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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] 1 points 1 month ago

Fedora 41 KDE Plasma

For the simple, shallow reason it looks great and feels snappy.

Personal rabble:

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I would say that it does not feel as "set and forget" as Mint, but I enjoy the feel of of environment.

I am pretty new at Linux in general - only have experience with a Mint environment before.

I did have some issues with Fedora - mostly audio problems in Steam games and it can feel slightly more intimidating to work with ( compared to Mint) but after digging into various help threads and trying stuff( responsibly) I did reach a point where I reached a satisfied conclusion - even if I am not sure what exactly I did that solved the problem

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

Arch with KDE on ThinkPad T460s (studying and bullshit pc).

Nobara with i3wm on home studio/gaming desktop. Switching to Arch on it one day but CBA at the moment.

Honestly which distro I use isn't all that important to me these days so long as I'm getting decently new kernel updates. Depending on my use case that's not even important. Used Debian LTS on a home media center for probably 8 years.

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

I use TuxedoOS. I wanted something that kept up with the latest KDE updates which ran a cleaned up version of Ubuntu... that's TuxedoOS to a T. I had looked at other options like Kubuntu or just installing KDE over something like PopOS, but TuxedoOS was the most stable and up to date of those options in my testing.

That said, I have run into innumerable problems on it due to apt repos that it doesn't include which come standard on Ubuntu.

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

Dietpi. Because I'm forced to.

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

Cachyos.

Used to use pure arch but I like the cachy optimisations and their repos

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

Nix because I have a bad memory and hate doing things more than once

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

Kubuntu, because it's the most solid distro I've used that meets my needs.

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

Mint, first one I tried, and works just fine. It's xfce with i3wm.

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

Alpine Linux. It's pretty lightweight (uses ~250MiB on idle with sway), is easy to install and is super stable. My only criticism is that there is quite a lot of software not available in the repos, but this is mainly fixed by flatpaks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I like Manjaro

I like it
Its user friendly if you don't want to spend a month fiddling with it
Feels comfy and relatively lightweight

If you are living on the edge of latest and greatest versions, it can be a pain to wait for official repos to be updated. Though I only noticed this problem with Discord desktop app, however since I realised that it spies on every process that runs and you cannot turn that feature off. Uninstalled. Problem gone. Happy me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Artix because I love Arch and the AUR but networkd kept causing my home network to act like the mad hatter's tea party with IP assignment.

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