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

submitted 7 months 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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[–] WalrusByte 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gentoo. Been using it for over 3 years now, and I haven't found a reason to leave yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What systems do you use? I mean boot, init, home and all of that...

[–] WalrusByte 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just use the defaults for everything, haha! Just grub2 for the bootloader, openrc for the init system.

By "home" do you mean DE/WM? If so, I use dwm for my laptop and sway for my desktop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I meant alternatives to systemd-homed, systemd-machined and the likes. Since I'm on NixOS, I'm restricted to most of the systemd stuff. I'm not even sure if I need all of them.

[–] WalrusByte 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't even know what that stuff is, so I guess my answer is that I just don't use it 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Now I'm being dragged into the anti-systemd ideology. I have a bunch of CLI utility that I have never ever touched since the three years I've been on Linux. I just came across homectl, machinectl and timedatectl, and I'm convinced that the part about "bloat" does make a lot of sense now.

[–] WalrusByte 2 points 7 months ago

I don't really care either way. I like things to be more minimal, but I'm not really anti-systemd or anything like that. I've just been using openrc for a few years now, and haven't used systemd enough to learn about the homed stuff I guess