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Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them

So we can clearly see the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them, please follow this format:

  • Write the name of the Linux distro as a first-level comment.
  • Reply to that comment with each reason you like the distro as a separate answer.

For example:

  • Distro (first-level comment)
    • Reason (one answer)
    • Other reason (a different answer)

Please avoid duplicating options. This will help us better understand the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them.

Lotsen ,
@Lotsen@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Nobara

  • easy to use
  • fast on my hardware
  • fedora based
  • KDE
InternetPirate OP ,

dupe

agent_flounder ,
@agent_flounder@lemmy.one avatar

Also, gaming works out of the box on my hardware (my gfx card wasn’t fully supported by 5.x kernel)

Lotsen ,
@Lotsen@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Another reason to use :)

mrdelmo ,

I’ve been a Mint faithful for a few years now

gobbling871 ,

Arch (BTW)

gobbling871 ,

I’m currently happy with it

gobbling871 ,

So many powerful tools that are not easy to find on other distros.

gobbling871 ,

Basically, have fine tuned my setup so much that it’s almost impossible to think of another distro.

InternetPirate OP ,

dupe

DigitalPortkey ,

And with archinstall I’d argue it’s about as easy to install as most “normal” distros these days.

ReakDuck ,

I’d also agree… but everytime I tried to use archinstall, it always failed, felt impossible for me to install arch

shapis ,
@shapis@lemmy.ml avatar

Arch.

I don’t love it, like at all. But it’s the least buggy and easiest to use one I’ve tried.

I really wish there was a simple plug and play, everything just works and doesnt break on updates distro.

Lamy ,

Garuda

Lamy ,

Debian

tuto193 ,

Pop!_OS

DarthVi ,

I agree, it’s great!

  • image with baked in nvidia drivers which work out of the box without too much fuss
  • if you encounter problems, you can refer to the system76 website or use a solution provided by the community, since it’s based on Ubuntu
  • installation with full disk encryption enabled by default
  • right now it uses a slightly customized version of GNOME as DE (with “normal”/traditional windows and optionally a tiling wm), but system76 is working on a Rust-based DE, named Cosmic DE
zybir ,

I’ve been using Pop for about 2 years. I have yet to run into an issue that I couldn’t fix. It’s the first distro that made ditching windows easy.

los_chill ,

I feel the same coming from Mac. Things seem to just work. I’m not a Linux wiz so minimal headaches while learning to tinker make it perfect for me.

fugepe ,

OpenSuse, Fedora second.

athlon ,

Mint. Easy to setup, fast to run, and very reliable.

hobbsc ,

Mint

Generally works in cases where Ubuntu would and you don’t have to deal with Canonical’s choices.

athlon ,

Yeah, but I rarely if ever leave those constraints, so it does not matter to me at all. Day to day, I use macOS anyway, and Mint only comes on my desktop PC.

vikingtons ,
@vikingtons@lemmy.world avatar

Fedora

I want to preface this by saying that Red Hat absolutely deserve your ire in light of the recent news.

I appreciate that Fedora has relatively recent packages for a fixed release distribution. I really appreciate how they’ve pioneered in desktop-oriented technologies to help make Linux a more palatable experience for regular users, and I’m glad to see these gradually be adopted by others over time.

I’m happy to hear that the Fedora project still mostly operates Independently under redhat / IBM, but I’d be lying if I said the IBM acquisition didn’t worry me to the point of looking into alternatives.

starryoccultist ,
@starryoccultist@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Agreed. I’ve been using Fedora Silverblue for about a year. I love the immutable OS paradigm but IBM/Red Hat’s recent actions have left me feeling uneasy and I want to find an alternative.

vikingtons ,
@vikingtons@lemmy.world avatar

Silverblue is cool. I’ve been playing around with it on a portable NVMe drive. Planning on making the switch soon.

artkub , (edited )

I’ve also been using silverblue for about a year, it works well. Didn’t know about IBM acquiring Rad Hat, sad news.

For a similar experience there is Vanilla OS that I tried briefly and that seams to have similar immutability features and hastle free setup with a vanilla gnome desktop. It’s based on Ubuntu.

There is also NixOS which takes the immutability to another level. The entire system with all packages are configured in a config file. Which is nice if you want to have an identical setup on multiple machines but makes it a bit less user friendly imo.

GustavoM ,
@GustavoM@lemmy.world avatar

Arch linux (btw). Because it’s easy to install and has the most accessible package manager of em all.

…

…before you shoot rocks at me and try to burn me alive… download an arch iso, run it, and then type “archinstall”. Thank me later.

“Oh, but its still veeeeeery hard to inst-”

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e1207b59-0960-4780-910c-85736cbfc883.mp4

TimeSquirrel ,
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

KDE Neon

TimeSquirrel ,
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

Based on Ubuntu, is KDE's "flagship" OS (so I trust they know what they're doing with their own DE), and is the first to get bleeding edge KDE updates. Everything else is pretty much standard Ubuntu.

Teon ,
@Teon@kbin.social avatar

Kubuntu LTS

feacesfea ,
@feacesfea@kbin.social avatar

Universal Blue / ublue-os

feacesfea ,
@feacesfea@kbin.social avatar

Based on Fedora

  • Fedora uses the latest technology and is quick to adapt new features such as PipeWire, BTRFS, Wayland and etc, yet remains very stable.
  • Free and Open Source
  • Created by the Community
  • Sponsored by Red Hat.
  • Strong security and follows good practices
fugepe ,

why your comments are all over the place

feacesfea ,
@feacesfea@kbin.social avatar

Cloud-native approach

  • Reliable, atomic updates with built in rollback
  • Known-good state and fewer failures
  • Significantly reduced configuration drift
  • No compiling or building Nvidia drivers on the local client, they come premade on the image
feacesfea ,
@feacesfea@kbin.social avatar

Clean separation

  • The base system is separated from applications and user data
  • Integration of Flatpak applications via Flathub
  • Toolbox and Distrobox support, run applications from any distribution in a containerized environment
feacesfea ,
@feacesfea@kbin.social avatar

Built-in container tools for developers

  • Consume packages and software from any repo without risking breakage on the client
  • Easy consumption of other OCI images, if it's on the CNCF Landscape it's a first class citizen thanks to Podman!
feacesfea ,
@feacesfea@kbin.social avatar

Nvidia support

  • Multiple Nvidia driver streams (525xx, 520xx, and 470xx)
  • CUDA support
  • Container runtime support
  • Secure boot
  • Hardware-accelerated video playback
  • Selinux support
  • Multiple Fedora flavors and releases
  • Post-install setup with just
  • Multi-GPU support with supergfxctl (optional Gnome Shell extension)
Headbangerd17 ,

Fedora

  • it’s up to date
  • little to no bloat
  • stock gnome shell
  • uses latest technologies
  • just works
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