What are people daily driving these days?

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)

fxt_ryknow ,

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!!

M500 ,

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.

HurlingDurling ,

Currently driving Fedora 39

sebsch ,

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

Debian Stable on the server.

steeznson ,

Gentoo desktop but I have to use it over SSH a lot of the time since I’m stuck on my work macbook

wolre ,

I've been using OpenSuse Slowroll basically since it was released and have so far been very happy with it.

Salix ,

For my main computers, I’ve moved them all to Arch from Manjaro & EndeavorOS within the past 4 years. Though been meaning to try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed eventually. Haven’t used OpenSUSE in over 10 years.

I have a laptop running Proxmox for my servers, which is debian-based but uses a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel. Great to use to try out other distros in VMs as well.

NOOBMASTER ,

Zorin OS for now. Old kernel and stuff, but it’s stable, and I like the looks more than I did PopOS!. Maybe PopOS! is cooler now with their Cosmic thingy.

Crozekiel ,

Garuda on my gaming desktop, fedora bazzite on my gaming laptop. Loving both to be honest.

Astaroth ,

Arch Linux with i3wm

Fish, Alacritty, Rofi (dmenu replacement)

Holzkohlen ,

Garuda Linux. In just love arch, but I’m too lazy to do it myself. One day maybe

dontblink ,
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I like Debian with GNOME

ultra ,

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

catguy ,

@ultra @blotz is it really that good

Neon ,

As someone who uses it as well:

Yes it is. Especially if you use Gnome. Because you can set dconf settings right in your Config.

It takes a while to remember to configure your User Account not in the normal Settings App but instead in the Config, but once you do it's amazing.

I reinstalled on my Laptop and i was back on my old Desktop with all my Programs, Extensions, Settings etc within 20 Minutes

When i change a Setting on my Laptop, i use Git to synch the Config to my Desktop and all the changes i made to my Laptop are also on my Desktop.

Also: no more accidentally breaking your system. I don't have to type random Commands in my Terminal to try and fix something and then try ans revert them. I just add the Config. If it doesn't work, i remove the Config again and it automatically reverts everything back as if nothing ever happened.

It is trily amazing

Now if only SELinux or Apparmor finally were supported.

catguy ,

@Neon maybe I’ll install it on my Kubantu

Neon ,

Just know: it takes time and effort to learn. The Documentation is often not that good and you'll go digging in blogs, Forums and Github Issues.

All in all i'd say i've spent probably more Time learning Nixos than i've spent learning Linux. Which, admittedly wasn't much as i started recently with fedora which has gotten really beginner-friendly, but still. I'd say i spent at least all in all 20 hours learning how to fix a fringe Problem in Nixos.

Most of that time was wasted on useless fringe stuff you'd probably never want to do, but there's also some rather normal stuff in there: i remember that my SWAP wasn't decrypring correctly from LUKS, which wasn't really bad or anything, it just annoyed me that it didn't work, and i spent about 40 Minutes debugging that.

For me it was totally worth it. I would do it again in a Heartbeat. However, if you have a full-time Job and a Family, maybe you should just get a Fedora Workstation Laptop. Or a Macbook even.

catguy ,

@Neon luckily I have no life so yay I guess but it seems intriguing so maybe I’ll try it out later as school slows down so I have the time

AutVincamAutPeriam ,

I’ve been using Mint Cinnamon for a while now. It runs beautifully with fewer firmware issues than Ubuntu on my XPS. Even though it shipped with Ubuntu.

schnurrito ,

Debian testing. Seriously. That is reasonably easy to install and configure unlike Arch or Gentoo, but doesn’t come with “user friendly” corporate crap like Ubuntu and its derivatives.

pchem ,

Despite the memes, Arch isn’t that hard to install nowadays. The Wiki is stellar and archinstall is a thing (as well as EndeavourOS).

But Debian testing is a fine choice as well, of course.

ExLisper ,

I tried arch once and Netflix and my printer didn’t work. Doesn’t it use some alternative c library or something?

pchem ,

No. Both CUPS and Netflix work perfectly fine for me on Arch.

You’re probably confusing it with Alpine.

ExLisper ,

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m doing.

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