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)
Desktop: Arch KDE Laptop: MX Linux KDE
Gentoo desktop but I have to use it over SSH a lot of the time since I’m stuck on my work macbook
Debian 12 Stable with GNOME
After having used Ubuntu LTS for 6 years, I find a little more peace with Debian. I do not like systems that break. Debian Stable is IMPOSSIBLY HARD to break, even more than Ubuntu LTS, which only broke once because of my stupidity of installing ProtonVPN client and using VPN killswitch through it. Switched to using OpenVPN/Wireguard config files.
Debian doesn’t break often because they don’t change things just for the sake of changing them. Nice and stable. Even if you do break something, a guide published 5 years ago describing how to solve the problem would probably still mostly work today.
Garuda Linux. In just love arch, but I’m too lazy to do it myself. One day maybe
Debian Testing and Arch with KDE on the PC/Workstation.
Debian Stable on the server.
Neon is my daily driver. Planing on pop os after their new de
Qubes OS
I’ve been using OpenSuse Slowroll basically since it was released and have so far been very happy with it.
I daily drive Fedora because RHEL is what my industry uses and it’s good to stay on top of the technology.
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.
kubuntu
kde connect wasn’t working on endeavouros with sway and i wanted something easy and debian based
Endeavouros on Laptop and main PC. Loving it.
I’m using Mint, but I’ve avoided using flatpaks (generally downloading DEB packages directly, or adding ppa sources). It’s worked pretty well so far.
I do have a handful of AppImages, but they’re a bit easier to work with.
Why avoid using Flatpaks if you don’t mind me asking
Two reasons: they’re big, and they’re sandboxed.
I was on a 5Mbit connection until recently, so a lot of flatpaks being 1GB+ was frustrating (especially when their native packages were <100MB). And I was using a 250GB SSD, which filled up rather quickly.
And it turns out I wasn’t a fan of the sandboxing aspect. In theory it should be a good thing, but turned out to be frustrating.
Thanks for the answer, I bever relized that they were larger
i’m on manjaro kde, will switch soon to nixos if i understand how it all works :)
otherwise arch
I’ve been using OpenSuse Slowroll basically since it released and so far am very happy with it.
