Fedora for me tbh
Mint is decent too though
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Desktop? Debian with GNOME. Laptop? Debian with GNOME. Tablet? Debian with GNOME. Server? Believe it or not, Debian without GNOME.
Okay, I'll bite:
Why GNOME? I personally find it very limiting, especially when attempting a Vanilla GNOME config.
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:s/GNOME/KDE/g
One small change and we could be twins. My Debian server also runs Proxmox though, that's where I distrohop. In VMs.
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After testing LM with Cinnamon, and a ubuntu based distribution with KDE… KDE is just better.
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I tried CachyOS and so far it's been alright besides having bit difficulty finding software so I have stuff from multiple sources.
Hmm? The AUR is one of the biggest pros of Arch and derivatives imo
If the software you need is available as .deb or .rpm, you can use Distrobox. For everything else, AppImages and Flatpaks
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I feel like I’m missing out on the mint hype train tbh. I’ve never tried it before but there’s an ignorant part of me that’s like “how much better could it possibly be than Ubuntu with Cinnamon?”. I know it must be because so many people default to it and rave about it, even after using Ubuntu.
My default ol reliable used to be Solus Linux. God I loved that distro. I had an install that lasted 4 years straight, no issues whatsoever.
But in recent years I’ve taken a major liking to Bazzite. Oh my god it’s incredible: immutable OSs are fucking amazing. I shouldn’t be trusted with accessing system files, it never ends well. So this really helps.
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I'm a relative basic bitch, I don't want to spend forever in terminal. Mint has been a god send and I'm so happy I left windows for it. A special shout out to steam for being the goat and making what little gaming I do easy.
Gentoo, I'm home
Went with LMDE7 for my first full daily driver install, real happy so far :)
I love Kubuntu personally, but have had my wife using Linux Mint for years now
I use Debian as my daily driver for at least a decade, but I still recommend Mint because it has all the good things about Debian with extra.
Debian developers just push out kernel updates without warning you about any possible system incompatibilities, so for example if you have an Nvidia GPU you might get a notificaton to "update" and a normie will likely press it only for the PC to boot to a black screen because Debian pushed out a kernel update that breaks compatibility with Nvidia drivers and does nothing to warn the user about it, and then a normie probably won't know how to get out of the black screen to the TTY and roll back the update.
I remember this happening before and I had to go to the reddit for /r/Debian and respond to all the people freaking out explaining to them how to fix their system and rollback the update.
Operating systems like Ubuntu, Mint, PopOS, etc, will do more testing with their kernel before rolling it out to users. They also tend to have more up-to-date kernels. I had Debian on everything but my gaming PC that I had built recently because Debian 12 used such an old kernel that it wouldn't support my motherboard hardware. This was a kernel-level issue and couldn't be fixed just by installing a new driver. Normies are not going to want to compile their own kernel for their daily driver, and neither do I who has a lot of experience with Linux.
I ended up just using Mint until Debian 13 released on that PC because my only option would be to switch to the unstable or testing branch, or compile my own kernel, which neither I cared to do on a PC I just wanted to work and play Horizon or whatever on.
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Yep, this is me. I'm currently using an old Nobara kernel... Because the latest kernel install (w/dependencies) completely fucked up everything and I honestly cba wasting any more time troubleshooting (tldr Wayland is NOT ready for production).
Just waiting till the motivation hits so I can do a complete rebuild. Mint is at the top of my list—it just works.
Edit: should add, one good thing Nobara does is that it keeps previous kernels installed, so that if they fuck things up (and they do), you can just select a previous kernel when booting.
I don't know how long I've used Debian at this point.
I went Debian -> Ubuntu -> Lubuntu -> Mint -> [some obscure abandoned hobby distro] -> Arch. I've been on Arch for three years now.
Void Linux made me stop distrohopping
Anything but Canonical Shit
I mean, depends on your style. I've been running endeavouros (Arch spin) on my desktop for two years now and it's finally felt like home. Though I did my first mint install in maybe 5 years just last week on my media player box in the living room (Cinnamon version) and I've gotta say, it really does feel like "ubuntu, absent all the bloat". Runs really great on a 15-year old dell optiplex with almost zero bullshit beyond having to install vlc-plugin-base.
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I've settled on fedora atomic and distros based on it, but still not set on my servers. Currently trying atomic server also but I'm not sure if I'm staying with it. I also have some talos nodes but I haven't gotten around to playing with that yet.