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what's your current linux distro? (beehaw.org)

submitted 5 months ago by DreamyRin@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned, so I'm keeping windows for it specifically.) this'll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with wifi and didn't love the GNOME layout. I have a new distro picked out, but I just was curious what other people are using in this community. was also wondering what made you fall on your current one.

and maybe as some bonus questions, what are some distros you've tried but didn't like? what about a distro you want to try eventually? I've seen distrohopping is a thing, hahaha.

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[–] Cwilliams@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

Kinoite has my heart forever

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

Arch KDE and SteamOS.

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Currently I run GNU Guix on my desktop, laptop, and servers. I like the dedication to software freedom and the way package management works. Before that I used Debian until 2019, Trisquel until 2014, and Ubuntu until around 2010. Debian and Trisquel are fine and I don't have anything against them, I just like the Guix package manager more. I've used Xfce with all of these (and before then, GNOME 2). I set it up the way I like it and it never changes.

I typically run LineageOS on my mobile devices, without microG or any proprietary apps. As I've said before my preferred OS would be some variant of GNU/Linux, preferably Guix as well, but LineageOS works well enough.

I run OpenWRT on my router, and had a previous router than ran LibreCMC (a variant of OpenWRT using Linux-libre).

Windows games are made for Windows so I prefer to use Windows for them. I don't particularly want to turn GNU/Linux into Windows, I think it deserves better than that.

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[–] hazelnoot@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

I've been using Xubuntu for half a decade, zero regrets.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 5 months ago

endeavourOS

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 5 months ago

Q4OS, it's Debian based with KDE, it's beginner friendly. It even has a Windows installer for easy dual boot

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