What are people daily driving these days?

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)

Discover5164,

i’m on manjaro kde, will switch soon to nixos if i understand how it all works :)

otherwise arch

kylian0087,

Opensuse Tumbleweed. A rock solid rolling release.

onlinepersona,

Until the kernel updates to something unsupported and you find out that they don’t keep old kernels in the rolling release. An amazing experience.

kylian0087, (edited )

Never hat issues on my 10+ year old system. I did how ever with rocky linux 9.4. It is unsupported on my old dell r610s

onlinepersona,

I had it on two systems. Some peripherals stopped working after an update on one system and the attempt to downgrade it to the LTS (Leap?) failed miserably --> Ubuntu. On another one the graphics card stopped working and somehow forced it to the LTS with a custom kernel. That worked until trying to upgrade it by two minor releases (X.2 to X.4? Can’t remember if it was 13.Y 14.Y or 15.Y). There were so many conflicts and messing around with the source lists (or whatever they’re called)…

It was the most difficult system to update that I’ve ever had. YaST is great though. Best GUI for system configuration I’ve had so far.

space,

The only downside is that they don’t support zfs properly, and the package selection is more limited. The community repos aren’t always maintained.

blotz,
@blotz@lemmy.world avatar

I’m surprised by how many people are rocking opensuse in this thread. What made you go with opensuse?

tron,

I would say the benefit of OpenSUSE is that everything is preconfigured to work right out of the box, including btrfs snapshotting with snapper. Once you boot it’s time to download apps, and go. Very windows like for those who just want the system to work. Updates are one click.

kylian0087,

In my case not at all. But that is by choice. I always start from a server install. For me i like rolling as i do not get major version updates. And with tumbleweed it is very solid at the same time. Snapper and btrfs are also great aditions.

TheGrandNagus,

Fedora Workstation. Couldn’t be happier.

isVeryLoud,

Same, it’s a “it just works” distro.

noisypine,

NixOS and Debian. Probably just NixOS in the near future.

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

Install Gentoo

https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2020/9/24/2451774.png

Never needed flatpack for last 5 years

onlinepersona,

Why not move to NixOS?

jcrabapple,
@jcrabapple@infosec.pub avatar

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

radioactiveradio, (edited )

Neon and Arch in a distrobox container. I’ve found the holy grail of Linux setups. Latest KDE and AUR on a stable ubuntu base.

Barbarian, (edited )
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When it comes to distros, I am a boring man with a boring POV: I just want the thing to work with as little fuss as possible. Consequently, I’m on Kubuntu. KDE is rock solid, and Ubuntu is what I’m used to.

If/when my OS ever breaks down hard enough to reinstall, I’ll probably install Fedora Workstation.

blotz,
@blotz@lemmy.world avatar

Oh god so many notifications. My inbox is flooded. I only expected like 20 replies Lol

KISSmyOS, (edited )

You asked a distro question on linux@lemmy.ml .
This is to be expected.

8Bitz0,

Not only that, you asked for their opinions.

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

The only way they would have gotten more replies is if they had posted “I’m thinking of switching to Ubuntu. What do you think?”

Pat,

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It's been great having a rolling release distro that I don't have to worry about breaking with updates

schnurrito,

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.

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

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.

pchem,

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.

ExLisper,

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

pchem,

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

You’re probably confusing it with Alpine.

ExLisper,

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m doing.

AutVincamAutPeriam,

I’ve been using Mint Cinnamon for a while now. It runs beautifully with fewer firmware issues than Ubuntu on my XPS. Even though it shipped with Ubuntu.

ultra,

After using NixOS, I don’t think I could go back to a regular distro. At the very least, maybe debian with the nix package manager

catguy,
@catguy@mastodon.social avatar

@ultra @blotz is it really that good

GenesisJones,

A Chevy volt. Turns out gm figured out that a PHEV is a great idea 12 years ago

caseyweederman,

What kinda rpms you getting on that

onlinepersona,
  1. It probably uses apks.
GenesisJones,

Not sure, just realized this is a computer post lol

If you want mpg it’s anywhere from 75 to 130mpg per tank of gas.

caseyweederman,

Haha, welcome. rpm was just the first vaguely-car-sounding Linux term I could think of.

GenesisJones,

What is rpms in Linux? I just lurk on /all so I see a ton of Linux stuff that I don’t understand haha

caseyweederman,

RedHat Package Manager. It’s also the file extension for their packages, so you’ll see stuff like firefox_nightly.rpm

Shihab,

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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