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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 1 year ago (3 children)

PostmarketOS

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

LMDE

Because it's Mint & Debian

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Manjaro

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't need to install anything manually because of how extensive the AUR is.

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

AUR is amazing

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

Rolling release model.

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

more out of the box than what Arch comes with.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

MX Linux

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

The MX Snapshot utility & other built-in tools make it instantly functional as a daily driver, even for people new to Linux, and the Quick System Info is such a handy baseline for troubleshooting if you run into problems and need help from the community. All the stuff that's provided out of the box just makes it a really practical distro to learn on!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Gentoo Linux

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

Being a source based distro, programs are compiled and optimized to your system configuration. Additionally you can add/remove features you dis/like using USE flags.

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

Alpine -- In praise of Alpine and apk

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Fedora Silverblue

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

Garuda

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Void

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

EndeavourOS

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

An installer of Archlinux with sane default but also has all of Arch Power

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Universal Blue / ublue-os

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Based on Fedora

Fedora uses the latest technology and is quick to adapt new features such as PipeWire, BTRFS, Wayland and etc, yet remains very stable.