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So, title. Personally after trying out pretty much every major distro save gentoo, I’ve come back to Ubuntu because it just works and I can focus on my work. Did remove snap and install flatpak, but other than that it’s mostly stock ubuntu.
arch on my desktop and on my server
EndeavourOS :)
Gentoo.
Where my Mint peeps at?
Cinnamon gang!
artix with xfce, i ve used arch with bspwm for a while now i m a simpler man
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Trying out Fedora now, was partial to Pop os, but liking the feel of Fedora!
Been running Void Linux for a few years now and it’s very good. I like xbps and the void-packages repo (it’s like the AUR but sane).
Main machine thinkpad x60: Trisquel
iBook G4: Debian
thinkpad t450: Linux Mint
on all my other laptops: LXLE
on my old desktop: LXLE
on my main desktop Minisforum UM500: Manjaro (But only because I have no idea how it works and Manjaro came with the UM500 and I’m afraid I can’t install something else that will work with all the graphics.)
Well, Slackware of course!
Artix with awesomewm and Linux Mint in case something doesn’t work on Artix.
Ubuntu. I started with Mint when I first dropped Windows because it had a similar look. But I found it was harder to find answers to problems I had with Mint than with Ubuntu because more people use it. So I switched to Ubuntu.
Fedora 38 KDE Spin. Truly awesome experience!
Ubuntu, it just works. Hardly notice any genuine issues with Snaps as well, but I also rarely use them.
Ubuntu Studio (XFCE desktop). It’s not the fanciest desktop, has one or two rough edges, and there are one or two tweaks I make right away on any new install, but I can get most things done without thinking about the OS at all now.
I like the UI eye candy of KDE, but I find it too weighty for an everyday use distro.
I used to use Debian plus XFCE, but it’s a bit too spartan for me these days.
I tried Ubuntu Studio for a bit for audio work, but it was really slow for some reason. Even the terminal would take 12 seconds to open up. Couldn’t find the problem so I switched to OpenSUSE Leap and now it’s super responsive.
Unfortunately, it looks like Wwise refuses to install with Wine or Bottles, so I might not be able to use Linux for work.
Hmm… interesting you mention terminal really slow to open up. I still experience this also - the first time I open a terminal (only), and only if I try to open it shortly after I boot the machine. I’ve tried several times to find out why this is, but without success (without a terminal it’s hard to find out what’s blocking the terminal…)
The other thing I dumped was the latest Ubuntu Studio Chromium install, because it installs a snap, which is laggy to fire up, which also drove me crazy. I use the Mint chromium build now, which is a real native build, not a snap, and works great.
