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    [–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

    For me, I always keep coming back to Arch tbh

    Sometimes I get fed up with managing a whole system and once in a blue moon bricking my system on an update, but the alternatives are always worse, and with btrfs now, I don't have to worry about the latter problem.

    Nix was the closest to pulling me away. A centralized config? Beautiful. Static package store without dependency conflicts? Beautiful. Immutable applications? The WORST idea we've ever had as a community. For instance, imo, VS Code extensions are fundamentally incompatible with Nix. I spent weeks trying to get it to work doing multiple different things to try and hope it would work. It can't. VS Code just has to be mutable.

    Anyway so I'm back to arch and have been for over a year since I tried Nix (and before that Fedora which has its own issues). Before that I had been on Arch for 4 years.

    I think I'll stay now. It's really the best option out there. In my mind, Arch is Linux, i.e. it's how an OS should be built for the Linux kernel and the FOSS ecosystem, and it won't ever be beat

    [–] Feyd@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    As soon as I realized distro upgrades are a minefield every time on a desktop I tried arch and never looked back. In hindsight, backports are insanity and just always using upstream is obviously the way to go. As a bonus, I can actually understand how arch is constructed when I need to because the wiki is amazing

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    [–] redsand@infosec.pub 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    But have you tried Gentoo?

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    [–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    This is so true, and why I choose OpenSUSE

    [–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

    Highly underrated distro!

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    [–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

    This is why you need to have 2 computers. One to run a boring distro that just works. And the other one for installing distros that you can ride for fun as it goes down in flames.

    The best of both worlds.

    [–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

    Fedora is just a straight line, as I've found.

    [–] Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The answer: Fedora

    You're welcome.

    [–] SleepyPie@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    But I don’t want to use American software 🀷

    [–] waldfee@feddit.org 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Opensuse is also great: Like Fedora its rpm-based and backed by a corpo and with Tumbleweed you'll get a nice rolling release experience without worries that it's gonna bork itself

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    [–] Jiral@lemmy.org 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Tumbleweed somehow gives me the newest Plasma with neither configuration nor manual dependency resolution exhaustion. It is not perfect either but it squares the circle of a stable rolling release distro surprisingly well.

    [–] timestatic@feddit.org 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    Slackware in 2026? Didn't know it was still around

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    [–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 6 points 4 months ago

    Install a random distro once a week for the next 6 months.

    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    "Step-Operating-System what are you doing!?"

    GUIX GUIX GUIX

    [–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 5 points 4 months ago

    "Manual configuration is exhausting" my brother in christ that's the whole fun of having a fucking computer

    [–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 4 months ago

    My Arch install has had no issues upgrading for years, even with the big KDE updates

    [–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago

    Time to learn kernel maintenance

    [–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    For my bare metal personal systems, I just use Debian stable with backports. When that does not suffice, I manually build and install things from source.

    [–] Obnomus@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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