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What are people daily driving these days? (lemmy.world)

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I'm between distros and looking for a new daily driver for my laptop. What are people daily driving these days? Are there any new cool things to try?

I have been using linux mint recently. I have used nixos and arch in the past. Personally, linux mint uses flatpacks too much for my liking. Although, I might have a warped perspective after using arch. (the aur is crazy big)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Debian testing. Seriously. That is reasonably easy to install and configure unlike Arch or Gentoo, but doesn't come with "user friendly" corporate crap like Ubuntu and its derivatives.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Despite the memes, Arch isn't that hard to install nowadays. The Wiki is stellar and archinstall is a thing (as well as EndeavourOS).

But Debian testing is a fine choice as well, of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried arch once and Netflix and my printer didn't work. Doesn't it use some alternative c library or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. Both CUPS and Netflix work perfectly fine for me on Arch.

You're probably confusing it with Alpine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I used Debian testing on my production servers for a long time. They say not to use it in production, but even as a "testing" release it's still more stable than some other distros.

I use Debian stable on all my servers now, though (except for my home server which runs Unraid). I don't have time to keep a rolling build up-to-date like I used to.