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Discussion on: Linux distro you are using for development?

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Trev

Honestly any stable, maintained distro will do. I have Arch on my laptop, Mint on my desktop. Both are pretty easy to install any package on, both do Vim and task runners like a champ :D

I hear Fedora is great too, just haven't gotten around to it.

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Adarsh

Give Arch and Manjaro a try. I installed Arch in my laptop after the sheer number of people suggesting it and it's great so far. Next I am gonna try Manjaro. ;)

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Trev

There's also Antergos if you want to bootstrap an Arch install. I believe Antergos updates at the speed of Arch whereas Manjaro has its own repositories. At least, it did when I tried it a couple years back. Maybe not the case now?

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Adarsh • Edited

I did some research on Manjaro turns out they have an amazing community support and also the package support is provided by AUR so it's a green. Having said that the team although they resolve the issues they are quite slow in doing so but breaking builds and issues are address quickly.