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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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[–] squid64@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I use GNU Guix System and I really like how it works. Is it the best? There is no best really but to me those distros with 100% free software are the best. Like Trisquel, Parabola and GNU Guix System

[–] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I switched from pop os to Fedora a while back. I did like pop, but it gave me problems regularly and I think it just needs to cook for a few more years probably. Fedora fixed every issue I was having 👍

Seeing all the arch praise here is definitely giving me distro fomo though. Lol

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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.

[–] 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

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yast, actual stability.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] kittenroar@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks 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

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

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

[–] StarMerchant938@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not very exciting or interesting but I prefer xubuntu. All the things I need from mainline Ubuntu, none of the things I don't.

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

Windows, plays fallout 4 out the box.

[–] rfr_Foglia@feddit.it 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Even Linux plays Fallout 4 out the box? Am I being ragebaited?

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, but also I had to run through proton off steam and the modding process is less streamlined. I unironically have had a less complicated time running windows and dealing with its "special" features than running Linux and having a custom setup for every other game.

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