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)
Linux Mint with a secondary partition running EndeavourOS
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.
Debian for a while, now Mint (I’m a Cinnamon freak)
Arch + gnome but it doesn’t matter at this point
After years of Manjaro (and I still use it on most of my computers), I’m trying out Nobara KDE to see how it keeps up for gaming. It has a number of optimizations that Glorious Eggroll has compiled and seems pretty fast compared to Manjaro on the same hardware. I imagine I could do all the changes on Manjaro, but I also wanted to see how Fedora runs these days, it’s been a long time since I used it on the daily.
So far, so good.
Q4OS, for five years
For my main computers, I’ve moved them all to Arch from Manjaro & EndeavorOS within the past 4 years. Though been meaning to try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed eventually. Haven’t used OpenSUSE in over 10 years.
I have a laptop running Proxmox for my servers, which is debian-based but uses a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel. Great to use to try out other distros in VMs as well.
EndeavourOS on desktop and laptop side of things.
Acura MDX
Arch Linux with i3wm
Fish, Alacritty, Rofi (dmenu replacement)
Desktop: Arch KDE Laptop: MX Linux KDE
Why is everyone saying “daily drive” all of a sudden?
Where is that a new thing? I’ve been using Linux since early 2010s and people were using that term back then (and it wasn’t a new term then either)
kubuntu
kde connect wasn’t working on endeavouros with sway and i wanted something easy and debian based
I’ve been using OpenSuse Slowroll basically since it was released and have so far been very happy with it.
I’ve been using OpenSuse Slowroll basically since it released and so far am very happy with it.
