I’d like to settle on a distro, but none of them seem to click for me. I want stability more than anything, but I also value having the latest updates (I know, kind of incompatible).

I have tested Pop!_Os, Arch Linux, Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu. Arch and Pop being the two that I enjoyed the most and seemed the most stable all along… I am somewhat interested in testing NixOS although the learning curve seems a bit steep and it’s holding me back a bit.

What are you using as your daily drive? Would you recommend it to another user? Why? Why not?

  • Lemmchen@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    For the past six years it has been Kubuntu, but I think it’s time to finally abort Canonical and their idiosyncrasies and choose Debian as a KDE base, especially now that Debian 12 includes non-free firmware by default.

  • Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 years ago

    i settled on fedora kde a few years ago(altho i recently switched to fedora silverblue kde)
    imo a nice middleground.

    if you are intrested in immutable distros, i can recommend silverblue (not as drastic of a change compared to nixos)

    if you are intrested in nixos package management, you might want to try out the nix package manager on your current distro.

    an intresting way to get the fresh but stable system you want is to,
    install some rock solid distro like debian,
    and then use the nix package manager and/or flatpacks to get the fresh software you want.

  • saplyng@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I’ve been using Garuda (arch derivative) for my home and work PC. It works how I want it to, I like that it has BTRFS as default for the file system, and the AUR is such an amazing resource I miss it whenever I use a different distro.

    I have a production server that’s using Alma at the moment, but with the RHEL news I’m thinking of switching it over to something else, but I’m not sure what yet. I’ve been using Ubuntu server for some test servers/projects and I like it better than Alma but it still hasn’t given me that “wow” factor I feel with Arch so I’m not sure what I’m going to do there…

  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 years ago

    You tried most of them. You found Arch enjoyable, so I’d stick to that for the Wiki, the community, and flexibility.

    NixOS looks interesting too, but nothing beats Arch in terms of having so much software at one-click distance with the almighty AUR.

  • effingjoe@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    VanillaOS is pretty neat. It has an immutable (kind of) OS, lets you choose which package formats you want to use (flatpak, snap, appimage, etc) and leverages containers (a la Distrobox) and their package manager Apx to give you seamless access to packages on other distros. It’s Ubuntu-based right now but the next release is switching to debian.

    To be fair, I don’t have much time on it. My daily drivers are a chromebook and a steamdeck, but I did dust off an old laptop just to check it out for a little bit.

  • SinJab0n@mujico.org
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    2 years ago

    U want stability stick to debian, bleeding egde apps? NixOs.

    Middle ground? Ubuntu Rolling, u get reasonable up to day updates, and reasonable stability.

    And remember, the perfect distro is the one u configure, and personalize for u. The distro is only gonna make ur life easier in making it urs, but that’s all, I wasted a lot of time understanding this.

  • TiffyBelle@feddit.uk
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    2 years ago

    Debian. I always come back to Debian.

    It’s just a rock solid, multipurpose distro that has everything. If you have an issue with some older software versions, you can just track testing or sid and treat it as rolling release or use flatpaks for GUI apps.

    To me, Debian is almost perfect.

  • DerRackletTänzer@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    Solus - get updates all the time, don’t have to think about reinstalling and don’t have to pay attention if an update could break my system

      • CerineArkweaver@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Not really. As I understand it, RHEL is restricting access to the source code of proprietary things they developed. Does it go against open source principles? Sure. Does it make sense from a business perspective? Absolutely. I was actually surprised that this wasn’t the case before.

  • AWizard_ATrueStar@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Right now I use pop_os. I bought a System76 laptop so it came with it. I like it because most things just work and I am lazy. Not the biggest gnome fan though. Previous to owning this laptop I tinkered with many distros but usually leaned towards lightweight DEs like xfce.

    • brainfreeze@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      I’ve been toying with the idea of getting one of those. Would you do it again? Do you have any regrets or maybe wish you’d installed it on something else?