I’m very curious of which distro users loves the most that they have it on their daily hardware?

  • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 days ago

    It’s alway weird to me that even though Ubuntu has the largest Linux desktop market share, no one admits to using it.

    Anyway, I use Ubuntu because I was doing a lot of ROS development when I last built a machine, and getting ROS running properly on other distros can be a pain.

  • Fliegenpilzgünni@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Fedora Atomic, especially Bluefin, Bazzite and Aurora.

    Nearly unbreakable, very reliable and stable in everyday use, needs no maintenance (updates itself, etc.) and more!

    • Paper Plane@lemmy.wtfOPEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Yeah. It’s a pretty good linux distro for Beginners. It was my first distro tho. 😁

      • someonesmall@lemmy.ml
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        13 days ago

        I’m sorry but it’s not great for beginners. It’s a rolling bleeding edge distro that does not break often but when it does you need to know how stuff works to fix it.

  • jaxiiruff@lemmy.zip
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    14 days ago

    I really love NixOS and use it on all my devices. Its not as difficult as people say and it really makes the linux experience a piece of cake once you get it down.

    The single config file to control almost everything is just what I was looking for in linux and the fact that it solved any kind of dependency hell I have experienced in the past is huge. If I had to list a top 3 it would be NixOS, Fedora, and Arch.

  • NewOldGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    13 days ago

    I use fedora-based atomic distros for the reliability and security. Nothing else really runs SELinux out of the box and I care about security so that’s a necessary baseline. I roll my own distro though using BlueBuild, and base it off the SecureBlue image of Silverblue. Just using SecureBlue gets you nearly to what I use though

  • icogniito@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Arch (cachyos) on my desktop, Debian on my server.

    Doesn’t really get any better than those two in my opinion

    • bruhSoulz@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Why are fedora and suse often not mentioned considering theyre not forks of anything? (as far as im aware)

      • lancalot@discuss.onlineEnglish
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        8 days ago

        Historically, (at least for hobbyists/enthusiasts) Fedora and openSUSE have been a lot less popular compared to Arch, Debian and their derivatives. While not necessarily representative, Boiling Steam’s chart -in which ProtonDB’s data is used- does indicate to this as well.

        Just my 2 cents.

        • bruhSoulz@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          8 days ago

          Kinda crazy considering fedoras perks and accessibility tbh. Dont know much ab suse tho as i have very little experience with it

          • lancalot@discuss.onlineEnglish
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            8 days ago

            I don’t know why, but openSUSE has had difficulty garnering popularity overall (aside from Germany).

            A possible explanation, which also ties in to Fedora, is how both are the open source variants to corporate distros; SEL and RHEL respectively.

            Arch and Debian are more community-driven by comparison.

            For Fedora specifically, people couldn’t regard it as anything but a testing bed distro; especially if you see how back2back they were with adopting new technologies like PulseAudio, systemd, Wayland, GTK 3/4, PipeWire etc. To be fair, openSUSE was the first to default to Btrfs and auto-snapshotting with Snapper*. Fedora was also facing competition from industry darling CentOS; similar code base, but a lot more stable.

            Thankfully, since a couple of years now, Fedora has recognized that it’s not cool to expect your user base to be sadistic. And together with the (unfortunate) downfall of CentOS, Manjaro and Ubuntu - Fedora has amassed a very healthy user base. And with how quickly Bazzite is becoming the face of gaming Linux (at least until Valve releases SteamOS), I don’t think it has even peaked yet.