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

I've been migrating everything to Universal Blue.

I think the biggest trip-up for people new to immutable distros is they assume every program has to be flatpak. I have fleek and distrobox set up to install any nix or aur package. I use a different image depending on my use case - IE my gaming/workstation desktop is running a Bazzite image, laptop running Kinoite. I might re-image the laptop on an alpha Plasma 6 just to play around with it and report bugs.

Updates are automatic and in the background. It "just works" - nearly impossible to break your installation, you'll reliably boot into a working desktop every time, but at the same time have a fresh af kernel, mesa, and packages.