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Gentoo for the documentation, but for a modern comp with bad bootloader implementation, Fedora's anaconda system for the secure boot shim is irreplaceable and my daily. I won't consider any distro without a shim and clear guide for UEFI secure boot keys. In that vain, Gentoo is the only doc source I know of that walks the user through booting into UEFI directly with Keytool.
I think functional distros like Guix or Nix are just another thing. Their ability of programming , provisioning and deploying software environments is unparalleled. My personal favorite is Guix since, while having less packages than Nix, it has the most consistent experience: everything is in Scheme from the top to the bottom of the distro. Also it pushes really hard on a sane bootstrapping story while allowing for impurity through channels like nonguix .
The main downside is the lack of tutorials and a documentation that's very intense, let's say. typical of GNU projects. I suggest the System Crafters youtube channel which has a lot of nice tutorials
Alpine was the most interesting for me. It goes against the tendency of complicating the systems. I have to use Arch because everything can work on that distro.
I miss slackware.
It still kinda exists, but really has become a ghost of its former self.
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Kubuntu
MX Linux only because I have it on some very old 32 bit laptops and it supports 32 bit. I don't really know why I keep those laptops around but they are functional.
NixOS, would like to try Guix
I'm currently using Arch (btw), but I have been hearing the distant call of NixOS lately...
On the laptop I got less than a week ago for college, I've been having fun using Mx with KDE. It's been pretty good so far on my galaxy book.
Personally, alpine linux grew on me a lot.
Endeavour OS?
Tiny Core runs on my 25 year old Pentium 2.
Tiny Core OS, because I want a super light distro to run from memory when trying to access computers where the data is still there but something went sour with the OS
not sure if it really counts but I like Universal Blue, specifically using their silverblue-framework image because it already has all the drivers and stuff set up for my Framework laptop
elementary!
Another NixOS user.
postmarketOS and UbuntuTouch
Nobara, as a gamer first it's the perfect distro for me
i wish i had an amd gpu... until then i'm stuck with mint. loved nobara, but it's a mess with nvidia.
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MX Linux. It's exactly how I'd set up Debian if I wasn't too lazy. Although, I've gone back to Debian after Bookwarm was released. I love it but miss MX
Kubuntu
See, and raise KDE Neon.
Ubuntu LTS base, but with up-to-date upstream KDE releases rather than the (typically) relatively ancient releases that Kubuntu has.
Really is the best of both worlds.
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:Nervously raised hand: SteamOS 3.5...?
LMDE cuz sometimes i just need dead simple.
I am using void at the moment, pretty stable even tho it is rolling release
Nobara is superb for gaming.
Manjaro is one of the few that tries to package sway and i3 (even if the editions are community-based) into a coherent whole. Those editions are not great yet, but pretty good and might become great one day.
Been using Xubuntu 23.10 recently, but I'm kind of a distro hopper. I need ROCm and some other special (proprietary, ehh) tools that require RHEL, SLE, or some Ubuntu flavor. I also like having a working out-of-the-box configuration. I've used openSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch Linux before, might try it again but it's a little bit complicated to me.