I’m wondering what the current favorite distros are besides the most popular ones like Arch, Debian and Fedora.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    OpenSUSE Leap, has been a solid 7 year run, with flawless updates. And no graphics issues because nVidia hosts their own repo for the gpu drivers.

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    10 months ago

    If we allow derivatives, I’d say SteamOS despite being Arch. It’s putting Linux in non-technical people’s literal hands and it’s not a locked down and completely different platform that happens to run Linux like Android is. It’s almost designed by Valve to give people a taste of Linux by the addition of its desktop mode, and people that would be modding consoles are now modding SteamOS and learning how much fun an open platform can be. I’ve seen people from sales talk about their Decks on my work Slack.

    Otherwise, NixOS, no contest. It’s been a really long time since we’ve last seen a fundamentally different distro that’s got some real potential. For the most part, Arch, Debian and Fedora do similar things with varying degrees of automation and preconfiguring your packages, but they’re still very package oriented. We’ve been mostly slapping tools like Ansible to really configure them to our liking reproducibly, answer files if your package manager has something like that. And then NixOS is like, what if the entire system was derived from evaluating a function, and and the same input will always result in the exact same system? It’s incredibly powerful especially when maintaining machines at scale. Updates are guaranteed to result in the exact same configuration, and they’re atomic too, no halfway updated system the user unplugged the system in the middle of.

    • MrScruff@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      I’ve seen people from sales talk about their Decks on my work Slack.

      Read in an New Zealand accent this is classic Sales.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
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      10 months ago

      Yep, for me the most exciting moment in 2024 will be Cosmic being released and partly also the release of KDE 6, even though that probably won’t be a big deal. Just nice to use qt 6 I guess. It doesn’t have any new features really.

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 months ago

      My reason against using Guix is software availability. NixOS repos are just larger, and I like that on NixOS unfree software can be enabled with a single line.

      • fishinthecalculator@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        with nonguix the lines are like five instead of one, but yes there are less packages than nix. the real selling point imho is how everything is human-sized and consistent

  • qyron@sopuli.xyz
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    10 months ago

    Tiny Core OS, because I want a super light distro to run from memory when trying to access computers where the data is still there but something went sour with the OS

  • lipilee@feddit.nl
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    10 months ago

    I’m really happy with Manjaro. I thought it would be a detour from Debian on my laptop, but I’ve been running it for like 2 years now.

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Solus as the Almighty Todd says “it just works” And that comes from someone which always has at least one problem, that problem being gaming.

    It aint solved mind you but it works marginable better on it.

    Example, anno 1404, no matter what distro or silly protondb config, or if I use a new steam profile or fresh distro , works.1 out of 10 times.

    But Solus, it just works, no hoop jumping needed

  • BlanK0@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    I am using void at the moment, pretty stable even tho it is rolling release