I’m very curious of which distro users loves the most that they have it on their daily hardware?

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    2 days ago

    Arch (cachyos) on my desktop, Debian on my server.

    Doesn’t really get any better than those two in my opinion

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    Debian Stable. Predictable, low-maintenance, and well-supported. From time to time, I think about switching over to Alpine or even BSD, but the software selection and abundance of Q&A posts for Debian and its derivatives keeps me coming back. Having been a holdout on older Windows versions in the past, I’m quite used to waiting for new features and still amazed at how much easier life is with a proper package manager.

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    3 days ago

    MX Linux is the best, obviously. Otherwise it wouldn’t be #1 on DistroWatch, right? /j

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    I really love NixOS and use it on all my devices. Its not as difficult as people say and it really makes the linux experience a piece of cake once you get it down.

    The single config file to control almost everything is just what I was looking for in linux and the fact that it solved any kind of dependency hell I have experienced in the past is huge. If I had to list a top 3 it would be NixOS, Fedora, and Arch.

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      4 days ago

      Yeah. It’s a pretty good linux distro for Beginners. It was my first distro tho. 😁

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        4 days ago

        I’m sorry but it’s not great for beginners. It’s a rolling bleeding edge distro that does not break often but when it does you need to know how stuff works to fix it.

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    4 days ago

    Fedora Atomic, especially Bluefin, Bazzite and Aurora.

    Nearly unbreakable, very reliable and stable in everyday use, needs no maintenance (updates itself, etc.) and more!

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    4 days ago

    I use Arch for personal and gaming, Debian for self hosting and hacking, Alpine for containerized cloud deployments.

    • I use Arch for personal and gaming, Debian for self hosting and hacking, Alpine for containerized cloud deployments.

      Pretty much the same for me: bleeding-edge Arch for my workstation, rock-stable Debian for my server.

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    4 days ago

    I just installed Bazzite about a month ago and love it! Used Ubuntu in the past and it was ok, but eventually went back to Windows. I definitely don’t feel that way about Bazzite though, I think I might stick with it as my primary OS!

  • I use fedora-based atomic distros for the reliability and security. Nothing else really runs SELinux out of the box and I care about security so that’s a necessary baseline. I roll my own distro though using BlueBuild, and base it off the SecureBlue image of Silverblue. Just using SecureBlue gets you nearly to what I use though

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    4 days ago

    If there were a universal answer to this, there wouldn’t be any others.

    I myself currently use Debian (testing), have for some years now, but I have used other distros in the past too.

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    4 days ago

    I use Gentoo and I love it. The installation process is a bit more complex than Arch but it doesn’t have to be if you choose the precompiled kernel.

    The package management is extremely flexible and the community are great. I have a morning routine where I log onto my gentoo desktop before work and update everything; would compare it to raking one of those miniature buddhist sand gardens. Very theraputic!

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      Have got Debian on an old thinkpad too because it is too under resourced to compile everything. I think Debian is amazing for a solid, reliable distro if you have weak hardware.