• crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I use Arch, btw, but I don’t consider it the best (yes I do.) I could easily transition to Fedora, for example (I would never do that,) and be completely happy (I would rather continually hit my head with the metal stapler gun on my desk.)

  • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Omarchy because it installed in under ten minutes. Also it has a well riced Hyprland setup from the start. A complete install of LazyVim, OBS, and KDEnlive. I was able to start doing real work in the time it takes on other distros to read the installation instructions, let alone add nonfree packages or install lazyvim. It’s the most fun and productive Linux installation I’ve experienced since Ubuntu sent out CDs for free.

    DHH is a bit of a douche. However the number of unsavory character and unpleasant people in the Linux community has always been non negligible. Starting with Stallman’s pedo chatter to Greg Kroah-Hartman banning Russians.

  • bold_omi@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    I do not consider Arch the best. Artix is better because is is systemd-free. I have not switched yet.

  • KottonKrown@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Using Manjaro and Artix. Both are really great.

    Artix is a healthy systemd-free distro, so I’m slowly migrating everything to it.

    Manjaro just works, is stable, reliable, updates never break my system, their tools are very handy (Pamac GUI is the best software manager I’ve used in 21 years of Linux, with Synaptic).

    I only installed Manjaro once 7 years ago, and ever since I’ve had that install copied on several partitions with success and reliability. The day I move away from systemd entirely (it’s a matter of when, not if), I’ll regret Manjaro deeply.

    Artix is pretty damn good though, so I’m also looking forward to it.

  • Paranoid Factoid@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’ve been running Ubuntu Studio for almost a decade, but I’m pretty fed up with it. Maybe I’ll switch to Arch. I dunno. Having a turnkey media production distribution was handy. It did audio well. But with pipewire, that seems redundant now.

  • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    openSUSE Slowroll and Secureblue are my favorites ATM. Slowroll for gaming, Secureblue for mobile device. Both are hardened for security because that matters to me.

    • woelkchen@piefed.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I recently installed Slowroll in Steam Deck’s Distrobox. First day and yt-dlp was already too outdated.😅

      Adding OBS repos got weirdly broken since the last time I did it. Some packages cannot be forked into one’s home repo because they are on openSUSE’s git and zypper ar does not add the repo type to the offline file, so zypper ref complains about an unknown repo.

      In the end I found some other repo containing a recent version of yt-dlp that I could fork into my home repo and edit the file in /etc/zypp/repos.d by hand. I assume this is transition pain during the move from OBS to git. I hope they’ll get this done soon.

  • rarsamx@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    You mean my distros?

    Different distros are the best for different purposes.

    My Fedora is the best for my laptop because it just works and all the hardware is supported.

    My Arch is the best because it’s a super fine tuned setup that prevents distractions and doesn’t waste memory or CPU doing things I don’t care about.

    My mint is the best because it’s simple, stable, beautiful out of the box.

    My debian is the best because servers are no nonsense.

    My puppy Linux was the best when I was a developer for the distro because it was the smallest lightest and fastest distro I’ve ever used.

    Etc.

  • kyub@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use Arch since approximately 2006 or so. I like its stability (yes!), performance, rapid updates and technical simplicity. It never stands in my way and it’s fairly simple to understand, administer and modify. It’s probably the most convenient OS I’ve ever used - sure it takes time/effort to set it up but once you’re past that it’s smooth sailing. It also doesn’t change dramatically over the years (it doesn’t need to) so it’s easy to keep up with its development. Plus, I have a custom setup script for it that installs and sets up all of the basics, so if I ever need to reinstall, I’m not starting from zero.

    I am eyeing NixOS as “the next step” but didn’t yet experiment with it too much. Arch is just too comfy to use and the advantages that NixOS brings aren’t yet significant enough for me to make any kind of switch to it, but I consider NIxOS (as well as its related technologies like the Nix package manager) to be the most interesting and most advanced things in the Linux world currently.

    If you’re reading this as a newbie Linux user: probably don’t use any of the two mentioned above (yet). They’re not considered entry-level stuff, unless you’re interested in learning low-level (as in: highly technical) Linux stuff from the start already. NixOS/Nix in particular is fairly complex and can be a challenge even for veteran Linux admins/users to fully understand and utilize well. Start your journey with more common desktop distros like Mint, Fedora, Kubuntu.

    • wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been using a debian based system for a dozen years. Then I decided to buy a NAS and turn it into a NixOS driven media server.

      JFC I thought I knew linux and I was so wrong.