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I'm wondering what the current favorite distros are besides the most popular ones like Arch, Debian and Fedora.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Solus as the Almighty Todd says "it just works" And that comes from someone which always has at least one problem, that problem being gaming.

It aint solved mind you but it works marginable better on it.

Example, anno 1404, no matter what distro or silly protondb config, or if I use a new steam profile or fresh distro , works.1 out of 10 times.

But Solus, it just works, no hoop jumping needed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been using Xubuntu 23.10 recently, but I'm kind of a distro hopper. I need ROCm and some other special (proprietary, ehh) tools that require RHEL, SLE, or some Ubuntu flavor. I also like having a working out-of-the-box configuration. I've used openSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch Linux before, might try it again but it's a little bit complicated to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Annie Linux, but sadly it doesn't exist yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How do people feel about Garuda? I put it on a laptop to try it out. I'm still undecided.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Favorite? No. Most acceptable: NixOS.

The worst documentation of a linux distro I have ever encountered, but the declarative model has convinced me I don't want something else. Now I'm just waiting for other distros to pop up that are declarative as well. (Guix? No thanks, I'm not a fan of endless parentheses)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

CrunchBang++, BunsenLabs, Bodhi, Antix and Peppermint.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

EndeavourOS

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

Was scrolling through to see if anyone had mentioned void. I use Fedora these days but Void is great because of how easy it is to contribute to with its GitHub-based package management workflow - anyone can update a package or introduce a new one, it just needs to be approved. It doesn't get any easier than that

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

Bodhi Linux. Lightweight and beautiful

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

I like Poky. But for other use case than Arch, Debian and Fedora.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Puppy with what underlying distro though?

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

Puppy has their own but can be based on a lot of the main distros. I've used it to recover data from many a computer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kali Linux! Just too useful, though there can still be some fixing around.

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

Guix is imho beyond normal distros, and I'm never going back to Manjaro or any of the normal distros.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been enjoying Mint personally for my laptop. I've tried Ubuntu but I've had issues with the speakers :/

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

Ublue although it's kinda still fedora, otherwise alpine even though I don't really use it.

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

Manjaro KDE for me - it's not Arch per se, otherwise Ubuntu would also be eliminated for being a derivative of Debian...

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

Toaster Linux or Nobara.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ubuntu is so easy to use!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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