@ekZepp For me, it's Debian. It always just works.
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
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Unless you need nvidia drivers from this century
That's okay. Thanks to their insane pricing caused by covid, followed by more insane pricing caused by the AI bubble, many people are still running cards not getting any new drivers anyway.
1080ti still works great
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Fuck nvidia
Amen
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i might try various other distros for my desktop usage. But for my home server it will always be Debian. Rock solid.
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I changed one of my PCs over to Debian this month, and I was surprised at how smooth it is. I guess I was expecting it to be way more barebones. I don't know if I need more than this!
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Fedora
From the bottom of my heart fuck rolling releases. Never worked for me (nobody get worked up please, ymmv).
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Man... I just fucking love CachyOS. I switched from Win11 a few weeks ago and up until now it is just a great experience.
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Mint has been glazed since the beginning of time. Not a single laptop or computer I have ever owned has worked out of the box with it. As opposed to alternatives like Ubuntu or Fedora. I must be the single most unlucky person in the history of Linux.
Iβve had the opposite experience. Mint has just worked on literally every piece of hardware Iβve ever owned.
Is it always a new laptop/computer?
I'd be suspicious of Mint on anything brand new (and hence only recently fixed in a lot of packages).
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I've had the exact same experience.
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There is no one reliable distro. Mint, itself is based off Ubuntu and also releases LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).
If reliablility is measured in terms of how stable a distro is, then likely Debian with it's conservative approach to packaging updates comes to mind (No wonder large number of distros are based off Debian only).
I would even argue as long as someone isn't messing with a niche distro such as KDE Neon( meant to showcase KDE packages) or Linuxfx (or whatever it has renamed itself to, one of the few shady ones IMO ) or Trisquel OS (a GNU certified distro where running into dependency hell isn't new); it will suit user's case.
Debian, Slackware, Void, Zorin, even rolling release like Arch (basically any one that meets the user's use case is reliable)
I would even argue as long as someone isnβt messing with a niche distro such as KDE Neon
KDE Neon is dead because its developers found out that putting an add-on repository on top of Ubuntu is not reliable at all. That's why KDE Linux is now in development.
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Went back to Mint a few times but ultimately I like Plasma over Cinnamon, so Debian it is!
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I never left!
I think I'm just old enough, have fiddled with my PC enough times in the past, have enough other shit to do, and get enough coding and troubleshooting experience at work that I look at the quest to find my spirit distro and think "that's a youngster's game."
Or, you know, maybe Mint is already my spirit distro and I am experienced enough to not fix what isn't broken!
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Neckbeard here. I run Arch btw.
The second sentence was superfluous.
Yup, I do regular distrofuckery on my spare pc but Mint is just a rock solid option for me, great distro, feels good.
Just switched from Mint to CachyOS due to some upgraded hardware and it's been pretty nice so far. Mint will stay on all my other devices though.
Mint forever, Ubuntu without the snaps, and It generally is fuss free.
Shout-out to antiX though, revived many a "useless" old laptop with that.
Here is my distrohopping journey: Mint -> Arco -> Debian -> KDE Neon -> Artix -> Void -> NixOS -> Fedora -> Void
I'm surprised you didn't stick with NixOS. After spending tens of hours learning how to use it, the sunk cost fallacy is strong.
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Tumbleweed
Apparently, itβs dangerous to mention Archβ but Iβd dare to do just that!
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For when you want the Ubuntu of Ubuntu as opposed to the Ubuntu of Debian.
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