• crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    11·
    6 months ago

    I use Arch, btw, but I don’t consider it the best (yes I do.) I could easily transition to Fedora, for example (I would never do that,) and be completely happy (I would rather continually hit my head with the metal stapler gun on my desk.)

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
    5·
    6 months ago

    Mint is Ubuntu minus everything that makes Ubuntu annoying. That’s why I like it.

    I considered to go back to Debian but… eh, I’m too old and impatient for that. Nowadays I mostly want things that work out of the box.

      • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
        1·
        6 months ago

        From what I remember*, there was always some rough corner. Such as the wi-fi, or the graphics card. Sure, Stable was rock solid, but you always needed something from Testing; and Testing in general was overall less stable than Ubuntu or Mint.

        *This was years ago, so it might be inaccurate as of 2025.

  • tatterdemalion@programming.dev
    4·
    6 months ago

    NixOS. My entire config is source-controlled and I can easily roll back to a previous boot image if something breaks like cough Nvidia drivers. I also use it for my home router and all self-hosted services.

      • dwt@feddit.orgDeutsch
        2·
        6 months ago

        Out of all the ways that I have tried in the past, to reproduce not just the initial state, but also the ongoing changes of a disto (ansible, saltstack, chef, bunch of Shell scripts) — nix is by far the shortest. With all of these technologies I would never have dreamed to do this for a single Maschine. But now it’s not only possible, but actually gasp enjoyable!

        Mind you, if that is not the problem you want to solve, maybe install just the nix package manager in addition to your distribution, and learn to enjoy it without having to run your whole distribution this way.

        • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
          1·
          6 months ago

          You misunderstand! It has also turned into basically a hobby (and recently, a job, lol) to manage nix configs.

          Those 19k lines are clean, well-structured and DRY, and do describe every little thing about ca. 30 machines.

  • UNY0N@linux.communityEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    Bazzite just works, it runs every game I have with zero fuss, it’s easy to run Windows programs / emulators / local LLMs, AND it’s basically unbreakable.

        • OnfireNFS@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 months ago

          Bazzite has a KDE version too. I think it is more popular then the GNOME version of bazzite actually. At least according to the results of the latest steam survey

          • PolarKraken@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            Yep I use KDE-flavored Bazzite and actually forgot GNOME was even offered! It works deliciously. Came over from Windows last winter finally and boy, the UI alone is just so much nicer.

            • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
              3·
              5 months ago

              I had avoided KDE for years due to some multi-screen resolution issues back in the day.

              I’d be running gnome, and install a half dozen plugins to make it look and feel closer to Windows It was just a personal preference. Every other update some plugin I was using would be broken. I’d replace it with another plug-in or uninstall it and wait for a fix. Fight fight fight fight fight fight. Some number of years later I tried KDE again, and I realized that it did exactly what I was trying to do in Gnome but it did it out of the box.

              I don’t have anything against Gnome. The same way I don’t have anything against OS X’s “window manager” or even Windows 11’s “window manager” they’re just not my preference.

              Bottom left navigation, thin, stacked app indicators, bottom right tray. Fractional scaling, widgets.

              • FishFace@lemmy.world
                2·
                3 months ago

                I tried KDE over a decade ago before using Mint for a while. Then I saw someone’s laptop running vanilla GNOME and thought it looked nice. But a couple of years ago I realised that GNOME’s insistence on hiding settings in “tweaks”/gsettings and generally making it harder to do what I wanted was getting in the way. KDE still has the configurability that I loved when I first started using Linux and GNOME 2, without being an infinite config hellhole like the niche WMs

  • emotional_soup_88@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    https://uwuntuos.site/ obvi?

    But seriously though, Arch all the way, because it teaches me about Linux and computers, because I can customize all the packages at OS install (without the need for lengthy compiling like Gentoo) and because my Steam games work flawlessly on it.

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      FYI, Gentoo has official binhost now, so emerge does not have to compile the package for you any more. But you still can, if you want. Like if you want to choose different useflags, use saved configs, apply patches, etc.

  • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    openSUSE Slowroll and Secureblue are my favorites ATM. Slowroll for gaming, Secureblue for mobile device. Both are hardened for security because that matters to me.

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    Mine is best for me. I started with an rpm based distro in the late 90s. I tried out gentoo when it first came out. Spent a little time, maybe a year, on Arch years and years ago. I go back to mine because it works, hasn’t caused an issue for me in years, and I don’t like having to dick around learning new systems anymore.

  • HaraVier@discuss.online
    2·
    1 month ago

    I like secureblue the most, because it’s simply the best in class when it comes to bridging the difference between Desktop Linux and GrapheneOS in terms of security. As being secure is at the very top of my priority list, my preference for secureblue -therefore- follows rather naturally.