What distro do you use and why?

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Arch, Debian, Ubuntu and its derivatives, Manjaro, a bit of NixOS, Tails. I don’t need to explain “Why?” since I don’t use em for personal preference, but more like “when I’m forced to.”.

SayJess , 9 months ago

Xubuntu Minimal for me. I use my MBP for the most part, but like the idea of turning a Chromebook with soldered memory and storage into something useable for programming. The 16GB of storage on the model I bought makes it difficult to find a Debian based distro that leaves more than 1GB free. Xubuntu has been the best on that front at 4GB free. That and out of the box touchscreen support. I like the idea of being able to say that the setup I use for programming in my spare time is a $37 ThinkPad Chromebook with Xubuntu on it.

frostprophet , 9 months ago

Mint with GNOME

It just works and I like the look of it, never really like cinnamon for some reason

FinalBoy1975 , 9 months ago

Arch because it’s rolling release and customizable. I was using Nobara until a couple of weeks ago and switched to Arch because Nobara is basically a tweaked Fedora. The switch had nothing to do with the RedHat thing. It had to do with Fedora’s phasing out of X. I don’t need X for very much, just actually one little game that doesn’t work on Wayland (yet). I think I’m sticking with Arch forever now that I’ve realized how nice it is to not have to upgrade from whatever version number to the next. Gamers who don’t want a lot of hassle and like out-of-the-box functionality should consider Nobara, though. I love it as much as I am enjoying Arch.

callmepk , 9 months ago

Used Fedora because it has some pretty nice out of box CJK support that I don’t have to configure much to use CJK input

user224 , 9 months ago

Manjaro. I used Linux Mint, and I still have it installed, but Plasma desktop and AUR dragged me over to Manjaro. I wish Mint still supported Plasma.

nieceandtows , 9 months ago

Just installed LMDE on a spare laptop. I’ve always wanted to try Debian and/or LMDE. Thought I’d finally see what it’s about (I use arch btw and nobara on my gaming desktop).

myersguy , 9 months ago

Arch, Fedora, and Debian. Think I’m going to start phasing out Fedora though.

SquishyPandaDev , 9 months ago

Gentoo because it’s systemd free-ish. Also because it has good support for musl and clang.

eumesmo , 9 months ago

Using fedora because back then, they were the only ones to support my hardware. Have been usinc it until today, by inertia. It’s a nice distro for everyday use though.

atk007 , 9 months ago

I have to use Redhat/Fedora at work, so hate to use them in any personal capacity, hence I mostly use debian or ubuntu based distros (mint, popos, neon etc.). Mostly cuz I have worked with them for so long and they simply work. However, might move to Manjaro/Endeavouros, cuz found GPU passthrough to be more efficient there.

sw2de3fr4gt , 9 months ago

I was using elementaryos because it looked nice and had a debian base for stability but I don’t like the direction it is going so I am looking for something that is a little out of my comfort zone but not as crazy as arch. Bonus points if it supports KDE.

laverabe OP , 8 months ago

I just switched to Debian after having enough of Canonical. There is hardly any UI difference, if anything Debian actually works better in every regard for me.

You can select any DE to use during the install process. Gnome, kde, xfce, etc

Moobythegoldensock , 9 months ago

Xubuntu because I like a non-frills desktop that just works and don’t mind snaps.

Discover5164 , 9 months ago

manjaro kde with bismuth tiling

Eyeljay , 9 months ago

@laverabe For years I used Ubuntu on both my laptop and desktop computers. Switched to EndeavorOS on the laptop, but it would not install on desktop. I installed Mint on the desktop, but it felt like Ubuntu.

Now I am running MX on both