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What is your go-to Linux distro and why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'd like to settle on a distro, but none of them seem to click for me. I want stability more than anything, but I also value having the latest updates (I know, kind of incompatible).

I have tested Pop!_Os, Arch Linux, Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu. Arch and Pop being the two that I enjoyed the most and seemed the most stable all along... I am somewhat interested in testing NixOS although the learning curve seems a bit steep and it's holding me back a bit.

What are you using as your daily drive? Would you recommend it to another user? Why? Why not?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For the past six years it has been Kubuntu, but I think it's time to finally abort Canonical and their idiosyncrasies and choose Debian as a KDE base, especially now that Debian 12 includes non-free firmware by default.

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

@Lemmchen @pluja Debian 12 is a great choice no matter what desktop environment or window manager you install....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I kinda hope they rebase KDE neon to debian. That would be dope.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is what I need to do. Just too much inertia in my own stuff to make the switch so far.

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

I use kde neon, I much prefer it to Kubuntu.