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@ekZepp For me, it's Debian. It always just works.
Unless you need nvidia drivers from this century
That's okay. Thanks to their insane pricing caused by covid, followed by more insane pricing caused by the AI bubble, many people are still running cards not getting any new drivers anyway.
1080ti still works great
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Fuck nvidia
Amen
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i might try various other distros for my desktop usage. But for my home server it will always be Debian. Rock solid.
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I changed one of my PCs over to Debian this month, and I was surprised at how smooth it is. I guess I was expecting it to be way more barebones. I don't know if I need more than this!
For me it’s Mint Debian Edition.
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Fedora
From the bottom of my heart fuck rolling releases. Never worked for me (nobody get worked up please, ymmv).
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I've been living with fedora (ultramarine) kde for a while now because people praised fedora so much, but i think mint still wins. and i chose ultramarine because am a noob, don't sue me.
there are many little things that just don't work and i seriously can't figure out. here's a few: discover fails to update the system and i always have to do it manually from the terminal. wine is broken, it literally can't run anything i throw at it that worked on mint. plasma theme customization is somewhat broken (also custom themes prevent updating...). using alt key in games run with wine causes some annoying notification sound (not in system keyboard shortcuts). often keyboard leds stay on when system suspended, system can't be woken up from keyboard. can't use flameshot with kb shortcut.
this isn't a hate comment though, a lot of things are better than i had with mint cinnamon. i do like how it's a lot faster than mint when under heavy load, autosuspend actually works, no issues with screen not waking up. currently my media pc with mint can't update because all sources are unavailable and it has some conflict with python3 which it won't let me uninstall (which i suspect would be unwise, idk)
I can only recommend regular Fedora because I have a feeling you just wouldn’t have those issues but I am not a doctor.
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Man... I just fucking love CachyOS. I switched from Win11 a few weeks ago and up until now it is just a great experience.
I tried twice to install it- a ryzen 360 was stopped dead by this bug: https://old.reddit.com/r/cachyos/comments/1pag639/rdseed32_error_and_sddm_fails_to_start/
Figured that out and ran into the touchpad not working after sleep.
A 9300H+1650 never made it past this: https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/the-installation-of-cachyos-always-aborts-due-to-chwd-error/16754/3
0/2, cannot recommend
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Mint has been glazed since the beginning of time. Not a single laptop or computer I have ever owned has worked out of the box with it. As opposed to alternatives like Ubuntu or Fedora. I must be the single most unlucky person in the history of Linux.
I’ve had the opposite experience. Mint has just worked on literally every piece of hardware I’ve ever owned.
Is it always a new laptop/computer?
I'd be suspicious of Mint on anything brand new (and hence only recently fixed in a lot of packages).
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I've had the exact same experience.
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There is no one reliable distro. Mint, itself is based off Ubuntu and also releases LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).
If reliablility is measured in terms of how stable a distro is, then likely Debian with it's conservative approach to packaging updates comes to mind (No wonder large number of distros are based off Debian only).
I would even argue as long as someone isn't messing with a niche distro such as KDE Neon( meant to showcase KDE packages) or Linuxfx (or whatever it has renamed itself to, one of the few shady ones IMO ) or Trisquel OS (a GNU certified distro where running into dependency hell isn't new); it will suit user's case.
Debian, Slackware, Void, Zorin, even rolling release like Arch (basically any one that meets the user's use case is reliable)
I would even argue as long as someone isn’t messing with a niche distro such as KDE Neon
KDE Neon is dead because its developers found out that putting an add-on repository on top of Ubuntu is not reliable at all. That's why KDE Linux is now in development.
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Arch is pretty reliable
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Went back to Mint a few times but ultimately I like Plasma over Cinnamon, so Debian it is!
You do know that you don't have to change distros to change DE right?
Yep. I was using Plasma on Mint for a while but the consensus was you’re best off using a DE officially supported by the distro.
Never encountered any issues personally up to that point, but seemed to be the majority opinion when I researched it.
But my most recent switch was from Endeavour, so made much more sense to install Debian 13 than to Install Mint and then immediately switch DE.
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I never left!
I think I'm just old enough, have fiddled with my PC enough times in the past, have enough other shit to do, and get enough coding and troubleshooting experience at work that I look at the quest to find my spirit distro and think "that's a youngster's game."
Or, you know, maybe Mint is already my spirit distro and I am experienced enough to not fix what isn't broken!
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Neckbeard here. I run Arch btw.
The second sentence was superfluous.
Why bother with distro hopping when you can desktop hop?
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Yup, I do regular distrofuckery on my spare pc but Mint is just a rock solid option for me, great distro, feels good.
Just switched from Mint to CachyOS due to some upgraded hardware and it's been pretty nice so far. Mint will stay on all my other devices though.
Mint forever, Ubuntu without the snaps, and It generally is fuss free.
Shout-out to antiX though, revived many a "useless" old laptop with that.
Limewire?
Linux Mint
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Here is my distrohopping journey: Mint -> Arco -> Debian -> KDE Neon -> Artix -> Void -> NixOS -> Fedora -> Void
I'm surprised you didn't stick with NixOS. After spending tens of hours learning how to use it, the sunk cost fallacy is strong.
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An OS should GTFO and let you get on with the business of doing shit on your computer, Linux Mint does that nicely. 🐧
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Tumbleweed
For when you want the Ubuntu of Ubuntu as opposed to the Ubuntu of Debian.
Apparently, it’s dangerous to mention Arch— but I’d dare to do just that!
Unironically my most headache-free Linux experience in 10+ years. The handful of times an update doesn't go through you just need to visit the homepage and follow the manual intervention steps outlined in the announcement.
At least, once I freed myself from Nvidia x)
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I prefer Kali because dragons are freakin awesome.
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Desktop? Debian with GNOME. Laptop? Debian with GNOME. Tablet? Debian with GNOME. Server? Believe it or not, Debian without GNOME.
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Fedora for me tbh
Mint is decent too though
Fedora for life.
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After testing LM with Cinnamon, and a ubuntu based distribution with KDE… KDE is just better.
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Went with LMDE7 for my first full daily driver install, real happy so far :)
I tried CachyOS and so far it's been alright besides having bit difficulty finding software so I have stuff from multiple sources.
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