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I'm wondering what the current favorite distros are besides the most popular ones like Arch, Debian and Fedora.

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[–] iopq@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

NixOS is not based on any other distro because it has its own package manager which is better than all the other distros'

[–] leidkultur@lemmy.one 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, that package manager will surely be the best one and not just be another one in the zoo.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

The whole system is built using it, so every time your system will be the same when building from the same configuration. Even if you such to another computer, you will download locked versions of all packages and get the exact same system

In Ubuntu installing and removing a package doesn't even guarantee it's cleaned up