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kilkil , (edited )

My journey roughly went like:

  1. Mint + Cinnamon
  2. Mint + i3
  3. MX Linux + i3
  4. Debian + i3

Right now I’m using Debian + i3. It’s pretty lit

My main reason is that Debian is a very stable, very popular distro, that isn’t a fork of another distro. The fact that it’s stable means issues are more rare; the fact that it’s popular means when issues do pop up, there are much higher odds that I’ll find others who ran into them before; and the fact that it isn’t a fork means that I can just prefix “debian” to any search, rather than say having to contend with it being potentially a “debian” issue, or an “ubuntu” issue, or a “mint” issue. In fact, debian is popular enough that most of the time I could just prefix “linux” to a search, rather than “debian”.

While there are distros that market themselves on other merits, it seems to me that the main goal of an operating system is to be a stable foundation. I wanted to pick something that would let me have a good time with i3; Debian seems one of the most straightforward choices. I considered arch, but in the end Debian seems like the lower-effort option.

trclst ,
@trclst@lemmy.ml avatar

agree. you mention debian and arch. I have also tried both of them. the problem with arch (rolling distribution) is that you are forever updating and you never know what exactly has changed in the system and you have to look. You can still have so much experience and solve problems, but they always cost time. all this from a daily user perspective is crap.

from a security point of view, new software can contain security loopholes just like old software. i’d rather have a stable base where i can easily keep an eye on changes than daily updates.

pgetsos ,
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I have been running OpenSUSE Leap on my home server for 3 years, and I moved from Fedora after many years to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on both my work and home (gaming) PC. I am super happy!

Diplomjodler ,

Mint. It just works.

JustineSmithies ,
@JustineSmithies@lemmy.world avatar

Void Linux user here with Qtile - Wayland as my WM.

Krause ,
@Krause@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Fedora Workstation

LeFantome ,

I was going to say Arch but I typically install EndeveavourOS these days ( lazy man’s Arch ).

MJBrune ,

What are your feelings about EndeveaourOS vs Arch vs Manjaro vs Garuda?

LeFantome ,

Sorry I did not see this sooner. EndeavourOS is my favourite by far. I loved Manjaro when I used it and thought detractors were exaggerating its problems. Then I had a string of problems all clearly linked to poor management and now I strongly recommend that nobody use Manjaro ever. Once I started to use EndeavourOS, I realized that Manjaro incompatibility with the AUR was causing me constant problems without me realizing it. I was attracted to Garuda and did use it for about a week. It was not for me in the end but that could just be preference.

The thing about EndeavourOS is that, once installed, it is essentially just Arch. There only only just over a dozen EndeavourOS packages on top of the 80,000 or so vanilla Arch ones. So, EndeavourOS is basically just easy to install with decent defaults. Manjaro has its own repos and they are incompatible with the AUR ( trust me ). Garuda departs from Arch a lot more. That could be good or bad depending on your preferences.

MJBrune ,

One thing that drives me away from Endeavour is that it bills itself as terminal centric and I am trying to go away from terminal hell that most Linux installs get to. Just in OpenSuse, I was having to dive in and debug xone when I just wanted to start playing rocket league. I used Linux as a daily driver from 2008 to 2012 and eventually bounced back to Windows due to wanting to play games. Every year I check back in with distros people recommend and I just don’t have the care to maintain a Linux install. I don’t need to maintain a Windows install, windows literally does it for me and very successfully in my experience.

LeFantome ,

They do bill themselves as terminal centric but honestly I do not get that.

The whole point of the distro relative to Arch is the graphical installer. It sets you up into a nicely configured desktop by default. There are graphical tools for configuring most things.

I think the main reason they say that is that there is no graphical package manager by default. So, even to install one, you need to use the command line at least once. They pre-install yay though so yay -S pamac-gtk or yay -S octopi will solve that problem ( I do not like pamac myself though ).

It is basically just Arch once installed though so I guess it has fewer tools built in than many distros.

Anyway, I don’t own EndeavourOS stock. No big deal if you prefer something else.

MJBrune ,

No worries, thanks for your input. I’ll certainly put Endeavour on the list to check out.

ProtonBadger ,

Everyone immediately want you to use their distribution of choice. However no-one can really answer this unless you include more information about yourself and your Linux experience, objectives, what kind of tinkering you're comfortable with, what you expectations are, etc.

Hexadecimalkink ,

The best answer IMO is always Linux Mint when people ask these kind of questions.

thax ,

Void. I like xbps, and I prefer distros that make as few assumptions as possible.

barusu ,

I’m considering to switch from Fedora to Debian stable with Flatpaks for the available apps (more up-to-date and more isolated).

But I’m also considering NixOS atm

The_Zen_Cow_Says_Mu ,

that arrangement on debian has worked well for me.

Max_P ,
@Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me avatar

10 years of Arch and counting.

Defaced ,

EndeavourOS, it just works really well and never breaks. The only time I had an issue was when I was using the Zen kernel and it locked up installing league of legends and watching a YouTube video at the same time. Using the mainline kernel though gives me no issues.

DARbarian ,
@DARbarian@artemis.camp avatar

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for now, with Garuda for gaming. Still working up the courage to combine all the best features of both into my first Arch install.

s20 ,

I’m the wrong one to ask because every time I try something else, I end up returning to Fedora.

But what you switch to depends on why you want to switch:

  • Want to learn more about how Linux works? Install Arch the Arch Way, or try out Void.
  • Want a different DE? Well, you’ve got Fedora Spins if that’s your main goal, but KDE Neon lets you try out the latest stable KDE stuff, which is fun!
  • Looking for a rolling distro but don’t want the extra complexity of Arch’s minimalist philosophy? OpenSuse Tumbleweed is fantastic.
  • Do you really want to dig deep and have total control of your system? Look into Gentoo or Linux From Scratch.

I’ve done most of these and more, and I’m happy to recommend something more specific, but I can’t without knowing what you’re looking for.

If you don’t know what you’re looking for, and just want to do something different, then do what I do when the distrohopping bug strikes: check out several distros’ websites, pick a couple that appeal to you, then research those a little deeper, maybe rum them on a virtual machine for a bit. If you find one you like, back up your critical data and go for it!

DarkUFO ,
@DarkUFO@lemmy.world avatar

I’m the same, tried lots of distros but always end up back with Fedora. Running it now on my 3 desktops and 2 Laptops.

s20 ,

I’m currently trying out Garuda on my gaming Desktop, and a already kind of want to ho back to my safe space after two weeks. Don’t get me wrong, I totally see why folks like it, but it’s not for me.

sharkfucker420 ,

What’s void?

atomkarinca ,

here

Fubarberry ,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

EndeavourOS is good, I was frequently using arch wiki on other distros so it’s handy to have it actually apply accurately to my distro. AUR is super handy as well.

I could use regular Arch, but I appreciate the simplified installation.

mortrek ,

Also easy to install with auto btrfs snapshots so that updates can never really break anything.

Fubarberry ,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

I use btrfs actually as well, but mainly just for compression/deduplication. I’ve been meaning to get snapshots set up but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

mortrek ,

You really should. It can save your butt, and it’s only a few shell commands.

mark ,

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

jack ,

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

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