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Ask HN: Which Linux distribution do you use, and why?

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Re: Ask HN: Which Linux distribution do you use, and why?

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Post by sassy_samurai »

Snuupy wrote: post #49
luv2code wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should give cinnamon a try. I think you would prefer it over gnome.

I actually use Linux Mint for this reason - Cinnamon is just awesome (except the random crashes every once in a while) Docking support is great, but sound output needs to be swapped manually sometimes.

Will Cinnamon be fast and responsive on an old laptop with a 2nd-gen Intel Core i5 processor and 4 GB of RAM? And how is the support for NVidia GPUs?

Re: Ask HN: Which Linux distribution do you use, and why?

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Post by mgalgs »

UK-AL wrote: post #20

Fedora - Stable but still up to date. I used to use arch, but you have to be selective and careful with updates otherwise you find you can't boot into x. Takes time to go and fix.

Nailed it... I used Arch for years but moved to Fedora. Fedora is almost as up-to-date as Arch, but without the breakage.

Re: Ask HN: Which Linux distribution do you use, and why?

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Post by goblins »

mbrock wrote: post #48
goblins wrote: post #40

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Never heard of this one, popped over to the website. Literally the only thing I understand is that the name is NixOS which uses the Nix package manager. They'd need to dumb down whatever it is they're talking about significantly before I would use it, can't make heads nor tails of it.

I'm brainwashed already so it's hard for me to see it from the perspective of a new user. Here are some main points from the website: NixOS has a completely declarative approach to configuration management: you write a specification of the desired configuration of your system in NixOS’s modular language, and NixOS takes care of making it happen. NixOS has atomic upgrades and rollbacks. It’s always safe to try an upgr…

I'm not adverse to messing with config files but this seems a little above my knowledge base.

I've no experience with functional programming so have no idea really how it's doing the things it's doing. Plus I can imagine writing out your config file would take a long time.

What does declarative mean? What does atomic mean?

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