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What is your go-to Linux distro and why? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by pluja to c/[email protected]

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I'd like to settle on a distro, but none of them seem to click for me. I want stability more than anything, but I also value having the latest updates (I know, kind of incompatible).

I have tested Pop!_Os, Arch Linux, Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu. Arch and Pop being the two that I enjoyed the most and seemed the most stable all along... I am somewhat interested in testing NixOS although the learning curve seems a bit steep and it's holding me back a bit.

What are you using as your daily drive? Would you recommend it to another user? Why? Why not?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If you're looking for stable and up to date, give openSUSE Tumbleweed a shot.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Also openSUSE project provide OBS, which is replacement of Aur on Arch.

[–] pfaca 7 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

I changed GPU recently and felt like doing a fresh install and tried openSUSE Tumbleweed (was using EndeavourOS before). Very stable and fast.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

second that. after arch, manjaro, debian and ubuntu i landed there as my daily desktop driver.

for servers, i still stick with debian, but might also go for an immutable rolling release distro next

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. Rolling distro with stability is very rare in the linux world. Opensuse TW is rock solid with updated software. I stopped distro hopping because of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm actually in the middle of deciding on a new distro, I'm trying to get away from Ubuntu/snap, but Debian 12 with LxQt or Xfce isn't playing nice with my laptop. I just finished writing out Mint and Tumbleweed flash drives, gonna give them both a shot, but I've never really used openSUSE before.

Any tips? Particular things you like about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly, what I like about it started with the mascot. Otherwise, I like the fact that the rolling release has automatic testing to make sure it's mostly reliable. Many people will also tell you how amazing YaST, their "control panel", is. There's definitely some stuff to get used to, like patterns and zypper. But, for a set and forget system, it's hard to beat IMO.