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what's your current linux distro? (beehaw.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned, so I'm keeping windows for it specifically.) this'll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with wifi and didn't love the GNOME layout. I have a new distro picked out, but I just was curious what other people are using in this community. was also wondering what made you fall on your current one.

and maybe as some bonus questions, what are some distros you've tried but didn't like? what about a distro you want to try eventually? I've seen distrohopping is a thing, hahaha.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Debian is mine and has been for decades + I’m a little bit happy to see it’s still well represented / well thought of in the community. Everything works, and you can choose new + exciting with headaches sometimes, or old + stable with no headaches but old.

Only real issue is the package management hasn’t kept pace with node / python / go / everything else wanting to do its own little mini package management, and so very occasionally that side is a little bit of a mess

NixOS I would like to try at some point as the core philosophy seems a little more suited to the modern (Docker / pip / etc) era, but I never messed with it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I recently switched to Debian and use nix to install / provide the likes of node / python / go for development.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wait, how does that work? Can you do Nix package management on a Debian system or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yes, you can just go ahead and install nix in your distro to use e.g. nix-shell to create a development environment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Conda makes python soooo much easier. I never use apt for python things. If you use it a lot, you'll eventually have to learn how to work with different environments. But I promise it's easier than trying to solve dependency hell with some combination of apt and pip.