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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] 2 points 11 months ago

Debian Testing and Arch with KDE on the PC/Workstation.

Debian Stable on the server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Manjaro KDE

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm rocking two dailys right now. Tumbleweed and Nixos. I jabe tumbleweed on my work laptop as well as one laptop at home. Rock solid go to that I trust for all the things. I started using nix on a number of other machines at home a few months back, and I'm really really enjoying it!!

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

I run Guix System on my personal laptop and Project Bluefin on my work machine.

Guix is even easier to get started with now thanks to the Guix Packager , a web UI for writing Guix package definitions.

Project Bluefin auto-updates thanks to its use of container images deliver system updates. It's also just a great platform to get started writing containerized apps, since it ships with rootless Podman by default and you can easily add new developer tools using just commands.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I dual boot Qubes and Linux Mint (kinda two ends of a spectrum, I know).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Neon is my daily driver. Planing on pop os after their new de

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Another one for the endevour os team. Not looking to distro hop anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Mint for my daily driver, PopOS for my gaming machine. Happy with both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Nobara on my gaming desktop, Fedora Kinoite on one laptop, Debian 12 on the other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Mint on my desktop, decided to try out Tumbleweed on a cheap laptop. KDE wasn't for me / wasn't reliable enough, but I'm happy with Gnome. I haven't needed to use Flatpacks though.

Might try MicroOS on the servers, I like the idea of an immutable distro so less can go wrong during updates, and I run all services as containers anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Linux Mint with a secondary partition running EndeavourOS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Accidentally wipes out Mint last week, but have been meaning to try out Fedora 39 Plasma. So far, I love it. I have been really busy recently, but it has been a great system so far. My SteamDeck really made me fall in love with Plasma.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Fedora is what keep getting back to every time I get distro hopping fever. Either gnome or KDE It's wonderful!

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

I recently switched my laptop to Garuda, it's an Arch based gaming distro. It seems to mostly work right out of the box, but I did have to tweak a few steam games to force them to use my dedicated graphics.

I guess I could go in and force steam itself to use the graphics card via env... But I only have a handful of large games at the moment. It's just as easy to set the requirement per game right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I usw Garuda with KDE and like it lot, even though I do not game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

@blotz trying out kubantu for now just swapped from gnome manjaro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I daily Windows 11... though I use Ubuntu for servers and Mint for my linux desktops (older hardware that doesn't W11).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The answer's always Debian. I use guix for packages, though it doesn't have as much stuff on it as nix.

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