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What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"? (feddit.uk)

submitted 11 months ago by case_when@feddit.uk to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[–] EponymousBosh@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

I'm currently using Linux Mint as well. I tried Garuda out and I did really like it, but the rolling release kept breaking NVIDIA.

I used Ubuntu back in the day but it sucks now. Snaps are the devil's work.

[–] scriptGoober@linux.community 1 points 3 weeks ago

manjaro.

[–] kavin@feddit.rocks 1 points 11 months ago

Zorin OS, which was the second distro I ever tried, I hated how outdated their repos were since they were using an older Ubuntu LTS repository for packages. It was quite painful to install software that would otherwise have worked out-of-the-box on Ubuntu. I hope this is no longer the case today.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Opensuse. Did absolutely nothing wrong but I just didn't vibe with it. Went to fedora and I vibe hard with it

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I game a lot, so I need the latest drivers. So anything with a slower release schedule than Manjaro is a no go for me.

[–] tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

GNU Guix. Need to do an Ayahuasca ceremony sometimes and try again with a much more radiant mind.

[–] HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

Its a meme at this point, but I tried to install arch. Ran into display issues during install and couldn't progress. Gave up and did Ubuntu instead.

I know there's supposed to be some helper stuff out there now to make it go smoothly, but don't think I am motivated enough to retry ever.

[–] wgs@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago

Void linux.

I used arch for a couple years, then crux for over 10 years, so I though Void would be a great distro when the systemd drama occured. Tried that, and noped the hell out of it...

creating/maintaining packages is a pain
the dev team was awful with newcomers
system couldn't handle more than a couple weeks without updates
it's an arch wannabe that doesn't admit it, making it a worse alternative

[–] NixDev@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago

Garuda. Looked pretty and tried it for a day or two and noped out. Went back to Manjaro before I figured out how to install Arch without the installer

[–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Anything that's not Ubuntu, because it's the "mainstream Linux", so guaranteed I'll find anything I need there.

[–] anthoniix@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Gentooo, the only reason I' use it is so I could bring up systems on old architectures. Besides that it really isn't worth it.

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