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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] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fedora but I’m not loving it. Due to my hardware I think I’m limited to that, arch and openSuse.

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Fun fact, it took os2 5 years to implement a tcpip stack. It was like 1993 before it could do internet things

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

The answer's always Debian. I use guix for packages, though it doesn't have as much stuff on it as nix.

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

Linux Mint with a secondary partition running EndeavourOS

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

I daily Windows 11... though I use Ubuntu for servers and Mint for my linux desktops (older hardware that doesn't W11).

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

I recently switched my laptop to Garuda, it's an Arch based gaming distro. It seems to mostly work right out of the box, but I did have to tweak a few steam games to force them to use my dedicated graphics.

I guess I could go in and force steam itself to use the graphics card via env... But I only have a handful of large games at the moment. It's just as easy to set the requirement per game right now.

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

I usw Garuda with KDE and like it lot, even though I do not game.

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

Mint on my desktop, decided to try out Tumbleweed on a cheap laptop. KDE wasn't for me / wasn't reliable enough, but I'm happy with Gnome. I haven't needed to use Flatpacks though.

Might try MicroOS on the servers, I like the idea of an immutable distro so less can go wrong during updates, and I run all services as containers anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Threads like this are exactly what keeps a good few of us from ever getting started. Lol. Good fun to read through though. One day I'll pick a distro and give it a whirl. Till then, thanks for the entertainment.

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

nixos + xmonad + xfce-no-desktop here. Its not for noobs perhaps but so stable and confidence inspiring.

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

@blotz trying out kubantu for now just swapped from gnome manjaro.

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

Mint for my daily driver, PopOS for my gaming machine. Happy with both.

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

Another one for the endevour os team. Not looking to distro hop anytime soon.

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

I run Guix System on my personal laptop and Project Bluefin on my work machine.

Guix is even easier to get started with now thanks to the Guix Packager , a web UI for writing Guix package definitions.

Project Bluefin auto-updates thanks to its use of container images deliver system updates. It's also just a great platform to get started writing containerized apps, since it ships with rootless Podman by default and you can easily add new developer tools using just commands.

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

Neon is my daily driver. Planing on pop os after their new de

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I dual boot Qubes and Linux Mint (kinda two ends of a spectrum, I know).

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

Debian 12 Stable with GNOME

After having used Ubuntu LTS for 6 years, I find a little more peace with Debian. I do not like systems that break. Debian Stable is IMPOSSIBLY HARD to break, even more than Ubuntu LTS, which only broke once because of my stupidity of installing ProtonVPN client and using VPN killswitch through it. Switched to using OpenVPN/Wireguard config files.

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

Nobara on my gaming desktop, Fedora Kinoite on one laptop, Debian 12 on the other.

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

Fedora is what keep getting back to every time I get distro hopping fever. Either gnome or KDE It's wonderful!

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