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What distro do you use and why? (thelemmy.club)
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yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

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[–] JayEchoRay@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Fedora 41 KDE Plasma

For the simple, shallow reason it looks great and feels snappy.

Personal rabble:

spoilerI would say that it does not feel as "set and forget" as Mint, but I enjoy the feel of of environment.

I am pretty new at Linux in general - only have experience with a Mint environment before.

I did have some issues with Fedora - mostly audio problems in Steam games and it can feel slightly more intimidating to work with ( compared to Mint) but after digging into various help threads and trying stuff( responsibly) I did reach a point where I reached a satisfied conclusion - even if I am not sure what exactly I did that solved the problem

[–] icogniito@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Cachyos.

Used to use pure arch but I like the cachy optimisations and their repos

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You can put Cachyos tweaks kernels and repos on top of arch or nixos if you like.

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[–] LovePoson@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Manjaro on main pc and phone. Proxmox (debian) on server

[–] lancalot@discuss.online 2 points 6 days ago

What distro do you use

I daily drive secureblue.

and why?

Long story short; I love me some security. Unfortunately, My device is far from ideal for running Qubes OS. From within the remaining options, secureblue comes out on top for me.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Currently I use Pop!_OS because I wanted a Debian descendant that didn't use Snap while also was most likely to support my hardware.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

NixOS & OpenWRT are my two. NixOS’s Nix language as declarative config is such a great tool for setting up & maintaining a machines for the long-term that despite the initial learning curve has paid off in the long run (Guix or a Nix successor should also be in the same category). OpenWRT is the purpose-built tool it is for having an OS for a router with low overhead & a UI that can be easier to understand the config when networking isn’t something you do on the regular.

[–] timroerstroem@feddit.dk 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Kubuntu on my desktop, I prefer KDE as a DE and I'm used to the Debian ecosystem.

Linux Mint on my relatively low powered laptop that I rarely use.

Debian stable on my media server.

[–] Dustwin@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Kubuntu 24.04 because it's a solid desktop and I have nothing against Snap. If it works then I don't care if it's a deb flat or snap. p PPAs were fun and exciting but I broke my system more than once with them back 10 years.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Arch on my desktop and laptop, Debian stable goes on everything else.

[–] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Alpine Linux. It's pretty lightweight (uses ~250MiB on idle with sway), is easy to install and is super stable. My only criticism is that there is quite a lot of software not available in the repos, but this is mainly fixed by flatpaks.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Nix because I have a bad memory and hate doing things more than once

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Dietpi. Because I'm forced to.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 6 days ago

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fedora KDE, because my preferred distro Mint Cinnamon doesn't at the moment have good support for things like FreeSync.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 6 days ago

Idk if you use smth like gamescope to enable it in cinnamon

[–] theRealBassist@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I use TuxedoOS. I wanted something that kept up with the latest KDE updates which ran a cleaned up version of Ubuntu... that's TuxedoOS to a T. I had looked at other options like Kubuntu or just installing KDE over something like PopOS, but TuxedoOS was the most stable and up to date of those options in my testing.

That said, I have run into innumerable problems on it due to apt repos that it doesn't include which come standard on Ubuntu.

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