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sharktongue ,

Vanilla ass Ubuntu. I spent 25 years finding the right distro, this is good enough. My first love was Mandrake.

art ,
@art@lemmy.world avatar

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

kabouterke ,

So were Woody and Potato (memories…).

danielton ,
@danielton@lemmy.world avatar

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 ,
@danielton@lemmy.world avatar

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.

rodbiren ,

I try so dang hard not to use Linux Mint because I have been using off and on since 2008 but always come crawling back to it when I run into some esoteric issue on another distro. It just hits the sweet spot of what I understand computing to be. I have desperately tried to use various forms of arch. OpenSUSE, fedora, debian, and a whole host of others and eventually get frustrated for some probably solvable reason and go back to my sweet, my love, my wart covered X11 using, 5.15 running, stale boring life mate Mint.

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.

potajito ,

Endeavour os with kde! Used to run manjaro and I think it’s a good stepping stone, so you know what you like and not, what to keep… For example, I didn’t know about oh my zhs and p10k, and if it wasn’t for manjaro I wouldn’t have know about that and owils be running the default bash console.

greyfrog ,

Used Arch for over 5 years. I don’t know if having a child changed me but I realised I’d lost a lot of time I had that I spent just fiddling with configs to get stufftpo my liking so went from Arch xmonad to PopOs and Gnome.

It has been stable and doesn’t have the snap bullshit that comes with Ubuntu.

wviana ,

You wouldn’t need too much config for arch and gnome.

Dranadia ,

Manjaro with KDE. I’ve only been running Linux for a month, and found Arch a bit intimidating, so to me Manjaro was the closest I dare fly to the sun. Really liking it so far.

LeFantome ,

I used to love Manjaro. It seems great when you use it. Word of warning though, it will break on you at some point. When it does, instead of abandoning Arch distros completely, consider giving EndeavourOS a shot.

Dranadia ,

Thanks for the tips, and the heads up. EndeavourOS was on my list when I tried to figure out what to go for, so I’ll definitely try that when Manjaro breaks.

sharkfucker420 ,

Arch btw

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.

jason123santa ,

I use Debian with kde and its been great. Went from debian 11 to debian 12 without reinstall and then use void and devuan on my other computers and arch mobile on pinephone.

jg1i ,

Arch, btw. With GNOME.

sharkfucker420 ,

Seconded

Markmus ,

Trisquel GNU+Linux on my Librebooted ThinkPad X200

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.

eleanor ,

I’ve been switching between Arch and Debian for the past 5ish years. I don’t really notice much of a difference, other than Arch has updates much more often than Debian Testing usually does. I like how meta-packages in Arch are more minimal than the ones in Debian, but that’s a very minor thing.

LeFantome ,

Arch updates much more often and to vastly newer versions. Not saying which is better but those two distros differ quite a lot in this respect.

Veraxus ,
@Veraxus@kbin.social avatar

Debian + GNOME.

Historically I've been a huge fan of Ubuntu, but I just can't tolerate Snap any more and started moving away from Ubuntu in general.

IRQBreaker ,

Debian + I3 when working and Debian + KDE when slacking off. 🙃

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