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So, title. Personally after trying out pretty much every major distro save gentoo, I’ve come back to Ubuntu because it just works and I can focus on my work. Did remove snap and install flatpak, but other than that it’s mostly stock ubuntu.

  • cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Y’all are gonna make me say it, I run Arch BTW. The AUR and wiki are compelling reasons, but the truth is I was interested in being forced to learn how things work on a lower level, and the more I understand the more control I have over how things are done.

  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Laptop: NixOS, mostly to try it out. So far I’m really liking it. Fileserver: Open Media Vault (it’s Debian with a cool web UI) Container servers: Ubuntu, but I’m thinking of switching them out. Still contemplating between Rocky or Debian.

  • randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Ubuntu / PopOS user here.

    Someone here mentioned NixOS and it made me want to speak up. I’ve been thinking of moving to BlendOS or VanillaOS for a while now. I’ve been using them virtualized and I think I like blendOS more.

    With that being said, I’m really intrigued by all those distros picking up the immutable atomic core update model. I want my system to always be up to date but I want it to be stable as well. I feel this is the true power of containers.

    My question here is, does anyone use an immutable and atomic distro on their desktop PC like blendOS, VanillaOS, Fedora silver blue, or NixOS?

    If so, what is it like?

    Note: I know that steamOS, HoloISO, and ChimaeraOS are also immutable and atomic but I don’t count those as “desktop” distros. I have been testing ChimeraOS myself on an AMD 5600X3D based platform and aside from Bluetooth latency issues, it’s very very nice.

  • humdrumgentleman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m on EndeavorOS. It’s essentially Arch Linux with very specific training wheels. I switched to it about a year ago and remain exceedingly happy with it.

    • JK_Mooney@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      EndeavourOS is Arch, nicely setup for a “Daily Driver” PC and for people who don’t need to flex about installing Arch. I’ve used Arch, I like EndeavourOS better :)

      • inbano@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Another vouch for EndeavourOS being Arch but with less hassle, I have installed and maintained for years both Arch and Gentoo and while I think those two are the best way to experience and learn Linux, I don’t have as much time anymore, so I was trying out fedora for a while (left because some package lagged just a bit much for my preference; Emacs and some compilers/runtimes mainly) I wanted back into some cutting edge rolling-release distro.

        I prefer Arch over debian testing and opensuse thumbleweed because of popularity and gaming, there is bigger chance that if a game has problems, these have been found out on arch especially with the steam deck technically increasing the user base of gamers on Arch.

        EDIT: NixOS sound interesting because it might be even less time commitment to maintain I think(?), but the initial learning curve would be more time investment that EndeavourOS is since I’m very acquainted with how to upkeep and Arch system that I daily drive.

  • WilliamShakespear@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Thats a very complicated quesiton. I have 3 computers, of which 2 are ThinkPads, and one Asus Gaming Laptop. The Thinkpads are spread out over the places I usually do stuff, and I have an encrypted portable Sandisk 1TB ssd with Debian installed on it, that i take wherever my thinkpads are to do stuff. My asus gaming laptop runs Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS and i haven’t bothered to change it to Debian. I use that one mainly for stable diffusion, voice to text with AI and to play minecraft singleplayer, with shaders.

    My thinkpads can work without my portable ssd, and they run unencrypted Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS with basic stuff like firefox and realistic documents and normie stuff, so that it doesn’t look suspicious :)

    pretty cool :=)

  • Badabinski@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Arch Linux, for many years now. No DE, lightdm for login, i3 for WM, no graphical file manager, Alacritty + zsh w/starship for my terminal emulator, shell, and prompt. I’m extremely comfortable with this setup and have no plans to change it (except for a probable move to sway, once I can finally get a system without an nvidia GPU).