Okay why is your distro the best?

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jakeCubes@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Can’t say it’s the best, but I love Alpine. It’s light, fast, versatile and easy to use, runs on anything, and despite it being used mostly in containers and VMs, it makes for a great desktop distro aswell. :)

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poinck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For a long time I considered Gentoo the best, because I know my things around there. A month ago I said goodbye to my last Gentoo installation in favour for Debian trixie (the next stable release). Gentoo was too time consuming despite the binary repo.

If it would be my job to maintain a Gentoo system I would gladly accept, but there should be a need for it by the users. Otherwise I would just recommend Debian stable or Fedora.

My favourite is Debian over Fedora, because I often don’t need the latest versions of a software. And there is flatpak.

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Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Because I can hit “next” a couple of time and have a working install

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webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It works for me.

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Beanie@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Because I like compiling everything from source for a 0.2% speed improvement

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Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
CachyOS, cause its Minimal and “Fast”(maybe) ik i can try out normal Arch but I dont wanna rebuild my system everytime I mess something up + Arch based distro its better then Arch Install(in my opinion)

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Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My distro is the best because I don’t have the patience to try them all to see which is actually the best for me. Until my distro decides to do some silly decision that makes me think I should try another, I will stick to it.

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axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use NixOS, btw (don’t you see that glorious gif?). It’s the only distro that is actually different compared to other distros. It’s not just another package manager, another ubuntu skin, or a different desktop environment. If you learn how to configure it, you can easily redo breaking changes or install an exact copy of your system on a different device. You can configure all you want and you will never ever have to worry.

Also has better flex than Arch users.

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- burj khalifa learning curve - arch documentation * -1 doc quality (dogshit documentation) - doesnt work outta the box

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tatterdemalion@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
NixOS. My entire config is source-controlled and I can easily roll back to a previous boot image if something breaks like cough Nvidia drivers. I also use it for my home router and all self-hosted services.

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- smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  maniacally laughs while trying to avoid eye contact with 19k lines of nix config
  
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  - dwt@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Out of all the ways that I have tried in the past, to reproduce not just the initial state, but also the ongoing changes of a disto (ansible, saltstack, chef, bunch of Shell scripts) — nix is by far the shortest. With all of these technologies I would never have dreamed to do this for a single Maschine. But now it’s not only possible, but actually gasp enjoyable!
    
    Mind you, if that is not the problem you want to solve, maybe install just the nix package manager in addition to your distribution, and learn to enjoy it without having to run your whole distribution this way.
    
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HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Because it was my first distro that got me away from Windows. And yes, it’s Mint.

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DivineDev@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Nobara: It works well most of the time and has pretty much everything needed for gaming preinstalled. I had a bad update once that prevented booting past the command line though. Now that I'm more experienced I'd probably use a more mainline distro and install the gaming stuff myself.

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- Shareni@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s decent, but screw using someone’s personal distro. Glorious literally dropped every scrap of his default de config, and switched to another. No transition, no migration, just deleted everything and went on with his day.
  
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  - Lumiluz@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    He did literally say it’s not meant for consumer use, it’s just his build for himself that you’re free to use
    
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BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It works, has the packages I need and they are up-to-date

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Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Mine’s the best, because it fits with what I want. Might not be your best, but it’s mine.

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anzo@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
How about Qubes? if you have the specs, you get sandboxes (VMs) and all distros are available into 1. Heck, you can even have windows VMs…

And if you don’t have the specs, just use any linux and install distrobox (docker) !

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- HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Isn't there issues with using the graphics on the vms?
  
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  - anzo@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    iirc all graphics are processed by dom0 vm, so no…
    
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- BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  An alternative to distrobox is toolbx
  
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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m convinced it isn’t.

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Shareni@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Because it lets me use a list of packages instead of needing to remember what to install, has every package I need and let’s me use them without installing them, and has a good rollback system to go along with cutting edge packages.

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randomwords@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Void made Linux fun again for me. It gets so much right with the rolling release model.

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Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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- woelkchen@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
  
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moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_is_the_best

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Olap@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This week alone I’ve used Arch, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, and Fedora. Its Arch. By a short way, and mostly thanks to the wiki. Tbh they are all converging, and I go with KDE variants when I use a GUI and no distro does too much to customise it

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dhampirdamsel@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve been enjoying EndeavourOS over the past three years. It works wonderfully out of the box at default settings, and was really easy for me to use and set up to my liking with minimal know-how needed.

It also works really well on the variety of machines I have in my home. My desktop, modded Chromebook, and my husband’s laptop.

It’s allowed me to get more familiar and confident with the command line, and enough so that I’ve switched to Sway from XFCE (and previously KDE).

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UNY0N@linux.community ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Bazzite just works, it runs every game I have with zero fuss, it’s easy to run Windows programs / emulators / local LLMs, AND it’s basically unbreakable.

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- PolarKraken@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I haven’t bothered to actually search or troubleshoot yet, but since I’m here - have you had any problems with power management failing to automatically turn screens off when idle?
  
  I don’t get consistent behavior there it seems (AKA it leaves them on when it shouldn’t), but that’s I think the only significant oddity I’ve found in the ~7 months or so I’ve been running Bazzite. And like I said I’ve done basically nothing yet to try to solve it, just wondering if you’ve seen it. I have the issue on a desktop and a laptop, using entirely different monitors (not even same brand) FWIW.
  
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  - UNY0N@linux.community ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I haven’t had any problems like that, but I generally don’t leave my screen on. So perhaps I would have this issue, but just never notice it because of how I use the device.
    
    I’m very conscious of energy use, I almost always manually set my laptop to sleep if I’m leaving it idle for a while.
    
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- statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I can’t claim it’s the best, but it’s the best for me right now.
  
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  - anzo@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    On a gaming laptop I’m using Aurora because KDE Plasma btw (:
    
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traches@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Does what I want and gets out of my way.

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TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s extremely stable, and countless other distros are derived from this.

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leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don't know that it is objectively the best - but its the best fit for me right now (LMDE).

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lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Mint is Ubuntu minus everything that makes Ubuntu annoying. That’s why I like it.

I considered to go back to Debian but… eh, I’m too old and impatient for that. Nowadays I mostly want things that work out of the box.

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- DesolateMood@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Do things not work out of the box on debian?
  
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  - lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    From what I remember*, there was always some rough corner. Such as the wi-fi, or the graphics card. Sure, Stable was rock solid, but you always needed something from Testing; and Testing in general was overall less stable than Ubuntu or Mint.
    
    *This was years ago, so it might be inaccurate as of 2025.
    
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crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.)

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stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It isn’t, it is the least bad

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- reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Which technically makes it the best, doesn’t it?
  
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  - fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No because best implies it's good. Least bad doesn't transmit the same message as best.
    
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