@blotz trying out kubantu for now just swapped from gnome manjaro.
this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
88 points (88.6% liked)
Linux
48935 readers
2073 users here now
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
- No misinformation
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
Fedora but I’m not loving it. Due to my hardware I think I’m limited to that, arch and openSuse.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Manjaro KDE
Another one for the endevour os team. Not looking to distro hop anytime soon.
Mint for my daily driver, PopOS for my gaming machine. Happy with both.
I daily Windows 11... though I use Ubuntu for servers and Mint for my linux desktops (older hardware that doesn't W11).
nixos + xmonad + xfce-no-desktop here. Its not for noobs perhaps but so stable and confidence inspiring.
cachyos
I recently switched my laptop to Garuda, it's an Arch based gaming distro. It seems to mostly work right out of the box, but I did have to tweak a few steam games to force them to use my dedicated graphics.
I guess I could go in and force steam itself to use the graphics card via env... But I only have a handful of large games at the moment. It's just as easy to set the requirement per game right now.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Nobara on my gaming desktop, Fedora Kinoite on one laptop, Debian 12 on the other.
I'm rocking two dailys right now. Tumbleweed and Nixos. I jabe tumbleweed on my work laptop as well as one laptop at home. Rock solid go to that I trust for all the things. I started using nix on a number of other machines at home a few months back, and I'm really really enjoying it!!
Fedora is what keep getting back to every time I get distro hopping fever. Either gnome or KDE It's wonderful!
Threads like this are exactly what keeps a good few of us from ever getting started. Lol. Good fun to read through though. One day I'll pick a distro and give it a whirl. Till then, thanks for the entertainment.
load more comments
(11 replies)
The answer's always Debian. I use guix for packages, though it doesn't have as much stuff on it as nix.
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.