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Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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So we can clearly see the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them, please follow this format:

  • Write the name of the Linux distro as a first-level comment.
  • Reply to that comment with each reason you like the distro as a separate answer.

For example:

  • Distro (first-level comment)
    • Reason (one answer)
    • Other reason (a different answer)

Please avoid duplicating options. This will help us better understand the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them.

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[-] maiskanzler@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu

[-] maiskanzler@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

A lot of proprietary software is easier to install here

[-] samwise@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

easy enough to use for me (I'm a linux newb) and I can setup steam on it!
edit: forgot to mention I can get hibernation working on Ubuntu when I couldn't figure out how to do that in Fedora

[-] jrubal1462@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

Are you playing steam games that have Linux versions? Or is the "comparability mode" stable and fast enough that you don't really have to think about it?

[-] 1draw4u@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

Shit just works

[-] maiskanzler@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can use the same OS on my servers

[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Because it just works. Because it's based on free Debian and not corporate RedHat. Because mainstream Linux needs a flagship distro and that distro needs to be used and supported.

[-] ehyuman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

but Ubuntu is corporate, no?

[-] greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

I don't have time to fuck about, I use ubuntu mate because it gets out of my way and does what I expect it to do.

[-] maiskanzler@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

I love the stability of LTS

[-] maiskanzler@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

It's easy to use

[-] maiskanzler@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I love the dock

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

For when I can't get stuff to work on nixos 😅

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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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