This community seems a little, uh, inactive, so here’s my shot at stirring up some discussion.

Me, I’m mostly a debian user. Stable for many, many years, but have been using debian sid recently on laptops without any issue.

  • @sparkingcircuit
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    92 years ago

    Debian all the way, and from the looks of things, that’s a pretty common choice for MLs.

    • @whoamiOP
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      62 years ago

      must be something about the Debian Social Contract

  • @CommunistWolf
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    82 years ago

    You mean there are distros… other than… Debian?

    I kid, I kid. Been using it on almost everything since ~2000, but sometimes use Manjaro on devices with hardware that Debian struggles to cope with, like the pinebook pro in the early days.

    I try other things from time to time, but always return to Debian after a few months. It’s just so pleasant.

    • @whoamiOP
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      72 years ago

      I’m the same, I just keep to going back to Debian, it’s such a well thought out OS

  • @4ffy@lemmy.ml
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    I use Arch (btw).

    When I made the jump toward Linux, I pretty quickly realized that I would never be content with a default install of pretty much anything. To save myself from endless distrohopping and hammering them into something usable, I instead chose something that would let me build my environment from the ground up, which is basically Arch’s main selling point.

    Since then, I’ve fallen in love with some of the other features that it provides. Pacman, for example, puts any other traditional package manager to shame, and creating your own packages is trivial, allowing you to use pacman to manage everything.

    One day I would like to try getting a Parabola install going on a spare machine for the 100% libre software experience.

    • nixfreak
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      12 years ago

      Free Libre software is fine if you’re willing to sacrifice a lot of device drivers (i.e. video drivers). I would install a regular (parent distro) first , like Debian, Fedora, Archlinux, Gentoo, Slack. and they only use libre repos and see if you like it.

    • @whoamiOP
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      42 years ago

      upvote for distro and for user name lmao

  • @Bronstein_Tardigrade
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    72 years ago

    Been a Fedora user as long as there has been a Fedora. RedHats purchase by IBM has me a bit nervous. Hopefully, by the time IBM pulls the rug out, Flatpak will ease my transition to something else.

    • @whoamiOP
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      82 years ago

      yeah IBM seems to fuck everything up. I used to dislike Fedora, but I tried it again maybe a year ago. I really appreciate it now, but still prefer Debian.

    • bruhbeans
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      I still dig Fedora, run it as my DD and using Fedora IoT for my k8s cluster. I can’t hang with apt-based distros after getting used to yum history undo, and now with immutable OS’es, my obsession with keeping things ‘clean’ is all the more focused on fedora.

  • Fiona (she/her)🏳️‍⚧️
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    62 years ago

    I use Manjaro. It’s just right for my use case.

    Though, I’ve also been considering giving Fedora another proper try, since it seems like it might do just as well.

    • @whoamiOP
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      12 years ago

      Personally, I would go Fedora over Manjaro every day. But it all comes down to use case and our own personal preferences

  • @panic
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    I’m a Linux user out of necessity. My computer(s) are getting old now and one of them is extremely low spec. I use Antix in the old low spec one. Imagine my shock when I open Firefox and there’s a whole bookmark folder called “Anticapitalista”. The communists have infiltrated my computer!

    • @whoamiOP
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      22 years ago

      There used to be a distro called BLAG Linux. BLAG was fro Brixton linux users action group. It was based on Fedora iirc. The browser had default bookmarks dedicated to lefty news sites/theory etc. Doesn’t exist anymore unfortunately

    • @panic
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      42 years ago

      Oh my god, it looks like they are

    • @whoamiOP
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      lol, no I don’t think so.

      edit: I don’t know how to tell if someone is or isn’t doing that. All I know is it’s not me lol

  • Arsen6331 ☭
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    62 years ago

    I use Arch on my daily-driver systems and Debian on all my servers. Arch is nice because I like keeping my systems very lightweight, and I like the repos and the AUR. Debian is nice because it’s very stable and I don’t have to worry about my servers deciding to break one day.

    • @whoamiOP
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      12 years ago

      The stable part of Debian Stable is actually not talked about enough. That thing doesn’t break

  • @mrshll1001
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    62 years ago

    Recently migrated from Xubuntu to Debian Stable after the snaps got too much. It was a long time coming, though. However after reading into the systemd (I know I’m late to the party), I’ve installed Devuan on a laptop. It’s a Debian fork but without systemd.

  • @FuckBigTech347
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    52 years ago

    Parabola GNU/Linux-libre (OpenRC version) on my main PC. Arch Linux ARM on my ARM based machines and I also have a 10 year old laptop with OpenBSD 7.0

    • @whoamiOP
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      42 years ago

      OpenBSD is pretty neat. Parabola is one I’ve never tried. What are the advantages of it over other distros?

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        Parabola is one of the few distributions that is 100% libre software. Proprietary blobs have been stripped from the kernel and no software is offered that infringes on your freedom. It’s based on Arch, so you also get Arch’s simplicity and excellent package management.

    • @whoamiOP
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      How are you liking Void? I’ve tried it in a VM. What do you think are it’s strength’s vs other linux distros or the major bsd’s?

      For me Void is one of those things I respect and am glad it exists but doesn’t necessarily fit my use case

      • lemmygrabber
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        QI have been using it for over six years now. The only other distro I have experience with is Ubuntu which I use at work and Ubuntu has been becoming somewhat crappy with the heavy emphasis on snap.

        I like the package manager. It’s easy to submit updates to outdated packages by filing a PR in the void-packages repo. It strikes a good balance between the numver of packages that are available vs. moderation (as in how AUR is not really moderated and has a kind of anything goes situation). One of the two bad things about packages situation is that the distro is run by a relatively small team of volunteers and the resources available to them are limited. This causes issues like forks of Chrome amd Firefox not being allowed in the official repositories because they take a very long time to compile and with the limited number of build machines available to them, they would block other packages being built. The other bad thing is subjective. It is a good thing for a bunch of other people. Paclages have to compile against both glibc and musl and have to compile successfully for a variety of architectures (x86_64, x86, aarches, arms, ppcs etc.) so sometimes, packages require patches for musl or these special architectures. But very few people have the expertise to find or write these patches so it becomes difficult to submit new packages or upgrade existing ones.

        Finding support for Void is a bit difficult. They had a discourse forum a while back which was very lively. But it ended up dying because the hoster kinda just stopped hosting it. The distro maintainers don’t want to start it again because they don’t want to spend time moderating it. So your only options are the subreddit and the IRC channel.

        It uses runit instead of systemd. It is not as featureful as systemd but the architecture is much simpler and transparent so it is easier to configure. It also boots much faster than systemd which I like.

        Overall I don’t mind it. If I had to move to a different, I would move to Arch Linux but any issues I have run into, I have been able to find solutions or workarounds for them. So I have been sticking to Void.

  • @princesscelestia
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    42 years ago

    I am a Gentoo User currently. I keep returning to it because I just really like portage and how it works.

  • @sudojonz
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    42 years ago

    LInux Mint (daily driver), MX Linux (low power notebook), and occasionally GalliumOS on an old Chromebook. Was recently bummed to see confirmation that GalliumOS development is now discontinued, but it gives another reason to go back to tinkering!

    • @whoamiOP
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      22 years ago

      Mint is cool because of things like timeshift and the warpinator. MX Linux is a great distro, maybe the best debian based one.