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)

    • blotz@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I tried nix actually. Personally, I think it would make a great server os, but I do not enjoy it as a daily driver. I didn’t like the fact that I was forced to install everything through nix and couldn’t compile software from source.

      • musicmatze@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Nix is a source code package manager and compiles everything from source, except when there’s a binary substitute available.

  • OSH@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Fedora Silverblue. But when switching I had to wrap my head around the differences in the workflow of doing things. Once youre past that it’s rock solid and had no issues so far.

  • Carter@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    OpenSUSE TW for me. Used to be Arch but it’s just too much faff for me.

    • ProtonBadger@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Same, I’ve used Linux since the late nineties and know my way around but I have other things to do. TW with Plasma/Wayland is great.

  • makmarian@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been using EndeavourOS with KDE for a bit under 2 years now (I think) on both my desktop and laptop. It is Arch based and easy to install. And for my home servers I run Proxmox

  • GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Arch on my “desktop PC”, Armbian on my rpi 4, Dietpi soon ™ on my Orange pi zero 3.

  • fxt_ryknow@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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!!

  • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year 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.

  • Pat@kbin.run
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    1 year ago

    OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It’s been great having a rolling release distro that I don’t have to worry about breaking with updates

  • mhz@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago
    • Laptop: Opensuse slowroll with Sway
    • Home PC: Arch with KDE
    • Home server: Debian 12 (headless)