What Linux distro do you use and why?
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Well, it depends... 😉
Lol. Daily driver?
Ubuntu.. 🙈
For my servers I use debian.
I’ve installed and tried qubesOS, but for now it’s too difficult for me to use it as a daily driver…)
Yea Qubes is super secure and really interesting but as a daily driver its not ideal.
Nothing wrong with sticking to Ubuntu.
I was afraid to be smeared for using Ubuntu😉
I mean I would prefer if people got off Ubuntu cuz its just trading the Microsoft overlords for the Canonical overlords but even being on Ubuntu is 1000x better than being on Windows lol
Mint. Very comfortable with its package management from past Debian use. Lightweight on a old laptop with xfce
I tried installing it on a very old netbook and it just consumed too much RAM at idle 🤷♂️
Then again this netbook is like 20 years old and has only 1GB of RAM lol, ended up slapping Gentoo and using it from the TTY and it works great now.
My god those compile times were horrible though lmao
Mint because its Debian based and it’s functional out of the box and easy to install.
Never been a fan of Debian-based distros tbh, I use vanilla Debian on a server but for my daily driver I've always preferred Arch.
Recently tried NixOS tho and now I'm nix pilled.
Ubuntu for ease of use and comparability. Snap and firejail offer an improved layer of security
Arch for custom projects
Tails for anon things
EndeavourOS all the way. It's essentially arch with an awesome community.
I've heard alot about it.
PopOS as a daily driver right now. Debian for servers.
Open to try something new. But I know debian envroments best.
I love Arch as a daily driver used it for years and would gladly continue to use it but I'm still in my honeymoon phase with NixOS.
Highly recommend either.
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Can't recommend arch if you have a temperamental graphic's card. Nix seems stable with it, though.
Even unstable systems can be made stable with Nix, thats why Ive been raving about it recently lol.
Borked my system and did a --rollback and it was a powerful feeling lmao
Using Pop OS but because of some issues with updates I need to do a fresh install and now I’m considering Zorin OS.
I’m a Linux noob — I’ve never used anything other than Ubuntu, but I’d like to explore more. What should I do next ?
Vanilla Debian if you like Debian and want to get away from the Canonical middlemen.
ArchLinux for sure if you want to learn more about how your PC works under the hood and don't mind tinkering.
Using https://vanillaos.org/.
- Immutable OS
- Packages installed to containers
- Install packages from any distro (deb, dnf, flatpak, snap, brew, nix).
This is the future of desktop #Linux.
I've heard about vanilla, didn't know it can pull packages from other distros repos 😯
Need to try it next time I get a distro hopping itch
It's the last distro, AFAICT.
I've been really happy with NixOS recently due to the immutability, bit of a steep learning curve but once you get over that curve the immutability and reproducability is very powerful.
Is Vanilla configured similarly to Nix/Guix?
The OS uses abroot in order to version the base packages and seal them in immutability.
It gives you all the benefits of Nix, including the nix package manager, without lockin.
I have packages installed from every distro simply because not every application/software stack/package is available in every distro.
This is the type of flexibility a LInux daily driver really needs.
You can read more about abroot here:
I use arch btw. no real reason other than it is what I used to really force myself into the limux ecosystem. I like debian for servers.
Same, also hopped into linux with both feet on Arch many years ago. Had no fkn idea what I was doing but what better way to learn than to jump into the deep end and learn to swim.
Just recently switched to PopOS and I'm having a good time...
Of course I went through crazy stuff as usual with Linux and me, but the result works (went through broken EFI, deadlocked firmware update, conflicting grub with systemd popos thing, corrupted iso, made my own xkb keyboard, etc...)
