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Discussion on: What's your fav Linux distro

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Mike Bybee • Edited

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).

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Sakshat • Edited

Maybe try out Pop!_OS I wrote a post about it's features.

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Mike Bybee • Edited

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.