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What are people daily driving these days?

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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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WeAreAllOne@lemm.ee
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OpenSuse tumbleweed + kde plasma for a peace of mind 👍

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csfirecracker@lemmyf.uk
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There are dozens of us! Dozens!

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milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev
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I am amongst you scholars and noblemen.

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WeAreAllOne@lemm.ee
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Indeed there are my dude!

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CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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For laptops, I’ve been using EndeavourOS lately. All of the Arch goodness, but with an easy installer that handles the DE too. It’s as close to “just works” as you can get while still having pacman + AUR at the end.

I still love raw Arch, but I leave that for server installs.

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cygnus@lemmy.ca
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Same, EOS is awesome and cured my distro-hopping.

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threegnomes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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archinstall let’s you choose a DE too

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Salix@sh.itjust.works
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Not saying anything bad about EndeavourOS, because it’s great, but:

All of the Arch goodness, but with an easy installer that handles the DE too.

Arch has a guided TUI installer included in it’s ISO that does this too.

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CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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It does, but it’s done me wrong a few times so I never recommend it. For all I know it’s fine these days, but old grudges are hard do shake.

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astraeus@programming.dev
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Username tells me this is a trap

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Carter@feddit.uk
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OpenSUSE TW for me. Used to be Arch but it’s just too much faff for me.

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ProtonBadger@kbin.social
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Same, I’ve used Linux since the late nineties and know my way around but I have other things to do. TW with Plasma/Wayland is great.

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Deregon@jlai.lu
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NixOS user here! Fedora is a very good contender as well

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musicmatze@lemmy.ml
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+1 on NixOS. On all devices except Android phones since 2014 for me.

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BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
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NixOS too. I really like having a “fresh” install every time I restart.

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