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submitted 2 years ago by blotz@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] callyral@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

void linux (glibc) + swayfx + waybar + foot terminal + nushell

[-] GustavoM@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Arch on my "desktop PC", Armbian on my rpi 4, Dietpi soon (tm) on my Orange pi zero 3.

[-] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

kubuntu

kde connect wasn't working on endeavouros with sway and i wanted something easy and debian based

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Debian testing. Seriously. That is reasonably easy to install and configure unlike Arch or Gentoo, but doesn't come with "user friendly" corporate crap like Ubuntu and its derivatives.

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[-] Astaroth@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Arch Linux with i3wm

Fish, Alacritty, Rofi (dmenu replacement)

[-] shertson@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Laptop and Workstation run Fedora. Servers run Proxmox.

Can't say that there is anything new and exciting. Big change for me has been that I have accepted flatpacks. I've gotten to the point where I don't care about being a purist, don't care about customizing and theming everything. I just want to use my computer.

[-] foiledAgain@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I recently switched my laptop to Garuda, it's an Arch based gaming distro. It seems to mostly work right out of the box, but I did have to tweak a few steam games to force them to use my dedicated graphics.

I guess I could go in and force steam itself to use the graphics card via env... But I only have a handful of large games at the moment. It's just as easy to set the requirement per game right now.

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[-] atomic@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Gentoo, running pure Wayland and Pipewire, no X11.

[-] 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.

I'm a Mint Cinnamon guy.

[-] 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)

Nobara because I am a beginner that uses his PC primaryly for gaming

[-] spider@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago

Q4OS, for five years

[-] ExLisper@linux.community 2 points 2 years ago

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

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

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

[-] NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Zorin OS for now. Old kernel and stuff, but it's stable, and I like the looks more than I did PopOS!. Maybe PopOS! is cooler now with their Cosmic thingy.

[-] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

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

Debian Stable on the server.

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