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I'm between distros and looking for a new daily driver for my laptop. What are people daily driving these days? Are there any new cool things to try?

I have been using linux mint recently. I have used nixos and arch in the past. Personally, linux mint uses flatpacks too much for my liking. Although, I might have a warped perspective after using arch. (the aur is crazy big)

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[–] bour@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Desktop: Arch KDE Laptop: MX Linux KDE

[–] Astaroth@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Arch Linux with i3wm

Fish, Alacritty, Rofi (dmenu replacement)

[–] MrBubbles96@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Arch + XFCE on my desktop. Have been for a while now, and everytime i try something else, I always come back to it. For my laptop, I've been using Gnome + extensions (Arch as well. That way I don't gotta switch gears and remember two different sets of commands) before i had to take it in for repairs. Was pretty good because of the mousepad gestures IMO.

[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Fedora. I've been looking into fedora silverblue and vanilla os as well but I'm chilling with regular fedora for now

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

Garuda on my gaming desktop, fedora bazzite on my gaming laptop. Loving both to be honest.

[–] davemeech@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm about ready to hop back in and daily drive Linux again after the nightmare that was attempting debian w/KDE plasma and Wayland. I have a Nvidia GPU on my laptop and for some reason I did not have luck at all after moderate success daily driving opensuse tumbleweed and kubuntu for a while.

I'm admittedly looking to onboard myself to the gnome workflow and leave the comfort of the windows style desktop environment experience. Gnome seems a bit more polished and stable than KDE plasma but it's interface isn't intuitive to me yet.

Ideally I'll be using Debian or Arch when the time comes for me to dive back into desktop Linux.

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[–] spider@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago

Q4OS, for five years

I'm a Mint Cinnamon guy.

[–] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

Debian Testing and Arch with KDE on the PC/Workstation.

Debian Stable on the server.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Debian with awesome at home. Fedora with cinnamon at work.

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Nobara because I am a beginner that uses his PC primaryly for gaming

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

kubuntu

kde connect wasn't working on endeavouros with sway and i wanted something easy and debian based

[–] rebul@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If you want the cool new thing, it's Nix

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[–] foiledAgain@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fedora but I’m not loving it. Due to my hardware I think I’m limited to that, arch and openSuse.

[–] xohshoo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

? If you're hardware runs Fedora, it should run anything

[–] 01011@monero.town 2 points 2 years ago
[–] estebanlm@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Manjaro Gnome. It just works ;)

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[–] atomic@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gentoo, running pure Wayland and Pipewire, no X11.

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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