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I'm between distros and looking for a new daily driver for my laptop. What are people daily driving these days? Are there any new cool things to try?

I have been using linux mint recently. I have used nixos and arch in the past. Personally, linux mint uses flatpacks too much for my liking. Although, I might have a warped perspective after using arch. (the aur is crazy big)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

OpenSuse tumbleweed + kde plasma for a peace of mind 👍

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (4 children)

For laptops, I've been using EndeavourOS lately. All of the Arch goodness, but with an easy installer that handles the DE too. It's as close to "just works" as you can get while still having pacman + AUR at the end.

I still love raw Arch, but I leave that for server installs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Same, EOS is awesome and cured my distro-hopping.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OpenSUSE TW for me. Used to be Arch but it's just too much faff for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Same, I've used Linux since the late nineties and know my way around but I have other things to do. TW with Plasma/Wayland is great.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

NixOS user here! Fedora is a very good contender as well

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Arch for many, many years. Absolutely zero reasons to switch. I used to distro hop alot back in the day but I don’t bother with that anymore. I need a system that works and Arch gives me exactly that.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fedora Silverblue. But when switching I had to wrap my head around the differences in the workflow of doing things. Once youre past that it's rock solid and had no issues so far.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Opensuse Tumbleweed. A rock solid rolling release.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised by how many people are rocking opensuse in this thread. What made you go with opensuse?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would say the benefit of OpenSUSE is that everything is preconfigured to work right out of the box, including btrfs snapshotting with snapper. Once you boot it's time to download apps, and go. Very windows like for those who just want the system to work. Updates are one click.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A Chevy volt. Turns out gm figured out that a PHEV is a great idea 12 years ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What kinda rpms you getting on that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago
  1. It probably uses apks.
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Not sure, just realized this is a computer post lol

If you want mpg it's anywhere from 75 to 130mpg per tank of gas.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fedora Workstation. Couldn't be happier.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Same, it's a "it just works" distro.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Debian with KDE works great for my needs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I use Arch BTW....

Joking aside I use Arch on my desktop, Raspbian on RPi1, Debian on homeserver and VMs.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've been using EndeavourOS with KDE for a bit under 2 years now (I think) on both my desktop and laptop. It is Arch based and easy to install. And for my home servers I run Proxmox

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (7 children)

PopOS on gaming PC Fedora Silverblue on daily PC Ubuntu Server LTS for small servers Ubuntu Desktop LTS for digital signage

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Popos on the Framework laptop. It’s pretty good so far.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I like Debian with GNOME

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It's been great having a rolling release distro that I don't have to worry about breaking with updates

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Until a couple of weeks ago I used Fedora Silverblue.

Then, after mostly using GNOME Shell for about a decade, I (reluctantly) tried KDE Plasma 5.27 on my desktop due to its support for variable refresh rate and since then I have fallen in love with KDE Plasma for the first time (retrospectively I couldn't stand it from version 4 until around 5.20).

Now I am using Fedora 39 Kinoite on two of my three devices and Fedora 39 KDE on a 2-in-1 laptop that requires custom DKMS modules (not possible on atomic Fedora spins) for the speakers.

Personally I try to use containers (Flatpaks on the desktop and OCI images on my homeserver) whenever possible. I love that I can easily restrict or expand permissions (e. g. I have a global nosocket=x11 override) and that my documentation is valid with most distributions, since Flatpak always behaves the same.

I like using Fedora, since it isn't a rolling release, but its software is still up-to-date and it has always (first version I used is Fedora 15) given me a clean, stable and relatively bug-free experience.

In my opinion Ubuntu actually has the perfect release cycle, but Canonical lost me with their flawed-by-design snap packages and their new installers with incredibly limited manual partitioning options (encryption without LVM, etc.).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nixos for me! But my dark secret is that I also have an Ubuntu partition those things that I can't get working.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hannah Montana Linux, the one and only original!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

i'm on manjaro kde, will switch soon to nixos if i understand how it all works :)

otherwise arch

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Manjaro kde on 3 computers in the ham shack, manjaro KDE on the media center, and guess what's on the two lap tops..you got it...manjaro KDE. Most have windows 10 dual boot on a separate drive. I haven't spent the time to figure out radio control and antenna switching on Linux so windows is still needed for radio contesting.

I have tried many and keep going back to manjaro, everything just works. The Arch wiki is awesome, and the aur has multiviewer to F1, ready to go.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Gentoo. Been using it for over 3 years now, and I haven't found a reason to leave yet.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

EndeavourOS on desktop and laptop side of things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

After using NixOS, I don’t think I could go back to a regular distro. At the very least, maybe debian with the nix package manager

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Arch + Hyprland on my Notebook, Endeavor OS + Gnome PC (11years old PC), 2x Khadas VIM3L + Kodi (Coreelec), home server Odroid + Armbian.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I’ve been running Fedora for years. I tried out Arch and OpenSUSE a bit this year just to see if I was missing anything, and went right back to Fedora afterward.

Not as fussy as Arch and better package availability than SUSE (for my needs at least). Also dnf is my favorite package manager despite being relatively slow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I’ve never tried NixOS, but it looks really promising.

I usually use Fedora or OpenSUSE, which have good software availability (unfortunately not as good as the AUR). Fedora provides selinux by default, and has profiles for basically everything. SUSE uses AppArmor, but Arch doesn’t provide convenient configuration for either, and only supports x86_64 (which is why I switched away from it).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Ubuntu. It's working and I don't have the time to try out other distros.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Arch with Wayland and Pipewire. Running SwayWM and have never been happier with my setup.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why is everyone saying "daily drive" all of a sudden?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Where is that a new thing? I've been using Linux since early 2010s and people were using that term back then (and it wasn't a new term then either)

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