So we can clearly see the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them, please follow this format:

  • Write the name of the Linux distro as a first-level comment.
  • Reply to that comment with each reason you like the distro as a separate answer.

For example:

  • Distro (first-level comment)
    • Reason (one answer)
    • Other reason (a different answer)

Please avoid duplicating options. This will help us better understand the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m currently doing my second pass of Nix after diving deep into it last time and coming out unsatisfied. The same problems that I had before with it are problems I’m seeing again:

      • disjointed configs pulled from random source or build repos on the internet
      • unintuitive grammars with parameters that require you to download an autocompletion spec
      • flakes that aren’t immediately easy to grok

      Contrast that with my last Guix experience:

      • Lisp form, super easy to understand grammar
      • Recipes are so trivial that I’ve written three on my first day
      • Source tree is included and you are expected to add branches to it

      The only problem with Guix that I can see is that it’s not as popular

      • nychtelios@rlyeh.icu
        2·
        1 year ago

        Flakes are extremely simple (my whole system is a flake: https://github.com/cmargiotta/dotfiles ), but they are basically not documented.

        The grammar is really really bad, I prefere a lot the Guix one too! I am using NixOS only because the last time I tried Guix I didn’t find a lot of packages for their extremist GNU policy (I agree, but I need some packages), is it still like that?

        • tetris11@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          is it still like that?

          Yes and no – there are now non-free repos (so you can install firefox for example), and even non-free binary repos too.