What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?

I myself am a daily Void user. I used to use Devuan, but wanted to try rolling release and ended up loving Void!

  • Ice Witch@lemmy.fmhy.mlB
    9·
    2 years ago

    I just recently switched to Arch and I gotta say, the AUR is indispensible! Also really like how fast pacman is.

    • falchy@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      2 years ago

      When I switched to Linux I went to Arch immediately. I figured if I was in for a penny I was in for a pound. And a barebones Linux install, which seemed to be the whole point of Linux to me at the time, was insanely appealing.

      I tried Mint, Ubuntu, and one other that I can’t remember, but none of them have been as well documented or as challenging (yet solvable) as Arch. Of course, it only took me three weeks to get my setup complete so that I could use the bare minimum functionality of my laptop. That didn’t include customization. Installing on an old Mac had its own set of challenges.

  • damn@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    7·
    2 years ago

    Arch Linux. Always very up-to-date and the AUR is huge. No dealing with PPAs or snaps or flatpaks or appimages. Just paru -S any-software-ever-made. Also very streamlined (systemd for everything lol) and well documented. I tried NixOS for a bit but it was very inconvenient in comparison and I felt like it was impossible to tinker with or understand if you weren’t good at Haskell. Terrible documentation.

    For servers it’s definitely Debian + docker.

    • Atemu@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      I tried NixOS for a bit but it was very inconvenient in comparison and I felt like it was impossible to tinker with or understand if you weren’t good at Haskell.

      You don’t need any haskell knowledge to configure a NixOS system. It’s mostly just researching the right options and setting the desired values. Pretty simple. For more advanced stuff like custom modules, functional programming experience helps a lot but that’s not necessary for installing packages and enabling services.

      Documentation isn’t great but what it does have going for it is that it’s right in the place where you configure it: In the NixOS options. Wanna configure systemd-boot? Just search for it: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=23.05&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=systemd-boot
      It’s self-documenting.

    • suredoood@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      after jumping between distros for a couple years, I’m now at the same point. I just want something stable and easy to use, having documentation from any program I want to install as well as being able to expect .deb files is the best luxury.

  • Signfeld@lemm.ee
    4·
    2 years ago

    Pop!_OS. I have always loved System76 and have one of their laptops, as well as an HP Dev One that I use as a daily driver. The convenience and tiling system of the DE is the simplest I’ve used so far and works perfectly. I used to run Arch but I just don’t want to deal with it anymore, honestly.

    • xohshoo@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’ve got pop running on my thinkpad, been upgrading for a few years now. It’s getting a little crufty, but no real problems in all that time. Hard to make an argument to change. If it ain’t broke…

  • fernandu00@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 years ago

    Fedora on an old laptop, piOS on a pi2 and Ubuntu on my newer laptop although I’m planning to change it to Fedora too…after 12 years of Ubuntu and 4 release upgrades in a row my system seems kinda broken and my apt is definetly broken with many sources.list entries that didn’t upgrade well… I don’t like having dozens of loopback entries when I do a fdisk command …it’s annoying and looks like it’s because of snaps …also I get every day to update something in snap store but it fails every single time …so maybe I’ll go by Fedora next…Planning to use the new Debian Bookworm to set a server with this old desktop I getting from a friend to self host some services

  • BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    Kubuntu 23.04. Eventually going to try Mint, see if it’s more stable on my machine, but there isn’t time just now.