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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What distro do you use and why? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Mwa@thelemmy.club to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

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[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Arch on my desktop and laptop, Debian stable goes on everything else.

[–] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've hopped distros alot and then just felt most comfortable with arch linux. I try other distros and then just go back to arch linux everytime. I just love the AUR and the utilities that are available to arch linux. The wiki is also very good.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 8 months ago

Best wiki and aur fr.

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fedora because I like this out of the box look more than Ubuntu and it runs my games well with my nvidia card

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[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

elementary! I like it, been using it since ~2018, I like its style and I don’t mind reinstalling for major updates. They’re pretty seldom if you’re on the LTS branch anyway

[–] icogniito@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Cachyos.

Used to use pure arch but I like the cachy optimisations and their repos

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[–] Breadhax0r@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I started with mint cinnamon and then tried out bazzite and nobara but they both gave me issues so I'm back to mint because it really does "just work"

My server is running mint currently, but I'm going to switch to fedora at some point soon. Mostly because I have to deal with RHEL at work and I'd like to better familiarize myself with it.

[–] Saithe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Fedora. I like the rolling release but with large updates separated into point releases, as well as the ability to perform offline updates. I also like the preinstalled security stuff

[–] Epicurus0319@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu, because I'm fine with something that "just works"

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