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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nope, it's better then anything else here hands down.

Double checks for Hannah Montana Linux... Nope not listed... Yep it's the best here

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Gentoo. I say this as someone who used to daily drive it.

And arch too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Arch in general. As well as Manjaro (the most unreliable distro ever)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Completely agree on Linux Mint, even though it's still one of my favorite distributions and the one I'm using usually. I'm comfortable with the base Ubuntu system but it comes without all the Canonical garbage (like Snap trying to quietly install itself back when I install an APT package).

Still too much bloatware though, and to my knowledge there is no modern, well documented APT based distro with a community active enough that I can fix my issues reasonnably fast.

I guess I will have to make the jump to Arch. Currently happy with my Regolith install now though, so I'm a bit lazy to explore other options.

[–] LeFantome 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A nice introduction to Arch might be EndeavourOS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Currently my answer is ubuntu. I tried to use lubuntu recently but just so much wasn't working out of the box like nm-applet wasn't running on startup. The apt package manager is really tedious to use too.

This could also be boiled down to my general incompetence when it comes to Ubuntu based systems though :p

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm using ZorinOS with Windows 11 Pro. It's good enough for everything I do.

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

All the distros that let you install packages from other distros. What's the point?

[–] LeFantome 3 points 1 year ago

How many distros is that? Just VanillaOS and Blend? Or anything that hosts Distrobox?

I have been wanting to try Debian Stable with Distrobox / Arch. Stable base with the largest and most up to date package repository sounds like a match made in heaven.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=UQoLANsQu6Y

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Everything other than Debian :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've never used Mint so wouldn't want to comment but it does seem to get a lot of praise and I can't see why.

EndeavorOS would be my vote. Arch with a GUI installer and horrible theme.

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