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)
Manjaro Gnome. It just works ;)
until your system randomly breaks in classic manjaro fashion
well, I has been already years using Manjaro and never happened to me.
Not that it can’t, but never happened to me and I hope it wont :)@0x2d @estebanlm I use Manjaro GNOME on all four of my laptops and my iMac. I have never had a random break on any of them.
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The worst crime here is using Arch.
Username tells me this is a trap
Currently driving Fedora 39
Nobara on my gaming desktop, Fedora Kinoite on one laptop, Debian 12 on the other.
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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.
I usw Garuda with KDE and like it lot, even though I do not game.
Pretty happy with Debian Testing. Frequent updates but still very stable and rock solid.
Debian with KDE works great for my needs.
For laptops, I’ve been using EndeavourOS lately. All of the Arch goodness, but with an easy installer that handles the DE too. It’s as close to “just works” as you can get while still having pacman + AUR at the end.
I still love raw Arch, but I leave that for server installs.
Same, EOS is awesome and cured my distro-hopping.
archinstall let’s you choose a DE too
Not saying anything bad about EndeavourOS, because it’s great, but:
All of the Arch goodness, but with an easy installer that handles the DE too.
Arch has a guided TUI installer included in it’s ISO that does this too.
It does, but it’s done me wrong a few times so I never recommend it. For all I know it’s fine these days, but old grudges are hard do shake.
Arch for many, many years. Absolutely zero reasons to switch. I used to distro hop alot back in the day but I don’t bother with that anymore. I need a system that works and Arch gives me exactly that.
Why distro hop from arch if you can make any distro out of it anyway lol I use arch btw
Neon is my daily driver. Planing on pop os after their new de
Nobara because I am a beginner that uses his PC primaryly for gaming
Zorin OS for now. Old kernel and stuff, but it’s stable, and I like the looks more than I did PopOS!. Maybe PopOS! is cooler now with their Cosmic thingy.
I was using Fedora for about a year and it was great. Nice and stable, almost everything worked out of the box. Then I goofed up an update and had to install something new, and I chose Arch. Arch is working mostly fine, of course I had to learn a thing or two about how some subsystems worked but the Arch wiki is a wonderful resource. We’ll see how long this install lasts, it’s been smooth sailing for about a month now.
Garuda on my gaming desktop, fedora bazzite on my gaming laptop. Loving both to be honest.
