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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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[–] jcrabapple@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago

Nobara on my gaming desktop, Fedora Kinoite on one laptop, Debian 12 on the other.

[–] Shihab@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Fedora is what keep getting back to every time I get distro hopping fever. Either gnome or KDE It's wonderful!

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Debian with awesome at home. Fedora with cinnamon at work.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Damn... that looks like a lot of work. Did you write your own theme?

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 points 2 years ago

I've based my theme on sometimes I found but yes, I heavily adapted it. Theming is simple, awesome is flexible but not very pretty. It's more about usbility. Easily define rules for specific windows, powerful keybindings and so one. For example my config defects if I'm using external monitor or not and changes the widgets accordingly. It's just one if in the config. I don't think it's possible at all in gnome.

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[–] MXX53@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Had been on pop for a while. But lately gnome shell was using a ton of ram and performance was trash, so I moved to fedora with KDE. Been great so far.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

Garuda on my gaming desktop, fedora bazzite on my gaming laptop. Loving both to be honest.

[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 1 points 2 years ago

Manjaro KDE

[–] fxt_ryknow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm rocking two dailys right now. Tumbleweed and Nixos. I jabe tumbleweed on my work laptop as well as one laptop at home. Rock solid go to that I trust for all the things. I started using nix on a number of other machines at home a few months back, and I'm really really enjoying it!!

[–] dramaticcat@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I will get hate from everyone over this, but I daily drive Manjaro because I can!

I know how to install Arch, I choose to use Manjaro.

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[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

kubuntu

kde connect wasn't working on endeavouros with sway and i wanted something easy and debian based

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Neon and Arch in a distrobox container. I've found the holy grail of Linux setups. Latest KDE and AUR on a stable ubuntu base.

[–] NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

Zorin OS for now. Old kernel and stuff, but it's stable, and I like the looks more than I did PopOS!. Maybe PopOS! is cooler now with their Cosmic thingy.

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