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I'm between distros and looking for a new daily driver for my laptop. What are people daily driving these days? Are there any new cool things to try?

I have been using linux mint recently. I have used nixos and arch in the past. Personally, linux mint uses flatpacks too much for my liking. Although, I might have a warped perspective after using arch. (the aur is crazy big)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

EndeavourOS on desktop and laptop side of things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

After years of Manjaro (and I still use it on most of my computers), I'm trying out Nobara KDE to see how it keeps up for gaming. It has a number of optimizations that Glorious Eggroll has compiled and seems pretty fast compared to Manjaro on the same hardware. I imagine I could do all the changes on Manjaro, but I also wanted to see how Fedora runs these days, it's been a long time since I used it on the daily.

So far, so good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm using Mint, but I've avoided using flatpaks (generally downloading DEB packages directly, or adding ppa sources). It's worked pretty well so far.

I do have a handful of AppImages, but they're a bit easier to work with.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Pop!_OS on my desktop and laptop since 2020.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Endeavouros on Laptop and main PC. Loving it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When it comes to distros, I am a boring man with a boring POV: I just want the thing to work with as little fuss as possible. Consequently, I'm on Kubuntu. KDE is rock solid, and Ubuntu is what I'm used to.

If/when my OS ever breaks down hard enough to reinstall, I'll probably install Fedora Workstation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Nobara these days. It's based on Fedora 38.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Arch on my home server, Zorin on my laptop

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Install Gentoo

Never needed flatpack for last 5 years

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Artix (Basically Arch without Systemd)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does artix only boot without systemd or is it completely systemd-less? If it is systemd-less, how do services like docker work with that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Most services just need the init system to start, stop and monitor them. There's no special integration needed for each of them beyond running a command, monitoring the PID, and killing the PID when it's time to stop.

If you mean the special integration of docker and podman with systemd, first of all that's only required in rootless mode and not everybody runs rootless (most users probably run root docker). In rootless mode you have to manage each container individually as if it were a standalone service instead of just managing docker. Basically you have to integrate each container into the init system, whatever that is. There are some tools that make it easier to with podman+systemd because they write the systemd units for you but you can do it with any init system. The distro mostly doesn't care because you have to do the work not them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

NixOS and Debian. Probably just NixOS in the near future.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I've been using OpenSuse Slowroll basically since it released and so far am very happy with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Garuda Linux. In just love arch, but I'm too lazy to do it myself. One day maybe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Fedora immutable (ublue kinoite) has been so bulletproof. Moved from Arch, which is now on distrobox, so painless. Now ~ 1 year... 2 laptops + desktop, other is destined for NixOS...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

void linux (glibc) + swayfx + waybar + foot terminal + nushell

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I've been using Mint Cinnamon for a while now. It runs beautifully with fewer firmware issues than Ubuntu on my XPS. Even though it shipped with Ubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you want the cool new thing, it's Nix

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I tried nix actually. Personally, I think it would make a great server os, but I do not enjoy it as a daily driver. I didn't like the fact that I was forced to install everything through nix and couldn't compile software from source.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Arch on my "desktop PC", Armbian on my rpi 4, Dietpi soon (tm) on my Orange pi zero 3.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Laptop and Workstation run Fedora. Servers run Proxmox.

Can't say that there is anything new and exciting. Big change for me has been that I have accepted flatpacks. I've gotten to the point where I don't care about being a purist, don't care about customizing and theming everything. I just want to use my computer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Debian testing. Seriously. That is reasonably easy to install and configure unlike Arch or Gentoo, but doesn't come with "user friendly" corporate crap like Ubuntu and its derivatives.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Arch + gnome but it doesn't matter at this point

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Pretty happy with Debian Testing. Frequent updates but still very stable and rock solid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Desktop: Arch KDE Laptop: MX Linux KDE

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Debian for a while, now Mint (I'm a Cinnamon freak)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Arch + XFCE on my desktop. Have been for a while now, and everytime i try something else, I always come back to it. For my laptop, I've been using Gnome + extensions (Arch as well. That way I don't gotta switch gears and remember two different sets of commands) before i had to take it in for repairs. Was pretty good because of the mousepad gestures IMO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I daily drive Fedora because RHEL is what my industry uses and it's good to stay on top of the technology.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Fedora. I've been looking into fedora silverblue and vanilla os as well but I'm chilling with regular fedora for now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Arch Linux with i3wm

Fish, Alacritty, Rofi (dmenu replacement)

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