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So, title. Personally after trying out pretty much every major distro save gentoo, I’ve come back to Ubuntu because it just works and I can focus on my work. Did remove snap and install flatpak, but other than that it’s mostly stock ubuntu.

  • A Cat
    1•2 years ago

    Gentoo on my gaming rig/desktop, Arch on my Laptop (actually my old nvme from my desktop lol), and good ol’ Debian on everything else.

  • @[email protected]M
    0•2 years ago

    Arch Linux on Desktop, Endeavour on laptop (because there’s no way im installing arch on a laptop), and Raspbian for server.

  • Rayspekt
    0•2 years ago

    I’ve started using linux roughly a month ago and I am using Garuda. I’m amazed how easy everthing is. I expected there to be a lot more troubleshooting.

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 years ago

      Yeah for me too! I installed ubuntu and it just… worked. The only thing that was annoying was the touchpad scroll speed, which was a bit high (lightning speed), and couldn’t be changed in the settings, but I learned a lot more about linux after trouble shooting that. Now im using debian because it is S T A B L E.

  • Badabinski
    1•2 years ago

    Arch Linux, for many years now. No DE, lightdm for login, i3 for WM, no graphical file manager, Alacritty + zsh w/starship for my terminal emulator, shell, and prompt. I’m extremely comfortable with this setup and have no plans to change it (except for a probable move to sway, once I can finally get a system without an nvidia GPU).

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 years ago

    Y’all are gonna make me say it, I run Arch BTW. The AUR and wiki are compelling reasons, but the truth is I was interested in being forced to learn how things work on a lower level, and the more I understand the more control I have over how things are done.

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 years ago

    Slowly moving to nixos for everything but still have a few laptops on arch. For servers I’m on CentOS for work compat/similarity. And one Ubuntu server for Plex.

  • darcy
    1•2 years ago

    EndevourOS. A better just-works Arch based distro than Manjaro. I might switch to Arch

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 years ago

    I use Gentoo. We have what’s probably the most flexible and powerful package manager for Linux.

    Adding new packages is trivial; an ebuild script is created which describes how to build the package, along with a little metadata. This is placed into an ebuild repository - I like to contribute to the Gentoo one, but any folder structure will do (however git is by for the most common method). It’s not uncommon for a Gentoo user to package software outside the official repos. These will have all of the features (like configurability via USE flags) that ebuilds in the official repo have.

    These repositories, for convenience, may be registered with Gentoo and linked on https://repos.gentoo.org/ where the eselect repository tool can be used to add them by name from the index. http://gpo.zugaina.org/ indexes known ebuild repos and can help you to identify whether or not something has already been packaged.