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Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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So we can clearly see the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them, please follow this format:

Write the name of the Linux distro as a first-level comment.
Reply to that comment with each reason you like the distro as a separate answer.

For example:

Distro (first-level comment)
- Reason (one answer)
- Other reason (a different answer)

Please avoid duplicating options. This will help us better understand the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Gentoo

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Huge range of supported architectures

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

USE flags let you enable/disable parts of software that you normally have no control over. If you don't use bluetooth, for example, you can choose not to build bluetooth components when installing software.

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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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