wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it’s a gacha. I don’t want to gamble with my account being banned, so I’m keeping windows for it specifically.) this’ll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with wifi and didn’t love the GNOME layout. I have a new distro picked out, but I just was curious what other people are using in this community. was also wondering what made you fall on your current one.

and maybe as some bonus questions, what are some distros you’ve tried but didn’t like? what about a distro you want to try eventually? I’ve seen distrohopping is a thing, hahaha.

  • samwise_gamgee@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I use EndeavourOS because I like having access to the AUR but didn’t want to risk messing up my Windows installation by trying to manually set up Arch for dual booting (this was before archinstall was made). I like it, and I like using KDE. My only complaint with it would be that pacman kinda shits itself if you go too long without updating.

    The first distro I ever used was ZorinOS back in like 2017.

  • Marighost@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Bazzite Linux running KDE Plasma 6. It’s a wonderful distro based on Fedora 40 (I think, still kinda new) and it’s made for gaming.

  • darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    If you like or need the latest software, use a rolling distro. I use Manjaro (boo, hiss) and really like it. But if you don’t want the Arch users to beat you up and pants you, I hear Endeavour OS is pretty good.

    • Stowaway@midwest.social
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      5 months ago

      I wanted this, but it wouldnt boot for me. :( my hardware was pretty new at the time though, so maybe works now?I’ll have to try it again some time.

    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      Ditto. Super easy setup, most stuff just works right off the bat. Super active community on the forum and high participation from the devs.

  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    I’m on Debian Stable (with a few backported packages) for both work and gaming. It’s not the most beginner-friendly distro, but I’m no beginner, and I love how low-maintenance it is. It just keeps on working.

    I would like to try Qubes OS eventually. I don’t think it will be ready for gaming any time soon, but for privacy and security-minded isolation of components, I expect it’s tough to beat.

  • ssm@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    SteamOS on steam deck, PostmarketOS on pinephone. On desktop I use OpenBSD, but if I used a Linux it’d be either Alpine, Void, or Devuan.

  • DARbarian@kbin.run
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    5 months ago

    Currently running Garuda for gaming and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for everything else. Very much look forward to combining them in my own Arch/Void install when I get my new laptop.

      • DARbarian@kbin.run
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        5 months ago

        As somebody who rarely PC games at the moment, I feel it’s pretty bloated for what it is. But my Nvidia GPU worked out of the box so

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    5 months ago

    Debian is mine and has been for decades + I’m a little bit happy to see it’s still well represented / well thought of in the community. Everything works, and you can choose new + exciting with headaches sometimes, or old + stable with no headaches but old.

    Only real issue is the package management hasn’t kept pace with node / python / go / everything else wanting to do its own little mini package management, and so very occasionally that side is a little bit of a mess

    NixOS I would like to try at some point as the core philosophy seems a little more suited to the modern (Docker / pip / etc) era, but I never messed with it

    • robber@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      I recently switched to Debian and use nix to install / provide the likes of node / python / go for development.

      • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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        5 months ago

        Wait, how does that work? Can you do Nix package management on a Debian system or something?

  • rorschah@lemdro.idEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I used to be on pure Arch for 2.5 years, but currently uses cachyOS. And its so much removes the pain points of arch, as well as giving super fast performance.

  • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
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    5 months ago

    I think Fedora is the current best distro. I’ve used everything under the sun over time, and if you use linux for 20+ years, you’ll find you need to distro hop because every distro will get bad (and ideally good again).

    • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I really like Fedora, but the release cycle is too fast for my tastes. Also I find Gnome distracting these days.

      That’s why after 20+ years I use Mint or LMDE. I don’t have the time or interest to tinker the way I used to unless I’m getting paid for it. Mint was the thing that got me to leave Fedora.

      • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
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        5 months ago

        Yeah, I use Gnome, and I kind of hate it and feel like a bunch of religious ideologues are constantly trying to break my window manager on update so I find Jesus, but I’m used to it, so it’s what I use…

  • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Antix! It has a couple of rough patches but overall I really like it. Mainly I like having my RAM back