• rarsamx@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    You mean my distros?

    Different distros are the best for different purposes.

    My Fedora is the best for my laptop because it just works and all the hardware is supported.

    My Arch is the best because it’s a super fine tuned setup that prevents distractions and doesn’t waste memory or CPU doing things I don’t care about.

    My mint is the best because it’s simple, stable, beautiful out of the box.

    My debian is the best because servers are no nonsense.

    My puppy Linux was the best when I was a developer for the distro because it was the smallest lightest and fastest distro I’ve ever used.

    Etc.

  • adr1an@programming.devM
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    1 year ago

    How about Qubes? if you have the specs, you get sandboxes (VMs) and all distros are available into 1. Heck, you can even have windows VMs…

    And if you don’t have the specs, just use any linux and install distrobox (docker) !

  • crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I use Arch, btw, but I don’t consider it the best (yes I do.) I could easily transition to Fedora, for example (I would never do that,) and be completely happy (I would rather continually hit my head with the metal stapler gun on my desk.)

  • UNY0N@linux.communityEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Bazzite just works, it runs every game I have with zero fuss, it’s easy to run Windows programs / emulators / local LLMs, AND it’s basically unbreakable.

        • OnfireNFS@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Bazzite has a KDE version too. I think it is more popular then the GNOME version of bazzite actually. At least according to the results of the latest steam survey

          • PolarKraken@programming.devEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Yep I use KDE-flavored Bazzite and actually forgot GNOME was even offered! It works deliciously. Came over from Windows last winter finally and boy, the UI alone is just so much nicer.

            • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              1 year ago

              I had avoided KDE for years due to some multi-screen resolution issues back in the day.

              I’d be running gnome, and install a half dozen plugins to make it look and feel closer to Windows It was just a personal preference. Every other update some plugin I was using would be broken. I’d replace it with another plug-in or uninstall it and wait for a fix. Fight fight fight fight fight fight. Some number of years later I tried KDE again, and I realized that it did exactly what I was trying to do in Gnome but it did it out of the box.

              I don’t have anything against Gnome. The same way I don’t have anything against OS X’s “window manager” or even Windows 11’s “window manager” they’re just not my preference.

              Bottom left navigation, thin, stacked app indicators, bottom right tray. Fractional scaling, widgets.

              • FishFace@lemmy.world
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                10 months ago

                I tried KDE over a decade ago before using Mint for a while. Then I saw someone’s laptop running vanilla GNOME and thought it looked nice. But a couple of years ago I realised that GNOME’s insistence on hiding settings in “tweaks”/gsettings and generally making it harder to do what I wanted was getting in the way. KDE still has the configurability that I loved when I first started using Linux and GNOME 2, without being an infinite config hellhole like the niche WMs

    • PolarKraken@programming.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I haven’t bothered to actually search or troubleshoot yet, but since I’m here - have you had any problems with power management failing to automatically turn screens off when idle?

      I don’t get consistent behavior there it seems (AKA it leaves them on when it shouldn’t), but that’s I think the only significant oddity I’ve found in the ~7 months or so I’ve been running Bazzite. And like I said I’ve done basically nothing yet to try to solve it, just wondering if you’ve seen it. I have the issue on a desktop and a laptop, using entirely different monitors (not even same brand) FWIW.

      • UNY0N@linux.communityEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I haven’t had any problems like that, but I generally don’t leave my screen on. So perhaps I would have this issue, but just never notice it because of how I use the device.

        I’m very conscious of energy use, I almost always manually set my laptop to sleep if I’m leaving it idle for a while.

    • adr1an@programming.devM
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      1 year ago

      To each its own in accordance to their needs. Debian is great unless you want to add proprietary stuff like GPUs. That’s the whole reason so many distros (e.g. Ubuntu) raised to fame and gained popularity while being based on Debian… That, and the fact that until recently Debian installation guide was not updated and called to download an ISO to be burned in 1-2 CDs… that was so f*ing unclear. Of course you can use a pendrive, but if the guide talks about CDs… that’s just confusing to newbies. None pointed that out, but to me is like being even less friendly than Arch :P Just my opinion. That said, I have been using Debian based distros for most of my time, even today (desktop PC with MX ‘ahs’.)

  • dhampirdamsel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been enjoying EndeavourOS over the past three years. It works wonderfully out of the box at default settings, and was really easy for me to use and set up to my liking with minimal know-how needed.

    It also works really well on the variety of machines I have in my home. My desktop, modded Chromebook, and my husband’s laptop.

    It’s allowed me to get more familiar and confident with the command line, and enough so that I’ve switched to Sway from XFCE (and previously KDE).

  • Olap@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This week alone I’ve used Arch, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, and Fedora. Its Arch. By a short way, and mostly thanks to the wiki. Tbh they are all converging, and I go with KDE variants when I use a GUI and no distro does too much to customise it

  • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    openSUSE Slowroll and Secureblue are my favorites ATM. Slowroll for gaming, Secureblue for mobile device. Both are hardened for security because that matters to me.

    • woelkchen@piefed.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I recently installed Slowroll in Steam Deck’s Distrobox. First day and yt-dlp was already too outdated.😅

      Adding OBS repos got weirdly broken since the last time I did it. Some packages cannot be forked into one’s home repo because they are on openSUSE’s git and zypper ar does not add the repo type to the offline file, so zypper ref complains about an unknown repo.

      In the end I found some other repo containing a recent version of yt-dlp that I could fork into my home repo and edit the file in /etc/zypp/repos.d by hand. I assume this is transition pain during the move from OBS to git. I hope they’ll get this done soon.