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    What did yall end up settling on?

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    [–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Went back to Ubuntu after laying off of it for a while. Now that I'm used to not using Windows, I feel like trying either Arch or Cachy though everyone keeps raving about Bazzite.

    Man, I don't miss windows. My laptop works better without it. Idk what the hell windows does but my internal wifi works better than it did with windows. A 750mbps USB adapter was needed and my 1200mbps internal wasn't able to capture my 5G internet from 2 rooms away from the router.

    I install Ubuntu and I can use my laptop in the shitter/3 rooms away for the router. All or most of the streaming is 720hd or 1080hd and it loads. IT ACTUALLY FUCKIN' LOADS.

    [–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    On servers: Red Hat -> Debian (with a brief detour through Ubuntu Server for a couple of years).

    On desktop: Red Hat -> Ubuntu -> Manjaro.

    Switched away from Red Hat around 2004 after RHL was discontinued and split into RHEL and Fedora. You may think Fedora would've been a more obvious choice but it was still new in 2004 while Debian had 10 years under its belt. We also migrated the servers at work to Debian around that time and I had used Debian at school in the '90s so it made a lot of sense to use it at home.

    Ubuntu on desktop was a fucking revelation when it came out (on CDs shipped free to your home πŸ˜ƒ) in 2004. Early days Ubuntu was soooo good that I stayed with it until 2020, long after the magic was gone.

    I mean I would've probably left eventually anyway given the whole snap and privacy and so on debacles but what really put me off was how it would almost never upgrade cleanly once you've added a bunch of 3rd party repos (which you wanted to do all the time on a desktop PC). Eventually I got so sick of it that I was determined to find a rolling distro where upgrades would never be a problem.

    Tried a bunch of them during stay at home during the pandemic and settled on Manjaro + XFCE on the desktop and a fresh install of Debian stable + Docker on the server as a happy medium between "hands off" and "up to date". I'm at a point where I like my Linux machines to just work and to need zero maintenance so I can put the time into other things instead.

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    [–] MorPolitics@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

    I was like this before I tried regular Arch. I probably would’ve settled on NixOS if I had tried that first. I feel like Linux Mint could be the end of the line because it just works on a lot of old machines & does so quickly.

    [–] giacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

    ublue/fedora bootc derivatives

    [–] ashughes@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

    seventy tooth

    [–] Vincentmario@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

    I've only ever used Debian my entire life

    [–] The_Lurker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

    OpenSuse Tumbleweed for my gaming PC. Fedora KDE for everything else (laptops, mom's desktop).

    [–] candyman337@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Ubuntu wayy back in the day, started on mint, then nobara, then bazzite on my laptop and steam deck, then nobara to cachy os on my desktop, and I quickly switched the laptop and steam deck to cachy because I liked it so much

    [–] nuclear_wizard@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Pop!_OS on my laptop and CachyOS on my desktop.

    [–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

    Started with Mandrake, currently on Cachy

    Arch for many many years. Then Bazzite for round about 8 months. Now CachyOS for 9 months. Super happy with it. Additionally, I am running Debian on my Thinkpad and server.

    [–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Distros are tools for a job. I stick with the ones that have the most helpful communities and/or the best documentation. I avoid communities that tell you off for asking help or documentation that is obtuse.

    Still successfully troubleshooting stuff through 10 year old Ubuntu forum threads. Meanwhile learning the most through the FreeBSD handbook and it's not even Linux. lol

    [–] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Desktop: Mint -> Ubuntu -> Debian -> Manjaro -> Ubuntu - > Fedora

    Server: Debian -> CentOS -> Rocky

    [–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    At least use Alma. Rocky is toxic to the ecosystem while Alma contributes to the ecosystem.

    [–] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Can you elaborate? When I first chose between them back when they first forked, Alma was not as mature as Rocky and Rocky was run by the founder of CENTOS, so I chose that one, but I have no real attachment to either. It would take a lot to switch, but if Alma is better in that way, I'd be happy to migrate as I upgrade.

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    [–] T4V0@lemmy.pt 2 points 1 week ago

    Arch->Elementary OS

    I had experienced other distros before (not on my pc, at least), but as a joke my cousin suggested Arch, while I had some trouble setting it up, the documentation was so good I stayed for a while. Though I've always liked MacOS, so when upgrading my notebook, I took chance to install Elementary OS 8. Overall, it's ubuntu based, so I can't complain.

    [–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    I've run most non KDE distros now I just install Debian or Ubuntu depending on the computer

    [–] MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

    I bought a secondhand Steam Deck and was convinced by using it docked with kbm that Linux is ready to be my one and only.

    From there, my 2015 laptop moved from Windows 10 to PopOS -> Cinnamon Mint -> CachyOS -> Cinnamon Mint. I plan to build a desktop sometime between now and the release of PlayStation 6, and I'll probably go with CachyOS for that. I would just buy a Steam Machine, but I can't justify the price vs performance when I don't really care about console comforts like CEC. I'd rather pay the cost of the higher Steam Machine to get PS6 level performance.

    My wife moved her laptop from Windows 10 to Cinnamon Mint. She has to have a Windows partition for proctored exam spyware for online classes, but she's now only using Windows for that one thing. She's much more comfortable with Mint.

    [–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

    Off and on with Linux since 2003 until I went full conversion in 2018. I know red hat, ubuntu and mint were all in there as well as others that I can't remember. In 2018 I went through EndeavourOS, and Manjaro then settled with simple wonderful Arch like 5 years ago.

    [–] Coolcoder360@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

    Ubuntu -> Debian -> arch (6 years) -> Garuda (3-4 years)

    Still use Debian on some machines but Garuda is just smooth and more just-works than Arch.

    [–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

    Gentoo will always be there when you want to settle down knowing exactly what you want.

    [–] FedX@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago

    Today I'm using Chimera, but KaOS, Arix or perhaps some unholy install of Alpine with DINIT are tempting me. Seems a persistent kernel panic on wake from sleep has been fixed, so I'm not super tempted to hop ATM.

    [–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Ubuntu -> SteamOS (Steam Deck as PC convinced me to change my main PC) -> Endeavour OS -> Mint -> Kubuntu -> Zorin OS -> OpenSUSE (first one that stuck longterm) -> CachyOS (PC permanently now) + Debian (home server) + Bazzite (lounge console)

    [–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

    Early on I went from mandrake to gentoo, been on gentoo forever but decided as I was building my docker swarm that I wanted to go easy so I went with Ubuntu server on my 2 additional nodes, and then for my wife’s machine I went Linux mint. When windows is no longer needed for anything I think I will probably do gentoo on my primary machine. The programmer in me likes seeing compiles

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