For me it’s PeppermintOS.

I started my Linux adventure a few years ago, and haven’t owned a Windows PC since.

I currently use Arch on my main rig, and I wanted to install Linux on two old laptops that I found laying around in my house

I then remembered the first distro I ever used, which is PeppermintOS, and I was amazed at the latest updates they released.

They even have a mini ISO now to do a net-install with no bloat, with a Debian or Devuan base.

Sadly, I believe the founder passed away a few years ago, which is why I was really happy to see the continuation of this amazing project.

    • samsy@feddit.de
      2·
      2 years ago

      Using it over years and discovered the expert installer a few months ago. Really good stuff, especially since they decide to build an extra repo for non-free-firmware, because a lot of people ditch Debian when their shitty WiFi doesn’t get recognized immediately after install because it needs a non-free-firmware.

  • aramus@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 years ago

    Whenever somebody recommends NixOS, I just want to spam the comments with Guix. I prefer configs I can understand, and I think lisp makes that easier. Other than syntax, the only thing I see is people complaining about the free-oftware-only. But the recently hyped distrobox solves that (together with the nonguix repo). Yet nobody recommends guix in all these “immutable” distro threads.

    In my opinion Guix is the best mix of:

    • Arch (rolling release),

    • NixOS (“immutable”, atomic updates , rollback, reproducible, declarative configs)

    • Gentoo (source code based, write your own package definitions for any source code you find),

    with some lispy syntax.

  • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Linux Mint Debian Edition.

    Like Peppermint this is a fantastic distro for anyone wanting to use Debian without the pain of self installing. Plus you always have the latest cinnamon.

    It’s also good for anyone wanting to get away from Ubuntu all together.

    I’d also like to get away from the stigma that mint is only a newbie distro. It’s not. It’s full fat Linux so pros can use it too, and should. It’s very reliable, fast and use friendly.

    Above all, it’s true FOSS and LMDE is 100% community 💪

  • hottari@lemmy.ml
    9·
    2 years ago

    Arch. Some of its users take this distro for granted a lot of times but it only goes downhill from here once you start looking at other distros.

    Tumbleweed. Solid, Automated QA testing.

    Chimera Linux. Security-related compilation flags go brrr. No systemd.

    Maybe we’ll see SerpentOS sometime before this decade ends but who knows.

    On a side note. Aeon 1.0 if/when released, can’t wait to see how it all turns out. Especially if they manage to integrate BTRFS snapshots with systemd-boot entries.

    • LeFantome@programming.dev
      3·
      2 years ago

      Wow. Great to see Chimera Linux on this list, though I do not think it is even out of Alpha yet.

      Chimera Linux and Vanilla Linux are two of the distributions that I am most interested in at the moment.

      I am also a huge fan of Arch but I typically install EndeavourOS these days. Out of the 80,000 or so Arch packages, EndeavourOS adds only about two dozen more but many of them are great. Installing yay by default is a great decision as well.

  • visnudeva@lemmy.ml
    9·
    2 years ago

    All of them, thanks a lot for all the Devs hard work, I’ve tried and loved so many distros that I can’t choose any of them but lately I have been using cachyos which is a clean and fast arch based distro.

  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
    61·
    2 years ago

    Void, Slackware, Alpine, Gentoo, Devuan (although I’d like for them to remove even the slightest semblance of systemd), FreeBSD

  • Unmapped@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 years ago

    I was a Arch Linux fan for at least 5 years. Tried all the main ones except gentoo. Kept coming back to Arch. But now I’m one week into using NixOS. I don’t think I’m ever going back. It has completely blown my mind, and fixes every minor thing I didn’t like about arch. Mainly how package dependencies work. I’m sure there will be a downside somewhere, but so far the only issue I’ve had is just trying to learn how to config everything.

    TLDR: NixOS. I don’t know how I didn’t know about it till recently. Seems like it would be a lot more popular than it is.

    • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Back when I was on NixOS, my main bugbear was that the Nix package language is pretty esoteric. I have some experience in packaging on Linux, so I thought I would be able to be able to put together at least a minimal package. No such luck. You how Haskell has a reputation for being difficult and full of burritos? It was like that, but the burritos were packages.

  • GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Maybe it’s just me, but folks seem to hate ZorinOS for some reason. Which imo, is a perfect distro as is for baby penguins.

  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    I stopped looking at PepperMint when the founder passed away. It was a sad day.

    Another sad day was when they could no longer keep using LXDE because it fell out of support. Very unfortunate