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Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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So we can clearly see the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them, please follow this format:

Write the name of the Linux distro as a first-level comment.
Reply to that comment with each reason you like the distro as a separate answer.

For example:

Distro (first-level comment)
- Reason (one answer)
- Other reason (a different answer)

Please avoid duplicating options. This will help us better understand the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them.

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[–] Paralda@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

CachyOS

[–] Paralda@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

It's not Manjaro

[–] choroalp@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

NixOS. Reproducible, Wide Package selection, Hard to fuck up + Not yet another Arch based distro

[–] fugepe@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

OpenSuse, Fedora second.

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Fedora Workstation on desktop, perfect mix of stability and up-to-date packages.

Unraid on the NAS, does pretty much everything I need and haven’t put any thought into using something else.

Ubuntu Server on a few VMs, although I’ll probably look into different options in the future as I’m not a huge fan of Ubuntu.

Arch/SteamOS on Steam Deck, of course.

Debian for anything that I just need to run forever.

[–] Leora@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Solus

[–] Leora@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Easily the best distro I've used for gaming. No set up was required from me, it just works.

[–] Leora@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Great user forum & support. Everyone I've talked with has been super helpful. Solus leads are easy to get a hold of.

[–] Headbangerd17@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Fedora

it's up to date
little to no bloat
stock gnome shell
uses latest technologies
just works

[–] Spewpid@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

Started on SuSe, but Ubuntu stuck with me since the early releases... Just very familiar to me at this point. Been my goto os on my laptop for ages....

[–] user8e8f87c@berlin.social 0 points 2 years ago

@InternetPirate Fedora it is has all the good and new stuff without being unstable. Will switch to Silverblue for an even more stable experience sometime soon.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

-- Debian Testing

Debian packaging
Rolling
Newer than Stable
Debian Free Software Guidelines ( DFSG)
Good support of old systems and random architectures.

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