What is your preferred daily driver distribution?

wolandark , 10 months ago

Artix

Lucia , 10 months ago

Void linux became my second nature. It’s design is great, runit and xbps are just awesome. Can’t recomend more. P.S. I also switched to Void from Fedora

secret301 , 10 months ago

I wanna move to nix but my monkey brain can’t understand it. Might just take the plunge anyways

halo5 , 10 months ago

Honestly, I just can’t get past the absolutely horrible logo. Right up there with TempleOS IMO…

Ashiette , 10 months ago

Tried it, did not understand it (and had no use for immutable packages). Went back to Arch, never looked back.

Zatujit , 10 months ago

Documentation is not enough good for me to care and I hate when there are multiple ways to do things, I still did not understand how I should install programs on NixOS

comicallycluttered , 10 months ago

For all the praise I give Debian, I still just run Kubuntu and call it a day.

It’s not that Debian’s particularly hard to install or set up (pretty quick and easy after you’ve done it enough times, though there is also the Live CD with Calamares for an easier install), and it’s honestly better than (*)Ubuntu in terms of official repos (at least Sid is), but I sometimes just find it simpler to install Kubuntu, unsnap it, remove apport, and get on with everything else.

Maybe I’ll go MX or something at some point and just enable systemd because I use it and out of the “anti-systemd” distros, it’s the most “hey, if you want to use systemd, no prob”.

Actually, for Debian, another good option is Spiral Linux. It’s basically just Debian, but with btrfs, snapshots, and zRAM all set up (from the same dude who does GeckoLinux, so very familiar with btrfs). Maybe once the new Bookworm-based ISO is up, I’ll switch over.

gunpachi , 10 months ago

I have used Gecko in the past. I really liked it. I’ll be checking out spiral linux now. Thanks

art , 10 months ago

I’ve been a long time Debian user. Debian 12 has been almost a perfect release so far. Highly recommended.

kabouterke , 10 months ago

So were Woody and Potato (memories…).

danielton , 10 months ago

Woody was my first Linux distro ever! My family only had one PC with dialup at the time, and you could buy the entire repo on CD-ROM. I actually keep the CD images around in case I want to play with a VM and feel nostalgic.

danielton , 10 months ago

I know the FSF wouldn’t approve, but I am glad that they include the firmware on the regular network install image now. I need it to connect to wi-fi.

I know they always offered one with the firmware, but you had to do some digging on cdimage.debian.org to find it.

Ashiette , 10 months ago

You know where to go, BTW

fernandu00 , 10 months ago

Switched from Ubuntu to fedora recently… I’m pretty happy with it and it’s package manager

mark , 10 months ago

Guix. I like Nix and Scheme so it just makes sense.

jack , 10 months ago

I wanted to like Guix very much, but eventually found it extremely inflexible. You will miss a lot of packages that are not trivial to create in Scheme yourself. Also a lot of packages have issues that no one wants to fix, or it takes half a year (e.g. being able to use NetworkManager for an eduroam/university wifi connection).

It’s also not possible to just compile a package yourself because the directory structure is totally different.

I don’t think Guix will ever become more flexible, I’ve given up on it

halo5 , 10 months ago

Modified Ubuntu, Snap-less…

radioactiveradio , 10 months ago

Kde neon, latest Plasma on a stable ubuntu.

Gush , 10 months ago

That’s the best combination ever known to humanity

frap129 , 10 months ago

Arch for the last 8ish years. I’m interested in switching to something immutable and with a declarative package manager, but every time I try something else I end up back on arch. It works and has all the packages I use ¯_(ツ)_/¯

fox , 10 months ago

Been using PopOS for the last 2 years (ish) with zero issues. It’s been a delight!

dallen , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Unpopular choice here but Ubuntu LTS with ubuntu-debullshit (vanilla gnome, replace snap with flatpak).

My main factors:

• stability of the LTS
• drivers and HW support
• tons of resources online
• already use Ubuntu for servers and Raspian on my Pi

I’ve had my fun distro hopping in the past but I just want a low maintenance system nowadays.

AProfessional , 10 months ago

Drivers are the weak spot of Ubuntu LTS, even with HWE the kernel and Mesa are outdated compared to Fedora.

Veraxus , 10 months ago

Ohhh, I'll have to check this out. I've been gradually moving away from Ubuntu toward Debian (w/ GNOME) for a while because Snap is hot garbage and I don't want to have anything to do with it. Were it not for Snap, I still really like Ubuntu.

IrritableOcelot , 10 months ago

How does this differ from Debian+GNOME? I’m not familiar enough with exactly what Canonical adds to Debian to know.

Nia , 10 months ago

I’m using Debian 12 stable and I do everything on it, even gaming. I use flatpaks to keep certain apps that benefit from being up to date, and I install backported kernel and mesa when they release for more performance (amd gpu).

I’ve been on and off with vanilla Debian for years while distrohopping, but I tried out Debian 11 testing and everything just worked for me, am still using that same install but I’m sticking to stable branch now.

Also, proprietary drivers are now officially supported by Debian as of Debian 12, and are available to install out of the box without needing to search for them or add the non-free repositories now, which was a pretty big roadblock for a lot of people.

harl3k1n , 10 months ago

blendOS because it gives you access to all the good stuff, including the AUR and even Android apps.

LeFantome , 10 months ago

I have been meaning to give a BlendOS a try. VanillaOS as well ( though I kind of want to wait until they rebase on Debian ).

Zoop , 10 months ago

Oooh, neat! I hadn’t heard of that. Thank you so much for sharing this! I look forward to trying it out. Exciting!!