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So you chose war?
Okay, let’s play this game :D Mint, because it’s frickin easy and fulfills all my needs while being stable enough for my work laptop
Debian, because I can just have a computer without needing to fiddle with a million things. I work in tech and don’t want to mess with any more code or configurations if I’m on my own computer. It’s worked for me for 5 years and has worked for others for 30 years.
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Fedora is the perfect balance of stable and up-to-date, so that’s what I’m using on my desktop. I’ve got Arch on another laptop too because it’s so easy to use; it has my favorite package manager and basically every program in existence in the AUR.
You can have both! Just install Distrobox and set up an arch container.
I do that on Silverblue and it works great :)
openSUSE Tumbleweed because it’s bang up to date and utterly reliable.
Debiain because it’s rock fucking solid.
Linux Mint Debian Edition. I mention it a lot on here, but it really is my favorite distro. I have been using Linux a long time, and I’m old. I don’t care to spend a lot of time and effort tweaking and configuring. LMDE gives me everything I need and is usable out of the box, while not standing in my way when I need to get shit done.
I’m a Linux noob so I don’t have a distro preference yet but I’m currently using Fedora KDE spin. It’s pretty nice.
Fedora Silverblue and Silverblue specifically. I used to run Arch and did all the cool things from DE customization to custom kernels and other cool shit with scripts and so on. Now I just want a system that I know will boot and just do it’s thing
Arch. It has pretty great documentation and I like having the safety of knowing what’s on my computer. Other than those two things, I just like arch I guess. There isn’t anything wrong with other distros.
Nixos.
The ability to have my whole system in a git repo is what i have been looking for when i did not know it.
Steep freaking curve though and the documentation kinda blows. But its the distro ive spent the longest on apart from Arch, and i feel quote at home even though most stuff is done differently.Also, mixing stable and unstable packages; also
nix run/shell/develop. On the other hand, error messages sometimes outcompete those from cpp in being confusing AF 🤣deleted by creator
I did some research on guix when i was deciding which one of the two i was going to try as a daily driver.
My conclusion was that choosing guix would mean choosing a smaller community and amount of support for a better language.Would love your opinion if youve done your research on it. Why choose guix over nixos?
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Servers I run Debian, I do not want flashy I just want stable and tested security fixes.
I could not hack being that far behind for my desktop OS however (which I run on three different devices), so I run Ubuntu, which I remove as much Ubuntu and Gnome baggage as possible such as snaps and by running Sway.
I should really swap to a different distro that also has Debian as its root but without the stuff I don’t want and Sway by default. However I also want stuff to be simple and up to date, as I make my money on my desktop PCs, I cannot afford for it to be a PITA every time I try to install patches.
I do have one PC running arch, but its mostly for the memes (and for PIKVM)
I did used to be Red Hat through and through. I started with Linux back in 98 using Red Hat CD ROMs, but I left for Debian over some previous controversy that I do not remember now, years before the Centos stuff.
Arch because I’m too lazy for a non-rolling distro. I should really set up snapshots and my dotfiles repo on my new laptop though (:
I have Arch (KDE) installed on my desktop at home. I have been using it for 6 years and I love it, especially the AUR! This month I have been mostly using my laptop and I am using MX Linux 23 KDE which is great! I really find it’s tools very useful when I need them (which is not often, but I am glad they are there).
