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What are people daily driving these days? (self.linux)

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

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I'm between distros and looking for a new daily driver for my laptop. What are people daily driving these days? Are there any new cool things to try?

I have been using linux mint recently. I have used nixos and arch in the past. Personally, linux mint uses flatpacks too much for my liking. Although, I might have a warped perspective after using arch. (the aur is crazy big)

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[–] mvirts 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nixos for me! But my dark secret is that I also have an Ubuntu partition those things that I can't get working.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Check out distrobox. It's a way to have a Ubuntu (or any other Linux distro) container and allows you to install Ubuntu packages, even desktop applications.

It works great for when you need to install a random .deb file or follow a very Ubuntu specific step by step procedure. I use it exactly for this kind of stuff.

No rebooting needed, integrates fully with the host system, no virtual machine either.