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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).

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What distro do you use and why? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Fedora, it has KDE spin and quite recent packages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I've hopped distros alot and then just felt most comfortable with arch linux. I try other distros and then just go back to arch linux everytime. I just love the AUR and the utilities that are available to arch linux. The wiki is also very good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

PopOS but I'd like to switch to NixOS

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Xubuntu. Convenience of ubuntu, less cluttered UI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

elementary! I like it, been using it since ~2018, I like its style and I don’t mind reinstalling for major updates. They’re pretty seldom if you’re on the LTS branch anyway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

OMG I use cachyOS too, for the same reasons, plus I love how much I can tinker with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Yeah i kinda like it lets you install desktops that is in arch repos, well because its arch based.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Fedora because I like this out of the box look more than Ubuntu and it runs my games well with my nvidia card

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I have one Ubuntu and one fedora server. Honestly they’re both fine.

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

I started using linux seriously with Manjaro, but since I didn't know what AUR really was I fucked my system up (thank NVIDIA drivers for that). Then I switched to arch, learned everything I should have known on the arch wiki. So yeah, I use arch btw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

For me i started linux seriously with fedora,Some packages was hard to get so i went with cachyos.

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