Favorite linux distro and why
| Arch for the same reasons, but also it has really good documentation.
| Arch, it's easy to use for a computer normie like myself
| I like EndeavourOS a lot. It's literally just an easier arch pretty much.
| arch user masturbation thread
| openSUSE tumbleweed
Very stable for a rolling release
Btrfs with snapper for rollbacks on breaking updates
They run open qa on the repo side to catch a lot of the bugs that would need a rollback before they're pushed to users
Non toxic community
And most importantly, gecko logo
| >>1055502 I've been meaning to try openSUSE sometime. It's been on my list. Maybe I'll grab an iso and put it on my multiboot. I tried puppylinux off the same usb and man it was so much fun. Don't really like that everything is run as root and not doing that is kind of a workaround. But it's insanely lightweight, has so many niche little apps and features on it that I've never heard of. Really feels like using an old windows 2000 pc if it was good and usable on a modern computer.
| Debian backports kde x11, it just WORKS
| Susie? Debbie? Now you're just bragging you got girlfriends.. We're talking Linux here, like Arch.
| just posted in another thread what I should have here. For me, Mint just werks. Eventually I'm going to need to find a better one for gaming when I get a better computer but for now this is comfy and perfect for my purposes.
| Artix probably? although some things here break more often than in arch, but meta-physically I feel better without systemd.
Gentoo is an ok distro too, much more stable in my expirience but at the same time it's too complicated for everyday use for my rotten brain.
| I started with Arch, switched to Void (to try something new). I worked with Debian at the facility (i.e. at work).
Debian is good, stable, has both installers (console and graphical), a rich repository (and many developers prepare releases in deb packages), and a numbered release (which is not always convenient). The flip side of stability is sticking not only to old versions of the kernel and system components, but also to other software in the repositories.
| Arch is excellent, even if there is no graphical installer, a rolling release. The repository is rich, and along with the AUR (still try not to install a lot from it) there is a lot. It's a very good Wiki. One problem (like Debian's) is systemd.
| Void. First of all, it's not in a hurry like Arch with kernel versions, etc. Rolling release, runit (not systemd), a special subsystem xbps-src (for building packages, although Debian and Arch have their own ways). The repository is poor, but there are specific applications, e.g. fuzzypkg; packages are divided into two versions, regular and devel (pull the regular ones, and they contains includes, etc.).
Wayland is being pushed excessively everywhere in Void packages.
| Personally, I'm going to switch to SourceMage, I'm interested in the initialization system (everything is in init.d, the needs function allows scripts to be queued up) and the package manager (all bash scripts, terminology from magic), refers to source-base distros. It will probably be my favorite.
| Hannah Montana Linux
why? i love Hannah Montana
| NixOS
| >>1055673 I'm interested to hear why! Tbh the whole config file with its own programming language n such was too much for me. As much as I really like the idea it has, dunno if I was a big fan in practice. So tell me abt stuff u liked abt it :D
| I think nixos is not for the people who want distro that just works™, but rather for ones that enjoy customizing their system. And you can slowly build your config, store it in a git repo and share across different machines with a single command. I like that you can structure your config the way you like with imports. But yeah, it comes with a lot of quirks and annoyances ngl
| >>1055710 I'm so for tinkering and fiddling with stuff, like I said, I use arch and love it. Customizing is something I'm doing constantly. I could see the reproducability aspect being really nice, but it just seems like such a pain to configure.
| Arch or debian because I haven't bothered with many other distros besides Ubuntu/Mint and puppylinux back in the day.
| I decided to install hyprland and a suite of apps to go with it. HELL WORLD!!! It's really pretty and I'm gonna stick it through but godddd so far it's just been ENDLESS configs. There's practically a new config that had to be tailored to some degree for *every* part of the hypr suite, and then evem more for extra bits like the taskbar, clipboard manager, etc. But! There's some really powerful features of it that I like a lot.
| Rice crack, I see
| Dont forget that wayland sucks major ass in gaming on nvidia gpu due to not supporting nvidia proprietary drivers, if that is something you need.
| >>1055829 don't have to worry about it cause my computer sucks shit and I only have an intel integrated in the first place ;-;
| I switched from Ubuntu to Mint last year, and I love it. I don’t have any experience with non-Debian based distros and I’m still a noob, so I’m sure there’s better options, but I have had things break on me significantly less often since switching.
Everyone I know irl who uses Arch swears by it tho. One day I may give it a whirl, get into ricing and all that, but atm I just need something I can run Bitwig and Vidya on
| Arch is one of those things where you kinda know if you'll like it before you try it. If really hands on and DIY sounds like your kind of thing then go for it! But tbh the only irreplacable benefit in the long run is brand new packages by default.
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| What's your fave and why? Be as deacriptive as you feel like.
Mine is unironically arch and it's not for pretentious reasons. I just really like that it made me learn a lot of stuff I probably would've never messed with otherwise. And helped me diagnose issues I've had in the past retrospectively by learning what the underlying causes were. Plus really good package management with pacman, newer versions in the repos, amd I know pretty much what all apps on my system are.