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?

  • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    in the early 00’s it was Mandrake. totally borked my HDD trying to install that and nuked my Windows XP partition in the process. just couldn’t wrap my brain around it.

    as for recently? Slackware. My Dad uses it but I just couldn’t get it working correctly. More than likely it’s simply because I did something wrong during install or setup post install. I’ve installed Gentoo a few times and I currently use NixOS and OpenBSD so I don’t think i’m stupid, I just messed up Slackware.