On the laptop I got less than a week ago for college, I've been having fun using Mx with KDE. It's been pretty good so far on my galaxy book.
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MX Linux only because I have it on some very old 32 bit laptops and it supports 32 bit. I don't really know why I keep those laptops around but they are functional.
Alpine was the most interesting for me. It goes against the tendency of complicating the systems. I have to use Arch because everything can work on that distro.
I miss slackware.
It still kinda exists, but really has become a ghost of its former self.
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NixOS, would like to try Guix
I'm currently using Arch (btw), but I have been hearing the distant call of NixOS lately...
I really enjoy ZorinOS! I've been using ZorinOS 16.3 and am awaiting the upgrade to 17 through their tool. It's been great for a PC that has an Nvidia GTX1060 that I have hooked up to my TV as a twitch/YouTube/Netflix box. I chose Zorin because they claimed to get the Nvidia drivers installed correctly "out of the box", and they delivered!
Glad it worked well for you. Didn't work well for me with my 2070 super. Was immediately broken and refused to acknowledge my second monitor. Linux Mint worked perfectly, so I just want to throw that out there for anyone with the same gpu
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Personally, alpine linux grew on me a lot.
Another NixOS user.
Kubuntu
Tiny Core runs on my 25 year old Pentium 2.
postmarketOS and UbuntuTouch
elementary!
Nobara, as a gamer first it's the perfect distro for me
i wish i had an amd gpu... until then i'm stuck with mint. loved nobara, but it's a mess with nvidia.
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not sure if it really counts but I like Universal Blue, specifically using their silverblue-framework image because it already has all the drivers and stuff set up for my Framework laptop
Tiny Core OS, because I want a super light distro to run from memory when trying to access computers where the data is still there but something went sour with the OS
Endeavour OS?
I'm really happy with Manjaro. I thought it would be a detour from Debian on my laptop, but I've been running it for like 2 years now.
Nobara is superb for gaming.
Manjaro is one of the few that tries to package sway and i3 (even if the editions are community-based) into a coherent whole. Those editions are not great yet, but pretty good and might become great one day.
:Nervously raised hand: SteamOS 3.5...?
LMDE cuz sometimes i just need dead simple.
MX Linux. It's exactly how I'd set up Debian if I wasn't too lazy. Although, I've gone back to Debian after Bookwarm was released. I love it but miss MX
I am using void at the moment, pretty stable even tho it is rolling release
Kubuntu
See, and raise KDE Neon.
Ubuntu LTS base, but with up-to-date upstream KDE releases rather than the (typically) relatively ancient releases that Kubuntu has.
Really is the best of both worlds.
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I love using Alpine Linux on my server. Super light and quick to start up.
Artix.
LMDE, MX, Ubuntu etc are based on Debian. Mint is based on Ubuntu, so Debian. Chimera/Endeavour are based on Arch, etc.
In the linux world, you have a linux kernel, systemd or init, a bunch of gnu utils, a window system like X or Wayland, whatever DE you want (Xfce, gnome, kde, name it) and a packaging system (apt, yum, pacman), but for me, it's all the same.
If you want something different, try a BSD distro then? FreeBSD, OpenBSD, GhostBSD, etc