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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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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Favorite? No. Most acceptable: NixOS.

The worst documentation of a linux distro I have ever encountered, but the declarative model has convinced me I don't want something else. Now I'm just waiting for other distros to pop up that are declarative as well. (Guix? No thanks, I'm not a fan of endless parentheses)

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[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 2 points 11 months ago

How do people feel about Garuda? I put it on a laptop to try it out. I'm still undecided.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

Annie Linux, but sadly it doesn't exist yet.

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Solus as the Almighty Todd says "it just works" And that comes from someone which always has at least one problem, that problem being gaming.

It aint solved mind you but it works marginable better on it.

Example, anno 1404, no matter what distro or silly protondb config, or if I use a new steam profile or fresh distro , works.1 out of 10 times.

But Solus, it just works, no hoop jumping needed

[–] MxW@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

EndeavourOS

[–] AccelShark@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Been using Xubuntu 23.10 recently, but I'm kind of a distro hopper. I need ROCm and some other special (proprietary, ehh) tools that require RHEL, SLE, or some Ubuntu flavor. I also like having a working out-of-the-box configuration. I've used openSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch Linux before, might try it again but it's a little bit complicated to me.

[–] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] cfp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

I love using Alpine Linux on my server. Super light and quick to start up.

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

LMDE, MX, Ubuntu etc are based on Debian. Mint is based on Ubuntu, so Debian. Chimera/Endeavour are based on Arch, etc.

In the linux world, you have a linux kernel, systemd or init, a bunch of gnu utils, a window system like X or Wayland, whatever DE you want (Xfce, gnome, kde, name it) and a packaging system (apt, yum, pacman), but for me, it's all the same.

If you want something different, try a BSD distro then? FreeBSD, OpenBSD, GhostBSD, etc

[–] Breve@pawb.social 2 points 11 months ago

I've become a fan of KDE Neon. It's based on Ubuntu LTS but with the the most up-to-date KDE release.

[–] jjhanger@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

CrunchBang++, BunsenLabs, Bodhi, Antix and Peppermint.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 11 months ago
[–] galloFino@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu is so easy to use!!

[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Toaster Linux or Nobara.

[–] basuramannen@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

I like Poky. But for other use case than Arch, Debian and Fedora.

[–] 0xD@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kali Linux! Just too useful, though there can still be some fixing around.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago
[–] Psynthesis@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Bodhi Linux. Lightweight and beautiful

[–] Sims@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Guix is imho beyond normal distros, and I'm never going back to Manjaro or any of the normal distros.

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago
[–] ssolos@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've been enjoying Mint personally for my laptop. I've tried Ubuntu but I've had issues with the speakers :/

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