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Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?

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Re: Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?

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Post by tuhriel »

robcohen wrote: post #29

NixOS. Why would anyone use anything else except out of ignorance? Maybe QubesOS makes sense.

I tried NixOS but i'm gonna switch, as there is some stuff that annoys me: - I couldn't get the language syntax in my head. - A lot of things need special care on NixOS (python environments, docker, vs codium remote explorer - it's not a rolling relase - during every update I usually have to perform the "error, fix, retry, new error, fix again"-dance multiple times

I really like the idea of NixOS, but it somehow doesn't flow for me

Re: Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?

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Post by asdfbank »

I agree with other sentiments of don't worry too much about the distro, but just do it. There is a lot of "it just works" all over many distros. As a daily driver though, you might have different work or other requirements that might not just work and you can distro hop as well..

I believe it's important to be part of the change you want to see (from walled gardens perspective)

Re: Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?

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Post by zepearl »

adrian_b wrote: post #28

I have switched from a Mac to Linux, but that was 20 years ago and the switch was only in laptops, because in desktops I had already switched from Windows to Linux earlier. I had been very satisfied with the hardware quality of my Apple laptop, but I had mixed feelings about the Apple software. There were a few things that I liked, but overall I was dissatisfied because there were too many constraints in what I was a…

Gentoorian here as well, cheers.

I use it since ~20 years on most of my notebooks/PCs/root servers mainly because of its flexibility and I often end up wanting to use the very latest versions of software (e.g. ZFS, kernels, etc...) without struggling as most things are available from the official central package repository. I admit that updating/upgrading the OS is a pain from the time perspective (because of the long compilation times). As a programmer/developer the experience is as well fantastic as most of the libraries, compilers, interpreters, etc are very well integrated or easily installable.

I did try to use a few times Linux Arch, but I never fully liked its AUR.

For VMs I basically use always either Debian or Linux Mint with Xfce.

For gaming, mediacenter-PC and webradio-miniPC I use Linux Mint with Xfce.

It's funny that whenever I need assistance with some task (fixing a problem, doing something weird, ...) and I mention to Google Gemini something like "I'm using Gentoo Linux blahblah" then often Gemini starts its reply with something like "Ah, a picky Gentoorian, I see - then let's do this the complicated way..." :o)

Re: Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?

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Post by red-iron-pine »

Fedora. Pretty much everything works out of the box and synergizes well with the stuff I handle at work.

Only thing that ever broke was a nVidia driver thing, once. Flawless with AMD, and Proton means Steam runs AAA games out of the box. Windows VMs work fine.

Also had good experiences with the Ubuntu / Mint family, and liked Manjaro (Arch) until pacman stopped working for some reason

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