Thumbs UpWhat’s your preferred base for a distribution?
Feel free to comment with more details below the poll
Fedora/RHEL
Ubuntu/Debian
Arch
Other answer (eg Nix, Gentoo)
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Orion Ussner kidder@thumbsup Debian, but def not Ubuntu, FWIW.
@OrionKidder I feel that. I strongly dislike Ubuntu and if I were using a Debian derivative of any kind it would not be downstream of Ubuntu.
@thumbsup I had this conversation with someone years ago. My position is Canonical seems like they're trying to use monopoly tactics on Linux, which is antithetical to the whole project. It looks to me a lot like WOTC and the "d20" licence.
He pointed out, sure,yes, true, but they've also done a LOT to promote Linux and get it onto people's computers.
I think both of those things are true, and I still don't want a Canonical product in my laptop.
@OrionKidder That's exactly how I feel, AND I've tried to daily a lot of Ubuntu derivatives over the years and always had issues with drivers and weird bugs.
I personally have had zero issues with Fedora which is what I've run on three different computers (a gaming desktop, a Lenovo laptop, and Fedora Asahi dual booted on my M2 Macbook) and all have been great.
But I'm planning to pick up a Thinkpad or mini pc as a dedicated Linux machine and I'm plannin to test out the following distros...
@OrionKidder (ran out of characters)...
- CachyOS: had too many issues with Arch in the past to want to go native (though never say never), but I've only heard good things about Cachy and Endeavour.
- Something atomic: will probably explore Bluefin, Fedora Cosmic Atomic, VanillaOS, maybe Opensuse Aeon
- PikaOS
- Whatever Singularity Desktop ends up becoming
Mac
Björn@thumbsup @macberg I prefer it because I want rolling release but more polished. I like the combination of openqa testing, rolling release and the enterprise level polishing. Plus it's pretty easy to contribute.
I switched from Arch because of those but also because it was easier for me two work with rpm at work and at home when packing. I prefer rpm as it's more structured then let's say makepkg.
I switched from Arch because of those but also because it was easier for me two work with rpm at work and at home when packing. I prefer rpm as it's more structured then let's say makepkg.
@macberg @thaodan Seems there is some further interrelation being worked on
https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/
https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/
@macberg Yeah that would be in the "Other answer" if you want to vote. Limited to four options :/
@macberg Btw, I'd love to hear why too! Suse seems quite nice but I have no idea what in particular makes people choose it.
@thumbsup I went with OpenSuse Tumbleweed because for the first time ever I wrote down a bunch of requirements that I had, and went looking for the distro that matched it the best, instead of just picking a distro that "seemed interesting" as I had always done before.
Tumbleweed just happened to be the best match: Rolling, stable, Wayland, BTRFS w snapshots, lots of GUI tools (Yast), comes with KDE, trustworthy... Haven't looked back since as I'm extremely satisfied.
#OpenSuse
Tumbleweed just happened to be the best match: Rolling, stable, Wayland, BTRFS w snapshots, lots of GUI tools (Yast), comes with KDE, trustworthy... Haven't looked back since as I'm extremely satisfied.
#OpenSuse
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Manpacket@thumbsup been using Ubuntu for a long time, but realized I have to fight it more and more (native packages turning into snaps and other stuff. Now it's nixos on the laptop and Fedora on the desktop.
@manpacket How have you found Nixos in terms of difficulty coming from Ubuntu/Fedora?