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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).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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What distro(s) do you use? (lemmy.world)

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What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?

I myself am a daily Void user. I used to use Devuan, but wanted to try rolling release and ended up loving Void!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

POP!_OS was one of the distros I was looking into but there are two reasons I'm not currently thinking about using it. First, the main reason I want to switch to a different distro, is because Ubuntu isn't very optimized. When I tried Porteus, it booted fast and everything loaded much faster than Ubuntu, but I obviously can't use it because of the WiFI adapter issue. The second reason, is that I want a different DE and I liked cinnamon when I used porteus, so that or something similar like LXDE might be what I want.