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.

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    9 hours ago

    Linux Mint, because I don’t like to tinker with the system, I like good defaults (and Mints has them).

  • Leaflet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    9 hours ago

    Fedora Silverblue

    • I like Gnome
    • I like that Fedora adopts new technology quickly
    • I like how it makes updates more reliable
    • I like flatpak
  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    9·
    9 hours ago

    EndeavorOS. Because I wanted to have a rolling release distribution that is always up to date, and one that is good supported by maintainers and community. Good documentation is very important to me. And I trust the team behind EndeavorOS and Archlinux.

    Also the manual approach of many things and the package manager based on Archlinux is very nice. I also like the building of custom packages that is then installed with the package manager (basically my own AUR package). The focus on terminal stuff without too much bloat by default is also a huge plus.

    • Mwas alt (prob)@thelemmy.clubOPEnglish
      3·
      9 hours ago

      The focus on terminal stuff without too much bloat by default is also a huge plus.

      Prob the reason why i hated garauda (Idk if is it because i picked the dragonized gaming ver)

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
        1·
        9 hours ago

        Probably. I’m definitely not a fan of Garuda Linux (never used it to be honest). The styling and the bloat are not my taste. But the most important thing to me is, if I can trust those developers and maintainers? And I don’t trust most non common distros. Looking at their webpage, they also have a KDE lite version with less bloat and bare minimum packages to get started. This is actually awesome!

  • yirsi@lemmy.world
    8·
    9 hours ago

    Arch because it helped me understand the os better and i like tinkering. Also pacman and the aur

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    5·
    8 hours ago

    I have Bazzite on a laptop for the ease of use and general resistance to breakage, and Spiral Linux in a VM. The latter works flawlessly that way, like it was always meant to be in a VM.

  • Libb@jlai.lu
    7·
    9 hours ago
    • Debian + Xfce on the desktop, because it (mostly, see below) just works, it’s snappy, reliable, and I don’t need my apps being constantly updated (I have very simple needs and use cases)
    • Mint + Cinnamon on the laptop, because it’s still debian-based and because unlike Debian, Mint was able to connect my AirPods out of the box and I use them a lot when on the laptop… I also quickly learned to appreciate Cinnamon, I must say.

    edit: typos

    • Mwas alt (prob)@thelemmy.clubOPEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      I wonder what you will think of lmde its linux mint with a debian base instead of ubuntu (It keeps some stuff for eg the desktop updated).

      • Libb@jlai.lu
        2·
        9 hours ago

        I’ve seen lmde mentioned on Mint website but if I recall correctly they also presented it like a somewhat experimental version?

  • gramgan@lemmy.ml
    4·
    8 hours ago

    NixOS because it’s easy to understand—I can pop open any .nix file in my config and see exactly what is being set up, so I don’t have to mentally keep track of innumerable imperative changes I would otherwise make to the system, and thus lose track of the entropy over time.

  • Breadhax0r@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 hours ago

    I started with mint cinnamon and then tried out bazzite and nobara but they both gave me issues so I’m back to mint because it really does “just work”

    My server is running mint currently, but I’m going to switch to fedora at some point soon. Mostly because I have to deal with RHEL at work and I’d like to better familiarize myself with it.

  • kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    7 hours ago

    mint cinnamon because on my system it has no major issues and everything is easy to configure. i don’t have a lot of spare time so i can’t spend hours or even days troubleshooting why something won’t install or run. most other distros have been annoyingly buggy or too difficult to set up.

  • Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    9 hours ago

    Ubuntu for my servers, and Linux Mint for my Workstation.

    I grew up using Debian-based distros, so it’s what I’m comfortable with. I like how Mint seems to “just work” most of the time, especially with samba shares and usb peripherals.

    Ubuntu server is primarily because it’s incredibly easy to get support when you need it.

  • Last@reddthat.comEnglish
    6·
    9 hours ago

    I use NixOS, Gentoo, and Debian:

    • NixOS because I like declarative configuration files.
    • Gentoo because I enjoy compiling from source.
    • Debian because the other two are more difficult to use.
    • Neo@lemmy.hacktheplanet.be
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Technically NixOS is all compiled from source too (if you disable the binary caches). It has since taken away Gentoo’s raison d’être a bit in my head. Debian still holds a special place in my heart too, for its simplicity and stability!

  • Red5@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    9 hours ago

    I use Fedora simply because I got a Framework and the fingerprint reader didn’t work in (K)Ubuntu so I tried Fedora as a little test. It worked, so I just stuck with it - everything else worked as I wanted, and it gave me the opportunity to try a completely new distribution.

    • Neo@lemmy.hacktheplanet.be
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Interesting. I’ve using NixOS many years on servers but recently also started using it as a base for docker hosts. Before that I used Ubuntu or Debian for docker hosts, but I figured out I still like the declarative approach even for simple servers like docker hosts. There’s your basic security config, ssh keys and monitoring setup that I used to do imperatively, but I much rather have declaratively now, no matter how small. And enabling docker on NixOS is just a virtualisation.docker.enable = true; anyway.