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What is your go-to Linux distro and why?
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i settled on fedora kde a few years ago(altho i recently switched to fedora silverblue kde)
imo a nice middleground.
if you are intrested in immutable distros, i can recommend silverblue (not as drastic of a change compared to nixos)
if you are intrested in nixos package management, you might want to try out the nix package manager on your current distro.
an intresting way to get the fresh but stable system you want is to,
install some rock solid distro like debian,
and then use the nix package manager and/or flatpacks to get the fresh software you want.