I've been switching between Arch and Debian for the past 5ish years. I don't really notice much of a difference, other than Arch has updates much more often than Debian Testing usually does. I like how meta-packages in Arch are more minimal than the ones in Debian, but that's a very minor thing.
Arch updates much more often and to vastly newer versions. Not saying which is better but those two distros differ quite a lot in this respect.
I need to settle on one for a bit. I like Fedora for it’s edge stability and embracing newer secure technology. But, I will be shifting to Debian 12 or Ubuntu LTS because I need to get real work done. I like Pop and Mint, but they don’t have secure boot which I desire.
I’ll probably enjoy arch when I get the time to play with it more.
What do you mean you need to do real work done that cannot be done on Fedora?
Fedora Silverblue. I want a Linux system that just works.
i like fedora a lot, but its updates got a little too far ahead for me. So i recently switched to debian 12, and with flatpaks and their more-current mesa components, everything is working on my desktop as well as it was before, especially games on steam (flatpak) and in bottles.
For me it's tumbleweed at the moment it's defaults like btrfs and snapper are how I used to setup fedora. Then there's the tools like OBS and yast that are super useful it's rolling but well tested before it gets to you
Zorin OS. No muss, no fuss. I've been wanting to hop to Endeavor or Pop! just to do something different.
I mainly play games and watch movies.
I'll only mention it because I haven't seen it yet, I just installed endeavor os and it's been pretty Great
I used Feren OS for a long time, but now i prefer Cachy OS and Vanilla Arch on my laptop, both with KDE Plasma
Trisquel GNU / Linux. The kernel is 100% libre so you can do your computing in freedom.
Modified Ubuntu, Snap-less...
Arch for the last 8ish years. I'm interested in switching to something immutable and with a declarative package manager, but every time I try something else I end up back on arch. It works and has all the packages I use ¯_(ツ)_/¯
For now, it's Debian 12 with KDE Plasma. But I'm really interested in Immutable Systems. I like OpenSuse Kapla, but the KDE Integration is still in alpha. There are still a few shortcomings with the only flatpak approach, like the fact that the Steam Flatpak can't provide smooth wireless controller support because of lacking permissions.
I've found success installing Steam and other stuff using distrobox on openSUSE Kalpa. The initial setup isn't as easy as installing a flatpak, but after a quick distrobox-export it's totally seamless.
Here's an incomplete list of my daily drivers since...well, I'm old.
I'm sure I've missed the odd one or two (and I regularly jumped back and forth with Debian/Ubuntu/Mint for years and years).
I used to distro hop a lot, so if I only used it for less than a month, I haven't bothered to list it.
Fedora Workstation. It's fast and stable.
Everything I use is available either as a Flatpak or a RPM.
Linux Mint. Seriously, seriously good. Very fast, very light, looks amazing, has full access to all Ubuntu apps, runs Flatpak, is stable and solid. Sane defaults across the system.
Highly recommend it.
Void linux became my second nature. It's design is great, runit and xbps are just awesome. Can't recomend more. P.S. I also switched to Void from Fedora
Trisquel GNU+Linux on my Librebooted ThinkPad X200
Every time I try something different I always come back to arch + swaywm
OpenSuse leap
Arch btw
Manjaro with KDE. I've only been running Linux for a month, and found Arch a bit intimidating, so to me Manjaro was the closest I dare fly to the sun. Really liking it so far.
I used to love Manjaro. It seems great when you use it. Word of warning though, it will break on you at some point. When it does, instead of abandoning Arch distros completely, consider giving EndeavourOS a shot.
Arch on my main pc, and Ubuntu on my server, only reason it's Ubuntu is I needed 6.2 kernel for my Intel arc encoding card and debian based for the arrs
Vanilla ass Ubuntu. I spent 25 years finding the right distro, this is good enough. My first love was Mandrake.
Linux Mint because it just works.
Switched from Ubuntu to fedora recently.. I'm pretty happy with it and it's package manager
blendOS because it gives you access to all the good stuff, including the AUR and even Android apps.
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