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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)

Semi-random: I was happy to see so many Flatpak being released for arm64 too (as on "Apple Silicon", working great by the way)

Tip for others with ARM: the Fedora official download page only lists Kinoite 38 for arm and Siilverblue 37 and no Sway, BUT they all work perfectly fine if you rebase with rpm-ostree after installing Kinoite. The power of image-based updates!

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

Wow, that’s some neat functionality. I was interested in trying Kinoite after you mentioned it, so it sounds like it would be fairly easy to switch from one to the other without reinstalling from scratch?