i like fedora a lot, but its updates got a little too far ahead for me. So i recently switched to debian 12, and with flatpaks and their more-current mesa components, everything is working on my desktop as well as it was before, especially games on steam (flatpak) and in bottles.
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Linux Mint Cinnamon. Seriously, it's the best. Fast, light, Ubuntu based, stable, good looking, full featured. All the power of Ubuntu without the downsides (snaps, heavy, slow etc)
Modified Ubuntu, Snap-less...
I'm currently using Debian Unstable. I used Fedora for a long time, but it got noticeably worse when IBM bought Red Hat. I also like Arch, btw. I have tried a bunch of other distros too, but they all have some quirk that annoys me (*buntu has Snap, Pop!_OS and Mint don't support KDE officially, OpenSUSE is based around YaST, Elementary is weird about software installation, Manjaro fails at basic security 101 and keeps DDoSing the AUR due to bugs, etc.)
I have not tried NixOS yet, but I keep seeing it recommended, so I'll have to try it.
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Fedora Workstation. It's fast and stable.
Everything I use is available either as a Flatpak or a RPM.
I'll only mention it because I haven't seen it yet, I just installed endeavor os and it's been pretty Great
For me it's tumbleweed at the moment it's defaults like btrfs and snapper are how I used to setup fedora. Then there's the tools like OBS and yast that are super useful it's rolling but well tested before it gets to you
I used Feren OS for a long time, but now i prefer Cachy OS and Vanilla Arch on my laptop, both with KDE Plasma
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Here's an incomplete list of my daily drivers since...well, I'm old.
- QNX Neutrino
- Mandrake 7.2
- RedHat 7.1
- Went back to Windoze for quite a while
- Gentoo
- Ubuntu (quite a leap there)
- OS X
- Linux Mint
- Debian
- LMDE
- Fedora
- KDE Neon
- macOS
- Fedora Asahi
I'm sure I've missed the odd one or two (and I regularly jumped back and forth with Debian/Ubuntu/Mint for years and years).
I used to distro hop a lot, so if I only used it for less than a month, I haven't bothered to list it.
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Trisquel GNU / Linux. The kernel is 100% libre so you can do your computing in freedom.
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Arch for the last 8ish years. I'm interested in switching to something immutable and with a declarative package manager, but every time I try something else I end up back on arch. It works and has all the packages I use ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Zorin OS. No muss, no fuss. I've been wanting to hop to Endeavor or Pop! just to do something different.
I mainly play games and watch movies.
For now, it's Debian 12 with KDE Plasma. But I'm really interested in Immutable Systems. I like OpenSuse Kapla, but the KDE Integration is still in alpha. There are still a few shortcomings with the only flatpak approach, like the fact that the Steam Flatpak can't provide smooth wireless controller support because of lacking permissions.
I've found success installing Steam and other stuff using distrobox on openSUSE Kalpa. The initial setup isn't as easy as installing a flatpak, but after a quick distrobox-export it's totally seamless.
Every time I try something different I always come back to arch + swaywm
OpenSuse leap
Trisquel GNU+Linux on my Librebooted ThinkPad X200
Manjaro with KDE. I've only been running Linux for a month, and found Arch a bit intimidating, so to me Manjaro was the closest I dare fly to the sun. Really liking it so far.
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Arch btw
Vanilla ass Ubuntu. I spent 25 years finding the right distro, this is good enough. My first love was Mandrake.
Arch on my main pc, and Ubuntu on my server, only reason it's Ubuntu is I needed 6.2 kernel for my Intel arc encoding card and debian based for the arrs
Linux Mint because it just works.
Linux Mint. Seriously, seriously good. Very fast, very light, looks amazing, has full access to all Ubuntu apps, runs Flatpak, is stable and solid. Sane defaults across the system.
Highly recommend it.
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Void linux became my second nature. It's design is great, runit and xbps are just awesome. Can't recomend more. P.S. I also switched to Void from Fedora
Switched from Ubuntu to fedora recently.. I'm pretty happy with it and it's package manager
If you are a KDE user or are interested in it, I've been running KDE Neon for a few months and don't plan on changing any time soon. Stable release, Ubuntu LTS based without the forced snaps (though snaps are in the repos if you want them), comes with the standard Ubuntu LTS repos and flatpak installed out of the box, with the one difference there being that it will update to the latest stable version of KDE software as it's released. Basically a de-snapped Kubuntu LTS with all the latest KDE stuff. Works great for me.