Hello everyone!
A few weeks ago I've created a blog post and asked if you use Linux and why. Following this one, I would like to use you which is the Linux distro that you use and why you've chosen it. Also, feel free to share your experience and what other distros you've used along the way before choosing your current distro.
For me, it was Linux Mint for my work PC. This was my first Linux experience. I've bought a laptop that came with OpenSUSE and I've used it for some time, but then I've upgraded to a dual boot setup with Ubuntu 16.04. Now I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 with KDE and CentOS 7 for my servers.
I'm curious to hear what you're using and what was your journey as well!
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I believe you find all the tools you need using the Ubuntu terminal. I'll still prefer to have a Linux Desktop too, but WSL is a great alternative.
I started my journey with Sabayon Linux way back. I tried many Linux Distro. but i stick with few of them like Ubuntu, fedora and Elementary.
Currently I am using Elementary as i found its speed up my multi-tasking. But currently i am planning to check feasibility of Arch Linux for day to day work.
Did you choose Elementary because it's also macOS look-alike or not?
Yes it also one of the reason as I also have MAC for office work & it feels seamless transition for me.
Yep, I also feel the same about ElementaryOS. Thanks for sharing this!
ubuntu Budgie LTS
Have you tried other distros?
youbntu 😂
CentOS is all I've used for years, since around the time of RHEL 3.
But now with recent changes I don't know what I'll use as my default server OS. I do less with full VMs nowadays anyway. Ubuntu is often the base of many images I use in docker space.
I don't use Linux as a dev desktop environment though as I find the Desktop experience just poor. Don't get me wrong, before MacOS came out, I was a diehard Fedora desktop and dev environment user. With blackbox/fluxbox as a window manager. But once MacOS came out and gave me *nix underneath a very nice desktop experience, there was no looking back.
With the recent CentOS changes, I'm also keen to switch from it and move to Ubuntu. MacOS is great for a work computer and do your coding there plus it is really powerfull to do other projects too.
Manjaro with KDE. My mom has also been using it for about two years. Still haven't converted my stepdad yet.
Great job you've done here! I hope you'll conver your dad to the "dark" side too. :D
Arch + Gnome
Cycled through many WM/desktops and distributions. Finally settled in and I see no reason to change again.
Ubuntu 20.04 and sometimes manjaro
Sounds great! Which one do you prefer?
My first distro was elementary I loved it a lot and after breaking apt for many times (because of dependency errors) I decided to make a switch then I found Arch gave it a try I was totally in love with it's simplicity, One of the biggest thing I love about Arch is AUR (Arch user repository) is very big almost every software that is made for linux can be found here. Now I don't have to worry about packages anymore
I have got bad experience with pgadmin4-5.1 not exists in AUR, though.
Yes, eventually there will be a package that won't be included in the repository. What matters is you'll have the backbone of packages that you need available in the repo.
It exists in community repository
It's outdated, though.
Thanks for sharing this. I've seen that a lot of users share the same experience with AUR.
A lot of people say that they find Fedore stable despite its been described as the bleeding edge for all the packages and software which can sometimes cause issues to configure your enviroment.
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