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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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[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 2 years ago
[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years 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

[–] cfp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

I love using Alpine Linux on my server. Super light and quick to start up.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

LMDE, MX, Ubuntu etc are based on Debian. Mint is based on Ubuntu, so Debian. Chimera/Endeavour are based on Arch, etc.

In the linux world, you have a linux kernel, systemd or init, a bunch of gnu utils, a window system like X or Wayland, whatever DE you want (Xfce, gnome, kde, name it) and a packaging system (apt, yum, pacman), but for me, it's all the same.

If you want something different, try a BSD distro then? FreeBSD, OpenBSD, GhostBSD, etc

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] jjhanger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] MxW@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

EndeavourOS

[–] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago
[–] 0xD@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago
[–] Psynthesis@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Bodhi Linux. Lightweight and beautiful

[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Toaster Linux or Nobara.

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

Ubuntu is so easy to use!!

[–] ssolos@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] THE_ANON@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yea ubuntu breaks a lot atleast for me it does

[–] Sims@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] GadgeteerZA@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Puppy with what underlying distro though?

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] basuramannen@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
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