and the distros aren't always compatible with each other

try installing a deb made for ubuntu lts on, say, debian testing

without editing it

half the time you can't bc the dependencies are packages canonical changed the name of

I never dug deep to understand why but I just don't get how come distros aren't compatible with each other, I mean don't they use the same major component, it being GNU Linux w/e it's called?

Unless the thing for Debian relies on aptitude it should work no?

on Debian testing it's doable

sometimes

on Debian stable, that's a problem

i remember steam having issues

I tried installing AMD drivers on ElementaryOS

Nope.

speaking of steam, that was a big one, try installing steam on ubuntu 16 lts, with amd drivers

good luck

Usually sticking to Ubuntu without using Ubuntu desktop is the best thing to do

ubuntu 16 uses a version of xorg incompatible with the amd drivers current at the time, and that steam wanted

get Ubuntu server, it's nice, minimal and has sane defaults

then install XFCE

you had to install and run it with big list of environment variables

just for it to work at all

i didnt know this chat was paid by canonical

antergos/arch has played pretty nice so far, gentoo generally does the business if you have the patience

fedora is the most consistently "does the thing without wasting your time" beginner-friendly distro though

Wasn't that Manjaro?

antergos is just a better installer for normal arch

manjaro is its own thing

Fedora is great until you try to install something that doesn't have a package

with all the bleeding edge Red Hat circlejerk

libraries are not named the way you expect them to, things are not at the right place

@porco rpmfusion is a thing

just like arch has aur

rpmfusion does not have everything imaginable

also nah i haven't run into that issue as much as with ubuntu

that said: haven't run into that issue at _all_ on antergos

I still have Fedora on my laptop because re installing it is a hassle and I can't be bothered to because I actually use my computers for things beside screenfetch

And I wish I had the time to drop it

instead I am telling myself "I'll delete it soon" since Fedora 24

also if you wanna tal;k bleeding edge i dunno why people talk about "year old kernel" fedora

instead of "versions of xorg so new your gpu drivers dont work yet" ubuntu

I am not saying Fedora itself is a bleeding edge distro

but it includes all barely tested bleeding edge projects of redhat