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    What did yall end up settling on?

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    [–] MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

    I bought a secondhand Steam Deck and was convinced by using it docked with kbm that Linux is ready to be my one and only.

    From there, my 2015 laptop moved from Windows 10 to PopOS -> Cinnamon Mint -> CachyOS -> Cinnamon Mint. I plan to build a desktop sometime between now and the release of PlayStation 6, and I'll probably go with CachyOS for that. I would just buy a Steam Machine, but I can't justify the price vs performance when I don't really care about console comforts like CEC. I'd rather pay the cost of the higher Steam Machine to get PS6 level performance.

    My wife moved her laptop from Windows 10 to Cinnamon Mint. She has to have a Windows partition for proctored exam spyware for online classes, but she's now only using Windows for that one thing. She's much more comfortable with Mint.

    [–] nuclear_wizard@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    Pop!_OS on my laptop and CachyOS on my desktop.

    Arch for many many years. Then Bazzite for round about 8 months. Now CachyOS for 9 months. Super happy with it. Additionally, I am running Debian on my Thinkpad and server.

    [–] T4V0@lemmy.pt 2 points 3 days ago

    Arch->Elementary OS

    I had experienced other distros before (not on my pc, at least), but as a joke my cousin suggested Arch, while I had some trouble setting it up, the documentation was so good I stayed for a while. Though I've always liked MacOS, so when upgrading my notebook, I took chance to install Elementary OS 8. Overall, it's ubuntu based, so I can't complain.

    [–] giacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

    ublue/fedora bootc derivatives

    [–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    I've run most non KDE distros now I just install Debian or Ubuntu depending on the computer

    [–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

    Started with Mandrake, currently on Cachy

    [–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

    It's a journey and I tested a lot of distros but these are the ones I actually used in 20 years:

    Pardus >> Ubuntu >> Crunchbang >> Bunsenlabs >> Manjaro >> EndeavourOS >> Void

    I also used MeeGo on my netbook when its prime time. Crunchbang will always have a special place for me. The OG Pardus was fun too.

    [–] FedX@quokk.au 1 points 3 days ago

    Today I'm using Chimera, but KaOS, Arix or perhaps some unholy install of Alpine with DINIT are tempting me. Seems a persistent kernel panic on wake from sleep has been fixed, so I'm not super tempted to hop ATM.

    [–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago
    [–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    Ubuntu -> SteamOS (Steam Deck as PC convinced me to change my main PC) -> Endeavour OS -> Mint -> Kubuntu -> Zorin OS -> OpenSUSE (first one that stuck longterm) -> CachyOS (PC permanently now) + Debian (home server) + Bazzite (lounge console)

    [–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

    Early on I went from mandrake to gentoo, been on gentoo forever but decided as I was building my docker swarm that I wanted to go easy so I went with Ubuntu server on my 2 additional nodes, and then for my wife’s machine I went Linux mint. When windows is no longer needed for anything I think I will probably do gentoo on my primary machine. The programmer in me likes seeing compiles

    [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    Slackware -> rhl(4) -> rhel -> centos -> rocky

    High SLSA, high iso27002.

    [–] eodur@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

    Hmmm. My hopping stared long ago. I think it was something like:

    MINIX > Slackware > RedHat > Gentoo > LFS > RedHat > Ubuntu > Bazzite

    MINIX isn't technically Linux, but I'm including it for fun. And Ubuntu was by far the longest stretch. Probably close to 15 years on that one.

    [–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 1 points 3 days ago

    Ubuntu (like 100 years ago) > Debian > Mint (for several years) > a bunch of things > Kubuntu > PikaOS (GNOME)

    Cinnamon Mint is almost perfect as a daily driver, but had hangups in gaming (frame stutter, controller disconnects, etc...)

    Tried PopOS! for a hot minute, Cosmic is pretty but very clearly still WIP

    Rode the plasma train for a little while on Kubuntu, but everything felt a little half-baked and games crashed pretty regularly.

    I've settled on PikaOS GNOME for now as my daily driver. Things seem generally solid, but I've only been using it for a few weeks, TBD on the long-term stability, but I'll probably hang here at least until whenever Mint reaches stable Wayland support, at which point I'll give that a go.

    [–] Voski@fedinsfw.app 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
    [–] Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    I go to the distro nightclub and become a distro whore

    [–] Voski@fedinsfw.app 1 points 3 days ago

    Currently arching for Arch

    [–] Coolcoder360@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

    Ubuntu -> Debian -> arch (6 years) -> Garuda (3-4 years)

    Still use Debian on some machines but Garuda is just smooth and more just-works than Arch.

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

    at this point just pick a fucking main branch and install the rest of the shit on top. It's all just fucking linux + package manager + DE.

    Fedora, Arch, Debian, Suse, Slack, Gentoo. Pick one. KDE, LXQT, Gnome, XFCE, Cinnamon, or one of those newfangled WM only DEs.

    Fucking done.

    If you keep jerking off that hard drive , it'll get hairy.

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