Been using PopOS for the last 2 years (ish) with zero issues. It's been a delight!
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I've been switching between Arch and Debian for the past 5ish years. I don't really notice much of a difference, other than Arch has updates much more often than Debian Testing usually does. I like how meta-packages in Arch are more minimal than the ones in Debian, but that's a very minor thing.
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Linux Mint Cinnamon. Seriously, it's the best. Fast, light, Ubuntu based, stable, good looking, full featured. All the power of Ubuntu without the downsides (snaps, heavy, slow etc)
Modified Ubuntu, Snap-less...
Trisquel GNU / Linux. The kernel is 100% libre so you can do your computing in freedom.
Unless you really buy specific hardware... I don't see myself buying 2008 thinkpads like Stallman because the CPU has proprietary microcode lol
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I'll only mention it because I haven't seen it yet, I just installed endeavor os and it's been pretty Great
I used Feren OS for a long time, but now i prefer Cachy OS and Vanilla Arch on my laptop, both with KDE Plasma
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For me it's tumbleweed at the moment it's defaults like btrfs and snapper are how I used to setup fedora. Then there's the tools like OBS and yast that are super useful it's rolling but well tested before it gets to you
Zorin OS. No muss, no fuss. I've been wanting to hop to Endeavor or Pop! just to do something different.
I mainly play games and watch movies.
Here's an incomplete list of my daily drivers since...well, I'm old.
- QNX Neutrino
- Mandrake 7.2
- RedHat 7.1
- Went back to Windoze for quite a while
- Gentoo
- Ubuntu (quite a leap there)
- OS X
- Linux Mint
- Debian
- LMDE
- Fedora
- KDE Neon
- macOS
- Fedora Asahi
I'm sure I've missed the odd one or two (and I regularly jumped back and forth with Debian/Ubuntu/Mint for years and years).
I used to distro hop a lot, so if I only used it for less than a month, I haven't bothered to list it.
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Arch for the last 8ish years. I'm interested in switching to something immutable and with a declarative package manager, but every time I try something else I end up back on arch. It works and has all the packages I use ¯_(ツ)_/¯
For now, it's Debian 12 with KDE Plasma. But I'm really interested in Immutable Systems. I like OpenSuse Kapla, but the KDE Integration is still in alpha. There are still a few shortcomings with the only flatpak approach, like the fact that the Steam Flatpak can't provide smooth wireless controller support because of lacking permissions.
I've found success installing Steam and other stuff using distrobox on openSUSE Kalpa. The initial setup isn't as easy as installing a flatpak, but after a quick distrobox-export it's totally seamless.
Fedora Workstation. It's fast and stable.
Everything I use is available either as a Flatpak or a RPM.
Linux Mint. Seriously, seriously good. Very fast, very light, looks amazing, has full access to all Ubuntu apps, runs Flatpak, is stable and solid. Sane defaults across the system.
Highly recommend it.
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Trisquel GNU+Linux on my Librebooted ThinkPad X200
Every time I try something different I always come back to arch + swaywm
Arch btw
EndeavourOS with KDE customized to my liking.
POP!_OS is amazing. It started out as a way for System76 to create an Ubuntu operating system image that had all the latest packages that they would need for their hardware but then grew into something much bigger. They have a plan for Wayland with cosmic-epoch and they ship the latest kernel (6.4.6 as of writing) and latest Mesa. It's solely responsible for killing my distro hopping (as well as having GNU Guix and Flatpak).
Watch this snippet on where POP!_OS came from (invidious link)
Linux Mint because it just works.
Vanilla ass Ubuntu. I spent 25 years finding the right distro, this is good enough. My first love was Mandrake.
Manjaro with KDE. I've only been running Linux for a month, and found Arch a bit intimidating, so to me Manjaro was the closest I dare fly to the sun. Really liking it so far.
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OpenSuse leap
Void linux became my second nature. It's design is great, runit and xbps are just awesome. Can't recomend more. P.S. I also switched to Void from Fedora
Arch on my main pc, and Ubuntu on my server, only reason it's Ubuntu is I needed 6.2 kernel for my Intel arc encoding card and debian based for the arrs
Switched from Ubuntu to fedora recently.. I'm pretty happy with it and it's package manager