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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!

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

Choice can be one of the huge strong suits and weak points of Linux. I know over the last 30 years I've switched distros a lot. My first was a two floppy slack distro. One for boot and one for root. There was no pretty X server on top of it lol.

These days for my personal systems I definitely like the rolling releases. Currently have endeavor OS on a few systems. But I still have debian Ubuntu or Fedora running on certain systems for specific tasks. They aren't always the most up-to-date. But they are some of the more stable and secure. And when you're serving that's typically what you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

My first Linux install, about 25 years ago, didn't come with a working XFree as well. Talk about getting dropped into the deep end. Things are so much easier these days. Thankfully.