What distro do you use and why?

2 years ago by Mwa to c/linux

yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

eugenia 41 points 2 years ago

Linux Mint, because I don't like to tinker with the system, I like good defaults (and Mints has them).

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Mwa 13 points 2 years ago

Yk what I LOVE THAT, Why i liked linux mint when i was new.

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GolfNovemberUniform 6 points 2 years ago

Well technically Mint has one terrible default nowadays that is hidden unverified Flatpaks.

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

I do agree cinnamon,mate and xfce us not enough but I found cinnamon the least buggy option.

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eugenia 0 points 2 years ago

I avoid flatpaks, so I don't mind.

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GolfNovemberUniform 3 points 2 years ago

Sure but Flatpak is the package format for new users and it's a very bad decision for a beginner focused distro to restrict it.

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eugenia 0 points 2 years ago

Enough packages show up.

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that_leaflet 34 points 2 years ago
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thayerw 9 points 2 years ago

Same here, I use Silverblue as host OS on all of my workstations now, and Arch for nearly all of my containers.

Flatpak for just about everything in the userspace.

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chunkystyles 3 points 2 years ago

I was using Debian and Docker for my servers, but I'm switching to uCore and Podman. It was a decent learning curve, but I think I'm going to like it better.

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Auli 1 point 2 years ago

I hated postman so much I switched back to Docker. Why compose was better at handling dependent containers then quadlets. Yes I could use postman compose but heard it’s no longer supported and if I’m using it might as well use a supported docker compose.

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chunkystyles 1 point 2 years ago

I never used Docker compose. If I had two containers that needed to communicate, I'd just setup networking for them.

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themadcodger 7 points 2 years ago

I use the Bluefin flavor of Silverblue. I like not having to tinker with my laptop to keep it working, everything happens in the background.

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Mwa 3 points 2 years ago

I like flatpak

i am kinda the opposite of you, i find flatpacks meh its alright.

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gregor 12 points 2 years ago

I love flatpak. No more dependency hell!

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Mwa 3 points 2 years ago

Agree

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hondaguy97386 -1 points 2 years ago

While true... RIP disk space.

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GravitySpoiled 10 points 2 years ago

That's false

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gregor 5 points 2 years ago

SSDs have become incredibly cheap, and flatpak doesn't even use that much storage space.

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WalnutLum 1 point 2 years ago

What do people use for command line utilities? The selection on flatpak is a bit sparse

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lancalot 5 points 2 years ago

Options include:

  • Installing them through brew; this is setup, enabled and configured correctly by default on uBlue projects like Aurora, Bazzite and Bluefin.
  • Installing them within a container; be it though Toolbx or Distrobox. This is what Fedora Atomic initially intended (and probably still does).
  • Some users got a lot of mileage from utilizing nix to this effect.
  • If all else fails (or if you outright prefer it this way), you can always layer it through rpm-ostree.
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that_leaflet 4 points 2 years ago
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yirsi 26 points 2 years ago

Arch because it helped me understand the os better and i like tinkering. Also pacman and the aur

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Mwa 6 points 2 years ago

Also pacman and the aur

Another reason why am using cachyos

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bunitor 26 points 2 years ago

from the comments, there's a split between

  • linux as a tool: debian, mint, fedora, opensuse, etc.
  • linux as a toy: arch, gentoo, nixos, etc.

i wish this split was made more explicit, because more often than not someone comes looking for recommendations for linux as a tool, but someone else responds expecting they want linux as a toy. then the person will try out linux and will leave because it's not what they want, not knowing that there is a kind of linux that is what they want

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Peasley 9 points 2 years ago

Lots of folks use those "toy" distros to accomplish specialized tasks that are cumbersome or impossible on other distros. I'd describe it more as "general purpose" vs "niche"

Both are tools

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bunitor 5 points 2 years ago

that could be true, but my comment was the takeaway i had from reading the other comments in this thread (and from previous experience elsewhere on the internet). most people answering "arch" or "gentoo" are saying, themselves, that they like it because it "teaches them how linux works" or that they "like compiling stuff". clearly the focus is tinkering with the system as an end in of itself, not using the system as a means to another end

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Peasley 6 points 2 years ago

That's a good point, i agree there are also plenty of folks who use niche distros partly as a hobby

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MonkeMischief 6 points 2 years ago

Yes! Great way of putting it. It's hard to explain how just using an OS can be a fun hobby in itself.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed does it all for me. I work and play games on it and stuff, but my laptop is less mission critical, so I run EndeavourOS on it and experiment with fun layouts and everything is all "frutiger-aero-esque". It feels like how I nostalgicallyremember those WinXP-7 days!

Snapper rollbacks with BTRFS are incredible for letting you play around with an OS you actually use, and still giving you a cushion to fall back on. :D

My little media streamer / guest PC has Mint. Nice, maybe a little boring, predictable, reliable. Ahhh simplicity. :)

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Glifted 19 points 2 years ago

Ubuntu because I'm old, uncool, and tired

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sping 9 points 2 years ago

Hilarious to have to look this low for it, but who want to stand up and declare themselves mainstream.

Polished, reliable, and solid, and snaps are not a big deal or an insidious evil, and neither is Canonical. They make missteps for sure. But with containers etc stability is more important than immediate updates and it's excellent about kernel updates for new hardware. It's slick Debian, and if the fuckery ever gets real switching to Debian is easy.

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perishthethought 3 points 2 years ago

Me too. Rock solid, with KDE. So easy to learn, make it mine.

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gramgan 18 points 2 years ago

NixOS because it’s easy to understand—I can pop open any .nix file in my config and see exactly what is being set up, so I don’t have to mentally keep track of innumerable imperative changes I would otherwise make to the system, and thus lose track of the entropy over time.

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subiacOSB 16 points 2 years ago

Debian on most my machines. Can’t trust commercially backed distros any more. I’m tired of chacing cutting edge stuff. Like things to just work.

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Mwa 3 points 2 years ago

I can agree, my goal now is to find a distro that keeps some stuff updated not everything like kernel etc.

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sping 1 point 2 years ago

And there is ever decreasing need for cutting edge with containers and sandboxing. And hardware improvement is no longer so rapid so buying the hotness of 2+ years ago is cheap and effective and well supported.

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banazir 15 points 2 years ago

After quite a bit of agonizing, I eventually landed on openSUSE Tumbleweed. I chose a rolling release distro because on my desktop I want to be up-to-date. Having used Gentoo a long time ago, I didn't want a distro that takes effort to install and set up. openSUSE is somewhat popular with an active community and decent documentation in case I run in to issues. I also considered the fact it's based in Germany, because EU has at least some decent privacy laws. I was put off by the fact its backed by SUSE, but that's a two-edged sword.

Right now I'm content with Tumbleweed, but I'm keeping an eye on OpenMandriva Lx if I feel like switching.

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Mwa 2 points 2 years ago

I wish it was not hard getting nvidia drivers on opensuse.

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JustMarkov 1 point 2 years ago

Wdym? Installing Nvidia drivers on openSUSE is just one simple command:
sudo zypper in nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-default

That's all, no additional configuration required, even the kernel arguments will be handled by the Nvidia driver.

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

I would try to install everything called nvidia nvidia driver I didn't end up getting it working.

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Boxscape 3 points 2 years ago

Have you tried recently?

You used to either have to install them manually, or enable the nVidia repo.

But I reinstalled Tumbleweed a few months ago and it auto-detected and added the repo for me and everything. I didn't even have to disable nouveau first or anything like that, if I recall correctly.

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bunitor 1 point 2 years ago

i see people saying that, but the process was almost automatic to me. what issues are you having?

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

When I try to install the Nonfree nvidia drivers, it just doesn't work and wont show nvidia gtx 1650 it would say my gpu is llvmpipe that's it.

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Libb 14 points 2 years ago
  • Debian + Xfce on the desktop, because it (mostly, see below) just works, it's snappy, reliable, and I don't need my apps being constantly updated (I have very simple needs and use cases)
  • Mint + Cinnamon on the laptop, because it's still debian-based and because unlike Debian, Mint was able to connect my AirPods out of the box and I use them a lot when on the laptop... I also quickly learned to appreciate Cinnamon, I must say.

edit: typos

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Mwa 4 points 2 years ago

I wonder what you will think of lmde its linux mint with a debian base instead of ubuntu (It keeps some stuff for eg the desktop updated).

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Loucypher 2 points 2 years ago

LMDE is snappy as hell and stable as a rock

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

Never tried lmde but love to try it if cachyos started breaking down.

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Libb 2 points 2 years ago

I've seen lmde mentioned on Mint website but if I recall correctly they also presented it like a somewhat experimental version?

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

I remember there was only lmde 6 with download to 32bit and 64bit

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chronicledmonocle 13 points 2 years ago

Debian and Linux Mint.

Debian for mission critical stuff like servers or things I don't want to futz with, like HTPCs, work machines, etc.

Mint for my gaming desktop because it's a bit newer on kernels and such.

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letThemPlay 13 points 2 years ago

Previously arch now NixOS, just love the reproducibility.

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NorthWestWind 13 points 2 years ago

EndeavourOS. It's just easy to install and I basically use it like Arch

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Mugmoor 12 points 2 years ago

Ubuntu for my servers, and Linux Mint for my Workstation.

I grew up using Debian-based distros, so it's what I'm comfortable with. I like how Mint seems to "just work" most of the time, especially with samba shares and usb peripherals.

Ubuntu server is primarily because it's incredibly easy to get support when you need it.

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Mwa 3 points 2 years ago

yeah i love linux mint just works

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JustARegularNerd 12 points 2 years ago

For devices I need to be productive on, I have LMDE 6. It is rock solid being based on stable Debian, but with the niceties you expect from Mint.

For my gaming PC, I've got Bazzite on it and so far so good. Just used it for entertainment and gaming but if I were doing coding or app development I'd either have to adjust how I do that to suit an atomic distro, or I'd just use LMDE as I feel I have easier control of what I'm doing on there

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LastoftheDinosaurs 11 points 2 years ago
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neo 4 points 2 years ago

Technically NixOS is all compiled from source too (if you disable the binary caches). It has since taken away Gentoo’s raison d’être a bit in my head. Debian still holds a special place in my heart too, for its simplicity and stability!

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Atemu 3 points 2 years ago

It has since taken away Gentoo’s raison d’être a bit in my head.

I wouldn't say so. We currently don't hold a candle to USE-flags. Many packages are already configurable but there's no standard on anything w.r.t. that.

There's no technical reason we couldn't have such a standard but it hasn't happened yet.

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toastal 1 point 2 years ago

I do this with my kernel & a couple of applications that either compile super fast anyhow or at runtime benefit from further compiler optimizations.

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itchick2014 11 points 2 years ago

Arch. I had some tinkering with other distros in the past but wanted to configure pretty much everything. Running it with Cinnamon. I love pacman and AUR and have been able to not break it so far after a year of being installed which is a new record for me 😂

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PushButton 11 points 2 years ago

No Void here?

Oh well... I surely don't use it because it's popular...

  • Runit
  • Pkg manager
  • KISS
  • Up to date / rolling distro
  • But stable
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tomatoely 4 points 2 years ago

I went into void as my first DIY distro, mainly because I wanted to mess around with window managers and it was a very good experience. Runit made my underpowered laptop boot into linux in like 4 seconds, crazy fast. XBPS package manager was always really really fast too. I like the fact that nearly everything you need is in the official repo, instead of having to delve into the depths of something like the AUR. I also managed to make a contribution to the repos with the help of the community on the IRC chat rooms which were very noob friendly. Overall just a solid experience.

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

I was thinking the same thing, but I don't like void because it doesn't have every package I want And they only offer old or extremely specific ones.

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jimitsoni18 1 point 2 years ago
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01011 0 points 2 years ago
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woodgen 10 points 2 years ago

Arch.

Because of pacman. Building and writing packages is simple and dependencies are slim. Also packages are recent. And most likely "there is an AUR package for that". Also stack transitions arrive early, like pipewire.

Also let's not forget Arch Wiki, i bet you have read it as a non Arch user.

I administer Arch on 8 machines including gaming rigs, home server, web server, kids laptop, wifes gaming desktop, audio workstation and machine learning rig and a bunch of dev laptops. I also use ArchARM on RPi for some home automation.

Never considered switching since I switched from Ubuntu over 15 years ago.

I do have experience with several other rpm and apt based distros.

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shadow 10 points 2 years ago

PopOS. It was the easiest to get my Nvidia GPU set up and plays all the games that I wanna play without too much pain. I've been meaning to try something like Arch with KDE, something like what my SteamDeck is using... but I don't wanna fuck around setting up Arch.

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MonkeMischief 2 points 2 years ago

If you wanna try Arch + KDE without hassle, well Arch has an easier installer now, but I use EndeavourOS. It's a lovely smooth Arch experience!

Very easy installer with lots of options to choose from. :)

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

Arch based distros if that's fine?

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chrand 10 points 2 years ago

Fedora with GNOME.

I've been using it for over than 10 years in my main computer.

It simply works, it's nice, fresh packages, stable, GNOME is productivity champion (at least I know all the shortcuts, and how to tweak it to my daily use). I also know how to build and manipulate RPM packages, so it's pretty convenient.

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Lautaro 4 points 2 years ago

I've been using Fedora for the last 5 years and never had to reinstall the OS. I've been upgrading with no issues whatsoever.

With Ubuntu, I had to reinstall everything on every update because of errors. Not on EVERY update of course, but often enough to make me want to stick to LTSs.

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xylogx 2 points 2 years ago

Does Fedora have a long term support version? Last time I used it a decade ago I had to upgrade every 1-2 years.

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Lautaro 1 point 2 years ago

No LTS, they support each version for 1 year, and there are two major upgrades per year. I still haven't upgraded last October.

But I never had an issue, I always upgraded using the terminal instead of the GUI.

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piracysails 2 points 2 years ago

What is the benefit of building / manipulating packages?

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chrand 3 points 2 years ago

Mostly for fun/learning and to tweak some Fedora packages to my needs. I keep my own RPM repository.

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piracysails 1 point 2 years ago

Impressive. :)

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greywolf0x1 1 point 2 years ago

oh, fedora,

fedora was so stable i had to run to arch-linux as there was nothing to tinker with

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fxdave 1 point 2 years ago

afaik, fedora is the testing distro for RHEL. I also felt this way, when a new gnome version released much earlier than for Arch and it had an obvious bug that could be catched with little testing.

And many issues I found in Fedora's bug tracker was auto closed by the new release. Which is quite frequent. Reviewing the bugs is not that frequent.

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bitwolf 9 points 2 years ago

Fedora.

I've tried them all but found it's the most reliable. It's upgrades are even more reliable than Macos and Windows.

Packages are very up to date but also well tested. Sometimes even newer than Arch for short periods.

The community is awesome.

I love Gnome, I've found it's more consistent than even MacOs in its design. And it has perfect keyboard shortcuts.

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Lettuceeatlettuce 9 points 2 years ago

Different distros for different uses:

  • Debian with KDE for my casual servers and Docker boxes.
  • Nobara for my main gaming PC.
  • Linux Mint with Cinnamon for my general purpose PCs and my #JustWorks uses.
  • Arch for my pimp mobile test machines.
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JustMarkov 9 points 2 years ago

openSUSE Tumbleweed. I've tried switching to Aurora and Bazzite, but ended up using openSUSE again and now I love it even more.

EDIT: Typos.

EDIT 2: I also love tinkering with Void and Alpine on VMs.

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lancalot 2 points 2 years ago

Interesting. Have you also tried openSUSE Aeon(/Kalpa)? Though I assume you're a KDE user and thus waiting for Kalpa to become mature before a test ride.

Could you elaborate on what you didn't like about Aurora and Bazzite; especially about how that experience made you more appreciative of openSUSE?

Thank you in advance!

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JustMarkov 2 points 2 years ago

Though I assume you're a KDE user and thus waiting for Kalpa to become mature before a test ride.

That's right!

Could you elaborate on what you didn't like about Aurora and Bazzite;

Bazzite comes with Lutris and Steam preinstalled as native packages. I don't use Lutris and want to use Steam as flatpak, so I decided to try Aurora.

For some reason it was surprisingly unstable. I've had various issues with KDE, DXVK and a few mainstream errors, that I had to either try to fix myself (like this one) or simply ignore (like this one). I've switched back to openSUSE and now I'm happier than ever about openQA existence.

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lancalot 2 points 2 years ago

Great response! Much appreciated!

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m4m4m4m4 9 points 2 years ago
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warmaster 8 points 2 years ago

Bazzite, I want my PC to just work and not require me to maintain it, on top of that I need it to be game-ready and have good color management for work related stuff.

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BaumGeist 8 points 2 years ago
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Telorand 8 points 2 years ago

I have Bazzite on a laptop for the ease of use and general resistance to breakage, and Spiral Linux in a VM. The latter works flawlessly that way, like it was always meant to be in a VM.

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kittenzrulz123 8 points 2 years ago

Alpine:

  • Rolling release (Alpine Edge) yet stable
  • Extremely lightweight
  • Very customizable
  • After setting it up I find that it works very well
  • Decently sized repo
  • OpenRC rather then SystemD (I prefer the way it handles services)
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Mwa 2 points 2 years ago

I wonder how hard is it to download apps on Glibc-free systems, On Systemd-free systems ik there is Flatpack and stuff , asking this bcs many apps on Linux only work on Glibc.

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kittenzrulz123 1 point 2 years ago

I personally haven't ran into any yet, tbh I have more issues with SystemD dependent apps (Also keep in mind Alpine packages and maintains apps in their repo so they don't require GLIBs/SystemD)

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Mwa 2 points 2 years ago

Ohh, so only open source apps and closed source apps that work on non glibc/systemd then ig

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kittenzrulz123 1 point 2 years ago

I managed to get Steam working with some work, heroic games launcher worked with no extra effort, and everything in the repo is good (Alpine is independent)

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voracread 1 point 2 years ago

Is that usable for regular Joe or enthusiast grade?

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kittenzrulz123 2 points 2 years ago

I wouldnt call it enthusiast grade, every day usage is easy but installation can be tough (it gives you a barebones system).

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voracread 1 point 2 years ago

Then that is not for me yet.

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Peasley 8 points 2 years ago

Plain old Fedora.

I know the hurdles, i know what to expect, and I've never been surprised by it.

Immutable sounds nice, AUR sounds nice, NixOS sounds nice, but i am utterly confident in my current choice's reliability and comfortable with its idiosyncracies. Everything i want to do works very well.

If i had less time/energy or had to switch, Kubuntu would be my second choice. Less frequent updates and fewer creature comforts, but also very reliable.

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AllHailTheSheep 2 points 2 years ago

I'm in the same boat. I was a kde neon person for a very long time, but I eventually got tired of some weird issues I was having that I couldn't find a fix for. tried fedora on a bit of a whim and everything just worked. Nvidia drivers were a breeze to set up, gnome is very nice out of the box and doesn't take the configuring I'm used to on kde, and even just having gnome boxes pre installed is super useful and I get to skip the virtualboxes setup. very impressed with it overall. never going back

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Peasley 2 points 2 years ago

the 9 month update cycle is my biggest issue, and it's not a big deal

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otterpop 8 points 2 years ago

I just installed Pop!_OS 22.04, after finally ditching Windows 11 entirely. I picked it because it seemed easy to use, well suited for gaming, and popular with good support.

So far, everything has been great!

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

Windows 10? That's still supported ig.

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LambdaRX 7 points 2 years ago

Fedora, it has KDE spin and quite recent packages.

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MyNameIsRichard 7 points 2 years ago

Endeavour OS because once you go rolling you can never go back.

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prole 3 points 2 years ago

I loved EndeavourOS, but I'm just not sure bleeding edge is for me. Mostly because I will forget to update for a week, and suddenly there are 500 updates, all with interconnected dependencies and pacman is just like "wtf dude?"

I'm not sure I really gained any benefit from that over using a more stable release. I switched to Bazzite a few months back, and it's been amazing. Immutable is very interesting, and it's made for the most stable PC I've ever owned.

Highly recommend Bazzite for gamers (or I guess it's good for multimedia too), or if not, one of the other Fedora-based immutable distros.

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MyNameIsRichard 1 point 2 years ago

The only time I come close to that number of updates (300 - 350) is when KDE Applications and KDE is updated at the same time. I update twice a week.

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Hadriscus 2 points 2 years ago

because it keeps rolling ?

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MyNameIsRichard 1 point 2 years ago

😆 I meant back to static release

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Hadriscus 1 point 2 years ago

I understand

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MyNameIsRichard 1 point 2 years ago

I should have been clearer.

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airikr 7 points 2 years ago

I use EndeavourOS Xfce because it's Arch with pacman and not Flathub or Snap. Plus, I love the simplicity and the performance boost you get with Xfce (even if it's a small boost with a modern gaming PC).

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Mwa 2 points 2 years ago

yo finally someone who loves native packages more then flatpack.

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ada 2 points 2 years ago

Flatpak annoys me

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Mwa 3 points 2 years ago

I kinda agree because you need to allow permissions, it's more secure it's just annoying.

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Jesus_666 1 point 2 years ago

Flatpak has its benefits, but there are tradeoffs as well. I think it makes a lot of sense for proprietary software.

For everything else I do prefer native packages since they have fewer issues with interop. The space efficiency isn't even that important to me; even if space issues should arise, those are relatively easy to work around. But if your password manager can't talk to your browser because the security model has no solution for safe arbitrary IPC, you're SOL.

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Mwa 2 points 2 years ago

I am pretty sure flatpack is implementing native messaging, Which is what is used by the password manager:
https://github.com/...

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Jesus_666 1 point 2 years ago

Ah, so they actually got that implemented. Nice.

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ipkpjersi 6 points 2 years ago

I use Ubuntu because it's the most popular and well-supported.

I'm going to be switching to Mint at some point because it's basically a community-run fork of Ubuntu and I don't trust Canonical anymore, but it's hard to justify installing my OS from scratch considering I've been using Ubuntu since 2017.

I recently ordered a Thinkpad T14 Gen1 with an R7 4750U, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD and you better believe I'm going to be putting Mint on that as soon as I get it.

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hollerpixie 6 points 2 years ago

Mint. I used to distro hop so much and just got tired of having to reload everything. That was the last one I had done prior to having no more time to switch. 😅 Plus, it just works and it's easy.

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Ebahn13 6 points 2 years ago

I use Bazzite so that it matches with my Steam Deck since SteamOS still isn't an actual distro to play with yet...

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ada 6 points 2 years ago

CachyOS. I use it because I am a fan of Arch based systems, rolling releases etc, but CachyOS is optimised for my generation of hardware, and has lots of good default configurations for various apps. They have a customised proton version, a good default fish profile etc.

tl;dr It's Arch, but optimised, and slightly more pre-configured out of the box.

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Jesus_666 4 points 2 years ago

Garuda for me. The reasons are similar; just replace some optimization with some convenience. It's a bit garish by default but pleasant to use.

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Mwa 2 points 2 years ago

Same thing.

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Lotteriemeister 6 points 2 years ago

Tuxedo OS. Before that, I was very happy with Fedora, and then I got a tuxedo laptop and tried their distro. Now, I keep using that because I started to enjoy KDE, and I really like their hardware support and how they test and maintain the distro.

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fatur0000new 6 points 2 years ago

I use LMDE. I use it because Mint has proved that it is worth using (for example: it provide easy way to install multimedia codec by only click "Install Multimedia Codec" in applications menu) and I want it to success.

Sorry if my english is bad

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itslilith 6 points 2 years ago

NixOS for most things, Debian on some servers as a docker host

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neo 2 points 2 years ago

Interesting. I’ve using NixOS many years on servers but recently also started using it as a base for docker hosts. Before that I used Ubuntu or Debian for docker hosts, but I figured out I still like the declarative approach even for simple servers like docker hosts. There’s your basic security config, ssh keys and monitoring setup that I used to do imperatively, but I much rather have declaratively now, no matter how small. And enabling docker on NixOS is just a virtualisation.docker.enable = true; anyway.

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itslilith 1 point 2 years ago

Oh I know it's better, problem is I host some stuff my friend group relies on so I don't want downtime while I figure things out. Also, it's a bit of a pain in the ass to get NixOS set up on a VPS without native support (I'm on Hetzner and I know it's possible, it's just a bit of a hassle). It's one of those projects that I'll get to eventually, when I got time. Or so I tell myself

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neo 2 points 2 years ago

I’m on Hetzner too. You’re right, it is a bit of a hassle. I wish they’d just include a native image into the interface. I use infect and it works quite seamless though https://github.com/...

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thejevans 1 point 2 years ago
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thedaemon 6 points 2 years ago

I recently installed OpenSuse, I have been using FreeBSD mostly, but have used linux through the years. I decided to go with an rpm based distro and I've always likes the chameleon mascot of Suse. I'm used to Debian based linux, so it's been a slight adjustment but it's been nice and smooth. I'm running Tumbleweed right now and all my Steam games work, as well as my 3d Windows applications via wine. It just works* I am too old and tired to spend time tweaking anymore.

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countrypunk 1 point 2 years ago

I'm curious, what's the use case for FreeBSD? Seems obscure.

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474D 6 points 2 years ago

Mint pleb on desktop because it's stable and just works, bazzite on steam deck for installing my own games.

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morbidcactus 6 points 2 years ago

Debian and derived is my go up generally, stable and I like apt, great out of the box on every machine I've used and personally found pretty much everything I want to use or run has debian and Ubuntu explicitly called out in their setup documentation. I use Ubuntu server a lot for work, I'm comfortable with it and it's supported in every cloud environment I've touched. Debian on my laptop, bench machine, armbian on my 3d printers, Ubuntu server on my home server (though I kinda want to move that to debian too, just lazy and it works)

I've got arch on my desktop, could have probably gone for debian unstable, but figured I'd go for it. I use aura for package management. Linux is linux though, be real that I personally don't find much of a difference beyond package management.

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Mwa 2 points 2 years ago

Is aura like nix?

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morbidcactus 1 point 2 years ago

Not used nix so can't comment on that, aura is a pacman wrapper + aur helper -S for package operations, -A for aur, gives you similar options too so -Au to update like -Su in pacman. Has a lot of other options that I'm probably not taking advantage of, but for me, gives me a single place to manage most everything (flathub too but I don't use a lot of flatpaks, just nice to have)

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

Ohh i thought its another package manager similar to nix and homebrew.

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MimicJar 5 points 2 years ago

Debian Testing. It isn't "recommended" but it works fine.

Obviously if you want AUR you need an Arch variant, in which case just pick Arch.

Edit: I needed the why, it's up to date enough for me and I know apt well.

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spleaque 5 points 2 years ago

I use Arch with Hyprland because it's great.

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Mwa 2 points 2 years ago

I heard hyprland is buggy.

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Eyck_of_denesle 1 point 2 years ago

It's quite new so bugs are expected. Now it's stabilised a lot after moving to aquamarine.

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starman2112 5 points 2 years ago

Mint, because it seems like the easiest OS for someone who doesn't know wtf a flatpak is

The other hard drive has Windows, because Fusion360 doesn't work on Linux. Hey Autodesk, can you hear me? Make it happen please

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Mwa 2 points 2 years ago

I remember autodesk said that "fusion is too windows dependent"

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fxdave 2 points 2 years ago

Try solvespace or openscad or blender depending on your use-case.

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starman2112 1 point 2 years ago

I really want to learn these, but every open-source alternative to fusion has a completely vertical learning curve. If I can't intuit how to make a 20 mm cube without looking up a tutorial, then rebooting into my Windows install to use F360 will simply be faster

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fxdave 2 points 2 years ago

From the list, openscad requires the least tutorial. Solvespace is really easy also, but you need to watch some exciting modelling videos before you get the idea around it. Blender is hard.

OpenScad also gives you a different modelling experience that lets you write reusable models, e.g. if you are a carpenter, 90% of your modelling is sizing and positioning fiberboards to shape a box. You can "automate" such tasks, easily. I wrote a script for myself that does that, and I'm now super fast at modelling furnitures. After some modelling you will be also capable of making such lib. (As a developer, I might be biased)

If you are interested in this library: https://github.com/fxdave/woodworkers-lib

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prole 5 points 2 years ago

I've been using Bazzite for a few months now (switched from EndeavourOS, which was great) and it's been amazing. I'm sold on atomic/immutable. I have never had a PC this stable, including every Windows PC I've had.

And it's perfect for gaming. There are weird little tweaks and settings that I had to do on EOS to get my GPU working correctly, etc., and they all just work out of the box in Bazzite (I did get the iso image made specifically for my laptop, which definitely helps). It's super impressive actually.

And distrobox (BoxBuddy comes installed) can be used to access the AUR or whatever if I feel the need to. Just fire up an Arch box, and have at it.

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callyral 5 points 2 years ago

I use NixOS for my desktop because I hate myself you can configure everything without needing to edit a bunch of different config files that use different configuration languages.

I use Arch btw for my Minecraft server because I am crazy.

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sunzu2 5 points 2 years ago
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whaleross 3 points 2 years ago

I tried PopOS on my laptop but found it fucky so I tried Fedora KDE and it works. Too many steps Debian -> Ubuntu -> PopOS.

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Mwa 2 points 2 years ago

maybe bcs its posted at 11pm in my timezone (gmt +3)

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Icecreamface 5 points 2 years ago

I use Debian. The current release has pretty up to date software. It's super easy to install ( I don't have as much time to fuck around with my OS as I used to). And it's stable as fuck.

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monovergent 5 points 2 years ago
  • Debian stable (w/ XFCE). No-nonsense, excellent community support, well-documented, low-maintenance, and runs on anything so I can expect things to work the same way across all of my machines, old, new(ish), or virtual
  • Just flexible enough that I can customize it to my taste but not so open-ended that I have to agonize over every last config
  • It's been around for many years and will be around for many more
  • I often entertain the idea of moving to Alpine or even BSD, but I can't resist the software selection available on Debian
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savvywolf 4 points 2 years ago

Mint for my desktop system. It just does exactly what I want it to, has good compatibility with software and Cinnamon is my DE of choice.

NixOS for my server, because being able to use one config repo and format for everything is so nice.

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gregor 4 points 2 years ago

OMG I use cachyOS too, for the same reasons, plus I love how much I can tinker with it.

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Mwa 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah i kinda like it lets you install desktops that is in arch repos, well because its arch based.

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iii 4 points 2 years ago

Xubuntu. Convenience of ubuntu, less cluttered UI.

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voracread 4 points 2 years ago

PCLinuxOS.

Stable and rolling for regular people OS.

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osugi_sakae 3 points 2 years ago

Haven't used it in a few years, but if it is still like it was, I highly recommend it for regular users. Solid, good choice of packages (for regular people). Don't remember ever having any problems with PCLinuxOS.

(I switched away only because I'm not a "regular" user.)

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

Heard that distro while looking into wikipedia.

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pineapple 4 points 2 years ago

I'm currently using bazzite due to its really solid out of the box support for gaming hardware and peripherals.

I'm really surprised everyone uses arch. I have three theories as to why:

  1. There actually aren't that many arch uses but when arch users have the opportunity they won't hesitate to say "BTW I use arch" were as others don't really bother.
  2. There are lots of arch users and everyone uses it because they want to be able to say "BTW I use arch"
  3. (Very unlikly) There are lots of arch users and it's because it's actually a good distro that people like.

(This is mostly a joke jsyk I'm sure arch is a great distro)

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kureta 2 points 2 years ago

In my experience, the only quirk of arch is its installation. pacman and the AUR are great and I really did not have any issues with stability. First time I tried arch I used a tiling window manager, custom menu bars and all that "hackerman" stuff, which was not stable at all and forced me to reconfigure and tweak my machine all day every day. Now I am using a full blown Gnome desktop environment and it is rock stable. My only wish is to have an /etc directory just like Intel Clear Linux.

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grue 4 points 2 years ago

Kubuntu, because when I got my Vega 56 GPU on release day (August 14, 2017), I had to download the proprietary driver straight from AMD to get it working, and Ubuntu was the only distro supported by both it and Steam at the time. (Otherwise, I would've picked Debian or Mint.)

I don't love Ubuntu (especially how they push Snap), but I can't be bothered with the hassle of reinstalling my OS.

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Peasley 2 points 2 years ago

My gpu twin! I was also on Kubuntu at the time for the same reasons.

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

How difficult was it to run games?

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grue 1 point 2 years ago

In 2017? Well, that's an interesting question. On one hand, it definitely wasn't as easy as it is now. On the other hand, I was motivated to ditch Windows and willing to make the gaming sacrifices necessary to make that happen. The last version of Windows I used was 7, and I was determined that 10 would never touch this machine -- or any computer of mine going forward, for that matter. I also was done putting up with 7, given that Microsoft was starting to backport 10's spyware and forced-upgrade BS to it by then.

It's been a while, so I'm fuzzy on the details of what I was playing between 2017 and 2018 (when Proton came out). I think I just limited myself to the subset of my Steam games that had native Linux versions (e.g. TF2 and other Valve first-party games, Don't Starve, Cities Skylines, etc.), supplemented with PlayOnLinux for Star Trek Online, which, being an MMO I was already committed to, was pretty much the only exception I made. Otherwise, my attitude became "if the developer can't be bothered to support my OS, that's their loss, not mine, and I don't need their shitty Windows-only game anyway."

After Proton came out and I flipped that switch to "enable Steam Play for all other titles", I think the majority of my Steam games "Just Worked" -- yes, even back at that initial release -- and the ones that didn't became compatible pretty rapidly over the next couple of years. With one exception, I don't think I've had trouble getting a game working since the start of the pandemic, if not earlier. At this point, I've softened my "I won't buy a new game if it doesn't natively support Linux stance" and instead simply expect every game I buy to work. And they have!

(That one exception was Star Trek Online, which I had continued running via PlayOnLinux because (a) why mess with a working config, and (b) the Steam version of STO wants to permanently link your STO account to your Steam account, which I didn't want to do. One day, though, they updated the launcher or something and it quit working. I eventually gave up trying to fix it in PlayOnLinux and decided to use Proton for it instead. But I still didn't want to link my accounts, so I had to jump through these weird hoops where I installed the Steam version, but didn't log in or play it, and instead re-imported it as a non-Steam game pointing at the executable for the Steam version and then fiddled with the compatibility settings to find a version of Proton that worked. That's still the configuration I'm using for it to this day.)

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

Someone told me that he used alot of tinkering to play games before proton.

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grue 2 points 2 years ago

I mean, yeah, if you were trying to get a game to run using bare WINE in like <2010 or something, you were gonna be troubleshooting it for a while (and might still fail just because the functionality hadn't actually caught up yet). By 2017, though, DirectX etc. support had improved drastically (Valve's first attempt at SteamOS was already a few years old by then), so the main issue was figuring out the right configuration (which version of Windows to mimic, installing supporting libraries, etc.) and tools like PlayOnLinux and Lutris went a long way towards crowdsourcing and automating that.

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DarkDarkHouse 4 points 2 years ago

Stock Fedora Silverblue. It does what I need so I can get on with my life.

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Atemu 4 points 2 years ago

NixOS because it's the only usable stab at sustainable system configuration.

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Laser 4 points 2 years ago

All that follows is my personal opinion, but for ease of writing, I'm gonna present it as facts.

Once you have grasped the advantage that Nix offers, all the fundamentally different solutions just seem s o inferior. When I first tried NixOS on a decommissioned notebook, the concept immediately made sense. Granted, I didn't understand the language features very well – I mostly used it for static configuration with most stuff just written verbatim in configuration.nix, though I did use flakes very early on because of Lanzaboote. But just the fact that you had a central configuration in a single language that was able to cross-reference itself across different parts of the system absolutely blew me out of the water. I was a very happy and content Arch user, even proficient enough to run my own online repository that built from a clean chroot for AUR packages (if you use Arch with AUR packages on multiple systems, check out the awesome aurutils!), but after seeing the power of NixOS in action, I switched over all my machines as soon as I could - desktop, virtual servers (thanks nixos-anywhere!), main notebook and NAS.

People often praise the BSDs for their integrated approach – NixOS manages to bring that approach to Linux. Apart from GUIX System that I never tried because Secure Boot was a requirement when I last looked at other distributions, none of them have tackled the problem that NixOS solves, and it's not even certain if they actually understand it. Conceptually, it plays on a whole different level. No more unrecoverable systems, even with broken kernels – just boot the previous configuration. Want to try changes without any commitment? nixos-rebuild test got you. Need an app quick? nix shell nixpkgs#app it is.

Plus the ecosystem is just fantastic. The aforementioned nixos-anywhere really helps with remote provisioning, using disko to declaratively setup filesystems and mounts, you have devenv which is a really good solution for development environments, both regarding reproducibility and features, and many more that I can't mention here. There is nothing comparable, and the possibilities are unlike in any other ecosystem.

It's not perfect for sure though, and documentation is sparse. The language concepts which allow one to "unlock" the most powerful features are different from what most people know.

I was lucky enough to have some downtime at work to get into the system a bit deeper (this was still for work though, just not my core skillset) by implementing a "framework" for our needs which forced me to not just copy and paste stuff, though I definitely did get inspired from other solutions, but to actually better understand the module system (I think?), thinking in attribute sets, writing your own actual modules, function library and so on. But in the end, it was definitely worth it, and I'm unaware of any other system that would allow what Nix and NixOS allowed me to build.

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Buckshot 2 points 2 years ago

100%. Took me a good year to learn it well enough to be confident with what I was doing but I've now got it on everything with a single flake for all my hosts. I love that my user profile is configured the same everywhere. I can add a new tool or config or alias or whatever and it's the same on every computer.

I've now written a module to define all the services I self host and from that it generates both nginx config and DNS config on different hosts.

The main advantage for me though is I only have to solve problems once. Once it's there in the config I'm confident it's solved and I won't need to worry about it again. My previous server was 10 years old and there was stuff configured I'd long forgotten about how it worked or even why I did it.

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greywolf0x1 0 points 2 years ago

this but since Nix is licensed with MIT and deals with weapon manufacturers, i had to go

GUIX!!!, it is everything

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Laser 1 point 2 years ago

While I do get your sentiment, we currently see in Ukraine what happens if you don't have a defense industry: You're reliant on other countries to supply you in case a hostile nation notices that you're lacking it.

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ccoonH 4 points 2 years ago

I used to use Arch btw.

Now I am on Nix, I just love shell.nix files. I haven't spent much time on my configs yet, but once I finish them, they'll be super easy to set up again, thats cool.

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DJDarren 4 points 2 years ago

Mint on my ancient MacBook because I didn’t really know any better and it’s working just nice for me, and Asahi/Fedora on my M1 mini, because it’s the only option.

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TrivialBetaState 4 points 2 years ago

MX Linux. It is Debian with setup and tools I really want but would be too lazy to prepare in one go. Love it as much as I love Debian.

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Grass 4 points 2 years ago

Bazzite for my gaming pc, steam deck, and family members. It just works and they cant fuck it up. Even brother laser printers official drivers installed for my mom's comp. Gotta check the details of that cups exploit though. My gamig pc is also the fallback pc I expect to always have working and for servicing any others if problems come up.

Arch or arch based, except manjaro which has screwed me over too many times, for having easy access to pretty much any software that can run on linux, or just stuff that requires too many hoops to jump through to get working on atomic distros like bazzite.

Dietpi on my SBCs like the ones running klipper for my 3d printers

Debian for my servers, homeassistant etc, but I'm planning on checking out coreos.

Also alpine just because.

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AAA 4 points 2 years ago

Fedora KDE.

I was happily using Windows 10 until a few months ago, but needed to build a new PC. I got a glimpse of Windows 11 on a friend's laptop and didn't like it. So I asked my Linux-friend which distribution he would recommend to someone who wants to try Linux, but doesn't want to stray too far away from the windows look and feel.

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Anarchistcowboy 4 points 2 years ago

I use Debian on my server and Arch on my gaming PC and laptop. Both distros offer minimal installs so I can just add the packages I need and avoid the ones I don't. Debian offers a nice stable base for running my services with minimal downtime and Arch has the most up to date packages for all the cutting edge features I want on desktop.

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prole 2 points 2 years ago

I recommend giving Bazzite a try for gaming. I switched to it from Arch (well EOS), and it's been wonderful.

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django 2 points 2 years ago

My preference as well.

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IAmHeroForFun 4 points 2 years ago

btw i use Arch, i use it because i found lot less effort it takes to do anything and it's stable, i do think there is some bug with QTcreator, gotta see it's os issue or QT issue.

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maliciousonion 4 points 2 years ago

Because the logo is cool :)

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pogodem0n 4 points 2 years ago

Fedora Kinoite. I like KDE, atomic distros and the fact that Fedora is the only (at least that I know of) distro that has proper SELinux implementation.

I also play games on this system, so having newer kernel and Mesa versions help.

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prole 4 points 2 years ago

I also play games on this system, so having newer kernel and Mesa versions help.

I guess I'm that guy in this thread constantly bringing up his current distro of choice lol... But have you tried Bazzite? From what I understand it's basically Kinoite but built with gaming in mind.

If you have, I'd be curious as to what differences there were between it and Kinoite...

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pogodem0n 3 points 2 years ago

I have tried Bazzite before and understand its appeal. I am an ex-Arch user so I prefer the system to be as minimal as possible. Fedora fits my requirements just right and Bazzite does not seem to bring anything to the table that I miss from Fedora.

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lancalot 1 point 2 years ago

the fact that Fedora is the only (at the least that I know of) distro that has proper SELinux implementation.

AFAIK, openSUSE Aeon(/Kalpa) does as well*.

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morkyporky 4 points 2 years ago

Devuan because I don't like systemd

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Twig 1 point 2 years ago

Artix for similar reasons

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Veraxis 3 points 2 years ago

Arch. I need the AUR for certain applications, and the high degree of customizability and opportunity for learning appeal to me as a relatively new-ish Linux user (going on a few years now, most of that time having been on Arch).

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countrypunk 3 points 2 years ago

LMDE. It really does just work.

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qyron 2 points 2 years ago

How does it fare compared with the standard Mint?

I've been considering try it but because of the focus on Cinamon I keep delaying it.

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countrypunk 1 point 2 years ago

The main difference is that Mint is Ubuntu-based and LMDE is Debian-based.

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Metju 3 points 2 years ago

2 flavors of Fedora with KDE on it:

  1. Aurora-DX for some dev work on the side. Once you get used to distroboxing / devcontainers, it's rock-solid and mean dev environment (saw some minor issues with how certain GUI apps were scaled, but that's about it).
  2. Nobara for gaming (tried Bazzite and it'd prolly work for that purpose as well).

Unfortunately, had to keep Windows on one other machine (fuck you KORG for not providing anything working on Linux), but that's limited to being a glorified music player now 😄

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

Idk if you can get korg working on wine.

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Metju 1 point 2 years ago

It has entry in WineHQ that the license won't activate, so... Yeah, it's effed

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

Oh

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BCsven 3 points 2 years ago

A few for different use cases. NixOS on my wife's 14 year old laptop because it proved to handle the hardware the best, and she struggles with change so if that system dies the NixOS configuration can be redeployed identical to how she had it with no additional effort.

Debian on my old IOmega NAS.

OpenSUSE on my personal PC and Work computer, since it supports my proprietary CAD software, and nVidia releases a driver specifically for SUSE/OpenSUSE use.

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ProtonBadger 3 points 2 years ago

I started with Slackware in the late nineties. Have been through Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu, Arch, Tumbleweed. These days I just can't be bothered, I just want to game and code and I prefer an out of the box well configured Ubuntu derivative, they also upgrade easily and have lots of application compatibility - mostly everyone provides .deb packages. I could also choose Fedora for these reasons.

So now on Pop!_OS 24.04. Pop is has a stable/lts base but still gets Mesa/Nvidia/Kernel updates on a regular basis. I use it mainly for gaming and Rust dev, writing some COSMIC applets as well.

COSMIC Alpha does still have problems with some games but not the games I play.

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Hugin 3 points 2 years ago

At work a mix of red hat, fedora, centos, and red hawk. At home mint debian spin. It just works and games run great. I don't have time to deal with the red hat crap if i'm not getting paid.

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kylian0087 3 points 2 years ago

Opensuse TW. It is rolling release and rock solid. Also amazing btrfs implementation.

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Zacpod 1 point 2 years ago

Snapper saved my ass so hard last night! I've tried all the other major distros and TW is where I stayed.

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hobbsc 3 points 2 years ago
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VintageGenious 3 points 2 years ago

PopOS but I'd like to switch to NixOS

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neo 0 points 2 years ago

Try it! Here’s a proof of concept that I’ve made that shows NixOS could even be used as a base for a very simple OS that abstracts the Nix away almost completely. Maybe the source code is of interest to you.

https://github.com/nixup-io/desk-os

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VintageGenious 1 point 2 years ago

I need a way to backup my files between the two OS to do the move. I will look at your repo

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Atemu 2 points 2 years ago

I recommend borgbackup.

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squid_slime 3 points 2 years ago

Arch, pacman is why

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ElectronBadger 2 points 2 years ago

Debian Testing (laptop, workstation and RPIs) since it works best for me. Tried Gentoo, Arch, OpenSUSE and several others. Also, I've been using FreeBSD for some time.

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Ovata 2 points 2 years ago

Been using Mint with the Cinnamon desktop environment for a few years now. Does everything I need it to.

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MXX53 2 points 2 years ago

Fedora 41 KDE at home on my daily driver laptop and desktop.

Antix on my dell mini netbook.

Multi machine VMs I manage at work run on red hat enterprise with no DE or WM.

My web app servers at work run Ubuntu server 24 LTS with no DE or WM.

My home lab runs on fedora 41 server, no DE or WM.

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zueski 2 points 2 years ago

Gentoo for anything my I use a mouse with, Arch for everything else. I like Gentoo for the customization. For things where I want to run a service, Arch is my go to as it keeps working without drama. Anything complicated, Gentoo is better.

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bawb 2 points 2 years ago

Currently, Arch btw. I was on Ubuntu in the 12* days, but arch wiki had the solutions to every problem I encountered, so naturally migrated. I want to switch to NixOS but ran into some issues getting my finicky nvidia/amdgpu laptop to work. I might go blendOS as a holdover, it seems like a good mix of the two. Also I have some issues with Manjaro (tried for a while) but pamac cli at least handles all of my aur and pacman needs properly.

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jimitsoni18 2 points 2 years ago

Void because I don't like gnome, primarily because it uses more than 50% of my resources, so I need something lightweight and have had bad experience with arch. I've had some hiccups with void but it wasn't something I couldn't fix. The downside is that it there are no package repository mirrors in my region, and sometimes I have to change mirrors to install packages, and some applications are not packages for void, so I have to look for open source alternatives that I have to compile.

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greywolf0x1 2 points 2 years ago

Guix SD because i like editing declarative ((`scheme)) config for my system in emacs

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Mwa 2 points 2 years ago

Man gnu endorsed distros are quite rare here.

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OADINC 2 points 2 years ago

I use Fedora on my desktop, and mint on my laptop (this one is going to get wiped soon for Fedora as well). I tried manjaro but it just wasn't for me. I installed it on the recommendation of my friend, and I like it a lot. Except for it not staying asleep because a part on the motherboard kept sending a wake command -__- . But a CMD fixed that issue.

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fmstrat 2 points 2 years ago

Debian. Used to use others but realized they all just added crap I didn't want, or could add myself with a simple script.

I was a Slackware then Fedora, then Ubuntu as my daily drivers (whipe trying other distros, or Kali for specific purposes) before settling here.

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MrMobius 2 points 2 years ago

I started using linux seriously with Manjaro, but since I didn't know what AUR really was I fucked my system up (thank NVIDIA drivers for that). Then I switched to arch, learned everything I should have known on the arch wiki. So yeah, I use arch btw.

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

For me i started linux seriously with fedora,Some packages was hard to get so i went with cachyos.

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LovePoson 2 points 2 years ago

Manjaro on main pc and phone. Proxmox (debian) on server

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toastal 2 points 2 years ago

NixOS & OpenWRT are my two. NixOS’s Nix language as declarative config is such a great tool for setting up & maintaining a machines for the long-term that despite the initial learning curve has paid off in the long run (Guix or a Nix successor should also be in the same category). OpenWRT is the purpose-built tool it is for having an OS for a router with low overhead & a UI that can be easier to understand the config when networking isn’t something you do on the regular.

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lancalot 2 points 2 years ago

What distro do you use

I daily drive secureblue.

and why?

Long story short; I love me some security. Unfortunately, My device is far from ideal for running Qubes OS. From within the remaining options, secureblue comes out on top for me.

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NullNet 2 points 2 years ago
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CaptainBasculin 2 points 2 years ago

Pop. I just need ubuntu without snap, distro's default look doesnt matter since I'll just use sway/i3wm.

Though the fact that they're building their own tiling DE could make me stick with it fully when it comes out.

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

Cosmic?

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CaptainBasculin 1 point 2 years ago

Yep. It's still in alpha stage, but I really like what I saw from it right now.

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kusivittula 2 points 2 years ago

mint cinnamon because on my system it has no major issues and everything is easy to configure. i don't have a lot of spare time so i can't spend hours or even days troubleshooting why something won't install or run. most other distros have been annoyingly buggy or too difficult to set up.

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meathorse 2 points 2 years ago

Began moving all my hardware to Linux this year since none of them will run win11 without fk-about-ing - and I just don't want to. So my server, media box and laptop are all cut over, only my main desktop left on windows a bit longer but it's goose is cooked too.

I've tried dozens of distros over the years but I've settled on Fedora KDE.

The why:

  • Skipping x11 and head straight into Wayland so I don't have to worry about that in the future.
  • I wanted something more up to date than debian-based and less cutting edge then Arch-based.
  • Stability and support of being in the RHEL family
  • Flatpaks
  • Tried to get on with gnome to get away from the 'start menu' paradigm but ended up getting on with kde better.
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Mwa 2 points 2 years ago

In my opinion skipping x11 Will make compatability worse.

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meathorse 1 point 2 years ago

Good point - my thought is to go through that pain now while I'm still learning to use Linux properly. I'm not tied into anything yet so I can always swap something out if it doesn't play with Wayland and gets too troublesome.

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I_Miss_Daniel 2 points 2 years ago

Fedora.

Most of the others either booted to a black screen after install, or the track pad was somewhat uncontrollable when scrolling. Older Asus laptop with separate GPU.

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monk 1 point 2 years ago

NixOS because all the other ones differ about as much as Windows 10 from Windows 11. Guix doesn't count.

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timroerstroem 1 point 2 years ago

Kubuntu on my desktop, I prefer KDE as a DE and I'm used to the Debian ecosystem.

Linux Mint on my relatively low powered laptop that I rarely use.

Debian stable on my media server.

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Telodzrum 1 point 2 years ago
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osugi_sakae 1 point 2 years ago

Gentoo on my home computer. Started way back in the day when you had to recompile source RPMs on RPM-based distros to get CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) language support. Debian language support was excellent, but I didn't enjoy always being 5 package versions behind, especially as fast as some software was being developed.

CJK isn't an issue anywhere anymore, but I stay on Gentoo because it has all the packages I want, and it doesn't force systemd on me.

Will be moving away from Ubuntu on my work computer because of all the foolishness with 'is it deb or is it snap?'. Not sure what I'll go to.

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thedeadwalking4242 1 point 2 years ago

Nix because I have a bad memory and hate doing things more than once

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

🔥

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Eyck_of_denesle 1 point 2 years ago

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russjr08 1 point 2 years ago

Primarily I use Arch on my desktop (and by proxy, my Steam Deck which runs SteamOS), which is what I've landed on after a ton of distro hopping. The idea of Atomic distros catches my eyes, but for me in its present state there are too many steps needed in order to make deeper changes (for example, installing a kernel module) - but I quite like SteamOS on my Deck since I know it will always be in a "consistent" state, for example.

On servers I run a mix of Rocky Linux and Debian.

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captain_aggravated 1 point 2 years ago

Fedora KDE, because my preferred distro Mint Cinnamon doesn't at the moment have good support for things like FreeSync.

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

Idk if you use smth like gamescope to enable it in cinnamon

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Unknown1234_5 1 point 2 years ago

Tuxedo OS. Same idea as smth like mint or PopOs but (imo) done much better. It also has rolling release for some stuff (like the DE) and non-rolling for other stuff (not even sure what bc I don't really look in detail). It also uses KDE plasma my favorite (and imo the best) DE. It's got pretty good app availability in terms of official packages because it is based on Ubuntu LTS (now 24.04). There are a couple things that are vestigial on most computers bc it was made for tuxedo computers but these have no negative effect on other devices in my experience.

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asudox 1 point 2 years ago

I've hopped distros alot and then just felt most comfortable with arch linux. I try other distros and then just go back to arch linux everytime. I just love the AUR and the utilities that are available to arch linux. The wiki is also very good.

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

Best wiki and aur fr.

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YetiMindtrick 1 point 2 years ago

Elementary OS.

I really like the focus on delivering a solid, intuitive and snappy desktop environment. It is absolutely what I recommend to newbies, who are looking for a Windows or macOS replacement.

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ComradeMiao 1 point 2 years ago

Fedora because I like this out of the box look more than Ubuntu and it runs my games well with my nvidia card

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ComradeMiao 1 point 2 years ago

I have one Ubuntu and one fedora server. Honestly they’re both fine.

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alexein 1 point 2 years ago

Mint, first one I tried, and works just fine. It's xfce with i3wm.

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icogniito 1 point 2 years ago

Cachyos.

Used to use pure arch but I like the cachy optimisations and their repos

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

You can put Cachyos tweaks kernels and repos on top of arch or nixos if you like.

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icogniito 1 point 2 years ago

I know you can basically turn arch into catchy, but I see no reason to when there is a pre made distro.

As for Nix, I think it looks very interesting but I very much love arch for my desktop and am not really looking for a replacement at the moment, but it is number one on my list for the future if things change

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Mwa 1 point 2 years ago

I know you can basically turn arch into catchy, but I see no reason to when there is a pre made distro.

Makes sense

As for Nix, I think it looks very interesting but I very much love arch for my desktop and am not really looking for a replacement at the moment, but it is number one on my list for the future if things change

Aswell as fedora in copr and Am pretty sure its only the kernel no optimized packages for both nix and fedora.

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JayEchoRay 1 point 2 years ago

Fedora 41 KDE Plasma

For the simple, shallow reason it looks great and feels snappy.

Personal rabble: ::: spoiler spoiler I would say that it does not feel as "set and forget" as Mint, but I enjoy the feel of of environment.

I am pretty new at Linux in general - only have experience with a Mint environment before.

I did have some issues with Fedora - mostly audio problems in Steam games and it can feel slightly more intimidating to work with ( compared to Mint) but after digging into various help threads and trying stuff( responsibly) I did reach a point where I reached a satisfied conclusion - even if I am not sure what exactly I did that solved the problem :::

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Epicurus0319 1 point 2 years ago

Ubuntu, because I'm fine with something that "just works"

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Mwa 2 points 2 years ago

How did you deal with snaps?

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Saithe 1 point 2 years ago

Fedora. I like the rolling release but with large updates separated into point releases, as well as the ability to perform offline updates. I also like the preinstalled security stuff

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lengau 1 point 2 years ago

Kubuntu, because it's the most solid distro I've used that meets my needs.

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iDunnoBro 1 point 2 years ago

Arch with KDE on ThinkPad T460s (studying and bullshit pc).

Nobara with i3wm on home studio/gaming desktop. Switching to Arch on it one day but CBA at the moment.

Honestly which distro I use isn't all that important to me these days so long as I'm getting decently new kernel updates. Depending on my use case that's not even important. Used Debian LTS on a home media center for probably 8 years.

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theRealBassist 1 point 2 years ago

I use TuxedoOS. I wanted something that kept up with the latest KDE updates which ran a cleaned up version of Ubuntu... that's TuxedoOS to a T. I had looked at other options like Kubuntu or just installing KDE over something like PopOS, but TuxedoOS was the most stable and up to date of those options in my testing.

That said, I have run into innumerable problems on it due to apt repos that it doesn't include which come standard on Ubuntu.

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Breadhax0r 1 point 2 years ago

I started with mint cinnamon and then tried out bazzite and nobara but they both gave me issues so I'm back to mint because it really does "just work"

My server is running mint currently, but I'm going to switch to fedora at some point soon. Mostly because I have to deal with RHEL at work and I'd like to better familiarize myself with it.

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penguin202124 1 point 2 years ago

Alpine Linux. It's pretty lightweight (uses ~250MiB on idle with sway), is easy to install and is super stable. My only criticism is that there is quite a lot of software not available in the repos, but this is mainly fixed by flatpaks.

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superkret 1 point 2 years ago

Arch, cause I set it up to my liking once out of curiosity when I was procrastinating, wrote a script that automates https://wiki.archlinux.org/... and now am too lazy to switch to something else.
Especially since maintenance involves typing Update.sh once a week or so, and nothing else.

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Dustwin 1 point 2 years ago

Kubuntu 24.04 because it's a solid desktop and I have nothing against Snap. If it works then I don't care if it's a deb flat or snap. p PPAs were fun and exciting but I broke my system more than once with them back 10 years.

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NauticalNoodle 0 points 2 years ago
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StarlightDust 0 points 2 years ago

Artix because I love Arch and the AUR but networkd kept causing my home network to act like the mad hatter's tea party with IP assignment.

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OwlPaste 0 points 2 years ago

I like Manjaro

  • I like it
  • Its user friendly if you don't want to spend a month fiddling with it
  • Feels comfy and relatively lightweight
  • If you are living on the edge of latest and greatest versions, it can be a pain to wait for official repos to be updated. Though I only noticed this problem with Discord desktop app, however since I realised that it spies on every process that runs and you cannot turn that feature off. Uninstalled. Problem gone. Happy me.
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Harald -8 points 2 years ago
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Mwa 6 points 2 years ago

Huh????

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ada 4 points 2 years ago

It's spam

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Mwa 2 points 2 years ago

Oh

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