What is your preferred daily driver distribution?

Frederic , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I’m old too :-/

• CP/M
• DOS
• Windows3, 95, 98
• BeOS
• some Debian and Mandrake
• Windows XP
• Ubuntu (a long time)
• Mint/Cinnamon (I hated it, it was quick, maybe a year)
• MX/Xfce (since ~2016)

I may try Arch on a old laptop just to play with it.----

theshatterstone54 , 10 months ago

I hated it, it was quick, maybe a year.

I think we have a very different definition of quick, my friend. I’ve been on Linux for about a year and a half, most of which on Arch and recently on NixOS.

LeFantome , 10 months ago

CP/M. Ya got me there. I guess I can say EOS though ( Coleco ADAM ) and Tandy DOS 2.1.

If you don’t want to jump straight into Arch, give EndeavourOS a go. It is only 20 packages on top of the 90,000 you get in Arch ( so, it is Arch ) but it is a breeze to install and is sensibly configured out of the box. Once installed, it is Arch ( don’t let the elitists tell you it isn’t ). It uses the real Arch repos and runs the real Arch kernels. Of course, if you have the time, vanilla Arch may be even more fun.

Efwis , 10 months ago

EndeavourOS with KDE

Same systems as vanilla arch for packaging such as pacman and AUR

Archwiki instruction work without modification

Great forum community without the incessant RTFM