after a long 10+ year journey as a hackintosh user, i think i am gonna walk away

the ports systems are a bit stale, the os as a whole is no longer even remotely stable (hasn't been for a while), and the move towards locking down the dev environment is annoying

so, out with the old, in with.... probably the old. i think i'll go back to windows. i thought about using arch, but i had fun with the whole do-it-yourself linux thing back in the early 90s and i don't have the spoons for that anymore

@scarly you could try mint or elementary if you're looking for something more linux-y that's not so do it yourself but I get it if you're not seeking suggestions and all. gl.

@shadow8t4 i not only used mint but also rolled my own ubuntu-like a Long Time Ago (tm). i literally used to try every single distribution and tinkered with them all way too much

i ended up disliking mint. i just felt like it had debian's cumbersomeness under the hood and none of the benefits that are usually offered in return (stability, predictability, well documented approaches).

@scarly that's fair. I feel recently they've improved on stability but documentation is still hard to find aside from forum posts. A lot of distros have problems like that... Hard to find one that's actually a good tradeoff without basically being another arch.

@shadow8t4 that's kinda where i'm at right now to be honest. i feel like a version of arch with tested, version-locked releases would be my dream distribution

BUT - it doesn't exist.

someone should make this.

@scarly manjaro comes close.

@shadow8t4 i would be down for that, except that the stigma of using something that "makes arch linux easy" actually gets on my nerves

it would be better if it just set its tone based on its own merits. instead, i can see myself catching bad vibes from the Serious Arch Linux Users because i'm using arch with training wheels.

the deep irony here? none of the people that are self-declared hardcore arch people could have survived the linux scene back in 1992. lmfao. arch isn't hard. that was hard

@scarly *shrugs* I don't really care much for dick measuring contests. I used arch for the experience. I don't anymore because it's not worth my time to constantly be fixing my machine while using it. If people want to tell me I'm not hardcore enough or whatever then I don't want to hang around those people.

@shadow8t4 hehehe, i like you then - that's a good philosophy

for the same reason, i'm inclined towards windows. if i'm gonna go ease-of-use might as well go the whole way

i consider myself retired from the linux desktop scene, but i will always be supportive of it