I’m between distros and looking for a new daily driver for my laptop. What are people daily driving these days? Are there any new cool things to try?

I have been using linux mint recently. I have used nixos and arch in the past. Personally, linux mint uses flatpacks too much for my liking. Although, I might have a warped perspective after using arch. (the aur is crazy big)

  • CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    24·
    1 year ago

    For laptops, I’ve been using EndeavourOS lately. All of the Arch goodness, but with an easy installer that handles the DE too. It’s as close to “just works” as you can get while still having pacman + AUR at the end.

    I still love raw Arch, but I leave that for server installs.

  • OddFed@feddit.de
    201·
    1 year ago

    I installed Linux and the feeling of freedom and privacy hit me so hard that I immediately began committing crimes, knowing that the FBI could never track me. Piracy, sexual assault, trademark infringement, petty larceny, tax fraud, you name it. I also own several fully automatic firearms even though I live in the state of California, but it doesn’t matter. Ever since I removed Windows 10 from my computer and replaced it with Arch Linux, and began using a PinePhone as my daily driver phone, police can’t even stop me in traffic. Windows may have a lot of video games, but the benefits of Linux should not be understated.

  • Carter@feddit.ukEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    OpenSUSE TW for me. Used to be Arch but it’s just too much faff for me.

    • ProtonBadger@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      Same, I’ve used Linux since the late nineties and know my way around but I have other things to do. TW with Plasma/Wayland is great.

  • krimson@feddit.nl
    171·
    1 year ago

    Arch for many, many years. Absolutely zero reasons to switch. I used to distro hop alot back in the day but I don’t bother with that anymore. I need a system that works and Arch gives me exactly that.

    • Footnote2669@lemmy.zip
      51·
      1 year ago

      Why distro hop from arch if you can make any distro out of it anyway lol I use arch btw

  • OSH@lemmy.ml
    11·
    1 year ago

    Fedora Silverblue. But when switching I had to wrap my head around the differences in the workflow of doing things. Once youre past that it’s rock solid and had no issues so far.

  • reddit_sux@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    I use Arch BTW…

    Joking aside I use Arch on my desktop, Raspbian on RPi1, Debian on homeserver and VMs.

    • uis@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Gentoo on desktop, gentoo on Rock64, gentoo on Allwinner A10 device, gentoo on Powerbook G4(don’t ask why I have it). Ah, and OpenWRT on router.

    • NixDev@programming.dev
      1·
      1 year ago

      I have 2 PCs running Arch currently. My SBC is running Ubuntu but that is just a print service for my 3d printer. I have a few Ubuntu & Fedora vns for testing and self study

  • makmarian@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using EndeavourOS with KDE for a bit under 2 years now (I think) on both my desktop and laptop. It is Arch based and easy to install. And for my home servers I run Proxmox

  • GreyFalcon@iusearchlinux.fyi
    6·
    1 year ago

    Manjaro kde on 3 computers in the ham shack, manjaro KDE on the media center, and guess what’s on the two lap tops…you got it…manjaro KDE. Most have windows 10 dual boot on a separate drive. I haven’t spent the time to figure out radio control and antenna switching on Linux so windows is still needed for radio contesting.

    I have tried many and keep going back to manjaro, everything just works. The Arch wiki is awesome, and the aur has multiviewer to F1, ready to go.