Favorite linux distro and why
| Arch for the same reasons, but also it has really good documentation.
| Arch, it's easy to use for a computer normie like myself
| I like EndeavourOS a lot. It's literally just an easier arch pretty much.
| arch user masturbation thread
| openSUSE tumbleweed
Very stable for a rolling release
Btrfs with snapper for rollbacks on breaking updates
They run open qa on the repo side to catch a lot of the bugs that would need a rollback before they're pushed to users
Non toxic community
And most importantly, gecko logo
| >>1055502 I've been meaning to try openSUSE sometime. It's been on my list. Maybe I'll grab an iso and put it on my multiboot. I tried puppylinux off the same usb and man it was so much fun. Don't really like that everything is run as root and not doing that is kind of a workaround. But it's insanely lightweight, has so many niche little apps and features on it that I've never heard of. Really feels like using an old windows 2000 pc if it was good and usable on a modern computer.
| Debian backports kde x11, it just WORKS
| Susie? Debbie? Now you're just bragging you got girlfriends.. We're talking Linux here, like Arch.
| just posted in another thread what I should have here. For me, Mint just werks. Eventually I'm going to need to find a better one for gaming when I get a better computer but for now this is comfy and perfect for my purposes.
| Artix probably? although some things here break more often than in arch, but meta-physically I feel better without systemd.
Gentoo is an ok distro too, much more stable in my expirience but at the same time it's too complicated for everyday use for my rotten brain.
| I started with Arch, switched to Void (to try something new). I worked with Debian at the facility (i.e. at work).
Debian is good, stable, has both installers (console and graphical), a rich repository (and many developers prepare releases in deb packages), and a numbered release (which is not always convenient). The flip side of stability is sticking not only to old versions of the kernel and system components, but also to other software in the repositories.
| Arch is excellent, even if there is no graphical installer, a rolling release. The repository is rich, and along with the AUR (still try not to install a lot from it) there is a lot. It's a very good Wiki. One problem (like Debian's) is systemd.
| Void. First of all, it's not in a hurry like Arch with kernel versions, etc. Rolling release, runit (not systemd), a special subsystem xbps-src (for building packages, although Debian and Arch have their own ways). The repository is poor, but there are specific applications, e.g. fuzzypkg; packages are divided into two versions, regular and devel (pull the regular ones, and they contains includes, etc.).
Wayland is being pushed excessively everywhere in Void packages.
| Personally, I'm going to switch to SourceMage, I'm interested in the initialization system (everything is in init.d, the needs function allows scripts to be queued up) and the package manager (all bash scripts, terminology from magic), refers to source-base distros. It will probably be my favorite.
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| What's your fave and why? Be as deacriptive as you feel like.
Mine is unironically arch and it's not for pretentious reasons. I just really like that it made me learn a lot of stuff I probably would've never messed with otherwise. And helped me diagnose issues I've had in the past retrospectively by learning what the underlying causes were. Plus really good package management with pacman, newer versions in the repos, amd I know pretty much what all apps on my system are.