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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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[–] phrogpilot73 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I use Pop!_OS on my desktop and laptop. Prior to that, I would distro-hop like it was my job. I bought a system76 laptop and figured, why not. So, I had Pop preloaded on it instead of Ubuntu. Here's the reason I ended up settling on Pop as my one-and-only distro.

Based off Ubuntu/Debian, which I am most familiar/comfortable with
No Snaps
Flatpak supported out of the box
Relatively rapid deployment of updated kernels (currently on 6.2.6), so no need to worry about hardware support
Tiling windows that are well implemented
Backed by a company, but one that shares the same values as me
Stable, even with semi-rolling release nature of it

The downsides are that their choice of colors are god-awful. I get it, it's their company's colors, but I don't think it looks really all that good on an operating system. I've gotten used to it, and don't care as much anymore.

[–] xohshoo 1 points 1 year ago

I've been on Pop for a couple of years now (?3), I just keep upgrading, and nothing breaks. It has all the applications I need, no snaps, I'm very familiar with ubuntu/debian systems, and it just keeps ticking along. Usually I'd distrohop when whatever I was using would crap out, but Pop just keeps trucking along

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