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Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So we can clearly see the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them, please follow this format:

Write the name of the Linux distro as a first-level comment.
Reply to that comment with each reason you like the distro as a separate answer.

For example:

Distro (first-level comment)
- Reason (one answer)
- Other reason (a different answer)

Please avoid duplicating options. This will help us better understand the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

PostmarketOS

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LMDE

Because it's Mint & Debian

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

EndeavourOS

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

An installer of Archlinux with sane default but also has all of Arch Power

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Arch linux (btw). Because it's easy to install and has the most accessible package manager of em all.

...

...before you shoot rocks at me and try to burn me alive.... download an arch iso, run it, and then type "archinstall". Thank me later.

"Oh, but its still veeeeeery hard to inst-"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

MX Linux

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Garuda

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Alpine -- In praise of Alpine and apk

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Fedora Silverblue

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Gentoo Linux

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Being a source based distro, programs are compiled and optimized to your system configuration. Additionally you can add/remove features you dis/like using USE flags.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gentoo

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Universal Blue / ublue-os

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Based on Fedora

Fedora uses the latest technology and is quick to adapt new features such as PipeWire, BTRFS, Wayland and etc, yet remains very stable.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Clean separation

The base system is separated from applications and user data
Integration of Flatpak applications via Flathub
Toolbox and Distrobox support, run applications from any distribution in a containerized environment