OpenSuse tumbleweed + kde plasma for a peace of mind 👍
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For laptops, I've been using EndeavourOS lately. All of the Arch goodness, but with an easy installer that handles the DE too. It's as close to "just works" as you can get while still having pacman + AUR at the end.
I still love raw Arch, but I leave that for server installs.
Same, EOS is awesome and cured my distro-hopping.
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I installed Linux and the feeling of freedom and privacy hit me so hard that I immediately began committing crimes, knowing that the FBI could never track me. Piracy, sexual assault, trademark infringement, petty larceny, tax fraud, you name it. I also own several fully automatic firearms even though I live in the state of California, but it doesn't matter. Ever since I removed Windows 10 from my computer and replaced it with Arch Linux, and began using a PinePhone as my daily driver phone, police can't even stop me in traffic. Windows may have a lot of video games, but the benefits of Linux should not be understated.
Username tells me this is a trap
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OpenSUSE TW for me. Used to be Arch but it's just too much faff for me.
Same, I've used Linux since the late nineties and know my way around but I have other things to do. TW with Plasma/Wayland is great.
NixOS user here! Fedora is a very good contender as well
+1 on NixOS. On all devices except Android phones since 2014 for me.
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Arch for many, many years. Absolutely zero reasons to switch. I used to distro hop alot back in the day but I don’t bother with that anymore. I need a system that works and Arch gives me exactly that.
Why distro hop from arch if you can make any distro out of it anyway lol I use arch btw
Fedora Silverblue. But when switching I had to wrap my head around the differences in the workflow of doing things. Once youre past that it's rock solid and had no issues so far.
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Debian with KDE works great for my needs.
Fedora Workstation. Couldn't be happier.
Same, it's a "it just works" distro.
A Chevy volt. Turns out gm figured out that a PHEV is a great idea 12 years ago
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I've been using EndeavourOS with KDE for a bit under 2 years now (I think) on both my desktop and laptop. It is Arch based and easy to install. And for my home servers I run Proxmox
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I use Arch BTW....
Joking aside I use Arch on my desktop, Raspbian on RPi1, Debian on homeserver and VMs.
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Manjaro kde on 3 computers in the ham shack, manjaro KDE on the media center, and guess what's on the two lap tops..you got it...manjaro KDE. Most have windows 10 dual boot on a separate drive. I haven't spent the time to figure out radio control and antenna switching on Linux so windows is still needed for radio contesting.
I have tried many and keep going back to manjaro, everything just works. The Arch wiki is awesome, and the aur has multiviewer to F1, ready to go.
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I like Debian with GNOME
i'm on manjaro kde, will switch soon to nixos if i understand how it all works :)
otherwise arch
Gentoo. Been using it for over 3 years now, and I haven't found a reason to leave yet.
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I’ve been running Fedora for years. I tried out Arch and OpenSUSE a bit this year just to see if I was missing anything, and went right back to Fedora afterward.
Not as fussy as Arch and better package availability than SUSE (for my needs at least). Also dnf is my favorite package manager despite being relatively slow.
PopOS on gaming PC Fedora Silverblue on daily PC Ubuntu Server LTS for small servers Ubuntu Desktop LTS for digital signage
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Nixos for me! But my dark secret is that I also have an Ubuntu partition those things that I can't get working.
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EndeavourOS on desktop and laptop side of things.
Arch with Wayland and Pipewire. Running SwayWM and have never been happier with my setup.
Artix (Basically Arch without Systemd)
Does artix only boot without systemd or is it completely systemd-less? If it is systemd-less, how do services like docker work with that?
Most services just need the init system to start, stop and monitor them. There's no special integration needed for each of them beyond running a command, monitoring the PID, and killing the PID when it's time to stop.
If you mean the special integration of docker and podman with systemd, first of all that's only required in rootless mode and not everybody runs rootless (most users probably run root docker). In rootless mode you have to manage each container individually as if it were a standalone service instead of just managing docker. Basically you have to integrate each container into the init system, whatever that is. There are some tools that make it easier to with podman+systemd because they write the systemd units for you but you can do it with any init system. The distro mostly doesn't care because you have to do the work not them.
Oh god so many notifications. My inbox is flooded. I only expected like 20 replies Lol
After years of Manjaro (and I still use it on most of my computers), I'm trying out Nobara KDE to see how it keeps up for gaming. It has a number of optimizations that Glorious Eggroll has compiled and seems pretty fast compared to Manjaro on the same hardware. I imagine I could do all the changes on Manjaro, but I also wanted to see how Fedora runs these days, it's been a long time since I used it on the daily.
So far, so good.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It's been great having a rolling release distro that I don't have to worry about breaking with updates
Endeavouros on Laptop and main PC. Loving it.
I’ve never tried NixOS, but it looks really promising.
I usually use Fedora or OpenSUSE, which have good software availability (unfortunately not as good as the AUR). Fedora provides selinux by default, and has profiles for basically everything. SUSE uses AppArmor, but Arch doesn’t provide convenient configuration for either, and only supports x86_64 (which is why I switched away from it).
I'm using Mint, but I've avoided using flatpaks (generally downloading DEB packages directly, or adding ppa sources). It's worked pretty well so far.
I do have a handful of AppImages, but they're a bit easier to work with.
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I've been using OpenSuse Slowroll basically since it released and so far am very happy with it.
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