Slackware
As simple as Arch, but more stable.
The design is almost 100 years old and doesn't need daily filter updates.
But also it burns the coffee
Only when you use it wrong.
That sounds an awful lot like the blaming the user. Maybe it really is the slackware of coffee.
It's easy to blame the user when they don't bother to read the manual or follow basic instructions.
So it burns the coffee.
It does not. A regular percolator does, as it circulates the coffee back into the boiling water, unlike a moka pot, where the finished coffee does not sit at the bottom close to the heat, but in the top compartment. You should take it off the stove as soon as it’s done to avoid getting the finished coffee back to a boil or overextracting the coffee but if you do it right, they make really good coffee.
There are even some versions that feature a valve, so the coffee is cooked at a higher pressure, getting it a little closer to espresso and producing a nice –albeit short lived – crema.
Hell, mine made crema on the first try. I probably over-pressed the coffee though.
I really like the mocha pot, but I'm a cappucino fan - if only there were a simple way to steam milk. I even have a Bellman, but it takes forever to build up pressure.
Tbh confused how you even managed to burn the coffe with this, as it is just evaporating water that filters through the coffee above - like did you put the coffee in the bottom part? 🤔
I haven't experienced this, but from what I hear if you start with cooler water in the bottom and have the heat set too high, you can overheat the pot and the grounds before the water comes to temp to actually brew.
The few times I've used my moka pot I've preheated the water in a kettle so it gets to brewing faster (based on coffee people recommendations online.)
This is the correct way to do it.
Boil the water first, pour it in the bottom, place coffee in section on top, screw on top part, heat till it brews out the too, then remove from heat as soon as it's done.
I use refrigerated filtered water in mine. Maybe I just don't set the heat too high though? I use a coil stovetop and put the knob around 7.5/10. Coffee takes 7-8 minutes after I turn it on.
I've used a moka pot nearly every day for 10 years, never burned my coffee with it. I'm not even sure how you'd do that unless you just completely ignore it when it's done and leave it on the stove forever.
I can't imagine how you burn coffee with a mocha pot.
Like, you'd have to go out of your way and intentionally try to burn coffee with it.
Me too. And a lot of chatter (how are people managing to burn the coffee!?).
Classic. Stable. Easy to maintain. Need to take care to get the best results.
Aeropress gang representing.
I run debbie kde plasma x11 btw
Aeropress gang, but running mint.
Same. "Works pretty well out of the box but I have the option to fuck it up"
That's the best description I've heard in a while. Also, the user interface hasn't changed in a decade.
Samesies
I was gonna say, how do you know an aeropress/nixos user - they'll tell you. But Debian works too 😂
Aeropress and Fedora!
Apparently I should use Chemex instead
Aeropress and PopOs
So what's a cup of instant equivalent? Don't tell me it's Windows.
ChromeOS? lol
Mac os. Windows wouldn't be coffee at all
Nah, the macOS equivalent would be going to starbucks
that's good postum!
WSL2
I just need to run this script and I need it fast
Linux Mint (Moccamaster) it just chugs along and makes the best coffee possible. Fast and reliable.
$400 for a drip machine?
Must be a Mac user.
Its not a drip machine though, it's more like a Chemex that doesn't require you to do the pouring.
Moccamaster is a drip machine. Not that there's anything wrong with that, Moccamaster makes good coffee.
I know some hate this but pour over, this chemex thing and Moccamaster, it's all drip coffee lol. Drip coffee just has a bad and cheap reputation so most avoid using those terms.
270€ on Amazon here, but you sure got a chuckle out of me 😁
1 litre of delicious coffee in 5 minutes is hard to beat though.
It does make good drip coffee though. But best drip coffee imo comes from pour-over, but that can be less convenient and consistent than an automatic machine.
Moccamaster<3
I use debian btw
The analogy works well since its Debian-like, but way more awesome. The Moccamaster is great. As easy to use as a drip, but makes better coffee than the Chemex.
Why is this so accurate (even though I've tried many other distros and coffee makers)
NixOS would be like brewing coffee with laboratory equipment and then setting it up for automation.
Well, dammit, now I gotta go try NixOS. Gee, thanks for sending me down the rabbit hole, like I have time for yet another one!
I feel like with french press being all manual PopOS isn't the right fit.
I think in this graphic I would replace the Fedora pour-over thing with a French Press because they already did pour-over with Arch.
And then Android is a Starbucks cup.
That fits. Just like Android, Starbucks coffee is well made, by someone who isn't you.
The quality of the final product is still in question though.
made, by someone who isn't you, who works for a large and terrible corporation doing god knows what harm around the world.
Starbucks coffee is consistently made, not well-made. Their roasting is just off, and it adversely affects the flavor of the coffee.
And then Android is a Starbucks cup.
That does Android a huge disservice. Android is a well made Nescafe. It's not the coffee of your choice, but it is stable and reliable, and doesn't make a fuss if you pour other coffees into it.
You might argue that the dairy and sugar dessert beverages served at Starbucks often don't count as real coffee, much the way Android has very little in common with the rest of the Linux ecosystem. It technically has Linux/coffee in it.
The pour-over thing is called Chemex just FYI
How is it different other than going into a temporary container before going into the cup?
I'm French Press and I use Fedora.
I use this:
Except my stove top is electric.
I use LinuxMint by the way.
That's just pretentious, man. You do that for the musafir but there's no way you use that impossible to clean cezve on a daily basis.
Here, use this:
A teaspoon for every little cup of water. Heat it fast until it simmers, stir like crazy for two minutes, pour, then let it froth slightly, then pour again.
I use Arch and Debian depending on what I think is easiest.
القهوة العربية مع الهيل؟
That's the best.
I prefer mine with chocolate actually, but I do like Arabic coffee with cardamom.
Very happy to see myself correctly represented. I use a single cup pourover, BTW
I prepare my coffee in a cup, and drink it with grounds. No milk, no sugar.
I am an embedded developer.
Sometimes when I'm too lazy to boil water, I leave coffee grounds with cold water in a cup overnight, the coffee is strong enough in the morning, and no need to wait for it to cool.
I never have time for waiting for the kettle to boil so I do this on the daily.
You've discovered cold brew!
Fedora would be a French Press.
Reliable, consistent, hard to screw up, broad information online on how to use one.
That's what I use, it's so much simpler. And I only use the press because my wife refuses to buy me instant coffee, otherwise that's what I'd drink, cause it's so about ease for me. A press is easier to clean
Beware the diterpenes
My wife is an arch user........... Oh no.
I use Fedora and sometimes Debian (Debian is love! 🌀❤️), and brew my coffee in a moka pot.
I use a french press and endeavouros. don't know what that says...
It says there are at least two of us!
Three now!
Looseleaf earl grey and 20 years of debian.
Me, a Slackware user: eating raw coffee beans by themselves
Forgot cold brewers.
CentOS would be an empty coffee tin that still smells like coffee.
Can confirm. I'm a Debian user and use a Cuisinart grind and brew I've had for ages. It's actually the second of two of the same model after the first broke following years of loyal service.
I have a Cuisinart grind and brew, which is pushing a decade old at this point. Love the thing and will replace it with something similar if it dies before I do. But, I use Ubuntu on my server and Arch on my desktop. So, not this meme fits, but it is funny.
I've been considering switching to Arch for my desktop. Is it worth it? Did you use anything else on desktop before switching?
BLUF: It's been a mixed bag, but I would call it "worth it".
I've used Ubuntu a bit before. That's what my home server runs on and has for years. Granted, most of it's functions live in Docker containers. I also used both Debian (via Kali) and Ubuntu at work (yes, I know Ubuntu is Debian based, but it's also big enough to have it's own dedicated ecosystem). I work in Cybersecurity and use Linux based tools for image acquisition, digital forensics and data recovery. Kali makes for a great "it just works" system to validate vulnerabilities and poke at a network. And, between a lot of tools targeting Ubuntu and frameworks like SANS SIFT, Ubuntu gets used a lot. I also supported several Red Hat based servers at work for various tools. I'm far from an expert on Linux, but I can usually hold my own.
In a lot of ways, Arch wasn't an obvious choice for me. And I seriously considered going with Ubuntu (or another Debian based OS (e.g. PopOS)) at first. It's worth mentioning that my primary use for my desktop is video games. So, that heavily effected my choices. That said, the reasons for choosing Arch ended up being:
I have a SteamDeck and most of my games "just work" on it. With Arch being the flavor of Linux Valve is targeting, following their lead seemed like a good idea. I expected that a lot of effort to get games working on "Linux" would ultimately be focused on getting games working on Arch.
I wanted a "minimal" system. I can be a bit of a control freak and privacy nut. I already self-host NextCloud, because I don't want my pictures/data sitting on someone else's computer. So, the "install only what you need" nature of Arch was appealing.
I did do some testing of Ubuntu on my system and had driver issues (nVidia GPU) and some other problems I didn't put the time into running down. In the end, it put me off Linux for a while before I came back to it and ran Arch.
One of the things I did, which was really helpful, was a "try before you buy" setup. I was coming from Windows 10. And, as mentioned above, gaming was my main use case. So, that had to work for me to make the jump. Otherwise, I was going to milk Windows 10 for as long as possible and then figure things out when it went EOS. So, I installed Arch on a USB 3.0 thumbdrive and left my Windows OS partition alone. I also mounted my "Games" drive (M.2 SSD) and installed games to that. It was still NTFS, but that only created minor bumps in the road. Running that configuration for a couple months proved out that Arch was going to work for me.
When it came time to fully change over, I formatted my Windows OS partition as ext4, setup the correct folder structure and rsync'd everything from the thumbdrive to it. So, everything was the way I'd had it for those couple months. I did have an issue that my BIOS refused to see the OS partition on the SATA SSD I used for my OS partition; but, that was MSI's fault (I have an MSI motherboard). And that was resolved by changing where GRUB is located in my /boot partition.
Overall, I've been happy with the choice I made. Arch hasn't always been easy. Even the Official Install Guide seems to come from a RTFM perspective. But, if you're willing to put the time into it, you will learn a lot or you won't have a functional system. And you'll end up with a system where you can fire up a packet capture and have a really good idea of what each and every packet is about. As for gaming, so far I've had exactly one game which didn't run on Linux. That was Call of Duty 6, which I was considering giving a go to play with some folks I know. But, Activision's Anti-Cheat software is a hard "no" on Linux. So, I had to pass on that. Otherwise, every game I have wanted to play either had native Linux support or worked via Proton/WINE.
Isn't the coffee prep between Fedora and Arch the same?
Also what says it about me when I use those and the Ubuntu machine?
Oh... Yeah my raspberry and my server run Ubuntu.
My surface uses Fedora
And my computer uses EndeavourOS.
Yeah that checks out.
The jug is bloat
Filtered directly into the mouth.
Fedora and Arch are both pour-over, which is a subset of drip coffee. Would be nice to pick distros that really show that family tree.
I guess french pressers use BSD.
I left Debian but Debian didn't leave me, it seems...
Is a bean to cup espresso machine Calculate Linux then?
Filter into a Thermos?
Maybe Tumbleweed? You get bare coffee, with a well built stable base.
All of the above plus moka pot, Aeropress, cold brew, french press, and instant.
Just like with OS selection, I hold no allegiance and use the tool that best fits the requirements.
I use a French press and Linux Mint.
Would drinking tea be a haiku user
#TeamV60
But Mac user, sorry.
V60 is my main, but also have a french press and a manual espresso machine (Flair Pro 2).
Mac user as well.
How do you like your flair? I've been considering getting one for a while now but haven't been able to pull the trigger yet
It’s a bit of a PITA to be honest. Having to pre-heat the brew chamber is annoying and makes the whole process slow. They just released the Pro 3 which uses a different brew chamber that has a lower heat capacity and doesn’t need preheating (according to Flair). It’s compatible with the 2 so I’m probably going to get the pro 3 brew chamber once available.
I’d skip the pro 2 and either get a 3 or the 58 with the electric heater.
Thanks for the advice! That kinda tracks with other reviews and things that have been holding me back, that thermal management is a bit of a pain. I'll keep an eye on the 3 though
Also v60 but mint.. sorry
Or maybe use Ubuntu so you have time to make the espresso?
I have a pour over, a french press, and a drip filter.
I use mint xfce, BTW.
I use a drip machine, btw
Yeah that seems pretty on point (espresso maker).
I use Debian and USA a French French press since 9 years ^^
Also French press (this one) here. It’s great for hot coffee, but I prefer to use it for cold brew. Course grind and let it sit in there for almost a day at room temperature (I put either plastic wrap or an upside down plate to avoids surprise ingredients). Then plunge and pour into a cup for drinking and a storage container for the fridge.
Mostly Xubuntu but also SteamOS and EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma DE.
Does it affect the taste too much if you put the top on with the plunge down just a little bit? That's what I usually do when doing cofe, but then it's just five minutes so probably doesn't affect as much.
I haven’t tested the taste doing it that way. I didn’t think it was a good idea to have the metal soak in it both because of taste but more importantly because of any damage it might do to the metal soaking for so long. I could just be superstitious though. I do put the pot on immediately when doing hot brew.
Percolator: Mandrake user. Holy god someone's still using that old thing.
KDE is an office coffee machine with billion options
It reminds me of most modern microwaves that have bazillion different options and buttons, meanwhile most people just use like the +30 sec button, stop and maybe just maybe the defrost button.
Hah, this checks out for me.
LFS guy: chews the unground beans
i uh.
I don't drink coffee.
Oh I see, you enjoy licking the boot of Big Tea...
(yes im joking)
Debian (i3 on laptop, headless on homelab).
But apparently my coffee is Arch.
Yes, I'm a Fedora user.
And yes, I own the Fedora type coffee thingy.
But I only use Fedora because of the great atomic variants, and I only own that thingy because I don't drink coffee, and it's a cheap way to still offer some to guests.
Ubuntu is instant coffee.
Yeah; that's generally what those Kuerig things make. Individually packaged cups of instant coffee. All the machine does is heat up water to mix with the instant mix in the pod.
Apparently, I’m a gentoo user.
I use arch by the way
...oh no
Alright, which one of you has a Gagguino? Just tell us already, no need to create some impetus to bring it up.
As somone who just made the move from Mint to Fedora, I hate how accurate that is for me as that was my first thought when I deciding what to install
I use an off-brand clone of a Nespresso machine with off-brand pods. Hannah Montana Linux?
Uboontu. It's the exact same as Ubuntu but you get Ubunto Pro equivalent for cheaper.
Okay, I have a Keurig for convenience but I prefer to make my coffee using a method that isn't described here.
If you're wondering, I prefer the French press.
I like hot chocolate and use Ubuntu 😋
Formerly Gentoo, now TumbleWeed user. But this chart doesn't align
I put the ground coffee (a lot of it) in the mug and pour hot water. Stir it a bit later, then the grounds stay put in the bottom usually. I've been told I drink asphalt, but then I just feel like everyone drinks very weak coffee. I do this because I want it to be a quick process, I don't want to buy a fancy machine that requires maintenace, and I want my coffee to have a proper kick.
What distro does this mean?
That sounds like the TempleOS equivalent of coffee methods
It's moderately common in my country where coffee is often consumed for the caffeine content and not the taste. We call it the "thief's coffee" because it's minimal prep to get your fix quickly, almost as if you were committing a burglary lol
I mean Turkish coffee is sort of like what you described, but you use a super fine grind and a lot of the grounds stay in the pot. But if you like drinking mud then more powered to ya.
Different strokes for different folks, I was just poking fun that you're taking the approach of "everyone else is drinking weak coffee, I make the real stuff" kinda like Terry was certain that his ways were best even though alternatives already existed.
There's no pot involved here, you put it in the mug, but ideally you also use a super fine grind so it stays in the mug usually
“everyone else is drinking weak coffee, I make the real stuff” kinda like Terry was certain that his ways were best even though alternatives already existed.
Oh fair enough
To be fair I didn't mean to insinuate that it's manlier to drink literal mud, it's just how my mom always made it for herself when I was a kid and I just... learned to like it. It's very much an acquired taste. But yes, there's always a moment of pride when people say "wtf how can you drink this shit" :)
I am an Ubuntu user and have one of the cheaper espresso machines out there. I feel very confused, but I’m also new.
My cheap ($100) espresso machine takes less time than a Mr. Coffee/drip machine.
I like the reliable simplicity of my machine but also the gadgety, mechanical, ritual of the thing. It’s an active procedure with parts that have to be loaded, locket together and there’s knobs and buttons and it makes all kinds of fun noises. Sure it’s probably superfluous to the method of creating a tasty caffeine vehicle. But I enjoy the process of making it work.
Excuse me but I'm a Debian user and I'm not using the same system since 10 years.
More like 30 years.
oooh i have that exact espresso machine (except they’ve mirrored it)! it’s a rancilio silivia… i use fedora and debian with a pinch of al2
I use a Chemex, and I have used Fedora. I'm on Garuda now, which is my favorite, which is Arch based but with extra stuff, so the Chemex makes a lot of sense (fancy pour-over).
looks pretty cool to me
yeah I like this, describes the experience well :)
As a french press user I put the beans in the press vessel, start the water kettle (double checking that water is in), forget about it all so water will have to be reheated, pour water over beans, forget about it all for 15-83 minutes and then finally get to enjoy my coffee.
Will drink it all. And wish I had made more.
What OS for me?
IMO, probably Gentoo, but compiled from source.
And the last time you recompiled the kernel was, at most, 3 days ago.
When I used to use windows, my machine would get progressively slower as I used it. But when I switched to Linux none of that is happening. I haven't reinstalled in 2 years and it's still flying fast af. I wonder to this day as to why the fuck did windows slow down my machine with time
Changes by shitty apps wanting to start with windows and register for context menus.
I've had windows machines run fine for 10 years, and some having trouble at 6 months. The difference being the problematic machines I've made tons of changes, installed tons of risky apps.
I've also run registry cleaners as a test, and it's made a world of difference.
Slackware
As simple as Arch, but more stable.
The design is almost 100 years old and doesn't need daily filter updates.
But also it burns the coffee
Only when you use it wrong.
That sounds an awful lot like the blaming the user. Maybe it really is the slackware of coffee.
It's easy to blame the user when they don't bother to read the manual or follow basic instructions.
So it burns the coffee.
It does not. A regular percolator does, as it circulates the coffee back into the boiling water, unlike a moka pot, where the finished coffee does not sit at the bottom close to the heat, but in the top compartment. You should take it off the stove as soon as it’s done to avoid getting the finished coffee back to a boil or overextracting the coffee but if you do it right, they make really good coffee. There are even some versions that feature a valve, so the coffee is cooked at a higher pressure, getting it a little closer to espresso and producing a nice –albeit short lived – crema.
Hell, mine made crema on the first try. I probably over-pressed the coffee though.
I really like the mocha pot, but I'm a cappucino fan - if only there were a simple way to steam milk. I even have a Bellman, but it takes forever to build up pressure.
Tbh confused how you even managed to burn the coffe with this, as it is just evaporating water that filters through the coffee above - like did you put the coffee in the bottom part? 🤔
I haven't experienced this, but from what I hear if you start with cooler water in the bottom and have the heat set too high, you can overheat the pot and the grounds before the water comes to temp to actually brew.
The few times I've used my moka pot I've preheated the water in a kettle so it gets to brewing faster (based on coffee people recommendations online.)
This is the correct way to do it.
Boil the water first, pour it in the bottom, place coffee in section on top, screw on top part, heat till it brews out the too, then remove from heat as soon as it's done.
I use refrigerated filtered water in mine. Maybe I just don't set the heat too high though? I use a coil stovetop and put the knob around 7.5/10. Coffee takes 7-8 minutes after I turn it on.
I've used a moka pot nearly every day for 10 years, never burned my coffee with it. I'm not even sure how you'd do that unless you just completely ignore it when it's done and leave it on the stove forever.
I can't imagine how you burn coffee with a mocha pot.
Like, you'd have to go out of your way and intentionally try to burn coffee with it.
Me too. And a lot of chatter (how are people managing to burn the coffee!?). Classic. Stable. Easy to maintain. Need to take care to get the best results.
Aeropress gang representing.
I run debbie kde plasma x11 btw
Aeropress gang, but running mint.
Same. "Works pretty well out of the box but I have the option to fuck it up"
That's the best description I've heard in a while. Also, the user interface hasn't changed in a decade.
Samesies
I was gonna say, how do you know an aeropress/nixos user - they'll tell you. But Debian works too 😂
Aeropress and Fedora! Apparently I should use Chemex instead
Aeropress and PopOs
So what's a cup of instant equivalent? Don't tell me it's Windows.
ChromeOS? lol
Mac os. Windows wouldn't be coffee at all
Nah, the macOS equivalent would be going to starbucks
that's good postum!
WSL2
I just need to run this script and I need it fast
Linux Mint (Moccamaster) it just chugs along and makes the best coffee possible. Fast and reliable.
$400 for a drip machine?
Must be a Mac user.
Its not a drip machine though, it's more like a Chemex that doesn't require you to do the pouring.
Moccamaster is a drip machine. Not that there's anything wrong with that, Moccamaster makes good coffee.
I know some hate this but pour over, this chemex thing and Moccamaster, it's all drip coffee lol. Drip coffee just has a bad and cheap reputation so most avoid using those terms.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drip_coffee
270€ on Amazon here, but you sure got a chuckle out of me 😁
1 litre of delicious coffee in 5 minutes is hard to beat though.
It does make good drip coffee though. But best drip coffee imo comes from pour-over, but that can be less convenient and consistent than an automatic machine.
Moccamaster<3
I use debian btw
The analogy works well since its Debian-like, but way more awesome. The Moccamaster is great. As easy to use as a drip, but makes better coffee than the Chemex.
Why is this so accurate (even though I've tried many other distros and coffee makers)
NixOS would be like brewing coffee with laboratory equipment and then setting it up for automation.
Well, dammit, now I gotta go try NixOS. Gee, thanks for sending me down the rabbit hole, like I have time for yet another one!
The device you're looking for is called a coffee syphon. Like this one from hario https://www.hario-canada.ca/products/hario-syphon-tca-2
…in a container
I do French Press, where does that put me?
PopOS
I feel like with french press being all manual PopOS isn't the right fit.
I think in this graphic I would replace the Fedora pour-over thing with a French Press because they already did pour-over with Arch.
And then Android is a Starbucks cup.
That fits. Just like Android, Starbucks coffee is well made, by someone who isn't you.
The quality of the final product is still in question though.
made, by someone who isn't you, who works for a large and terrible corporation doing god knows what harm around the world.
Starbucks coffee is consistently made, not well-made. Their roasting is just off, and it adversely affects the flavor of the coffee.
That does Android a huge disservice. Android is a well made Nescafe. It's not the coffee of your choice, but it is stable and reliable, and doesn't make a fuss if you pour other coffees into it.
You might argue that the dairy and sugar dessert beverages served at Starbucks often don't count as real coffee, much the way Android has very little in common with the rest of the Linux ecosystem. It technically has Linux/coffee in it.
The pour-over thing is called Chemex just FYI
How is it different other than going into a temporary container before going into the cup?
I'm French Press and I use Fedora.
I use this:
Except my stove top is electric.
I use LinuxMint by the way.
That's just pretentious, man. You do that for the musafir but there's no way you use that impossible to clean cezve on a daily basis.
Here, use this:
A teaspoon for every little cup of water. Heat it fast until it simmers, stir like crazy for two minutes, pour, then let it froth slightly, then pour again.
I use Arch and Debian depending on what I think is easiest.
القهوة العربية مع الهيل؟
That's the best.
I prefer mine with chocolate actually, but I do like Arabic coffee with cardamom.
Very happy to see myself correctly represented. I use a single cup pourover, BTW
I prepare my coffee in a cup, and drink it with grounds. No milk, no sugar.
I am an embedded developer.
Sometimes when I'm too lazy to boil water, I leave coffee grounds with cold water in a cup overnight, the coffee is strong enough in the morning, and no need to wait for it to cool.
I never have time for waiting for the kettle to boil so I do this on the daily.
You've discovered cold brew!
Fedora would be a French Press.
Reliable, consistent, hard to screw up, broad information online on how to use one.
That's what I use, it's so much simpler. And I only use the press because my wife refuses to buy me instant coffee, otherwise that's what I'd drink, cause it's so about ease for me. A press is easier to clean
Beware the diterpenes
My wife is an arch user........... Oh no.
I use Fedora and sometimes Debian (Debian is love! 🌀❤️), and brew my coffee in a moka pot.
I use a french press and endeavouros. don't know what that says...
It says there are at least two of us!
Three now!
Looseleaf earl grey and 20 years of debian.
Me, a Slackware user: eating raw coffee beans by themselves
Forgot cold brewers.
CentOS would be an empty coffee tin that still smells like coffee.
Can confirm. I'm a Debian user and use a Cuisinart grind and brew I've had for ages. It's actually the second of two of the same model after the first broke following years of loyal service.
I have a Cuisinart grind and brew, which is pushing a decade old at this point. Love the thing and will replace it with something similar if it dies before I do. But, I use Ubuntu on my server and Arch on my desktop. So, not this meme fits, but it is funny.
I've been considering switching to Arch for my desktop. Is it worth it? Did you use anything else on desktop before switching?
BLUF: It's been a mixed bag, but I would call it "worth it".
I've used Ubuntu a bit before. That's what my home server runs on and has for years. Granted, most of it's functions live in Docker containers. I also used both Debian (via Kali) and Ubuntu at work (yes, I know Ubuntu is Debian based, but it's also big enough to have it's own dedicated ecosystem). I work in Cybersecurity and use Linux based tools for image acquisition, digital forensics and data recovery. Kali makes for a great "it just works" system to validate vulnerabilities and poke at a network. And, between a lot of tools targeting Ubuntu and frameworks like SANS SIFT, Ubuntu gets used a lot. I also supported several Red Hat based servers at work for various tools. I'm far from an expert on Linux, but I can usually hold my own.
In a lot of ways, Arch wasn't an obvious choice for me. And I seriously considered going with Ubuntu (or another Debian based OS (e.g. PopOS)) at first. It's worth mentioning that my primary use for my desktop is video games. So, that heavily effected my choices. That said, the reasons for choosing Arch ended up being:
One of the things I did, which was really helpful, was a "try before you buy" setup. I was coming from Windows 10. And, as mentioned above, gaming was my main use case. So, that had to work for me to make the jump. Otherwise, I was going to milk Windows 10 for as long as possible and then figure things out when it went EOS. So, I installed Arch on a USB 3.0 thumbdrive and left my Windows OS partition alone. I also mounted my "Games" drive (M.2 SSD) and installed games to that. It was still NTFS, but that only created minor bumps in the road. Running that configuration for a couple months proved out that Arch was going to work for me.
When it came time to fully change over, I formatted my Windows OS partition as ext4, setup the correct folder structure and rsync'd everything from the thumbdrive to it. So, everything was the way I'd had it for those couple months. I did have an issue that my BIOS refused to see the OS partition on the SATA SSD I used for my OS partition; but, that was MSI's fault (I have an MSI motherboard). And that was resolved by changing where GRUB is located in my /boot partition.
Overall, I've been happy with the choice I made. Arch hasn't always been easy. Even the Official Install Guide seems to come from a RTFM perspective. But, if you're willing to put the time into it, you will learn a lot or you won't have a functional system. And you'll end up with a system where you can fire up a packet capture and have a really good idea of what each and every packet is about. As for gaming, so far I've had exactly one game which didn't run on Linux. That was Call of Duty 6, which I was considering giving a go to play with some folks I know. But, Activision's Anti-Cheat software is a hard "no" on Linux. So, I had to pass on that. Otherwise, every game I have wanted to play either had native Linux support or worked via Proton/WINE.
Isn't the coffee prep between Fedora and Arch the same?
Also what says it about me when I use those and the Ubuntu machine?
Oh... Yeah my raspberry and my server run Ubuntu.
My surface uses Fedora
And my computer uses EndeavourOS.
Yeah that checks out.
The jug is bloat
Filtered directly into the mouth.
Fedora and Arch are both pour-over, which is a subset of drip coffee. Would be nice to pick distros that really show that family tree.
I guess french pressers use BSD.
I left Debian but Debian didn't leave me, it seems...
Is a bean to cup espresso machine Calculate Linux then?
Filter into a Thermos?
Maybe Tumbleweed? You get bare coffee, with a well built stable base.
All of the above plus moka pot, Aeropress, cold brew, french press, and instant.
Just like with OS selection, I hold no allegiance and use the tool that best fits the requirements.
I use a French press and Linux Mint.
Would drinking tea be a haiku user
#TeamV60
But Mac user, sorry.
V60 is my main, but also have a french press and a manual espresso machine (Flair Pro 2).
Mac user as well.
How do you like your flair? I've been considering getting one for a while now but haven't been able to pull the trigger yet
It’s a bit of a PITA to be honest. Having to pre-heat the brew chamber is annoying and makes the whole process slow. They just released the Pro 3 which uses a different brew chamber that has a lower heat capacity and doesn’t need preheating (according to Flair). It’s compatible with the 2 so I’m probably going to get the pro 3 brew chamber once available.
I’d skip the pro 2 and either get a 3 or the 58 with the electric heater.
Thanks for the advice! That kinda tracks with other reviews and things that have been holding me back, that thermal management is a bit of a pain. I'll keep an eye on the 3 though
Also v60 but mint.. sorry
Or maybe use Ubuntu so you have time to make the espresso?
I have a pour over, a french press, and a drip filter.
I use mint xfce, BTW.
I use a drip machine, btw
Yeah that seems pretty on point (espresso maker).
I use Debian and USA a French French press since 9 years ^^
Also French press (this one) here. It’s great for hot coffee, but I prefer to use it for cold brew. Course grind and let it sit in there for almost a day at room temperature (I put either plastic wrap or an upside down plate to avoids surprise ingredients). Then plunge and pour into a cup for drinking and a storage container for the fridge.
Mostly Xubuntu but also SteamOS and EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma DE.
Does it affect the taste too much if you put the top on with the plunge down just a little bit? That's what I usually do when doing cofe, but then it's just five minutes so probably doesn't affect as much.
I haven’t tested the taste doing it that way. I didn’t think it was a good idea to have the metal soak in it both because of taste but more importantly because of any damage it might do to the metal soaking for so long. I could just be superstitious though. I do put the pot on immediately when doing hot brew.
Percolator: Mandrake user. Holy god someone's still using that old thing.
KDE is an office coffee machine with billion options
It reminds me of most modern microwaves that have bazillion different options and buttons, meanwhile most people just use like the +30 sec button, stop and maybe just maybe the defrost button.
Hah, this checks out for me.
LFS guy: chews the unground beans
i uh.
I don't drink coffee.
Oh I see, you enjoy licking the boot of Big Tea...
(yes im joking)
Debian (i3 on laptop, headless on homelab).
But apparently my coffee is Arch.
Yes, I'm a Fedora user.
And yes, I own the Fedora type coffee thingy.
But I only use Fedora because of the great atomic variants, and I only own that thingy because I don't drink coffee, and it's a cheap way to still offer some to guests.
Ubuntu is instant coffee.
Yeah; that's generally what those Kuerig things make. Individually packaged cups of instant coffee. All the machine does is heat up water to mix with the instant mix in the pod.
Apparently, I’m a gentoo user.
I use arch by the way
...oh no
Alright, which one of you has a Gagguino? Just tell us already, no need to create some impetus to bring it up.
As somone who just made the move from Mint to Fedora, I hate how accurate that is for me as that was my first thought when I deciding what to install
I use an off-brand clone of a Nespresso machine with off-brand pods. Hannah Montana Linux?
Uboontu. It's the exact same as Ubuntu but you get Ubunto Pro equivalent for cheaper.
Okay, I have a Keurig for convenience but I prefer to make my coffee using a method that isn't described here.
If you're wondering, I prefer the French press.
I like hot chocolate and use Ubuntu 😋
Formerly Gentoo, now TumbleWeed user. But this chart doesn't align
I put the ground coffee (a lot of it) in the mug and pour hot water. Stir it a bit later, then the grounds stay put in the bottom usually. I've been told I drink asphalt, but then I just feel like everyone drinks very weak coffee. I do this because I want it to be a quick process, I don't want to buy a fancy machine that requires maintenace, and I want my coffee to have a proper kick.
What distro does this mean?
That sounds like the TempleOS equivalent of coffee methods
It's moderately common in my country where coffee is often consumed for the caffeine content and not the taste. We call it the "thief's coffee" because it's minimal prep to get your fix quickly, almost as if you were committing a burglary lol
I mean Turkish coffee is sort of like what you described, but you use a super fine grind and a lot of the grounds stay in the pot. But if you like drinking mud then more powered to ya.
Different strokes for different folks, I was just poking fun that you're taking the approach of "everyone else is drinking weak coffee, I make the real stuff" kinda like Terry was certain that his ways were best even though alternatives already existed.
There's no pot involved here, you put it in the mug, but ideally you also use a super fine grind so it stays in the mug usually
Oh fair enough
To be fair I didn't mean to insinuate that it's manlier to drink literal mud, it's just how my mom always made it for herself when I was a kid and I just... learned to like it. It's very much an acquired taste. But yes, there's always a moment of pride when people say "wtf how can you drink this shit" :)
I am an Ubuntu user and have one of the cheaper espresso machines out there. I feel very confused, but I’m also new.
My cheap ($100) espresso machine takes less time than a Mr. Coffee/drip machine.
I like the reliable simplicity of my machine but also the gadgety, mechanical, ritual of the thing. It’s an active procedure with parts that have to be loaded, locket together and there’s knobs and buttons and it makes all kinds of fun noises. Sure it’s probably superfluous to the method of creating a tasty caffeine vehicle. But I enjoy the process of making it work.
Excuse me but I'm a Debian user and I'm not using the same system since 10 years.
More like 30 years.
oooh i have that exact espresso machine (except they’ve mirrored it)! it’s a rancilio silivia… i use fedora and debian with a pinch of al2
I use a Chemex, and I have used Fedora. I'm on Garuda now, which is my favorite, which is Arch based but with extra stuff, so the Chemex makes a lot of sense (fancy pour-over).
yeah I like this, describes the experience well :)
As a french press user I put the beans in the press vessel, start the water kettle (double checking that water is in), forget about it all so water will have to be reheated, pour water over beans, forget about it all for 15-83 minutes and then finally get to enjoy my coffee.
Will drink it all. And wish I had made more.
What OS for me?
IMO, probably Gentoo, but compiled from source.
And the last time you recompiled the kernel was, at most, 3 days ago.
You put whole beans in your French press?
Repost
What if i use AmogOS?
You will have to film yourself preparing coffee
Edit: and upload it on YouTube
DeLonghi Magnifica EVO.
When I used to use windows, my machine would get progressively slower as I used it. But when I switched to Linux none of that is happening. I haven't reinstalled in 2 years and it's still flying fast af. I wonder to this day as to why the fuck did windows slow down my machine with time
Changes by shitty apps wanting to start with windows and register for context menus.
I've had windows machines run fine for 10 years, and some having trouble at 6 months. The difference being the problematic machines I've made tons of changes, installed tons of risky apps.
I've also run registry cleaners as a test, and it's made a world of difference.
In short: crappy apps make windows run poorly.
Ohhhh I see now, makes sense
French press but I use arch btw