I’m wondering what the current favorite distros are besides the most popular ones like Arch, Debian and Fedora.
OpenSUSe. Tumbleweed as a rolling bistro is amazingly stable, yast is nice, and it all just works great. Leap for the servers, and things are solid.
I, too, get my coffee from the rolling bistro.
Loool I’ll leave it
Same. Tumbleweed here. All the benefits of the rpm ecosystem but with less hassle and more updates
OpenSUSE for me too.
I also switched family & friends to Thimbleweed (since a bit too snappy Ubuntu) & it’s been great.
I should think so too. A Thimbleweed sounds an excellent plant for an Evil_Shrubbery.
My evil plans have been discovered!!
Regardless the evil plant army must grow. Rolling thimbleweeds are usually our scouts and assassins (rarely kamikaze when on fire, looks cool tho).
What I’m saying is that you better be on the lookout, maybe hide if you see a thimbleweed with a gun or knife.
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OpenSuse tumbleweed
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has been my desktop home for the last year. It’s very up to date, yet it’s somehow solid and reliable despite sometimes receiving hundreds of updates per week. And if anything goes wrong with an update you can easily roll back to a BTRFS snapshot. It has a good repository supplemented by Flatpaks, and I haven’t had any problems finding software, yet it’s not a hassle like some other cutting-edge distros. It uses KDE Plasma by default, which I consider a plus. I came to it from Mint, which was my go-to distro for a long time, but I enjoy Tumbleweed more for its up-to-dateness and configurability, and I have (surprisingly) encountered more software gaps on Mint.
Another vote for openSUSE Tumbleweed
NixOS for me. It’s a package manager (a very nice, declarative one) that you can use on any Linux (or Mac), and there’s also an entire distro based on it.
Yeah I’ve gotten into Nix recently and it’s slowly been taking everything over bit by bit. So now I have the standalone package manager when I’m on WSL or other distros, full NixOS on a couple machines, fully reproducible LXC containers for my Proxmox build, the list goes on and on! Hell, I’ve got it on my steam deck to manage my CLI apps just because I can lol
Opensuse is cool
Can it still be a favourite if I haven’t touched it in a decade? I still love Gentoo but I have enough shiny things to burn up my time.
Same! I’m on Ubuntu and Pop these days but I fondly remember my old distcc build cluster…
Portage is still far and away my favorite package manager.
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NixOS is not based on any other distro because it has its own package manager which is better than all the other distros’
Custom North Korean linux. Preinstalled missile tracking software.
NSA would like to know your location. Enable?
You would think Pyongyang but really chilling on a rocking chair in McMullen, Alabama. Population: 10.
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My reason against using Guix is software availability. NixOS repos are just larger, and I like that on NixOS unfree software can be enabled with a single line.
with nonguix the lines are like five instead of one, but yes there are less packages than nix. the real selling point imho is how everything is human-sized and consistent
I discovered this on Lemmy, clearly there is no going back
Wait until you hear about biebian
I get that there are a lot of novel are cool distros out there, but I just stick with Debian (or one of the other well known distros that have been around for decades).
I do it because from a security standpoint, they have my trust. Maybe in 10-20 years with a good reputation and history, but it’s not there.
OpenSUSE, it’s what I’d be using if Fedora didn’t exist.
Alpine was the most interesting for me. It goes against the tendency of complicating the systems. I have to use Arch because everything can work on that distro.
