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Hey fellow Linux enthusiasts! I'm curious to know if any of you use a less popular, obscure or exotic Linux distribution. What motivated you to choose that distribution over the more mainstream ones? I'd love to hear about your experiences and any unique features or benefits that drew you to your chosen distribution.

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[–] OddFed@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

TuxedoOS

It's just so nice with my tuxedo laptop and made me love Plasma.

[–] Bourff@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Same here. Have been a Mint user for more than 10 years and switched recently with the new laptop. I like it a lot, really stable system.

[–] lotteriemeister@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Same here. I used Fedora with gnome before, but this summer I bought a Tuxedo laptop and saw that they maintain their own distro. And as I have been happy with fedora and gnome for way too long, it was time for a switch.

[–] ptolemy@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago (6 children)
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[–] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

I've started playing with Chimera Linux. Super interesting hybrid between BSD-like systems (ports, BSD-derived userland tools) and the Linux kernel, with neat design choices like LLVM compiler instead of gcc and musl C instead of glibc. I think of it as a next-gen Void Linux.

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