• shrugal@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    Fedora.

    They have solid community and financial backings, they do tremendous work pushing the Linux desktop forward, it’s close to vanilla and the sweet spot between stable and bleeding edge (aka “leading edge”) for me personally.

    • L3ft_F13ld!@links.hackliberty.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. I want rolling release so I’m up to date and don’t have to reinstall when a major version upgrade inevitably breaks something. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed gives me that in a reliable little package. It has its quirks, but I’m trying to learn as I go.

  • lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Debian GNU/Linux because of its emphasis on free software. also, it’s an operating system that doesn’t make me feel its presence. couple it with a stable desktop environment like xfce and it becomes a good combo. I’ve installed it on all of my machines. be it server or home devices. it’s my universal operating system.

    though in office I’m provided an ubuntu machine, with which I’m also content since at the end of day, it’s GNU/Linux. it’s all that matters to me.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Linux Mint Debian Edition. I mention it a lot on here, but it really is my favorite distro. I have been using Linux a long time, and I’m old. I don’t care to spend a lot of time and effort tweaking and configuring. LMDE gives me everything I need and is usable out of the box, while not standing in my way when I need to get shit done.

  • Aatube@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    EndeavorOS. It’s based on arch which has great nvidia driver packages if that’s your thing and the arch wiki is amazing.

    A nice package manager wrapper is bundled. Do yay to search for any package and install it; do yay (nothing else) to upgrade everything, and yay -Rcns to remove stuff and all their unused dependencies. I also recommend chaoticAUR which is also easy to setup. What is the AUR, you ask? A repository for user-created ways to install TONS of stuff, think homebrew (including cask, unseparated) but on Linux

    For the DE I recommend MATE but you can select any of the major ones in the installer
    Get synapse for a spotlight-like search; it uses the alt+space keybind by default

  • Grangle1@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    KDE Neon: the stability of an Ubuntu LTS base without the snaps and other Ubuntu nonsense you may end up having to deal with in Kubuntu, with all the latest versions of KDE software directly from KDE themselves. They say it’s not a distro, but it pretty much is.

  • bour@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    I have Arch (KDE) installed on my desktop at home. I have been using it for 6 years and I love it, especially the AUR! This month I have been mostly using my laptop and I am using MX Linux 23 KDE which is great! I really find it’s tools very useful when I need them (which is not often, but I am glad they are there).

  • ProtonBadger@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Tumbleweed. I’ve used Linux since the nineties so I know my way around but I appreciate a sane default desktop install so I don’t have to waste time fiddling too much.

    People always talk about lean/fast/customizing, in reality most distros are performant and fairly lean/bloat free, it’s just how Linux is. TW is no exception and like all the others it’s easy to customize. I don’t use YAST.

    I can get comfortable almost any distro, though I prefer those with systemD+Wayland and Nvidia drivers in a repo so they update with the rest. I like rolling release, also considering the pace of Wayland and KDE development.

    For new users I always recommend Mint.

  • MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    Debian because the swirl looks cool and the installer makes me feel old and sophisticated without having to be old and sophisticated.