don’t worry, when you get tired of distro-hopping, Debian will still be there for you
Is this your current driver?
yep, plain old boring Debian Stable with Xfce
In my student years, I always ran with Xubuntu on a used thinkpad.
Although I’m a gnome guy these days, I still need Thunar as my default file manager. It’s nearly perfect…
Normally I go with Linux mint xfce which is practically the same currently using windows 10
If Linux Mint is practically the same as Debian, then most Distro’s are practically the same (which is actually true).
Extremely happy. Debian Stable. Every time I open the lid of my laptop, it’s working and ready to go. Wonderfully boring and exceedingly reliable.
Gotta love debian stable. It has it’s kinks, but goddammit every day you boot up it’s the same as yesterday, until next major version
Happy lemmyversary
Thanks my dude!
Fedora fees like a nice and tightly integrated distro. I’m no apple fan but I can appreciate consistent UX, I feel like Fedora for now is the closest to that level of experience, whilst pioneering in desktop-centric technologies.
I have this looming fear that IBM will somehow fuck everything over someday, but as far as I understand, the Fedora project still operates with the same level of autonomy as they did pre-aquisition.
Gosh that’s a little personal, isn’t it?
I’m very content. Stopped distro-hopping a few years ago and settled on EndeavourOS.
Same. Two years and counting.
Same here, couldn’t be happier (been using it for about 6 months).
That’s still the honeymoon period
Umm…thanks
Fedora. Super stable, super smooth. Used the thinkpad + fedora combo for over 10 years and will use it for 10 more.
+1 fedora. Tried almost all popular distros but came to back to fedora every single time
I’m enjoying Linux Mint so far
I’m thinking I may hope around to a distro using a newer kernel but meh
Mint is pretty nice
Edit: My “meh” is because Mint has been super stable for me and I’m not really sure that the effort to switch distros is worth it given that my systems are already rock solid.
My only issue with Mint Cinnamon is it doesn’t have badges for notifications on app icons. For example, when you get a Discord message.
It’s a really weird omission.
I’m pretty sure Mint even has a graphical tool to install a newer kernel.
Happy lemmyversary!
I’ve been rocking mint for about 4 months, it works for me.
I’m on Fedora Silverblue and I’m pretty sure my distro-hopping days are over. After 20 years of tinkering I really like an OS that requires literally no maintenance and basically just disappears in the background.
I’m running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
99% happy, once in a blue moon there is a library issue during an update, I have to wait a few days, that’s it.
Very solid KDE experience, all of the things I wanted to do worked out of the box. Very solid.
I’m super happy with Nobara. As a beginner its got everything I need without feeling too limiting
The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it. Fedora is a very good workstation OS, however, anything involving any kind of 3rd party or proprietary packages is usually absent from a fresh install. A typical point and click user can often struggle with how to get a lot of things working beyond the basic browser and office documents that come with the OS without having to take extra time to search documentation. Some of the important things that are missing from Fedora, especially with regards to gaming include WINE dependencies, obs-studio, 3rd party codec packages such as those for gstreamer, 3rd party drivers such as NVIDIA drivers, and even small package fixes here and there.
Since I installed Arch 14 years ago, I’ve never looked back. I guess I’m happy with it!
Same! I’ve had the same Arch install since 2010. It has outlasted all the original hardware, except for the case and power supply.
For me Debian is living the purpose I gave it, resisting me messing around or at least being easy for me to fix.
I wouldn’t say I’m 100% happy with NixOS, but there is no going back at this point.
My distro hoping days are about done. I started with ubuntu -> KDE Neon -> Arch -> Manjaro -> Solus -> Manjaro -> Pop_OS -> Fedora.
I’m sticking with fedora because I love the ideology behind the project and the pace of updates works perfect for me. Not too fast but still very up-to-date. Also I used to hate gnome but after using fedora I love it, I realized I didn’t hate gnome but hated all the clunk other distro would add to it. I am interested in NixOS but for now I’m gonna continue to stick with fedora, might hop to fedora silverblue tho.
I’ve been with Fedora for awhile now because I like the project and how it pushes things forward. Changed to Silverblue and never returned.
Now I’m using Bluefin because I like the little tweaks on top of Silverblue. Would recommend.
Definitely gotta try it out. Been on the same install for years and I need a fresh start
Recently tried Kubuntu. It was able to successfully connect to my docking station with double 4k monitors connected too, which some other distros failed at. So pretty happy with that I suppose.
All in all, I still find most distros to be hit and miss with issues. There’s always something that makes it meh. Like missing features or inconveniences.
Sometimes I think the Linux community should try to consolidate more to focus on a few well-working distros rather than the large amount of distros that are currently there, each with their own set of issues.
