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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's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora? (lemmy.ml)

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I'm wondering what the current favorite distros are besides the most popular ones like Arch, Debian and Fedora.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Linux Mint

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I really enjoy ZorinOS! I've been using ZorinOS 16.3 and am awaiting the upgrade to 17 through their tool. It's been great for a PC that has an Nvidia GTX1060 that I have hooked up to my TV as a twitch/YouTube/Netflix box. I chose Zorin because they claimed to get the Nvidia drivers installed correctly "out of the box", and they delivered!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Glad it worked well for you. Didn't work well for me with my 2070 super. Was immediately broken and refused to acknowledge my second monitor. Linux Mint worked perfectly, so I just want to throw that out there for anyone with the same gpu

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Gentoo for the documentation, but for a modern comp with bad bootloader implementation, Fedora's anaconda system for the secure boot shim is irreplaceable and my daily. I won't consider any distro without a shim and clear guide for UEFI secure boot keys. In that vain, Gentoo is the only doc source I know of that walks the user through booting into UEFI directly with Keytool.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I get that there are a lot of novel are cool distros out there, but I just stick with Debian (or one of the other well known distros that have been around for decades).

I do it because from a security standpoint, they have my trust. Maybe in 10-20 years with a good reputation and history, but it's not there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

MX Linux only because I have it on some very old 32 bit laptops and it supports 32 bit. I don't really know why I keep those laptops around but they are functional.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Kubuntu

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I miss slackware.

It still kinda exists, but really has become a ghost of its former self.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

On the laptop I got less than a week ago for college, I've been having fun using Mx with KDE. It's been pretty good so far on my galaxy book.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

NixOS, would like to try Guix

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I'm currently using Arch (btw), but I have been hearing the distant call of NixOS lately...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Alpine was the most interesting for me. It goes against the tendency of complicating the systems. I have to use Arch because everything can work on that distro.