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Okay why is your distro the best? (reddthat.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I made the unfortunate post about asking why people liked Arch so much (RIP my inbox I'm learning a lot from the comments) But, what is the best distro for each reason?

RIP my inbox again. I appreciate this knowledge a lot. Thank you everyone for responding. You all make this such a great community.

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

LMDE because I get the robustness of Debian stable and the quality of life goodies of Mint.

[–] Prismaarchives@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Arch, because I get to say that I use Arch. /s

[–] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I switched from pop os to Fedora a while back. I did like pop, but it gave me problems regularly and I think it just needs to cook for a few more years probably. Fedora fixed every issue I was having 👍

Seeing all the arch praise here is definitely giving me distro fomo though. Lol

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[–] StarMerchant938@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Not very exciting or interesting but I prefer xubuntu. All the things I need from mainline Ubuntu, none of the things I don't.

[–] kittenroar@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

Ubuntu because they provide kernel live patching and they fix issues quickly and my system doesn't go down if I procrastinate in doing system updates

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Ubuntu is the best because I can copy and paste commands from programming tutorials.

[–] squid64@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I use GNU Guix System and I really like how it works. Is it the best? There is no best really but to me those distros with 100% free software are the best. Like Trisquel, Parabola and GNU Guix System

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Yast, actual stability.

[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

the mouse is cute

[–] the_wiz@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Devuan + Trinity Desktop

Moved over there since Debian switched to Sytemd. It is boring, dusty... but it works and stays out of my way.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Windows, plays fallout 4 out the box.

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