>0 Cartwright @ 2024/07/01 19:53
I like debian, so i would like to ask what other people think.
>1 squidink @ 2024/07/03 17:16
Definitely NixOS! the declarative approach to package management as well as the ability to configure different things in a single place is really nice. 99.9% of the time it makes things stupidly easy, although the 1% of the time it's not stupidly easy then it is a *huge* pain in the ass; I personally find that learning to do the things that are challenging is incredibly rewarding though! There's a lot of things you can do and that makes me really happy as someone who really likes to tinker ^^
>2 Cartwright @ 2024/07/04 18:08
I had never head of it and I see that is very good! >>1
>3 kasmo @ 2024/07/09 16:55
As my current setup is almost always old. I prefer to use Debian, both for its stability and support. currently using Debian and Mint at home. Apart from the crashes and so many updates, I liked Arch
>4 Cartwright @ 2024/07/11 14:45
>>3 That's just my idea of debian stable lots of software good support.
>5 mai @ 2024/07/12 06:01
>>1 I couldn't agree more, NixOS is such a nice and comfortable experience (save for that 1% where it suddely becomes a pain). Coming from Arch, being able to use my core system with a stable repository and pull from a rolling release whenever I want is really nice.
>6 Singletona082 @ 2024/07/14 16:58
>>OP I keep coming back to linux mint. i've tried tiling managers, and I really do want to learn one of those more minamum enviroments but i keep coming back to 'here is an ubuntu derivitive with a windows 9x type desktop.' I'm boring
>7 Cartwright @ 2024/07/15 13:48
>>6 I also have used linux mint some, debian based?
>8 Singletona082 @ 2024/07/16 20:31
>>7 Ubuntu based, so Debvian based wit hseveral steps. I've tried the debian flavor in the past and just sorta kinda came back to the 'defualt' version at some point. Don't even remember why.
>9 omorrigan @ 2024/08/11 03:45
>>OP my favorite so far is tails because its portability and the incognito system/
>10 PrairieOptimist @ 2024/08/11 15:31
I'm using Mint. I hadn't used Linux in decades but I decided to try it again earlier this year (for some mysterious reason :D ) and found that Mint has the most familiar feel to me. Evenutally I'll probably try different ones on different systems for alternate purposes. I'd like to get something for a small underpowered notebook that I use via terminal primarily when I'm out and about.
>11 emymin @ 2024/08/16 15:19
I quite like Fedora, I find it to be a nice middle ground between more cutting edge rolling release distros and more stable ones. I run it on all my devices!
>12 crivic @ 2024/08/17 07:08
>>OP In theory, I love the idea of NixOS - declarative configs and portable, reproducible deploys are awesome. In practice, I still run Archlinux everywhere - I've been doing this for many years and it's what I'm most confortable with.
>13 anonymous @ 2024/08/18 10:20
I really don't have a "favourite distro". I could use any distro given they have proper docs :)
>14 fenris @ 2024/08/18 14:43
I like Opensuse. I'm using Suse for a long time and it always worked very well.
>15 dskully @ 2024/08/18 15:18
i love alpine linux, its minimal and easy to install
>16 exxxxkc @ 2024/09/06 14:22
>>15 I love a fork of alpine pmOS
>17 theolodger @ 2024/09/11 10:02
>>1 I'd like to try NixOS properly at some point - and perhaps switch to it entirely... Last time I tried installing it I ran out of time to set up that laptop and it just got sidelined.
>18 anthk @ 2024/09/14 07:45
>>OP I like a Debian/Devuan derivative, GNUinos, but libre. Altough I have no backports. But I like Hyperbola GNU too, (soon to be Hyperbola/BSD).
>19 anthk @ 2024/09/14 07:54
>>16 On PmOS, I wish could recover my Tokyo Techbook (look up at PmOS' wiki) with it. Is not very powerful, but for a CLI based env, it would be more than enough.
>20 dskully @ 2024/09/19 03:25
>>16 pmOS looks so cool :0
>21 ebruce613 @ 2024/09/19 07:07
On desktop, I would use Zorin OS (And Haiku), and on servers I use Debian.
>22 lxu @ 2024/09/21 01:12
I have been through a couple different distros, and consider myself to be a "distro hopper." I've tried a lot, alas not every one, of course. The only challange I backed down from with a Linux distro was LFS (Linux from Scratch), due to my computer most likely taking AGES to compile (I use older MacBook laptops as Linux machines). My favorite, as of now, is Gentoo. I've found the mindset of compiling everything being much less distracting, and more relaxing on my brain. I tend to get overly engaged in a task at hand, and will multitask to levels you never knew were possible. With Gentoo, I've not only had better speed, but also found myself installing less packages. Due to the increased install time, due to compiling everything, I have found myself packing the essentials. I have a web browser, email client, few random development tools for my projects, and that's that. Every new package install is a commitment, which has meant more thoughtful installs. My second favorite, as a lot of others, it seems, is Debian. Debian is fast, flexible, and perfect for what I need. I am currently using OpenBox as a window manager, as I enjoy it's simplicity and nostaliga you can easily setup :)
>23 jazei @ 2024/10/27 23:42
I a'm using lubuntu. netbook 2Gb ram. before mint.
>24 peron @ 2024/11/11 17:49
>>OP I like Ubuntu Mate 22.04LTS. I started using Ubuntu from 8.04LTS up to 12.04, but I prefered the oldschool GNOME 2, so Mate is the flavour I like.
>25 anthk @ 2024/11/12 19:13
>>OP Now I'm with hyperbola GNU/Linux, with emwm and some Motif tools (and X and ncurses) based setup as my main rig, an n270 netbook. It's pretty fast and I don't miss anything.
>26 bbsing @ 2024/11/23 05:32
I think Debian is my favorite. I found things just a bit easier with debian. Then I went to ubuntu. I think what happened is whatever system had the most driver support its what I went with and becuase ubuntu was really doing well making it easy to support wifi cards and printers I stuck with ubuntu for a long time, and I got used to its package manager. Then I went to raspberrypi as my hardware platform and that was my primary hardware for a long long time, because of its low power consumption, and small form factor, even now I'm using an RPI5. Other OS besides raspbian were a troubleshooting nightmare on RPI systems. I started with RedHat 5.1, and refused to switch from rpm package mangement systems until my manager at work said try ubuntu. I was running fedora on my Dell Latitude CPi with a docking station ethernet card. I went to Ubuntu on a newer Dell as duel boot, and stuck there for a long time. So when I wanted to get a system up and running quickly it was Ubuntu, but Debian has been my favorite. Ubuntu is going in a direction that is a little different that I like, so more often I'm installing Debian when I'm not on a raspberrypi system. I think I need to try out Cubes and NixOs. FreeDos I tried a couple months ago and that is neat too, but not for being productive.
>27 protoc0l @ 2024/11/25 01:38
Been running Fedora Sericea since F39 dropped, and since the C# dev experience stopped sucking in visual studio code. the C# dev kit + VSC integration made it so I could finally switch over for good. honestly haven't missed a thing.
>28 zenodo @ 2024/11/27 19:48
>>11 There new storage servers at work are running Rocky Linux so I swapped my laptop to Fedora to learn how DNF works. Allegedly Fedora is used by Red Hat engineers and gets lots of attention for battery efficiency code and so on. Not sure if it's true but I've always had a smooth experience and I really like getting updates every 6 months. It's the sweet spot! Long enough to get noticable improvements but not so frequent that update fatigue sets in.
>29 protoc0l @ 2024/12/06 01:19
>>28 that's part of why I enjoy fedora. not bleeding edge enough that I cut myself and have to janitor my laptop after a day of writing code and unfxcking stuff, but not so stable that I'm running two year old software. it's like the goldilocks distro
>30 etc404 @ 2024/12/06 03:42
I enjoy Arch! I can't exactly say I've had much trouble with the frequent updates, which I'm quite thankful for :3
>31 nebula @ 2024/12/15 03:39
arch! but also...chromeOS? does that count? i got a chromebook a couple weeks ago and i really like it, there is a built-in linux container that can run anything that arm64 debian can.