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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"? (feddit.uk)

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I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

NixOS. If I’m going to invest that much effort to configure a system I don’t want to have to put up with systemd.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Same here. I really wanted to use it but it doesn't offer much over Universal Blue

If i really need reproducibility I'll use nix on my home

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I've found nixos is perfect for me since I like how precisely I can configure it.

Oddly enough, I've had a decent chunk of my only barely technical friend group switch to it for the opposite reason. They all just copypaste snippets of config between each other, and if something breaks they just go back a revision. I doubt any of them spend much time configuring anything. It really is the perfect idiot proof distro and I don't normally see people talking about that side of it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I think Nix is a good concept but I feel like 99% of the config work could be managed by the OS itself and a GUI to change everything else. I also feel like flakes should be the default, not this weird multiple systems thing they have. I also wish most apps would have a sandbox built in, because nix apps would then rival flatpak and, if ported to Windows, become a universal package manager. Overall good concept but not there yet.