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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).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Some perspective on distro usage among developers (survey.stackoverflow.co)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Personal use numbers:

Ubuntu: 27.7%

Debian: 9.8%

Other Linux: 8.4%

Arch: 8%

Red Hat: 2.3%

Fedora: 4.8%

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense. Ubuntu just works and is popular. Debian is the same, some people are just more conservative.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can confirm. I have used one or the other exclusively for 20 years. Mostly on laptops. And these days with just a tiling window manager and terminal.

It just works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. And here I am, after 2 days of trying to bend NixOS to my will, and I gave up. Tomorrow, I'm going back to Fedora, where everything worked perfectly, because I fell for "Shiny thing sindrome", or the "grass is greener on the other side" stuff. Should have never doubted it. After 2 years of full time Linux and a lot of distrohopping, one would think I'd have known better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

NixOS is a nightmare. It works then you want to do something that can be done on another distro and you can’t. Same just went to silver blue at least acts like a regular distro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I've been trying the same with Bazzite and ublue. Also gave it 2 days, and then left it as well, right before doing that with NixOS.