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.

  • NullNet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    Arch mostly so i can get whatever package i want without having to use flatpak. don’t get me wrong i love them, however i don’t have the best internet so updating a whole other environment was quite the burden which is why i stooped using pop os and went back to arch. It also kept me from enjoying Fedora Silverblue on my laptop so i guess i am sticking with arch till i get better internet xD

  • bawb@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Currently, Arch btw. I was on Ubuntu in the 12* days, but arch wiki had the solutions to every problem I encountered, so naturally migrated. I want to switch to NixOS but ran into some issues getting my finicky nvidia/amdgpu laptop to work. I might go blendOS as a holdover, it seems like a good mix of the two. Also I have some issues with Manjaro (tried for a while) but pamac cli at least handles all of my aur and pacman needs properly.

    • qyron@sopuli.xyz
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      5 months ago

      How does it fare compared with the standard Mint?

      I’ve been considering try it but because of the focus on Cinamon I keep delaying it.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Different distros for different uses:

    • Debian with KDE for my casual servers and Docker boxes.
    • Nobara for my main gaming PC.
    • Linux Mint with Cinnamon for my general purpose PCs and my #JustWorks uses.
    • Arch for my pimp mobile test machines.
  • cakey@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    im a notorious distro hopper lmao, right now i am using manjaro for the first time. previously i was using Pop OS where i had plasma installed for the DE rather than using cosmic or whatev they call it… but it seemed like there were a few issues between Pop and plasma, so i hopped to manjaro

    first time using a distro that uses pacman so there are a few growing pains for me

  • OADINC@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    I use Fedora on my desktop, and mint on my laptop (this one is going to get wiped soon for Fedora as well). I tried manjaro but it just wasn’t for me. I installed it on the recommendation of my friend, and I like it a lot. Except for it not staying asleep because a part on the motherboard kept sending a wake command -__- . But a CMD fixed that issue.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    A few for different use cases. NixOS on my wife’s 14 year old laptop because it proved to handle the hardware the best, and she struggles with change so if that system dies the NixOS configuration can be redeployed identical to how she had it with no additional effort.

    Debian on my old IOmega NAS.

    OpenSUSE on my personal PC and Work computer, since it supports my proprietary CAD software, and nVidia releases a driver specifically for SUSE/OpenSUSE use.

  • AAA@feddit.org
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    5 months ago

    Fedora KDE.

    I was happily using Windows 10 until a few months ago, but needed to build a new PC. I got a glimpse of Windows 11 on a friend’s laptop and didn’t like it. So I asked my Linux-friend which distribution he would recommend to someone who wants to try Linux, but doesn’t want to stray too far away from the windows look and feel.

  • hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    Bazzite for personal stuff because it looked neat and just worked after installation with a small learning curve. Due to interia I went with bluefin on the work computer for the same reasons

  • Ovata@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Been using Mint with the Cinnamon desktop environment for a few years now. Does everything I need it to.

    • osugi_sakae@midwest.socialEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Haven’t used it in a few years, but if it is still like it was, I highly recommend it for regular users. Solid, good choice of packages (for regular people). Don’t remember ever having any problems with PCLinuxOS.

      (I switched away only because I’m not a “regular” user.)

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I use Ubuntu because it’s the most popular and well-supported.

    I’m going to be switching to Mint because it’s basically a community-run fork of Ubuntu and I don’t trust Canonical anymore, but it’s hard to justify installing my OS from scratch considering I’ve been using Ubuntu since 2017.

    I recently ordered a Thinkpad T14 Gen1 with an R7 4750U, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD and you better believe I’m going to be putting Mint on that as soon as I get it.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Debian. Used to use others but realized they all just added crap I didn’t want, or could add myself with a simple script.

    I was a Slackware then Fedora, then Ubuntu as my daily drivers (whipe trying other distros, or Kali for specific purposes) before settling here.