What distros are you running? (lemmygrad.ml)

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I've been a Linux user for about a decade and a half, most of that time I've been using OpenSUSE, but recently I've been hopping again.

For my main machine, I needed a distro that natively runs and installs .deb packages at root for the program used for my language lessons (fcitx5 nor ibus played well with sandboxes) so I've landed on Kubuntu for that machine.

But I'm really intrigued by the setup of VanillaOS, apx seems like such a perfect solution in many ways to my needs, but I don't have as much experience with immutable distros.

Lastly I'm fascinated with NixOS, and really want to get into it, but life is just so busy that I don't have the energy to devote to learning it.

So, what about you folks?

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[-] lasercom@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I’m very basic. I ran mint for the longest time on my desktop, and now I run Ubuntu on an old surface laptop. I’m lazy about tinkering but hate windows enough that when I got my hands on a secondhand surface, I just looked up what distro would be easiest to set up compatibility with the touch screen and all that. It seems to run fine for what I need it for. It’s got 2gb of ram so I only use it for reading writing, nothing crazy.

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