Gentoo, running pure Wayland and Pipewire, no X11.
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I've been using Mint Cinnamon for a while now. It runs beautifully with fewer firmware issues than Ubuntu on my XPS. Even though it shipped with Ubuntu.
Acura MDX
I'm a Mint Cinnamon guy.
Fedora but I’m not loving it. Due to my hardware I think I’m limited to that, arch and openSuse.
? If you're hardware runs Fedora, it should run anything
- Laptop: Opensuse slowroll with Sway
- Home PC: Arch with KDE
- Home server: Debian 12 (headless)
I recently switched my laptop to Garuda, it's an Arch based gaming distro. It seems to mostly work right out of the box, but I did have to tweak a few steam games to force them to use my dedicated graphics.
I guess I could go in and force steam itself to use the graphics card via env... But I only have a handful of large games at the moment. It's just as easy to set the requirement per game right now.
I usw Garuda with KDE and like it lot, even though I do not game.
Arch + gnome but it doesn't matter at this point
Nobara because I am a beginner that uses his PC primaryly for gaming
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.
cachyos
Mint on my desktop, decided to try out Tumbleweed on a cheap laptop. KDE wasn't for me / wasn't reliable enough, but I'm happy with Gnome. I haven't needed to use Flatpacks though.
Might try MicroOS on the servers, I like the idea of an immutable distro so less can go wrong during updates, and I run all services as containers anyway.
Threads like this are exactly what keeps a good few of us from ever getting started. Lol. Good fun to read through though. One day I'll pick a distro and give it a whirl. Till then, thanks for the entertainment.
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nixos + xmonad + xfce-no-desktop here. Its not for noobs perhaps but so stable and confidence inspiring.
Ubuntu. It's working and I don't have the time to try out other distros.
Wanted to try Ubuntu after using mainly Manjaro but I have only 4gb flash drive and the iso is like 5-6gb so I can't install it. But so far I'm satisfied with Manjaro Xfce and prefer it to gnu
That’s the universe telling you to put an 8GB flash drive on your holiday wish list.
is it that big because of the snaps? It used to be (well after it breached to 700M CD limit) ~1.5G and AFAIK doesn't include a lot more default software?
I daily Windows 11... though I use Ubuntu for servers and Mint for my linux desktops (older hardware that doesn't W11).
Mint for my daily driver, PopOS for my gaming machine. Happy with both.
Another one for the endevour os team. Not looking to distro hop anytime soon.
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.
Linux Mint with a secondary partition running EndeavourOS
Qubes OS
I dual boot Qubes and Linux Mint (kinda two ends of a spectrum, I know).