I’m very curious of which distro users loves the most that they have it on their daily hardware?

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    4 days ago

    It’s alway weird to me that even though Ubuntu has the largest Linux desktop market share, no one admits to using it.

    Anyway, I use Ubuntu because I was doing a lot of ROS development when I last built a machine, and getting ROS running properly on other distros can be a pain.

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    12 days ago

    I really love NixOS and use it on all my devices. Its not as difficult as people say and it really makes the linux experience a piece of cake once you get it down.

    The single config file to control almost everything is just what I was looking for in linux and the fact that it solved any kind of dependency hell I have experienced in the past is huge. If I had to list a top 3 it would be NixOS, Fedora, and Arch.

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    12 days ago

    I use Arch for personal and gaming, Debian for self hosting and hacking, Alpine for containerized cloud deployments.

    • I use Arch for personal and gaming, Debian for self hosting and hacking, Alpine for containerized cloud deployments.

      Pretty much the same for me: bleeding-edge Arch for my workstation, rock-stable Debian for my server.

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    12 days ago

    I just installed Bazzite about a month ago and love it! Used Ubuntu in the past and it was ok, but eventually went back to Windows. I definitely don’t feel that way about Bazzite though, I think I might stick with it as my primary OS!

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    12 days ago

    Nobody has mentioned immutables yet?!

    I finally dipped my toes into trying a new distro over the summer and have been really impressed with Project Bluefin. All the familiarity of Gnome for existing Ubuntu or Debian users but with a completely hands off rolling update experience.

    The main drawbacks are the slight complexity of how the fuck to install stuff on an immutable system. In theory you use Homebrew for CLI apps and flatpak for GUI apps but I’m really not a fan of installing from sources other than the original dev.

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      Bazzite is immutable, it worked generally okay for me but I swapped back to mint because I had to use a smart card reader and getting it to work on an immutable was a royal pain

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      11 days ago

      Why are fedora and suse often not mentioned considering theyre not forks of anything? (as far as im aware)

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        6 days ago

        Historically, (at least for hobbyists/enthusiasts) Fedora and openSUSE have been a lot less popular compared to Arch, Debian and their derivatives. While not necessarily representative, Boiling Steam’s chart -in which ProtonDB’s data is used- does indicate to this as well.

        Just my 2 cents.

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          6 days ago

          Kinda crazy considering fedoras perks and accessibility tbh. Dont know much ab suse tho as i have very little experience with it

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            I don’t know why, but openSUSE has had difficulty garnering popularity overall (aside from Germany).

            A possible explanation, which also ties in to Fedora, is how both are the open source variants to corporate distros; SEL and RHEL respectively.

            Arch and Debian are more community-driven by comparison.

            For Fedora specifically, people couldn’t regard it as anything but a testing bed distro; especially if you see how back2back they were with adopting new technologies like PulseAudio, systemd, Wayland, GTK 3/4, PipeWire etc. To be fair, openSUSE was the first to default to Btrfs and auto-snapshotting with Snapper*. Fedora was also facing competition from industry darling CentOS; similar code base, but a lot more stable.

            Thankfully, since a couple of years now, Fedora has recognized that it’s not cool to expect your user base to be sadistic. And together with the (unfortunate) downfall of CentOS, Manjaro and Ubuntu - Fedora has amassed a very healthy user base. And with how quickly Bazzite is becoming the face of gaming Linux (at least until Valve releases SteamOS), I don’t think it has even peaked yet.

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    12 days ago

    Fedora Atomic, especially Bluefin, Bazzite and Aurora.

    Nearly unbreakable, very reliable and stable in everyday use, needs no maintenance (updates itself, etc.) and more!

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    Fedora, but I wouldn’t say I’m in love with it. It frustrates me the least. No Linux distro is perfect, but they’re all better than Windows.

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    12 days ago

    Best Distro

    Needs dictate preferences. An objective assessment isn’t possible even on an individual level, as circumstances change over time. Linux Mint serves as a common starting point, with many users eventually ‘graduating’ to other distributions. The opposite is also true; many eventually return to low-maintenance distros like Linux Mint, preferring something that ‘just works’.

    I’m very curious of which distro users loves the most that they have it on their daily hardware?

    I daily drive secureblue.

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    12 days ago

    Xubuntu on my desktop/laptop, debian on a server. Mostly because while I really like tinkering with things, I usually just want shit to work so I can get something done.