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So, title. Personally after trying out pretty much every major distro save gentoo, I’ve come back to Ubuntu because it just works and I can focus on my work. Did remove snap and install flatpak, but other than that it’s mostly stock ubuntu.
I’m on EndeavorOS. It’s essentially Arch Linux with very specific training wheels. I switched to it about a year ago and remain exceedingly happy with it.
EndeavourOS is Arch, nicely setup for a “Daily Driver” PC and for people who don’t need to flex about installing Arch. I’ve used Arch, I like EndeavourOS better :)
Another vouch for EndeavourOS being Arch but with less hassle, I have installed and maintained for years both Arch and Gentoo and while I think those two are the best way to experience and learn Linux, I don’t have as much time anymore, so I was trying out fedora for a while (left because some package lagged just a bit much for my preference; Emacs and some compilers/runtimes mainly) I wanted back into some cutting edge rolling-release distro.
I prefer Arch over debian testing and opensuse thumbleweed because of popularity and gaming, there is bigger chance that if a game has problems, these have been found out on arch especially with the steam deck technically increasing the user base of gamers on Arch.
EDIT: NixOS sound interesting because it might be even less time commitment to maintain I think(?), but the initial learning curve would be more time investment that EndeavourOS is since I’m very acquainted with how to upkeep and Arch system that I daily drive.
I use Arch, btw
Gone through many distros. Always end up back with Ubuntu as it just works for when I need to get things done.
Ubuntu Budgie is my main OS. Works well but if I install another I’ll give NixOS a spin. I like the idea of generally immutable systems.
ublu also has Budgie rebase for Intel/AMD Can just rebase from a Kinoite/Silverblue/Serica install:
rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/budgie-main:latestNvidia:
rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/budgie-nvidia:latestOr the newer ISO method:
Also checkout Fleek:
I really like NixOS so far. It’s definitely got some quirks, and trying to install anything that’s not in the repository is, by design, a real pain in the ass. But the general idea seems to work really, really well. It’s cool how a lot of tasks that are really involved on other distros just come down to “add this line to your nix config file”.
Fedora Kinoite:
Technically Universal Blue:
I was on Fedora KDE since 32.
But as of late, RPM Fusion drops the ball more and more often.
Package lag time was breaking updates on my AMD system even. Unless you swap mesa/mesa-freeworld back to update…
Because I like hardware acceleration and encoding/decoding -.-
Universal Blue takes the pain away for AMD and Nvidia users alike. Think Chromebook easy but it’s Fedora.
I’m embracing Flatpaks now. For things not available as flatpaks, I just export from a toolbox or Distrobox.
I have a messy writeup here:
I thank Steam Deck for making me realize immutable/cloud based image-Desktop isn’t scary anymore.
I used Fedora for a good part of the last year, pretty solid distro.
Dang, I can’t believe I haven’t heard of Universal Blue before, thanks for the rec!
I’ve been using Fedora for the past couple of years, but have been putting some time into NixOS VM’s recently
Look into using Nix as the package manager in Fedora maybe, if you are liking NixOS in a VM then this could be a great combo of the two
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE
For how long have you been using it? Have you had any breakages?
For 3 days lol, no breakages at all. I’ve switched from arch after using it for several months but now I just want stable enough distro with latest plasma and btrfs snapshots without hassle and decided to give tumbleweed a try.
Ubuntu. Keeps it simple and streamlined between my PC, my servers and my EC2 servers.
Where my Mint peeps at?
Cinnamon gang!
Pop!_OS on my laptop for everything except gaming. Programming, media consumption, reading, etc. I am much more productive using their stupid simple tiling window manager.
On my servers/cloud VM’s I run Ubuntu Server.
On my NAS I run TrueNAS Scale. To be completely honest I kind of regret “upgrading” from TrueNAS to TrueNAS Scale. It’s less performant and the amount of issues I’ve had with their application setup made me completely abandon it and just run Docker on a separate computer, which defeated the entire purpose of installing Scale. I’m sure they’ll iron everything out over time and it’s not like the performance is horrendous, it’s just incomparable to good ol’ regular TrueNAS (based on BSD instead of Linux with great ZFS support).
Garuda linux for me, I like its arch based and the kde plasma desktop works best.
Currently Arch with i3wm. I’m up to try NixOS after i’ll pass exam on monday.
GL on your exam.
Same, also Arch+i3.
I’m thinking about trying NixOS too. A lot of people are talkimg about it lately.
Manjaro i3wm edition held together by duct tape and willpower
Ubuntu, it just works. Hardly notice any genuine issues with Snaps as well, but I also rarely use them.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Seems to work pretty well.
In the past I used Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch, and they’ve all been fine, but Tumbleweed has been the least annoying.
