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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by case_when@feddit.uk to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[–] phpinjected@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Arch

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 2 points 1 year ago

Gentoo. But it took a few years

[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Literally all of them have shite color management and fractional scaling that blurs everything. It's an eyesore.

I really, really want to use Linux for multimedia consumption but I can't.

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[–] paolab@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I have tried a bunch of them: Manjaro, Fedora, Opensuse Tumbleweed, Mx Linux, EndeavourOS, Arcolinux, Debian, currently LMDE. But Fedora, the spin with XFCE not the default one, never convinced me enough to keep it., is the one that never convinced me enough to keep it.

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

Ubuntu

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu gnome. Wanted to install a gnome add on (hibernation button), searched how to do it and learned there's a section in the gui store but couldn't find it. Searched for that and turns out they removed the add ons section from the store in the latest version and I need to use a browser. Tried to install it from a browser and it still didn't work. Tried the other browser and failed again. Searching for that discovered that the pre-installed browsers are snap packages and can't interact with anything else 🤦

Instantly switched to kubuntu. It had the hibernation button out of the box

[–] Polyester6435@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All of them except arch. It just strikes the perfect balance between being easy to pick up after a bit of reading and keeping its simplicity. Paired with vanilla gnome its uwu gang. I also looked at manjaro and stayed well clear of that, vanilla is so much simpler as I don't have to worry about conflicts caused by man jar roe randomly holding back packages for no reason.

[–] eric@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Fedora, as someone who uses mostly Arch and the AUR, I couldn't get used copr, flatpak, and dnf. I rather just use yay.

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