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I'm between distros and looking for a new daily driver for my laptop. What are people daily driving these days? Are there any new cool things to try?

I have been using linux mint recently. I have used nixos and arch in the past. Personally, linux mint uses flatpacks too much for my liking. Although, I might have a warped perspective after using arch. (the aur is crazy big)

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[–] estebanlm@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Manjaro Gnome. It just works ;)

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[–] davemeech@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm about ready to hop back in and daily drive Linux again after the nightmare that was attempting debian w/KDE plasma and Wayland. I have a Nvidia GPU on my laptop and for some reason I did not have luck at all after moderate success daily driving opensuse tumbleweed and kubuntu for a while.

I'm admittedly looking to onboard myself to the gnome workflow and leave the comfort of the windows style desktop environment experience. Gnome seems a bit more polished and stable than KDE plasma but it's interface isn't intuitive to me yet.

Ideally I'll be using Debian or Arch when the time comes for me to dive back into desktop Linux.

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[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Threads like this are exactly what keeps a good few of us from ever getting started. Lol. Good fun to read through though. One day I'll pick a distro and give it a whirl. Till then, thanks for the entertainment.

[–] elia169@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Aren't people just responding to the question being asked though?

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[–] longshanks197@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Devuan (Debian without systemd), stable (Daedalus) with backports. Been running Debian since 2000, Devuan since 2018. I am at a point where I just want consistency and familiarity in my setup.

Edit: as far as cool new things, I have moved to pipewire for audio and leveraging a selfhosted nextcloud for web based file storage. For a personal setup (limited users) I just installed Nextcloud office which is basically Libreoffice in a browser like Google docs. I am also using mythtv with an hdhomerun for broadcast tv. None of this is really "new" but new to me. The setup of these functions has been fairly straightforward for me and I appreciate all the work these projects have put to make the setup and maintenance fairly painless.

I'm a Mint Cinnamon guy.

Nobara because I am a beginner that uses his PC primaryly for gaming

[–] mhz@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Laptop: Opensuse slowroll Home PC: Arch Home server: Debian 12

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

kubuntu

kde connect wasn't working on endeavouros with sway and i wanted something easy and debian based

[–] spider@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Q4OS, for five years

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

Garuda Linux. In just love arch, but I'm too lazy to do it myself. One day maybe

[–] AutVincamAutPeriam@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

I've been using Mint Cinnamon for a while now. It runs beautifully with fewer firmware issues than Ubuntu on my XPS. Even though it shipped with Ubuntu.

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

Gentoo desktop but I have to use it over SSH a lot of the time since I'm stuck on my work macbook

[–] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Debian Testing and Arch with KDE on the PC/Workstation.

Debian Stable on the server.

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

Neon is my daily driver. Planing on pop os after their new de

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Neon and Arch in a distrobox container. I've found the holy grail of Linux setups. Latest KDE and AUR on a stable ubuntu base.

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Accidentally wipes out Mint last week, but have been meaning to try out Fedora 39 Plasma. So far, I love it. I have been really busy recently, but it has been a great system so far. My SteamDeck really made me fall in love with Plasma.

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