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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)

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[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Currently driving Fedora 39

[–] longshanks197@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Devuan (Debian without systemd), stable (Daedalus) with backports. Been running Debian since 2000, Devuan since 2018. I am at a point where I just want consistency and familiarity in my setup.

Edit: as far as cool new things, I have moved to pipewire for audio and leveraging a selfhosted nextcloud for web based file storage. For a personal setup (limited users) I just installed Nextcloud office which is basically Libreoffice in a browser like Google docs. I am also using mythtv with an hdhomerun for broadcast tv. None of this is really "new" but new to me. The setup of these functions has been fairly straightforward for me and I appreciate all the work these projects have put to make the setup and maintenance fairly painless.

[–] rebul@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] foiledAgain@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fedora but I’m not loving it. Due to my hardware I think I’m limited to that, arch and openSuse.

[–] xohshoo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

? If you're hardware runs Fedora, it should run anything

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Gentoo desktop but I have to use it over SSH a lot of the time since I'm stuck on my work macbook

[–] atomic@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gentoo, running pure Wayland and Pipewire, no X11.

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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Nobara because I am a beginner that uses his PC primaryly for gaming

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

Garuda on my gaming desktop, fedora bazzite on my gaming laptop. Loving both to be honest.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fedora immutable (ublue kinoite) has been so bulletproof. Moved from Arch, which is now on distrobox, so painless. Now ~ 1 year... 2 laptops + desktop, other is destined for NixOS...

[–] mhz@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
  • Laptop: Opensuse slowroll with Sway
  • Home PC: Arch with KDE
  • Home server: Debian 12 (headless)
[–] estebanlm@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Manjaro Gnome. It just works ;)

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[–] ExLisper@linux.community 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Debian with awesome at home. Fedora with cinnamon at work.

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[–] 01011@monero.town 2 points 2 years ago
[–] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

Debian Testing and Arch with KDE on the PC/Workstation.

Debian Stable on the server.

[–] davemeech@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm about ready to hop back in and daily drive Linux again after the nightmare that was attempting debian w/KDE plasma and Wayland. I have a Nvidia GPU on my laptop and for some reason I did not have luck at all after moderate success daily driving opensuse tumbleweed and kubuntu for a while.

I'm admittedly looking to onboard myself to the gnome workflow and leave the comfort of the windows style desktop environment experience. Gnome seems a bit more polished and stable than KDE plasma but it's interface isn't intuitive to me yet.

Ideally I'll be using Debian or Arch when the time comes for me to dive back into desktop Linux.

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[–] worldofgeese@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I run Guix System on my personal laptop and Project Bluefin on my work machine.

Guix is even easier to get started with now thanks to the Guix Packager , a web UI for writing Guix package definitions.

Project Bluefin auto-updates thanks to its use of container images deliver system updates. It's also just a great platform to get started writing containerized apps, since it ships with rootless Podman by default and you can easily add new developer tools using just commands.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Neon is my daily driver. Planing on pop os after their new de

[–] Potajito@feddit.ch 1 points 2 years ago

Another one for the endevour os team. Not looking to distro hop anytime soon.

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