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What distro do you use and why? (self.linux)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Mwa to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Fedora Silverblue

  • I like Gnome
  • I like that Fedora adopts new technology quickly
  • I like how it makes updates more reliable
  • I like flatpak
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same here, I use Silverblue as host OS on all of my workstations now, and Arch for nearly all of my containers.

Flatpak for just about everything in the userspace.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was using Debian and Docker for my servers, but I'm switching to uCore and Podman. It was a decent learning curve, but I think I'm going to like it better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hated postman so much I switched back to Docker. Why compose was better at handling dependent containers then quadlets. Yes I could use postman compose but heard it’s no longer supported and if I’m using it might as well use a supported docker compose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I never used Docker compose. If I had two containers that needed to communicate, I'd just setup networking for them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I use the Bluefin flavor of Silverblue. I like not having to tinker with my laptop to keep it working, everything happens in the background.

[–] Mwa 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like flatpak

i am kinda the opposite of you, i find flatpacks meh its alright.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I love flatpak. No more dependency hell!

[–] Mwa 3 points 1 month ago

Agree

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

While true... RIP disk space.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's false

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I see being facetious is lost. Yes I know they don't use a lot of space, however, they do package all their own dependencies. That means you do end up with duplicates.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Appimages do. Flatpaks have runtimes. There may be multiple runtimes but space is cheap. You can even spare the amount of space on a phone.

I once thought I should compress my images because they had 10mb each. I was wrong. I just had to put them on my server with immich and I don't care about the space anymore. One 4k video is so big, all space related problems with apps or images are a real waste of time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It depends on whether those dependencies are shared with other programs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

SSDs have become incredibly cheap, and flatpak doesn't even use that much storage space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What do people use for command line utilities? The selection on flatpak is a bit sparse

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Options include:

  • Installing them through brew; this is setup, enabled and configured correctly by default on uBlue projects like Aurora, Bazzite and Bluefin.
  • Installing them within a container; be it though Toolbx or Distrobox. This is what Fedora Atomic initially intended (and probably still does).
  • Some users got a lot of mileage from utilizing nix to this effect.
  • If all else fails (or if you outright prefer it this way), you can always layer it through rpm-ostree.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
  1. Flatpak, create a shell script to call the flatpak command and pass arguments
  2. If the app doesn’t work well as a flatpak or isn’t packaged, I would use distrobox
  3. If the app doesn’t work well in distrobox, I’d rpm-ostree install it
  4. If I’m feeling fancy, I might look into installing homebrew. But you need to do some workarounds with PATH and homebrew otherwise it can break things; Universal Blue includes these workarounds out of the box