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submitted 10 months ago by const_void@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I'm wondering what the current favorite distros are besides the most popular ones like Arch, Debian and Fedora.

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[-] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 23 points 10 months ago

Alpine.

I’m a longtime Arch user, and would have preferred to use Arch on a particular system, but didn’t want to deal with needing to babysit ZFS packages from AUR.

So, I decided to use Alpine after never having tried it before, and ended up sticking with it. Like Arch, it’s both lightweight and has a capable/sensible package manager, which are the main things that are important to me.

I haven’t had any growing pains from Alpine’s use of busybox/musl/openrc, things mostly Just Work!

[-] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

Came here to say the same thing

[-] Cwilliams@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

I remember having all of these libseat and elogind errors when I tried to use anything wayland-related: Sway, Hyprland, even KDE. Since then I switched back to Arch because I felt like everything Just Worked™️ there

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