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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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[–] blotz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Oh god so many notifications. My inbox is flooded. I only expected like 20 replies Lol

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[–] ar0177417@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Artix (Basically Arch without Systemd)

[–] blotz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] flubba86@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Nobara these days. It's based on Fedora 38.

[–] MrBubbles96@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Arch + XFCE on my desktop. Have been for a while now, and everytime i try something else, I always come back to it. For my laptop, I've been using Gnome + extensions (Arch as well. That way I don't gotta switch gears and remember two different sets of commands) before i had to take it in for repairs. Was pretty good because of the mousepad gestures IMO.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Install Gentoo

Never needed flatpack for last 5 years

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Debian testing. Seriously. That is reasonably easy to install and configure unlike Arch or Gentoo, but doesn't come with "user friendly" corporate crap like Ubuntu and its derivatives.

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[–] davemeech@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm about ready to hop back in and daily drive Linux again after the nightmare that was attempting debian w/KDE plasma and Wayland. I have a Nvidia GPU on my laptop and for some reason I did not have luck at all after moderate success daily driving opensuse tumbleweed and kubuntu for a while.

I'm admittedly looking to onboard myself to the gnome workflow and leave the comfort of the windows style desktop environment experience. Gnome seems a bit more polished and stable than KDE plasma but it's interface isn't intuitive to me yet.

Ideally I'll be using Debian or Arch when the time comes for me to dive back into desktop Linux.

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[–] derrg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Pop!_OS on my desktop and laptop since 2020.

[–] YourMomsTrashman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Debian for a while, now Mint (I'm a Cinnamon freak)

[–] shertson@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Laptop and Workstation run Fedora. Servers run Proxmox.

Can't say that there is anything new and exciting. Big change for me has been that I have accepted flatpacks. I've gotten to the point where I don't care about being a purist, don't care about customizing and theming everything. I just want to use my computer.

[–] cosmicrose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I was using Fedora for about a year and it was great. Nice and stable, almost everything worked out of the box. Then I goofed up an update and had to install something new, and I chose Arch. Arch is working mostly fine, of course I had to learn a thing or two about how some subsystems worked but the Arch wiki is a wonderful resource. We’ll see how long this install lasts, it’s been smooth sailing for about a month now.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Currently driving Fedora 39

[–] settinmoon@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I daily drive Fedora because RHEL is what my industry uses and it's good to stay on top of the technology.

[–] EntropyPure@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Pretty happy with Debian Testing. Frequent updates but still very stable and rock solid.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fedora immutable (ublue kinoite) has been so bulletproof. Moved from Arch, which is now on distrobox, so painless. Now ~ 1 year... 2 laptops + desktop, other is destined for NixOS...

[–] wolre@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I've been using OpenSuse Slowroll basically since it was released and have so far been very happy with it.

[–] Salix@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For my main computers, I've moved them all to Arch from Manjaro & EndeavorOS within the past 4 years. Though been meaning to try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed eventually. Haven't used OpenSUSE in over 10 years.

I have a laptop running Proxmox for my servers, which is debian-based but uses a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel. Great to use to try out other distros in VMs as well.

[–] 01011@monero.town 2 points 2 years ago
[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Fedora. I've been looking into fedora silverblue and vanilla os as well but I'm chilling with regular fedora for now

[–] Astaroth@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Arch Linux with i3wm

Fish, Alacritty, Rofi (dmenu replacement)

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Arch on my "desktop PC", Armbian on my rpi 4, Dietpi soon (tm) on my Orange pi zero 3.

[–] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

Debian Testing and Arch with KDE on the PC/Workstation.

Debian Stable on the server.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Gentoo desktop but I have to use it over SSH a lot of the time since I'm stuck on my work macbook

[–] noisypine@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago

NixOS and Debian. Probably just NixOS in the near future.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

void linux (glibc) + swayfx + waybar + foot terminal + nushell

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