Probably Puppy Linux. But that one was just an experience on a really old 32 bit laptop I wasn't really gonna use. I didn't even stop because of something bad about it, it was working fine. I just wanted to move on to another experiment, installing Debian without DE and playing with window managers.
Hard question. In my learning path i have used fedora and debian, eventualy settled to ubuntu lts versions, because im lazy and do not want to update my OS from scrach evary month (extreme). Now days i'm reinstalling/upgraging how ever it goes with Ubuntu LTS. My learning process was using linux on secondary computer, because I do not like dual boot, I think "one OS for one computer", but that just me.
I use arch right now. Previously I was on Debian but I didn't like the slow updates and the testing/unstable repositories would constantly break my system, and the nvidia driver caused problems.
Ubuntu. At the time you had to futz with every upgrade to get multimedia stuff working. Mint came out, and all of that was ready to go so I switched. Still using Mint.
openSuse, it's pretty good but the it slowly started showing ugly things. Zypper is slow as hell. Not many guides/software target it. For some weird reason vscode wouldn't update even if the repos were set up correctly (i.e. according to the guide). Probably part of it was that I started with tumbleweed rather than with leap but still I find myself doing pretty good with kubuntu LTS. Although with the rust utils coming up and systemd being a thing I'd probably switch to devuan.
Mint. I found Cinnamon to be a bit too unstable, and when I tried @kde I was blown away by how much it feels like a “real” computer and not a dumbed down appliance.
Nobara. I really appreciate everything GE has done for Linux gaming, but personally found Nobara to be a bit too bleeding edge, with updates regularly breaking my install. (At least in the timespan that I was trying it)
A handful of the newest independent ones, because their package management is exclusively through terminal and I see graphic package managers as a human right.
EndeavourOS, only because I had just moved apartments and felt like a change. I’ve got no complaints about EndeavourOS/Arch, I’m even getting a bit of an itch to switch to something arch based again (currently on Nobara)
#Nobara Linux, a gaming-oriented variant of #Fedora. On Nobara it was much easier to play games (for some reason I have an aweful performance with flatpaks on Fedora), but it has so many small changes, which annoyed me.
It brings its own, crappy package manager frontend. It disabled SecureBoot support. All unnecessary changes for no reason. So unclean... And steam does not work unless I start it from a terminal emulator... 🫨
Used it from the get go with #cinnamon and #xfce until some day couldnt get my wireless to work.. so switched to #Manjaro and that was it. Stuck to cinnamon tho 🤗
Ubuntu -> CentOS -> ALT. I'm not a very experienced Linux user, so every time I feel like my OS is "dirty" after my attempts to customize the system, I have to reinstall and try again...
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Went to Fedora.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •In 1994 I started with Slackware with kernel 1.1.13. After some time I switched to Debian and presently I am running Arch.
Arch so far is the finest rolling distribution and it is extremely easy to create packages with PKGBUILD.
For Clients who want to try Linux I put on Garuda which is a Arch variant that has many aur packages already compiled.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Artix. Tried it again to see how the systemd-free side is shaping up. Used the dinit init and service manager coupled with Hyprland and AGS.
Hyprland and dinit have made great improvements since I last tried them.
Still not my cup of tea though. Back on Arch now (Gnome this time), felt like coming home after a long journey 😂
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Linux Mint - and not because of any deficiency on its part. LM is a really great X11 based distro. I wanted GNOME, and to sink my teeth into Wayland.
#GNOME #Fedora #LinuxMint
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Yes, i know, not very exiting, but i love stability
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •RedHat .. I feel this is self explanatory.
Vector (Slackware), only because I don't need to operate in such tight restrictions anymore, but I would still recommend Slack to anyone who does.
OpenSuSE, which I absolutely loved for years, but even the text installer couldn't handle tight RAM restrictions.
Now running Debian based distros (Mint, Armbian, Debian itself) so everything stays compatible and follows the same workflow.
"It's a peaceful life."
Jamie Knight
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •I have to say traditional LTS distros. After doing big manual server upgrades for some decade, no more LTS expiration dread!
Next to go will be my arch desktop as I find #nixos fits my desktop and server needs way better.
A disclaimer would be that NixOS is non standard. Documentation is lacking and knowledge of the Nix language is required for advanced configuration.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •#Nobara Linux, a gaming-oriented variant of #Fedora. On Nobara it was much easier to play games (for some reason I have an aweful performance with flatpaks on Fedora), but it has so many small changes, which annoyed me.
It brings its own, crappy package manager frontend. It disabled SecureBoot support. All unnecessary changes for no reason. So unclean... And steam does not work unless I start it from a terminal emulator... 🫨
My new gaming PC now runs Fedora.
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Used it from the get go with #cinnamon and #xfce until some day couldnt get my wireless to work.. so switched to #Manjaro and that was it. Stuck to cinnamon tho 🤗
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