I’m wondering what the current favorite distros are besides the most popular ones like Arch, Debian and Fedora.

  • kalpol@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 years ago

    OpenSUSe. Tumbleweed as a rolling bistro is amazingly stable, yast is nice, and it all just works great. Leap for the servers, and things are solid.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has been my desktop home for the last year. It’s very up to date, yet it’s somehow solid and reliable despite sometimes receiving hundreds of updates per week. And if anything goes wrong with an update you can easily roll back to a BTRFS snapshot. It has a good repository supplemented by Flatpaks, and I haven’t had any problems finding software, yet it’s not a hassle like some other cutting-edge distros. It uses KDE Plasma by default, which I consider a plus. I came to it from Mint, which was my go-to distro for a long time, but I enjoy Tumbleweed more for its up-to-dateness and configurability, and I have (surprisingly) encountered more software gaps on Mint.

  • iopq@lemmy.world
    103·
    2 years ago

    NixOS is not based on any other distro because it has its own package manager which is better than all the other distros’

  • Deebster@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Can it still be a favourite if I haven’t touched it in a decade? I still love Gentoo but I have enough shiny things to burn up my time.

  • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’m currently using Arch (btw), but I have been hearing the distant call of NixOS lately…

  • jollyrogue@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’m trying out OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on a few personal servers as I wait for Slowroll, I want to get back to trying to get Gentoo running, and I should check out Guix as a server in a VM.

    Gentoo having a binary option should help since I seem to mess up the kernel part of the installation.

  • fishinthecalculator@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 years ago

    I think functional distros like Guix or Nix are just another thing. Their ability of programming , provisioning and deploying software environments is unparalleled. My personal favorite is Guix since, while having less packages than Nix, it has the most consistent experience: everything is in Scheme from the top to the bottom of the distro. Also it pushes really hard on a sane bootstrapping story while allowing for impurity through channels like nonguix .

    The main downside is the lack of tutorials and a documentation that’s very intense, let’s say. typical of GNU projects. I suggest the System Crafters youtube channel which has a lot of nice tutorials