Fedora server on my server, custom blue build image on my laptop based on Gnome secureblue
libre
Welcome to libre
A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.
The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.
Resources
- Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
- Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in
$CURRENT_YEAR
, flock to Linux Mint!; Apple Silicon users will want to check out Asahi Linux.
Rules
- Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm. That doesn't mean all posts have to be serious though, memes are welcome!
- Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
- Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
- All site-wide rules still apply
Artwork
- Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
- Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
- Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft
Oh fucc how did I miss this in my own comm lmao.
I use NixOS with flakes on all my machines. Having your operating system as code is actually far easier to wrap my mind than other distros and it helps with learning how each of the individual components of a GNU system fit together and with Nix I always know roughly how point A -> point B.
Second would always go to Fedora Atomic Desktop since like NixOS your operating system is basically just a schema to write out before hand and then deploy. The commonality being that the Linux joke of "sudo apt install into broken system" is entirely vanquished in favor of user simplicity and I would recommend something like Universal Blue's Bazzite to people wanting to see peak GNU/Linux capabilities.
NixOS, really liking the ability to do package and system configuration as code in a single language, and consolidate the configuration for multiple devices in a single repo.
I run Arch on my desktop and media server. The media server mostly just runs docker images though. I set up Fedora Kinoite on my wife's laptop recently though and think that's good for every day non gaming use. If I had more time I'd look into NixOS.
I use Fedora with the KDE desktop. I like Fedora because it gets updates pretty quickly, and you get flatpak applications by default, which are more secure and work well. I like KDE because all its built in applications, like the file manager, have the right amount of buttons in them and aren't overly simplified.
I think most people's second favourite choice is Mint. Mint is an extremely solid choice. It doesn't top many lists because it doesn't really stand out, which makes it great.
My only gripe with Mint is that I wish they didn't remove KDE as one of their flavors. When I started using Linux like a decade ago, I first tried Fedora but struggled to install it. Not sure if it has improved for beginners since then.
Arch until I get my desktop setup to install Gentoo again. I miss portage so much. I'm going to see if I can make a minimal FreeBSD host install to serve as a hypervisor, and then virtualize various Linux, BSD, and other operating systems, with a Gentoo VM as my main OS. Why FreeBSD? Well...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Russian-Linux-Maintainers-Drop
I would do OpenBSD, but it looks like FreeBSD is much farther ahead on developing AMD IOMMU support, which is what I need.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/project/amd-iommu/
And if that fails, I may just make a very locked down Gentoo hypervisor, and then I will just practice with a BSD VM until it is ready.
I would like to play with Guix, NixOS, and T2 SDE, and also try LFS.
I use OpenWRT on my routers.
Mint out of simplicity and ease of use because I've still got my training wheels on.
Will use Bazzite soon as I've just recently got myself a handheld but I haven't had the energy to tinker around on it just yet.
Debian with fluxbox, cause I am tired and want things to just work and not change.
only 72 comments? come on everyone, those are rookie numbers
debian so i don't have to do anything
Arch (btw) on my personal computer and Pop_OS! on a shared computer with my family.
EndeavourOS (it’s basically arch btw)
Arch btw, beside the meme it really covers everything I want for my daily driver to do, and I love having all the latest software instead of waiting until it gets added to the official repositories or adding them manually.
If I were to use Linux for professional working though, I would explore Fedora just to have a system that is more stable and can't cause weird technical issues taking up time from my work.
For servers Debian without even thinking about it
Fedora, because it works so well. I use the GNOME desktop because I need the bigger UI elements to use a computer effectively, and I like the workspaces. It's also Fedora's default, and is really seamless.
Fedora KDE for half a year now
Bazzite on desktop because it actually just works and headless Debian on my server because stuff like CoreOS is such a pain in the ass with SELinux.
Mint.
It just works, I don't have to think about my OS.
Opensuse tumbleweed Plasma 6
Mint
Arch (btw)
i dual boot windows and solus linux. it was a good distro when i got it but the lack of support has made me just use the windows side for a while now
Linux Mint Debian Edition.
I've been on Kubuntu for a few years. I'm considering moving to something non-Ubuntu, but I'm really happy with KDE Plasma.
I've been really happy with Fedora KDE. To me, the desktop environment determines the experience more than the distro these days, so you probably wouldn't notice much difference in switching, so maybe not worth it.
I just like Fedora better for installing on a new system, since new hardware tends to be supported faster.
Fedora gnome. For many years
At this moment I'm using fedora with KDE and I'm quite enjoying it. It blends together the pros of rolling release with the managed aspects of other distros
Void Linux
Debian on my workshop computer
Debian on my Minecraft/plex server
Debian on my NAS
EndeavourOS on my old laptop that I fuck around with
Nobara. it's fedora based but has most of the stuff you need for gaming in by default
i use arch btw. if you don't have console-phobia it's one of the easiest distros to use, easy to install new software and is not prone to breaking as much as people say (well it depends on your use case mine's been pretty stable).