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)
OpenSuse tumbleweed + kde plasma for a peace of mind 👍
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Indeed there are my dude!
I am amongst you scholars and noblemen.
Currently driving Fedora 39
OpenSUSE TW for me. Used to be Arch but it’s just too much faff for me.
Same, I’ve used Linux since the late nineties and know my way around but I have other things to do. TW with Plasma/Wayland is great.
After using NixOS, I don’t think I could go back to a regular distro. At the very least, maybe debian with the nix package manager
Gentoo desktop but I have to use it over SSH a lot of the time since I’m stuck on my work macbook
Debian with KDE works great for my needs.
NixOS user here! Fedora is a very good contender as well
Debian Testing and Arch with KDE on the PC/Workstation.
Debian Stable on the server.
For laptops, I’ve been using EndeavourOS lately. All of the Arch goodness, but with an easy installer that handles the DE too. It’s as close to “just works” as you can get while still having pacman + AUR at the end.
I still love raw Arch, but I leave that for server installs.
Same, EOS is awesome and cured my distro-hopping.
Not saying anything bad about EndeavourOS, because it’s great, but:
All of the Arch goodness, but with an easy installer that handles the DE too.
Arch has a guided TUI installer included in it’s ISO that does this too.
It does, but it’s done me wrong a few times so I never recommend it. For all I know it’s fine these days, but old grudges are hard do shake.
Manjaro KDE
Arch Linux with i3wm
Fish, Alacritty, Rofi (dmenu replacement)
i’m on manjaro kde, will switch soon to nixos if i understand how it all works :)
otherwise arch
For my main computers, I’ve moved them all to Arch from Manjaro & EndeavorOS within the past 4 years. Though been meaning to try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed eventually. Haven’t used OpenSUSE in over 10 years.
I have a laptop running Proxmox for my servers, which is debian-based but uses a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel. Great to use to try out other distros in VMs as well.
Manjaro Gnome. It just works ;)
until your system randomly breaks in classic manjaro fashion
@0x2d @estebanlm I use Manjaro GNOME on all four of my laptops and my iMac. I have never had a random break on any of them.
well, I has been already years using Manjaro and never happened to me.
Not that it can’t, but never happened to me and I hope it wont :)
Arch for many, many years. Absolutely zero reasons to switch. I used to distro hop alot back in the day but I don’t bother with that anymore. I need a system that works and Arch gives me exactly that.
