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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What distro(s) do you use? (lemmy.world)

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What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?

I myself am a daily Void user. I used to use Devuan, but wanted to try rolling release and ended up loving Void!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm currently in the middle of setting my laptop up with a dual boot into Arch (btw).

My reasoning is that it's more customizable and I can more easily know everything on my machine...

...my real reasoning is I like the logo better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Similarly to you, I'm on Artix. Quite similar to arch, customizable, lightweight all that stuff, just without systemd. Don't really have this deep philosophical resentment for sysd l see a lot of others have, I just had issues with it on older systems and got used to runit. Also, the logo is really slick.

Void on my laptop, very minimal, customizable and extremely stable for a rolling distro. Wanted to mention NixOS as well because although I don't use the distro itself, the nix pm is amazing and I use it on Void for packages that aren't in the repos.