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I made the unfortunate post about asking why people liked Arch so much (RIP my inbox I'm learning a lot from the comments) But, what is the best distro for each reason?

RIP my inbox again. I appreciate this knowledge a lot. Thank you everyone for responding. You all make this such a great community.

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[–] Jode@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Open suse leap, because it's the only one I could install on my computer that would go to sleep and then wake up without locking up.

[–] Allero 1 points 1 month ago

Should be within your DE's settings, might just be the default there.

[–] POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Glad you said that. I had that issue on my fedora computer.

[–] Robin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's probably not the best but I have it set up and it does what I need it to do 🤷 Fedora KDE

[–] POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

It's what I use!

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Because it uses the best desktop environment (GNOME) and im the most familiar with

(I wonder how many downvotes i will get)

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[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've been using Ubuntu for years and I like KDE, so I'm using Neon. Ubuntu is familiar, easy to fix, easy to find out how to fix, and neon doesn't come with snaps.

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[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wanted the awesomeness of pacman and like the way Gardua comes pre-configured as well as packages it installs from the get go. The only thing I hate about it is the "gamer" universal KDE theme it comes with.

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[–] Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like the way Pop!_OS looks. Not gonna pretend it's the best. But as far as default UIs, it clicked with the most. Default gnome seemed too spartan and all of the Windows-like DEs remind me too much of Windows. Which I don't like. If that makes sense.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It isn't. I just don't feel like swapping

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Arch, everything it does provide works extremely well, I can configure everything how I want it without having to fight a distro maintainer trying to be clever, I get new features and bugfixes whenever they go in without having to worry about a distro maintainer deciding whether it’s relevant or whether I should just live with crashes and security issues for another two years because they figured it wasn’t important or critical enough.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

It isn't. I'm on PopOS 24.04 Alpha 7 (soon to be Beta 1), because of COSMIC (and because I was having some bugs with Fedora a few months back).

I recently wanted to tinker with a piece of software that wasn't packaged, and I couldn't compile it because of outdated libraries. I could return to Fedora specifically to tinker with it but as an ex-distrohopper, I know it isn't worth the effort.

Even though Fedora or some version of it will likely be my forever distro, I will stick to PopOS for now because I can't be bothered to distrohop and back up months' worth of files, including game saves and a ton of stuff in my Downloads directory.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use Nobara with KDE for my gaming computer, Mint with Cinnamon for pretty much everything else.

Mint is the closest to a "Just Works" experience for me. Cinnamon is rock stable, especially on Mint Debian Edition. I don't remember the last time Cinnamon crashed or had any major bugs for me.

I use Debian for most of my servers, stable and simple. Arch on a junker Thinkpad to test and mess around with new programs and window managers.

[–] zgxiii@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Been using Nobara KDE for about a year, it's been awesome Mint Cinnamon is also great

[–] coralof@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I am using Bluefin, based on Fedora Silverblue. I realized that I was already exclusively using flatpaks for everything except one random app, so I thought why not go all-in?

Haven't had to worry about updates or system breakages since, and it's been great so far.

I used to use Debian Stable, but since doing SysAdmin work I've just become used to the way Fedora / RHEL does things.

[–] LeteoAtredies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Void. Minimal, all the programs I need are in the repos, which is a first for me. Very fast.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Ubuntu is the best because I can copy and paste commands from programming tutorials.

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