Which one(s) and why?

  • Takios@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my desktop and laptop. On my desktop mainly due to newest drivers. I had bought a very new AMD GPU at the time and Tumbleweed was one of the first distros to support it. Switched my laptop to it because of familiarity.
    I started my IT career on Debian servers and so my private servers are on Debian too. They were on OpenSUSE Leap for a while but I switched when the future of Leap became a bit uncertain.

  • anteaters@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    OpenSuse (back then the “normal” one, then Leap and now the rolling release Tumbleweed). It just works really well and keeps on trucking. Updated my old machine for ten years through all the openSuse releases without reinstalling. The repositories are very well kept in order and the build service easily provides anything I might find lacking.

    Also, I quite like using Yast for system administration. There are many areas that I rarely touch and having a GUI available is super helpful.

  • Maturi0n@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    SUSE -> Mageia -> Ubuntu -> Manjaro -> Mint -> Manjaro. Been on Manjaro for 4 years now.

  • filister@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I am now at NixOS. I like the reproducibility and immutability of the distro, but the documentation is far from great and configuring the OS you want is not that straightforward. I also don’t like that even though it has a great number of packages, they tend to be slightly outdated.

    I am not sure if I will stick with it, but I really like that I can create very specialised configurations that are also portable. I am currently using KDE but I am thinking of switching to Hyprland once I get more comfortable around NixOS and home manager/flakes, as nothing beats tiling managers in my opinion.

    • overkill@feddit.de
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      7 months ago

      After trying out a few distros over the last 20 years or so (openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Fedora and Silverblue were the ones I actively used for a stretch of time on desktop, Debian and CentOS on server), I also landed on NixOS.

      Who knows what the future brings, but things feel more settled to me than they ever have. Maybe that’s because there’s a (declarative) solution for every custom setup, it’s just a function of time and profiency in Nix. Or maybe it’s because I invested quite a bit of work into a trivially reproducible setup for most of my machines and workflows (all in one glorious version-controlled flake), that the sunk costs are too high to switch elsewhere.

      I’m still willing to experiment with DEs/WMs, currently running Gnome on my main and Sway on weaker machines. Hyprland is a bit out there for my taste, but I’m really looking forward to giving Cosmic DE a try once it’s ready.

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      Did you have to learn the Nix language? I like the idea but I found all the different commands you have to use confusing…

      • overkill@feddit.de
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        7 months ago

        You can get pretty far with copy-pasting. If you want to try it out, you should first realize that there’s always 10+ different ways to do the same thing. Stick with what works and with what seems the most intuitive to you.

        Personally, I suggest going straight for a flake-based setup. Flakes are somehow still labeled experimental, but they’re actually mature and broadly adopted.

  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    I learned, and learned, and learned, and every step led me to simplify, simplify, simplify.

    Now, I’m a Debian man. If I didn’t install it, it probably isn’t on there, just like I like it.

    • somenonewho@feddit.de
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      7 months ago

      Yeah might have gotten stuck on Debian as well if I didn’t make the mistake to run stable when I first tried it. Choosing stable made sense to me since I wanted a stable os but when I was greeted by “ICE weasel” that was way behind the Firefox I got used to on Ubuntu and other software being terribly out of date I decided to move on.

      Well then I got stuck on Arch.

      But while it would be easy to say “never looked back” that’s not true of course, these days I tun Debian on most of my machines (only that they are servers) and Ubuntu on some (like my work Laptop) my personal Desktop and laptop are Arch though and probably always will be.

  • Haven5341@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    Which one(s)

    Arch.

    why?

    1. The Arch-Wiki
    2. I like pacman
    3. The Arch-Wiki
    4. I wanted a rolling-release distribution.
    5. The Arch-Wiki
    6. It just works. I had only one more serious problem in ~8 years of running Arch
    7. Did I mention the Arch-Wiki?

    Edit:

    Having said that, I have an eye on immutable distros. Maybe one day I’ll try one out.

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      Is Manjaro good if I want in on this Arch goodness but don’t want to spend hours configuring stuff? Coming from Fedora

      • Haven5341@feddit.de
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        7 months ago

        I haven’t used Manjaro myself but I heard that it is not as good as Arch. Rumors I heard where that it is not as solid as vanilla Arch. YMMV.

  • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    I tried a ton, and I settled with Fedora just for the mix of stability and support. Though, with Red Hat being asses I might have to mix it up.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
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      7 months ago

      RedHats influence is mainly infrastructure and legal support. The project itself is independend, although of course not entirely.

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    Fedora Secureblue Kinoite (based on ublue, based on Fedora)

    Before:

    • Linux Mint (crashed randomly)
    • Manjaro (was awesome, convinced me of KDE)
    • MX Linux (why the hell is this so recommended??)
    • Kubuntu (broke)
    • KDE Neon (broke)
    • Fedora KDE (broke)