I've been using Nobara Linux for maybe half a year and I'm incredibly pleased with it. GloriousEggroll has taken Fedora and made it a great distro for Windows gamers to jump in. I had been running Manjaro for a few years before, but wanted something more streamlined, though I wouldn't exactly Nobara Linux a lite distro. It does have everything I want preloaded though.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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Tumbleweed with KDE is my favorite flavor. I have all sorts of machines and vm's running which use Debian, Ubuntu, Leap, Rocky, and Alma.
Tumbleweed is my daily driver. Ubuntu and Debian have been my primary vm distro, but Alma and Rocky I've been dabbling with. I use Leap on various apple machines I have as it seems to play nicer with the stupid Broadcom wireless adapters apple uses.
Gentoo
artix with xfce, i ve used arch with bspwm for a while now i m a simpler man
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Trying out Fedora now, was partial to Pop os, but liking the feel of Fedora!
Been running Void Linux for a few years now and it's very good. I like xbps and the void-packages repo (it's like the AUR but sane).
Main machine thinkpad x60: Trisquel
iBook G4: Debian
thinkpad t450: Linux Mint
on all my other laptops: LXLE
on my old desktop: LXLE
on my main desktop Minisforum UM500: Manjaro (But only because I have no idea how it works and Manjaro came with the UM500 and I'm afraid I can't install something else that will work with all the graphics.)
Artix with awesomewm and Linux Mint in case something doesn't work on Artix.
Ubuntu. I started with Mint when I first dropped Windows because it had a similar look. But I found it was harder to find answers to problems I had with Mint than with Ubuntu because more people use it. So I switched to Ubuntu.
Fedora 38 KDE Spin. Truly awesome experience!
Laptop: NixOS, mostly to try it out. So far I'm really liking it. Fileserver: Open Media Vault (it's Debian with a cool web UI) Container servers: Ubuntu, but I'm thinking of switching them out. Still contemplating between Rocky or Debian.
Took a while to learn and get all set up but now all my stuff uses NixOS.
Ubuntu Studio (XFCE desktop). It's not the fanciest desktop, has one or two rough edges, and there are one or two tweaks I make right away on any new install, but I can get most things done without thinking about the OS at all now.
I like the UI eye candy of KDE, but I find it too weighty for an everyday use distro.
I used to use Debian plus XFCE, but it's a bit too spartan for me these days.
I tried Ubuntu Studio for a bit for audio work, but it was really slow for some reason. Even the terminal would take 12 seconds to open up. Couldn't find the problem so I switched to OpenSUSE Leap and now it's super responsive.
Unfortunately, it looks like Wwise refuses to install with Wine or Bottles, so I might not be able to use Linux for work.
Hmm... interesting you mention terminal really slow to open up. I still experience this also - the first time I open a terminal (only), and only if I try to open it shortly after I boot the machine. I've tried several times to find out why this is, but without success (without a terminal it's hard to find out what's blocking the terminal...)
The other thing I dumped was the latest Ubuntu Studio Chromium install, because it installs a snap, which is laggy to fire up, which also drove me crazy. I use the Mint chromium build now, which is a real native build, not a snap, and works great.
Thats a very complicated quesiton. I have 3 computers, of which 2 are ThinkPads, and one Asus Gaming Laptop. The Thinkpads are spread out over the places I usually do stuff, and I have an encrypted portable Sandisk 1TB ssd with Debian installed on it, that i take wherever my thinkpads are to do stuff. My asus gaming laptop runs Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS and i haven't bothered to change it to Debian. I use that one mainly for stable diffusion, voice to text with AI and to play minecraft singleplayer, with shaders.
My thinkpads can work without my portable ssd, and they run unencrypted Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS with basic stuff like firefox and realistic documents and normie stuff, so that it doesn't look suspicious :)
pretty cool :=)
Y'all are gonna make me say it, I run Arch BTW. The AUR and wiki are compelling reasons, but the truth is I was interested in being forced to learn how things work on a lower level, and the more I understand the more control I have over how things are done.
Slowly moving to nixos for everything but still have a few laptops on arch. For servers I'm on CentOS for work compat/similarity. And one Ubuntu server for Plex.
EndevourOS. A better just-works Arch based distro than Manjaro. I might switch to Arch
I use Gentoo. We have what's probably the most flexible and powerful package manager for Linux.
Adding new packages is trivial; an ebuild script is created which describes how to build the package, along with a little metadata. This is placed into an ebuild repository - I like to contribute to the Gentoo one, but any folder structure will do (however git is by for the most common method). It's not uncommon for a Gentoo user to package software outside the official repos. These will have all of the features (like configurability via USE flags) that ebuilds in the official repo have.
These repositories, for convenience, may be registered with Gentoo and linked on https://repos.gentoo.org/ where the eselect repository tool can be used to add them by name from the index. http://gpo.zugaina.org/ indexes known ebuild repos and can help you to identify whether or not something has already been packaged.
Nobara 38 - Gnome/Wayland
I started with Ubuntu a few years ago and have stuck with Debian-like distros ever since.
I currently use Pop!Os on notebooks and OMV on my NAS.
If I ever find the time, I plan to play around with something Arch based for my gaming PC when the time comes to switch from Windows.