Whats your favourite Linux Distro?

[Space Lynx]

Maybe they could upload a version with no Ukranian in it in the meantime, so at least others could use it while it's being fixed?

you would think so, but I guess their brains don't work that way. stupid as fuck

 

[Shihab]

you would think so, but I guess their brains don't work that way. stupid as fuck

I doubt it's as simple as "uncheck language x and compile" kinda thing. This issue involves "third parties," so you have that overhead as well.

That said, the legacy installer is still available for download. And afaik, the only major difference between this and the unavailable version is the lack of zfs support.

 

[Space Lynx]

I think I am going to give PoPOS a try on my gtx 1070 laptop, seems like it is the only distro that has native offline support for Nvidia gpu's. @Super Firm Tofu which makes me wonder why do people say you need a all AMD rig to enjoy linux? System76 is trusted by @Easy Rhino and they make PoPOS, so all seems legit to me. I noticed on the download page it lets you download POPOS with nvidia drivers in the ISO ready to go, no online install needed.

i don't understand why there is a common understanding you have to have AMD for a proper linux experience?

 

[P4-630]

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[iameatingjam]

Mint is my favourite in the Ubuntu era. Gentoo before that, and Red Hat before that.

Mint is my favourite too. I haven't used it in a while but it was nice that there was so much compatible software plus all the codecs and other things ubuntu doesn't have.

 

[Easy Rhino]

I think I am going to give PoPOS a try on my gtx 1070 laptop, seems like it is the only distro that has native offline support for Nvidia gpu's. @Super Firm Tofu which makes me wonder why do people say you need a all AMD rig to enjoy linux? System76 is trusted by @Easy Rhino and they make PoPOS, so all seems legit to me. I noticed on the download page it lets you download POPOS with nvidia drivers in the ISO ready to go, no online install needed.

i don't understand why there is a common understanding you have to have AMD for a proper linux experience?

AMD drivers are open source so the FOSS community recommends using AMD for your Linux experience. You can use NVIDIA but you have to rely on their proprietary drivers which are closed source and could be doing things to your system that you do not know about.

PopOS is a great OS, btw and System76 seems truly investing in improving the Linux desktop experience for everyone.

 

[Shou Miko]

AMD drivers are open source so the FOSS community recommends using AMD for your Linux experience. You can use NVIDIA but you have to rely on their proprietary drivers which are closed source and could be doing things to your system that you do not know about.

PopOS is a great OS, btw and System76 seems truly investing in improving the Linux desktop experience for everyone.

This I believe might also be one reason why the Steamdeck and more is build on AMD and not a Intel/Nvidia combo since Nvidia is closed source on everything.

It doesn't longer time for AMD to do something but it's opensource and anyone can tribute to actually fix something.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Linux mint with cinnamon for me. Uncomplicated, without the ubuntu "hide as much as possible" BS.

I am partial to the plasma environment, but it doesnt play well with mint, and moving outside of debian distros is a nightmare for me right now.

 

[Deleted member 234997]

Nobara KDE.

 

[Space Lynx]

AMD drivers are open source so the FOSS community recommends using AMD for your Linux experience. You can use NVIDIA but you have to rely on their proprietary drivers which are closed source and could be doing things to your system that you do not know about.

PopOS is a great OS, btw and System76 seems truly investing in improving the Linux desktop experience for everyone.

This makes sense, thanks for the clarification.

@Dr. Dro yeah I think you are correct, makes it easier for the SteamOS creators to work on gaming specific improvements since its open source, makes sense anyway.

I love my Steam Deck honestly it impresses me so much, SteamOS is so dang good. The latest update improved the colors extremely well, and now my Steam Deck also undervolts with a easy switch thanks to another recent SteamOS update. It's great.

 

[mplayerMuPDF]

OpenSUSE. It is stable (shares some repositories and kernel with SLED), trusted and has plenty of software in its repositories. And another important factor is that it has AppArmor and zypper is nice too. Yes, Ubuntu has a lot of software in its repositories too and also has AppArmor and I do run a derivative of it on my ProBook 645 G1, but I prefer OpenSUSE for multiple reasons.

 

[unwind-protect]

AMD drivers are open source so the FOSS community recommends using AMD for your Linux experience. You can use NVIDIA but you have to rely on their proprietary drivers which are closed source and could be doing things to your system that you do not know about.

Well, AMD also has closed source drivers. I am quite annoyed that often you cannot tell off-hand whether a given subsystem only works with the OSS drivers or only in the binary drivers. For example, it isn't clear to me whether ROCm requires the binary drivers (just in case you have one of those rare cards that is supported).

Still using NVidia which is binary only but pretty high quality nontheless.

 

[SchumannFrequency]

I have multiple favorites depending on the hardware and use case:
Obarun, PCLinuxOS, Devuan Ceres, Alpine Linux, OpenMandriva Rome, ALT Sisyphus, Clear Linux, Void Linux

 

[mplayerMuPDF]

AMD drivers are open source so the FOSS community recommends using AMD for your Linux experience. You can use NVIDIA but you have to rely on their proprietary drivers which are closed source and could be doing things to your system that you do not know about.

PopOS is a great OS, btw and System76 seems truly investing in improving the Linux desktop experience for everyone.

It's not just about open source vs closed source either. It's also about the fact that the AMD open source kernel driver (amdgpu, radeon for certain old hardware, such as the APU in my ProBook 645 G1) is an actual part of the Linux kernel source tree. It is literally developed as a part of the Linux kernel itself and the devs are hostile to drivers and modules that are developed outside of the kernel source tree -- OpenZFS is a prime example of that, despite being open source (although under a license that is considered incompatible with Linux' GPLv2, which is the reason that it is not a part of the kernel source tree). If you run a distribution that always has (close to) the latest kernel version and you update before Nvidia has released a new, compatible version of its proprietary driver, it will break your system (software wise). I am not sure if the same applies entirely to the closed source AMD driver since I believe it is merely an extension (as hinted at by its name amdgpu-pro) to the open source driver that is a part of the kernel. It is simply much better to have all the drivers your hardware requires be a part of the Linux kernel proper itself rather than to mess around with out-of-tree stuff.

As far as distributions go, I want to try my hand at Gentoo in the future, probably on my ProBook 645 G1 when it is decommissioned for general purpose/daily driver use eventually.

 

[natr0n]

Using ubuntu on a pc running pihole

I like mint and popOS as well

Havent really played with anything new in a while

 

[silentbogo]

I like simplicity and stability, hence most of my stuff runs either some variation of Ubuntu or Debian.
I've tried other distros, but so far everything I need only works in those two OOB, and I'm past tweaking distros for fun and headache

 

[Readlight]

Someone from these.

 

[Greenslade]

I've been doing some distro hopping lately but ended up back at Debian Testing.

I do that on my PI4,i have about 15 different OS,s on there.I have a PI5 coming i don,t know weather they will work on the PI5.

I like simplicity and stability, hence most of my stuff runs either some variation of Ubuntu or Debian.
I've tried other distros, but so far everything I need only works in those two OOB, and I'm past tweaking distros for fun and headache

Same here simplicity and stability that is.

 

[Space Lynx]

I'm going to put PopOS on my GTX 1070 laptop soon, and latest Ubuntu Beta on my 7900 XT.

Never tried Fedora before, so don't think I will start now, just going to stick with what I know, hopefully I still get the fps benefits in game.

 

[Timbaloo]

Back in the day when I was using Linux I settled on Debian (Woody that was). Now I got a new Laptop to play around with and obviously started with Debian and was pleasantly surprised that despite being a rather conservative distro (the "rusty, stale, broken" meme is older than the word meme...) it was already defaulting on Wayland@Gnome. Since I wanted something more bleeding edge I tried a couple of other distros (eg. NixOS, quite an interesting concept i must say) and now Arch. I never tried Arch before because I hate that 2leet4installer mentality. But I must say I'm pretty happy with it.

So:

Debian (if beginner or want a stable system)
Arch (if experienced and want bleeding edge packages)

 

[SomeOne99h]

Back in the day when I was using Linux I settled on Debian (Woody that was). Now I got a new Laptop to play around with and obviously started with Debian and was pleasantly surprised that despite being a rather conservative distro (the "rusty, stale, broken" meme is older than the word meme...) it was already defaulting on Wayland@Gnome. Since I wanted something more bleeding edge I tried a couple of other distros (eg. NixOS, quite an interesting concept i must say) and now Arch. I never tried Arch before because I hate that 2leet4installer mentality. But I must say I'm pretty happy with it.

So:

Debian (if beginner or want a stable system)
Arch (if experienced and want bleeding edge packages)

There is a bleeding edge version of Debian too and with proprietary drivers. They exists in the past too, they just made it hard to see so most people would assume it is that distro that only accepts open source drivers (and open source apps too?) with things stuck with old versions.

 

[Timbaloo]

I mean one can always go and use the Debian "testing" branch. This would be a bit more up to date, but certainly not bleeding edge. The "unstable" branch would be the bleeding edge equivalent, but that's really a development "version" of Debian and therefore imho rather pointless to use as en end user. You're propably in a much much better shape using something that is bleeding edge "by nature". Like Arch.

Of course there would be various forks of Debian which are likels more up to date in terms of packages. But I absolute dislike forks of original (and good) distros. Hence I use Arch and not EndeavourOS (example), or Debian and not Ubuntu (example). But please don't see this as a "you should not use forks". It's my opinion, and propably an extremist one.

 

[unwind-protect]

I mean one can always go and use the Debian "testing" branch.

There is a catch to running Debian "testing", and that is that you get security updates later, not earlier as one might suspect.

The reason is that in testing you get all package updates, whether they fix security or not, as they roll in naturally. Whereas in releases you get a separate backporting track dedicated for security updates.

 

[mplayerMuPDF]

There is a catch to running Debian "testing", and that is that you get security updates later, not earlier as one might suspect.

The reason is that in testing you get all package updates, whether they fix security or not, as they roll in naturally. Whereas in releases you get a separate backporting track dedicated for security updates.

For this reason it is better to run an Ubuntu derivative that strips out the parts that many people find annoying about *ubuntu these days then to go and run Debian testing, which isn't really an actual "product" that is released to the general public, but really just a development stage. Also, you can use Flatpak to get newer versions of apps on more conservative distributions and this also has the advantage of getting a (partial, sometimes opt-in, for lack of a better word) security sandbox (based on bubblewrap). I use it for all my web browsers, with sandboxing configuration adjusted where necessary using Flatseal (also available on Flathub, using Flatpak). Combined with uBlock Origin in my main browser and running FF and Chromium JITless (which is all that the new MS Edge "Super Duper Secure Mode" basically does), I have a pretty secure browsing setup.

 

[remixedcat]

Mint Linux! Very polished and user friendly and supports any .Deb packages ..