What's your favourite Linux distribution and why?
My favourite distro is Arch Linux because I love AUR and need a rolling distribution. Also archwiki is amazing :)
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Ubuntu by far. Started experementing with it in High School and have used it ever since. I thought about switching to different distros but every time I think about it I always come back to the fact that they are all pretty much the same with the exception of package maangers and other things.
Nowadays, Mint definitely. I have used a lot of distros during my life from debian-based to arch Linux. However, because of the bigger community in Debian-based distros (Ubuntu in Mint's case), I migrated to Mint because it is, for me, one of the biggest and most beautiful distros- I mean, you could personalize anyone but mint has its facilities - with an active community.
I'd be willing to move to Debian if they manage to pull of something like AUR, the only reason I'm not using Ubuntu based distributions' is because of the whole PPA thing.
PPAs (and other third-party APT repos) are typically FAR more stable than AUR in my experience (just over 12 years now with Ubuntu in particular, Ubuntu Studio 8.04 was my first taste - it's also worth noting that you need far fewer third party packages for any sort of multimedia creation in Ubuntu because of Ubuntu Studio).
I agree Mint is one of the best Distribution out there. It is solid, stable and the community is awesome.
TBH Clement's temper tantrum over Snap was absurd, when he could easily have added the vaapi Chromium deb PPA and pinned its packages (as I do in Ubuntu), or just added them to the Mint repos, without making it harder for Mint users to install snaps if they want to. Especially when you consider the overwhelming majority of "Mint" packages are actually mirrored from Ubuntu repos.
I love Mint, it's solid and the Cinnamon desktop is so usable and extensible. However, I've been running Ubuntu 20.04 the last few months and I must say this is the best Ubuntu ever. Modern, stylish and functional, I think right now it's slightly better than Mint overall.
The only downside is that some of the gnome-shell extensions are buggy. Cinnamon's spices on the other hand never gave me any hassle.
I'm a fan of Ubuntu Budgie. I really like the ease of Ubuntu coupled with the Budgie desktop. They have a great GUI setup when you login for the first time too. Helping you get set up with other package managers if ya want, and language inputs and all that.
That said: I'm mostly on my work Mac Book as it's a pain to disconnect it from the monitors I would use for my desktop. I also generally just default to my chromebook anyways. Crostini is pretty cool. It's debian but I really like how it integrates with the chromebook.
I've used budgie on Solus. Was pretty good.
Fedora and Arch. I don't like too much stuff pre-installed by default, so both are excellent for me. I love GNOME and both come as a clean slate for me to customize.
I'm mostly using KDE Neon at the moment. Gives me the latest rolling version of KDE and built on LTS of Ubuntu so fairly stable for everything else.
Ooh I haven't tried KDE neon yet. Probably will check it out soon.
Same, the best of both worlds - latest features of KDE and stable LTS base
Some more answers here as well 😉
Which Linux distros have you tried?
Madza ・ Aug 17 ・ 1 min read
Yep pretty sure I posted a really long list of the stuff I've tried on this post, guys check this out!
I do tons of distro hopping, but I always come back to (K)Ubuntu, because no other distro consistently works better with MacBooks. My next laptop won't be Apple hardware, but I'll probably stick with something Ubuntu-based anyway (hopefully getting around to finally making my own distro based on it) because I find other package management collisions to be far worse than Deb/APT, and I want the option of Snap, Flatpak, AppImage, and Homebrew available out of the box or readily available in repos, and because Ubuntu is not only more current than Debian proper, but I find it more stable contrary to popular opinion, and because good luck finding more stable third party repo support (don't even @ me with AUR).
Maybe try out Pop!_OS I wrote a post about it's features.
Pop!_OS - Linux for devs
Sakshat ・ Jul 20 ・ 2 min read
Nah. Loved GNOME 2, HATE GNOME 3. Plus systemd-boot complains about size of an existing EFI partition even if I expand it beyond their 500MiB minimum. On a Touch Bar Macbook Pro, I don't have the luxury of overwriting my EFI partition (at least not if I want to get the Touch Bar working in Linux without reinstalling MacOS for dual boot, which I have no interest in).
With all that said, it is a very developer-friendly distro and an outstanding choice if you like GNOME Shell.
I first tried to use Ubuntu as it is a kind of general distro. But I have problems as it was not running smoothly so I had to switch to a couple of distros, after Ubuntu I switched to Elementry but the problem was same so I then finally switched to KDE Neon Plasma as its UI is very simple and it is very lightweight as compared to the other distros the only draw-back is that it does not come with any pre-installed software so you would have to put some effort to install Libre Office and some other basic software but it totally depends on the user.
I use KDE Neon. It's easy enough to add PPAs for apps that aren't in the repos, such as the latest Libre office
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
Or you can use the Built-in software Installer and That is a bit slow but you get your work done easily.
Yes, that is nice, but the simpler way is to use the Discover (pre-installed) application manager in order to install the applications in an easy way.
My favorite is Manjaro. Is almost like the Ubuntu of Arch. You can have user-friendly OS and still get the benefits from Arch.
Changing the subject a little bit. Anyone here use Debian testing as your main OS for your everyday activities?
I used Debian Testing with KDE for awhile but then i switched to KDE Neon for a better KDE experience.