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So, title. Personally after trying out pretty much every major distro save gentoo, I've come back to Ubuntu because it just works and I can focus on my work. Did remove snap and install flatpak, but other than that it's mostly stock ubuntu.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm on EndeavorOS. It's essentially Arch Linux with very specific training wheels. I switched to it about a year ago and remain exceedingly happy with it.

[–] ruckblack 7 points 2 years ago

I use Arch, btw

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Gone through many distros. Always end up back with Ubuntu as it just works for when I need to get things done.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ubuntu Budgie is my main OS. Works well but if I install another I'll give NixOS a spin. I like the idea of generally immutable systems.

[–] Eeyore_Syndrome 6 points 2 years ago

ublu also has Budgie rebase for Intel/AMD Can just rebase from a Kinoite/Silverblue/Serica install: rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/budgie-main:latest

Nvidia: rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/budgie-nvidia:latest

Or the newer ISO method:

Also checkout Fleek:

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] captain_aggravated 3 points 2 years ago

Cinnamon gang!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I’ve been using Fedora for the past couple of years, but have been putting some time into NixOS VM’s recently

[–] Hagarashi8 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Currently Arch with i3wm. I'm up to try NixOS after i'll pass exam on monday.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

GL on your exam.

Same, also Arch+i3.

I'm thinking about trying NixOS too. A lot of people are talkimg about it lately.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Ubuntu. Keeps it simple and streamlined between my PC, my servers and my EC2 servers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Pop!_OS on my laptop for everything except gaming. Programming, media consumption, reading, etc. I am much more productive using their stupid simple tiling window manager.

On my servers/cloud VM's I run Ubuntu Server.

On my NAS I run TrueNAS Scale. To be completely honest I kind of regret "upgrading" from TrueNAS to TrueNAS Scale. It's less performant and the amount of issues I've had with their application setup made me completely abandon it and just run Docker on a separate computer, which defeated the entire purpose of installing Scale. I'm sure they'll iron everything out over time and it's not like the performance is horrendous, it's just incomparable to good ol' regular TrueNAS (based on BSD instead of Linux with great ZFS support).

[–] Eeyore_Syndrome 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Fedora Kinoite:

Technically Universal Blue:

I was on Fedora KDE since 32.

But as of late, RPM Fusion drops the ball more and more often.

Package lag time was breaking updates on my AMD system even. Unless you swap mesa/mesa-freeworld back to update....

Because I like hardware acceleration and encoding/decoding -.-

Universal Blue takes the pain away for AMD and Nvidia users alike. Think Chromebook easy but it's Fedora.

I'm embracing Flatpaks now. For things not available as flatpaks, I just export from a toolbox or Distrobox.

I have a messy writeup here:

I thank Steam Deck for making me realize immutable/cloud based image-Desktop isn't scary anymore.

[–] not_jov 4 points 2 years ago

I used Fedora for a good part of the last year, pretty solid distro.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Debian Bookworm.

The purpose of my home computer is to help me work or play games. I don't want to expend effort updating/fixing my computer.

I would use Ubuntu but Snaps is impossible to turn off and they are insanely slow. CentOS/RHEL/Rocky seem to make every package require a full Gnome install and I use KDE. That only leaves OpenSUSE and the multi arch Debian installer makes installing Debian easier than OpenSUSE.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Do people really have this much gripe with the Snaps? I don't even touch them and am only reminded they exist when people complain about them. Is there any actual downside to just ignoring installing Snaps and instead installing packages manually anyways?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

for me it stopped being fun when firefox couldn't access certain OS features or usb keys because they hadn't specifically coded that one in. and I could only wait for a patch.

[–] loutr 3 points 2 years ago

For me it's a case of "if it ain't broke don't fix it". I don't get the point of switching to snaps when apt packages worked perfectly fine.

And in my experience it's actually worse than APT. Installs/updates are slow, as is app startup, system integration features need extra work, ...

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 4 points 2 years ago

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Seems to work pretty well.

In the past I used Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch, and they've all been fine, but Tumbleweed has been the least annoying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Ubuntu, it just works. Hardly notice any genuine issues with Snaps as well, but I also rarely use them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Manjaro i3wm edition held together by duct tape and willpower

[–] parcacik 4 points 2 years ago

Fedora Workstation 38

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Arch Linux, for many years now. No DE, lightdm for login, i3 for WM, no graphical file manager, Alacritty + zsh w/starship for my terminal emulator, shell, and prompt. I'm extremely comfortable with this setup and have no plans to change it (except for a probable move to sway, once I can finally get a system without an nvidia GPU).

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[–] InvaderSkooge 4 points 2 years ago

Pop is, it basically is what you did out of the box plus a lot more great tweaks. I have to use Ubuntu for work and it's kinda aggravating now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Zorin OS 16.2 at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Xubuntu minimal install with DWM currently.

Nix looks interesting though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I used to run Garuda Linux on my desktop and surface but even though Arch is pretty awesome with the AUR I always ran into issues when updating the system. As I do like KDE though I daily drive now KDE Neon (bleeding edge KDE ontop of Ubuntu).

Apt is just comfort to me :)

[–] ScrambledLogic 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I keep coming back to Void Linux.

It's more hands-on and takes a little more work to set up initially than something like Ubuntu or Pop!_OS, but it's simpler and generally more stable than Gentoo or Arch and has a nice, snappy package manager. The underlying system is simple enough that in the rare event something does break, it's relatively easy to fix.

It's the first distro I've returned to since leaving Slackware a second time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Void was pretty cool when I tried it. There was some reason why I switched back to Arch; but I can't remember why. xbps was pretty cool tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Artix on one laptop, and Debian stable on another.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've started using linux roughly a month ago and I am using Garuda. I'm amazed how easy everthing is. I expected there to be a lot more troubleshooting.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Arch + KDE. I think I started using Arch in 2007, and KDE since 2009 or so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Another Zorin OS here. I was surprised and delighted by how little it gets in your face. Updates also seem extremely fast compared to the (many!) other distros I've tried. Unless there's a kernel update, there will just be a little notification at boot asking "There are these updates. Do you want to update now or later?" - and I always choose now because it's so fast and gets out of your way. I also appreciate the defaults.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Arch. I'm thinking about using NixOS too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Fedora KDE spin. Took a bit to understand but is stable and IMOH better than Ubuntu in terms of software package updates

[–] jetuon 3 points 2 years ago

I tried many distros. Currently, I have Debian oldstable on my laptop and Manjaro on my work machine.

[–] KuudereEnthusiast 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I Use ~~WiNdOwS~~ Ubuntu. With snaps ~~because I like getting kicked in the balls~~

[–] WilliamShakespear 2 points 1 year ago

bro, you're savage 💀

[–] MoreCoffee 3 points 2 years ago

Fedora. I used Arch for over a decade and decided to give fedora a go recently. It's been great so far.

[–] carrot 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Arch Linux on Desktop, Endeavour on laptop (because there's no way im installing arch on a laptop), and Raspbian for server.

[–] skulbuny 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Endeavour on laptop (because there’s no way im installing arch on a laptop)

Endeavour is Arch :P

[–] carrot 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

True, however I cant screenshot neofetch and brag online so it kinda defeats the whole point of arch linux anyway, right?

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[–] cyanarchy 3 points 2 years ago

Y'all are gonna make me say it, I run Arch BTW. The AUR and wiki are compelling reasons, but the truth is I was interested in being forced to learn how things work on a lower level, and the more I understand the more control I have over how things are done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Arch on my desktop; Debian on the box running my Lemmy instance; and macOS on my laptops. I've tried all the major ones; I've only ever liked Debian, pre-snap Ubuntu, and Arch. I'm only using Arch on my desktop because the RX6000 series drivers weren't in the Debian repos at the time I installed (and had just recently been merged). I'll probably switch back to Debian when it breaks; but for now, Arch works and has been pretty stable.

[–] mutant 2 points 2 years ago

arch on my desktop and on my server

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