to nix in that it uses a central config file for the entire distribution. Slackware is probably the most practical distribution, but stable is old n' crusty and -current is buggy as frick. the package manager is pretty tedious to use, people like the no-dependencies rule but I find it pretty hard to use, I'd really like it if you could choose what dependencies you use instead of installing the ones you want off the internet like a moron (if Patrick volderking is reading this, slackers are not morons and I respect them greatly). Arch is the most usable for new users because Pacman is easy to learn and there is almost no user-dependent configuration. Plus, the compilation of packages on arch is very easy cause of makepkg. just, Source distributions, in general, are mostly great. Too bad there aren't that many of them anymore.
Thanks for listening, this post was pretty crappy.

MeCrumbly429 · 03-08-2021, 12:54 PM

What.
The frick.
Did you just type?

ArchArael · 05-13-2021, 01:18 AM

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EDIT: Sorry for necrobumping. Did not notice this is an old thread.

Bonzoo · 05-13-2021, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by xconspirisist

What is the most badass, hardest to use distro ?

Im fed up of being treated like a newbie with redhat / fedora core. The only gripe I have, is that the distro has good hardware support... ( supports my usb, micro$oft optical mouse thingy )

Windows 98 Second Edition ? ;-)

ondoho · 05-14-2021, 01:31 PM

Definitely Suicide Linux:

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Any time you type any remotely incorrect command, the interpreter creatively resolves it into rm -rf / and wipes your hard drive.

Ultra badass!!!!

jmgibson1981 · 05-14-2021, 05:14 PM

I define badass distro by whatever gets what I need done as efficiently as possible without requiring a degree to understand it. In my case the server and desktops run Ubuntu. My router is Debian. Both give me little to no trouble. I can therefore generally spend my time doing more amusing things.

ondoho · 05-14-2021, 11:53 PM

I define "badass" as a term I would never, ever use seriously.

jamison20000e · 05-15-2021, 01:12 AM

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rkelsen · 05-15-2021, 01:18 AM

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CRUX Linux

WTH is it with CRUX users?

In your haste to boast about CRUX did you not notice that this thread is older than you? HTH did you even find it?

jamison20000e · 05-15-2021, 01:46 AM

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WTH is it with

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rkelsen
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Registered: Sep 2004
Distribution: slackware

CRUX users?

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ondoho · 05-15-2021, 10:56 PM

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In your haste to boast about CRUX did you not notice that this thread is older than you?

Isn't CRUX too?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crux_Linux => Initial release: 2002

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Originally Posted by rkelsen

HTH did you even find it?

Probably from this very thread.

rkelsen · 05-15-2021, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by ondoho

Probably from this very thread.

My post was referring to the age of the thread and the obscurity of the thread itself.