yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 minutes ago

    I’ve been using Bazzite for a few months now (switched from EndeavourOS, which was great) and it’s been amazing. I’m sold on atomic/immutable. I have never had a PC this stable, including every Windows PC I’ve had.

    And it’s perfect for gaming. There are weird little tweaks and settings that I had to do on EOS to get my GPU working correctly, etc., and they all just work out of the box in Bazzite (I did get the iso image made specifically for my laptop, which definitely helps). It’s super impressive actually.

    And distrobox (BoxBuddy comes installed) can be used to access the AUR or whatever if I feel the need to. Just fire up an Arch box, and have at it.

  • Veraxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    52 minutes ago

    Arch. I need the AUR for certain applications, and the high degree of customizability and opportunity for learning appeal to me as a relatively new-ish Linux user (going on a few years now, most of that time having been on Arch).

  • IAmHeroForFun@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 hour ago

    btw i use Arch, i use it because i found lot less effort it takes to do anything and it’s stable, i do think there is some bug with QTcreator, gotta see it’s os issue or QT issue.

  • callyral [he/they]@pawb.social
    2·
    1 hour ago

    I use NixOS for my desktop because I hate myself you can configure everything without needing to edit a bunch of different config files that use different configuration languages.

    I use Arch btw for my Minecraft server because I am crazy.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Mint for my desktop system. It just does exactly what I want it to, has good compatibility with software and Cinnamon is my DE of choice.

    NixOS for my server, because being able to use one config repo and format for everything is so nice.

  • Ebahn13@pawb.social
    3·
    4 hours ago

    I use Bazzite so that it matches with my Steam Deck since SteamOS still isn’t an actual distro to play with yet…

  • Anarchistcowboy@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 hours ago

    I use Debian on my server and Arch on my gaming PC and laptop. Both distros offer minimal installs so I can just add the packages I need and avoid the ones I don’t. Debian offers a nice stable base for running my services with minimal downtime and Arch has the most up to date packages for all the cutting edge features I want on desktop.

  • chrand@lemmy.mlEnglish
    51·
    5 hours ago

    Fedora with GNOME.

    I’ve been using it for over than 10 years in my main computer.

    It simply works, it’s nice, fresh packages, stable, GNOME is productivity champion (at least I know all the shortcuts, and how to tweak it to my daily use). I also know how to build and manipulate RPM packages, so it’s pretty convenient.

    • fxdave@lemmy.ml
      1·
      20 minutes ago

      afaik, fedora is the testing distro for RHEL. I also felt this way, when a new gnome version released much earlier than for Arch and it had an obvious bug that could be catched with little testing.

      And many issues I found in Fedora’s bug tracker was auto closed by the new release. Which is quite frequent. Reviewing the bugs is not that frequent.

      • chrand@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        49 minutes ago

        Mostly for fun/learning and to tweak some Fedora packages to my needs. I keep my own RPM repository.

  • Lotteriemeister@feddit.org
    6·
    6 hours ago

    Tuxedo OS. Before that, I was very happy with Fedora, and then I got a tuxedo laptop and tried their distro. Now, I keep using that because I started to enjoy KDE, and I really like their hardware support and how they test and maintain the distro.

  • lancalot@discuss.onlineEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    What distro do you use

    I daily drive secureblue.

    and why?

    Long story short; I love me some security. Unfortunately, My device is far from ideal for running Qubes OS. From within the remaining options, secureblue comes out on top for me.

  • JustARegularNerd@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    8 hours ago

    For devices I need to be productive on, I have LMDE 6. It is rock solid being based on stable Debian, but with the niceties you expect from Mint.

    For my gaming PC, I’ve got Bazzite on it and so far so good. Just used it for entertainment and gaming but if I were doing coding or app development I’d either have to adjust how I do that to suit an atomic distro, or I’d just use LMDE as I feel I have easier control of what I’m doing on there