Kde Neon because I like all the new stuff the Kde team is doing. I have previously used Arch for yaourt as a package manager, but I value the reliability and compatability of an Ubuntu based distro, while getting all my obscure packages and tools through the repos myself.
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#12NixOS, because it's the cutting edge of configuration management and package definition. It even reinvigorated my love for computers and free software just by being so elegant, sound, and practical.
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#13I've been using Debian (always the stable versions) for at least 5 years. Packages are sometimes old, but whenever I need a bleeding edge version of something (generally node+ruby+python+emacs+firefox+blender), I just download or compile it in ~/bin and everything is fine. I love the stability & tiny updates that comes with Debian (When compared with gigabytes updates with forced reboots from windows).
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#14Arch or Antergos (Arch with an easy installer) It's not hard to install Arch but it takes slightly more effort than many of the mainstream distro's. The benefit is a powerful, fully customisable distro. It's documentation and package repo's are best of the best. Antergos makes it quick (why I sometimes use it) to install and slightly easier for completely new users. I have been on Arch based distro's for about 10 yea…
I kcouldn't get Antergos to work properly on my XPS 15 9560 so I had to go with Manjaro with i3. The battery life is amazing. 8 hours with the GPU disabled vs 4 on Ubuntu 16.04.
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#15Linux Mint with Cinnamon. I like the UI very much. It's based on Ubuntu LTS so there are a lot of packages and troubleshooting guides.
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#16I went from wandos to arch+i3+zsh when switching to my current job and my productivity probably trippled. Im having like 20 different things going on on my 3 monitors and being able to only use the keyboard is pretty amazing aswell.
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#17My main distro is OpenSUSE Tumleweed, because it has good KDE Plasma desktop and KDE software integration and it has frequently updated packages to the latest version. Also love the YaST settings centre.
I also use KDE Neon which came with the Slimbook laptop and works well enough not to have the need to change to something else. And on another computer I use Gentoo,
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#18I went from wandos to arch+i3+zsh when switching to my current job and my productivity probably trippled. Im having like 20 different things going on on my 3 monitors and being able to only use the keyboard is pretty amazing aswell.
Opinion on i3 vs Awesome?
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#19I use GuixSD on all my machines because I'm a Schemer and love to be able to declare the desired system state with a Scheme DSL. I no longer have to fear breaking my system with upgrades because I can always roll back to previous versions as the system is stateless.
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#20Fedora. I've used Arch, Ubuntu, Debian, and OpenSUSE. Except Arch (curiously), none of them came even close in usability and stability. Since Arch requires too much tinkering around and I wanted something that "just works" out of the box, I tried out Fedora, and haven't looked back.
And with "just works" I also mean the little things. Ubuntu also "just works", but in 17.10 for example they didn't ship the gnome indexer that allows you to search for files in the overview , so I had to manually install it. It's stuff like that which ruins a Distro for me. With Fedora, I never had such an experience.