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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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[–] kylian0087 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Opensuse Tumbleweed. A rock solid rolling release.

[–] blotz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm surprised by how many people are rocking opensuse in this thread. What made you go with opensuse?

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

I would say the benefit of OpenSUSE is that everything is preconfigured to work right out of the box, including btrfs snapshotting with snapper. Once you boot it's time to download apps, and go. Very windows like for those who just want the system to work. Updates are one click.

[–] kylian0087 2 points 1 year ago

In my case not at all. But that is by choice. I always start from a server install. For me i like rolling as i do not get major version updates. And with tumbleweed it is very solid at the same time. Snapper and btrfs are also great aditions.

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

The only downside is that they don't support zfs properly, and the package selection is more limited. The community repos aren't always maintained.

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

Until the kernel updates to something unsupported and you find out that they don't keep old kernels in the rolling release. An amazing experience.

[–] kylian0087 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Never hat issues on my 10+ year old system. I did how ever with rocky linux 9.4. It is unsupported on my old dell r610s

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

I had it on two systems. Some peripherals stopped working after an update on one system and the attempt to downgrade it to the LTS (Leap?) failed miserably --> Ubuntu. On another one the graphics card stopped working and somehow forced it to the LTS with a custom kernel. That worked until trying to upgrade it by two minor releases (X.2 to X.4? Can't remember if it was 13.Y 14.Y or 15.Y). There were so many conflicts and messing around with the source lists (or whatever they're called)...

It was the most difficult system to update that I've ever had. YaST is great though. Best GUI for system configuration I've had so far.