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[–] roo@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arch is great, but it needs longer explanations considering the user needs to do a lot more. Sometimes you find them, but other times you find a snarky superuser with zero people skills.

It's a shame they aren't government standard, so I could take a local course to become a snarky superuser too.

Most of it involves everyday Linux usages, but some of it is specific to Arch and it breaks so hard. It's not a great thing when you're stupid busy and don't have the headroom to get to the bottom of it. Sometimes all you get is vague theories on how a fix might occur. After that you're playing shell games trying to debug your problems.

Definitely recommend for pro-Linux people that have a breakable laptop that can go on the backburner.

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I might have missed the part why you prefer it over others

[–] roo@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

In working through the installation I was the least disappointed I've ever been with an OS. The result was something I truly liked. If I nail down every single problem it could be my all time favourite machine.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Fedora Kinoite because it doesnt suck and doesnt break. Actually switched to ublue kinoite main, very close to upstream with minimal changes that always stay the same (its always the same difference, not weirdly diverging more and more from upstream).

But I dont know if it is the best model, as Fedoras BTRFS snapshots + ostree without the image based thing would sound better ? But this is not existing.

Btw Nix, Flatpak, Distrobox/Toolbox, Distrobox/Toolbox with root, Podman, Docker, layering, removal, are all things that work on Fedora Atomic. Maybe even snap if someone is brave enough to try

[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

It may be a little behind on updates at this point, but HML is still the best.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

zorin os. most out of box functionaility of any distro I know. its a lazy os and im lazy. just want to install and go.

[–] owatnext@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I like Void because it makes me quirky.

Just kidding.

I like Void because it makes me quirky, doesn't require me to learn how systemD works, AND it is lightweight! Plus it has literally never broken on me.

[–] helmet91@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Manjaro, because it's rolling release and it's built on Arch, only the necessary stuff is installed (including a desktop environment), you can set it up with just a few clicks, and it works out of the box, and even proprietary GPU drivers are easily installable with mhwd. Stable and reliable.

In case anything breaks, there's quick help on their forum, which (when it happened to me once) outperformed customer support of proprietary software.

It's been my daily driver for almost 8 years without any major issue.

So in short, robustness, rolling release, simplicity, community.

Edit: I have to add, my use case is for a desktop PC for software design/development + a little gaming.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same here, I used to use Arch but just got tired of constantly tracking down conflicts during upgrades. Manjaro may be hacky but their hacks seem to get things to work smoothly 99% of the time. I install it on computer illiterate relatives and friends because I know it's not going to create a support nightmare for me, and I still get all the software one could want via the AUR.

Hell, I have one cousin that's convinced that he has a Macbook because I set up KDE to look like MacOS. I haven't had to fix anything on that laptop (except printers) since I installed it for him 5 years ago. He just does his updates via Octopi and carries on.

[–] Reil@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I've moved to Ubuntu after getting burned pretty badly with CentOS's getting mistreated and eventually killed. Ubuntu feels stable enough, both in terms of their updates/quality and in terms of their corporate proceedings (such that I won't get absolutely blasted by mandatory repos being closed down, for example).

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I keep trying other distros, and then coming back to Debian unstable XFCE. Linux Mint Debian Edition is ok. At work I did lots of Enterprise Redhat, but I'm glad I don't have to use it after I retired.

[–] Therealmglitch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I prefer Arch (btw) due to the fun of installing it and If it breaks then you that process again with onother de or a different setup

[–] callyral@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

void linux. it uses runit and it's a rolling-release. i like runit because i don't like the systemctl command for some reason. doing ln -s /etc/sv/serv_name /var/service and sv up serv_name is way nicer imo.

[–] interceder270@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Manjaro, it's like a pre-configured Arch.

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[–] xenspidey@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I was Arch for a long time but now I'm on Fedora. Most of my servers are Ubuntu server, but I'm switching some stuff to fedora server. I've always disliked Ubuntu for some reason.

[–] Squiddles@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Arch, because I can never be happy except when I'm bickering with a machine.

Seriously, though, I like the control and the learning factor. I enjoy knowing what my computer is doing and why, AUR is great, and the documentation is generally top-notch. Once you get past the point in the learning curve where everything is on fire and you don't know why (don't forget the 'linux' package when you pacstrap, kids!), it's a delight to use

[–] sv1sjp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fedora Silverblue! 😊

Immutable Linux is the future (and any container-based filesystem )

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Immutable Linux are just a path for yet another ecosystem twisting the developer/sysadmins workflow to the point things will require further centralization and/or subscriptions to something.

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm in the same boat but the future is distant and there are still a lot of stones blocking the way

[–] t0m5k1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I started at Sarge, went to Ubuntu Warthog until Eft, and went Suse and Fedora but then changed to Xubuntu Ibex. I stayed until Vervet and since then have found a very comfy home in Arch.

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