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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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[–] fishinthecalculator@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I think functional distros like Guix or Nix are just another thing. Their ability of programming , provisioning and deploying software environments is unparalleled. My personal favorite is Guix since, while having less packages than Nix, it has the most consistent experience: everything is in Scheme from the top to the bottom of the distro. Also it pushes really hard on a sane bootstrapping story while allowing for impurity through channels like nonguix .

The main downside is the lack of tutorials and a documentation that's very intense, let's say. typical of GNU projects. I suggest the System Crafters youtube channel which has a lot of nice tutorials

[–] specter2426@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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!

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I miss slackware.

It still kinda exists, but really has become a ghost of its former self.

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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I'm currently using Arch (btw), but I have been hearing the distant call of NixOS lately...

[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

NixOS, would like to try Guix

[–] Drito@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] dvdnet89@lemmy.today 4 points 2 years ago
[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Tiny Core runs on my 25 year old Pentium 2.

[–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago

Endeavour OS?

[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nobara, as a gamer first it's the perfect distro for me

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] kib48@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] _e____b@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

postmarketOS and UbuntuTouch

[–] tom42@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Another NixOS user.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

elementary!

[–] lipilee@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] root@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] qupada@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] dewritochan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

LMDE cuz sometimes i just need dead simple.

[–] BlanK0@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I am using void at the moment, pretty stable even tho it is rolling release

[–] Scio@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

:Nervously raised hand: SteamOS 3.5...?

[–] TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] AccelShark@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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

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