0ddj0bbJan 31

new laptop comin. what distro of linux we rockin these days?

not new to linux just looking to make this a windows free and more open source friendly build to suit my every day life but also let me hack shit as needed.

i uave parrot and kali when i need to liveboot

#linux #rocky #ubuntu #arch #hacking #infosec #battlestation #foss

rocky
1.1%
arch
32.2%
gentoo
9.2%
ubuntu (or variant)
23%
debian
16.1%
kodachi
0%
swift linux
0%
other (reply plz)
18.4%
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Show threadMose

@0ddj0bb I've long been a Debian fan, but Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop worked better out of the box on my tablet, and I've been enjoying it the last few months. It's really polished, and seems to have good defaults.

eta: I messed with the immutable variants too. Nice, but I didn't have the "messing about" budget at the time, and kept hitting little things that worked differently than I expected. I like immutable in theory, and mean to revisit.

Jan 31 at 2:00pmWeb
Show threadkandi3kan3Jan 31
@mose @0ddj0bb I would agree with Fedora as a general recommendation. I'm a fan of Debian for workstations and servers and Arch where I want to play around, but I tried a few different distros earlier this year and agree that Fedora is the best out of the box experience. It's also one of the few distros that tries to configure SELinux out of the box, which gives some warm fuzzies (though maybe that could cause pain down the line).
Show threadpfriedmaJan 31
@mose
Yeah +1 for Fedora. Especially for newer hardware that's going to be a daily driver.

I have Debian or NetBSD on older machines. And have tried a LOT of distros (my Chromebook is currently rocking Chimera) over the years but my daily driver runs fedora 43. It's honestly kind of like the windows of Linux is as much as it's not particularly slim and it uses things (Wayland, systemd, etc) that people have *opinions* about (and it's backed by IBM now) but for the most part it doesn't require a lot of fucking around. Ubuntu is also like this but I don't like canonical.
There's enough in the way of options (spins for Plasma, xfce, immutable) but it's not like you're going to have to spend hours in configuration.

Unless you have Nvidia graphics. Then there is a bit more fuckery.


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