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I'm wondering what the current favorite distros are besides the most popular ones like Arch, Debian and Fedora.

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[–] kalpol 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

OpenSUSe. Tumbleweed as a rolling bistro is amazingly stable, yast is nice, and it all just works great. Leap for the servers, and things are solid.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I, too, get my coffee from the rolling bistro.

[–] kalpol 11 points 10 months ago

Loool I'll leave it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Same. Tumbleweed here. All the benefits of the rpm ecosystem but with less hassle and more updates

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

OpenSUSE for me too.

I also switched family & friends to Thimbleweed (since a bit too snappy Ubuntu) & it's been great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I should think so too. A Thimbleweed sounds an excellent plant for an Evil_Shrubbery.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

My evil plans have been discovered!!

Regardless the evil plant army must grow. Rolling thimbleweeds are usually our scouts and assassins (rarely kamikaze when on fire, looks cool tho).

What I'm saying is that you better be on the lookout, maybe hide if you see a thimbleweed with a gun or knife.