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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Mwa@thelemmy.club to c/linux@lemmy.ml

yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

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[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fedora Silverblue. It does what I need so I can get on with my life.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

NixOS because it's the only usable stab at sustainable system configuration.

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[-] pogodem0n@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fedora Kinoite. I like KDE, atomic distros and the fact that Fedora is the only (at least that I know of) distro that has proper SELinux implementation.

I also play games on this system, so having newer kernel and Mesa versions help.

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[-] voracread@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

PCLinuxOS.

Stable and rolling for regular people OS.

[-] osugi_sakae@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

Haven't used it in a few years, but if it is still like it was, I highly recommend it for regular users. Solid, good choice of packages (for regular people). Don't remember ever having any problems with PCLinuxOS.

(I switched away only because I'm not a "regular" user.)

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[-] squid_slime@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Arch, pacman is why

[-] jimitsoni18@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Void because I don't like gnome, primarily because it uses more than 50% of my resources, so I need something lightweight and have had bad experience with arch. I've had some hiccups with void but it wasn't something I couldn't fix. The downside is that it there are no package repository mirrors in my region, and sometimes I have to change mirrors to install packages, and some applications are not packages for void, so I have to look for open source alternatives that I have to compile.

[-] Veraxis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Arch. I need the AUR for certain applications, and the high degree of customizability and opportunity for learning appeal to me as a relatively new-ish Linux user (going on a few years now, most of that time having been on Arch).

[-] gregor@gregtech.eu 3 points 1 month ago

OMG I use cachyOS too, for the same reasons, plus I love how much I can tinker with it.

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[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

At work a mix of red hat, fedora, centos, and red hawk. At home mint debian spin. It just works and games run great. I don't have time to deal with the red hat crap if i'm not getting paid.

[-] Metju@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

2 flavors of Fedora with KDE on it:

  1. Aurora-DX for some dev work on the side. Once you get used to distroboxing / devcontainers, it's rock-solid and mean dev environment (saw some minor issues with how certain GUI apps were scaled, but that's about it).
  2. Nobara for gaming (tried Bazzite and it'd prolly work for that purpose as well).

Unfortunately, had to keep Windows on one other machine (fuck you KORG for not providing anything working on Linux), but that's limited to being a glorified music player now 😄

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[-] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Opensuse TW. It is rolling release and rock solid. Also amazing btrfs implementation.

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[-] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

Bazzite for personal stuff because it looked neat and just worked after installation with a small learning curve. Due to interia I went with bluefin on the work computer for the same reasons

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Kubuntu, because when I got my Vega 56 GPU on release day (August 14, 2017), I had to download the proprietary driver straight from AMD to get it working, and Ubuntu was the only distro supported by both it and Steam at the time. (Otherwise, I would've picked Debian or Mint.)

I don't love Ubuntu (especially how they push Snap), but I can't be bothered with the hassle of reinstalling my OS.

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[-] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Guix SD because i like editing declarative ((`scheme)) config for my system in emacs

[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 month ago

Man gnu endorsed distros are quite rare here.

[-] itmightbethew@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

Bazzite (with KDE). My desktop is mostly for discord and gaming - I don't have the kind of job that can be done from home. So when I get to use it I want it to just work, and look good.

I've used a bunch of distros and I've sort of become an atomic evangelist. Which put like that sounds like a great band name.

[-] VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

PopOS but I'd like to switch to NixOS

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[-] Ovata@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Been using Mint with the Cinnamon desktop environment for a few years now. Does everything I need it to.

[-] LovePoson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Manjaro on main pc and phone. Proxmox (debian) on server

[-] meathorse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Began moving all my hardware to Linux this year since none of them will run win11 without fk-about-ing - and I just don't want to. So my server, media box and laptop are all cut over, only my main desktop left on windows a bit longer but it's goose is cooked too.

I've tried dozens of distros over the years but I've settled on Fedora KDE.

The why:

  • Skipping x11 and head straight into Wayland so I don't have to worry about that in the future.
  • I wanted something more up to date than debian-based and less cutting edge then Arch-based.
  • Stability and support of being in the RHEL family
  • Flatpaks
  • Tried to get on with gnome to get away from the 'start menu' paradigm but ended up getting on with kde better.
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