since 1998 up to a couple years ago, i have been a Slackware user, with no intention to change.
But internet banking is a b*tch, and my bank started demanding some brain-damaged daemon overriding standard TSL certificate processing ( namely warsaw by diebold nixdorf ) only available to debian-based distributions ( yes, i tried to fiddle with alien and rebuild the package and so on, and on ) so, i was nudged towards Ubuntu ( xubuntu, actually ).
Still miss the simple elegance of Slack, and everything being found on the most logical place. :,(
Ask HN: Which Linux distro you use, and why?
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Re: Ask HN: Which Linux distro you use, and why?
#22elementary os.
It's look elegant, has good community, core team has blog at Medium so I know what is going on and has ( awesome ) App Center.
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Re: Ask HN: Which Linux distro you use, and why?
#24Started out with Ubuntu and then stumbled across Mint. I'm currently distro hopping and so I've also tried Debian, Fedora, OpenSuse, Elementary, Solus, and Manjaro.
I personally stick with Mint Cinnamon and now Manjaro XFCE. Ive been trying to get a hang of KDE in Manjaro, but I think i'll go back to XFCE.
Re: Ask HN: Which Linux distro you use, and why?
#25NixOS, 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.
Very well put. My experience of NixOS has been just the same.
I've so loved learning and using the Nix approach that these days the only distro besides NixOS that directly interests me is GuixSD. (I do feel like I should explore other distros just to keep up with the community, but GuixSD interests me for the same reasons as NixOS.)