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I made the unfortunate post about asking why people liked Arch so much (RIP my inbox I'm learning a lot from the comments) But, what is the best distro for each reason?

RIP my inbox again. I appreciate this knowledge a lot. Thank you everyone for responding. You all make this such a great community.

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

LMDE because I get the robustness of Debian stable and the quality of life goodies of Mint.

[–] kittenroar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Ubuntu because they provide kernel live patching and they fix issues quickly and my system doesn't go down if I procrastinate in doing system updates

[–] WellTheresYourCobbler@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I use fedora silverblue for a couple reasons. After jumping from elementary to Ubuntu to Manjaro to Artix I got tired of dealing with distro specific modifications and weird issues. With the Ubuntu based distro I never enjoyed how out of date some packages were. I’d hear about a cool new update for a program I use and realize it would be a while till that would be in my repos.

I really liked artix and Arch’s rolling release nature and I would probably enjoy arch if I still used my computer daily like I used to but now I can be away from it for a couple months at a time and I need updates to be stable.

I’ve found Fedora (silverblue in particular) to be a perfect middle ground between rolling release and having a more regular update schedule. I use silverblue because I never wanted to have to worry about an update breaking my install ever again.

I will admit that because silverblue uses flatpaks almost exclusively, my appreciation for software being up to date could be achieved on almost any other distro, but the vanilla style of fedora is what keeps me now. I’m a big fan of vanilla gnome and not too many distros ship it like that.

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[–] the_wiz@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Devuan + Trinity Desktop

Moved over there since Debian switched to Sytemd. It is boring, dusty... but it works and stays out of my way.

[–] Prismaarchives@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Arch, because I get to say that I use Arch. /s

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ubuntu is the best because I can copy and paste commands from programming tutorials.

[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

the mouse is cute

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Arch btw, only been using it for a couple of weeks, only installed it because of the meme. Got my hands on a few years old thinkpad for practically free, so why not. It's actually quite good so far, been struggling a bit with external monitors, but I don't miss windows

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Windows, plays fallout 4 out the box.

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