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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

Had been on pop for a while. But lately gnome shell was using a ton of ram and performance was trash, so I moved to fedora with KDE. Been great so far.

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

Accidentally wipes out Mint last week, but have been meaning to try out Fedora 39 Plasma. So far, I love it. I have been really busy recently, but it has been a great system so far. My SteamDeck really made me fall in love with Plasma.

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

@blotz
Arch Linux with KDE

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

I run Guix System on my personal laptop and Project Bluefin on my work machine.

Guix is even easier to get started with now thanks to the Guix Packager , a web UI for writing Guix package definitions.

Project Bluefin auto-updates thanks to its use of container images deliver system updates. It's also just a great platform to get started writing containerized apps, since it ships with rootless Podman by default and you can easily add new developer tools using just commands.

[–] joel_feila 1 points 1 year ago

Neon is my daily driver. Planing on pop os after their new de

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

Linux Mint with a secondary partition running EndeavourOS

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

Mint, mint and mint (laptop, pc, server), just because I'm a lazy bum.

I mean everything is working so... (I'm not a *nix nerd so I just don't understand flatpak pacman etc.)

Cheers !

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

I dual boot Qubes and Linux Mint (kinda two ends of a spectrum, I know).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Neon and Arch in a distrobox container. I've found the holy grail of Linux setups. Latest KDE and AUR on a stable ubuntu base.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I will get hate from everyone over this, but I daily drive Manjaro because I can!

I know how to install Arch, I choose to use Manjaro.

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

Zorin OS for now. Old kernel and stuff, but it's stable, and I like the looks more than I did PopOS!. Maybe PopOS! is cooler now with their Cosmic thingy.

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