I just saw a DistroTube video with this question. Quite a thought provoking question [for this seasoned distroholic at least].

“What’s the hardest Linux distro you’ve tried?” can be interpreted many ways, and I wonder what kinds of answers we’ll get.

Especially these days, with much change underfoot and newer users having a different distrosphere to explore…

What’s the hardest Linux distro you’ve tried?

  • auzy1English
    2·
    28 days ago

    Gentoo or Slackware.

    Although, technically Debian… Because I had Debian 1.0 on CD, and had no idea what I was doing (no idea if that even came with Xfree86, if it did, I didn’t know how to run it at the time)

    People today have it easy since Xorg added auto configuration, PulseAudio was added and manufacturers started treating Linux as a Tier 1 OS.

    • Digit@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      21·
      27 days ago

      Back in the day, and for an absurdly long time, Debian was one of the hardest distros to install, solely because they buried the ISO download links so deep in a confounding byzantine labyrinth trail of links through their website, it felt more like luck if you managed to find it to download. LOL.