For me it’s PeppermintOS.
I started my Linux adventure a few years ago, and haven’t owned a Windows PC since.
I currently use Arch on my main rig, and I wanted to install Linux on two old laptops that I found laying around in my house
I then remembered the first distro I ever used, which is PeppermintOS, and I was amazed at the latest updates they released.
They even have a mini ISO now to do a net-install with no bloat, with a Debian or Devuan base.
Sadly, I believe the founder passed away a few years ago, which is why I was really happy to see the continuation of this amazing project.
Void, Slackware, Alpine, Gentoo, Devuan (although I’d like for them to remove even the slightest semblance of systemd), FreeBSD
Pop_os!
Like why is ubuntu still the newbie friendly distro to recommend? I feel like pop_os is a no brainer, and yet i never see it mentioned 😂
Edit: just look at this post, im the only mention 😂
All of them, thanks a lot for all the Devs hard work, I’ve tried and loved so many distros that I can’t choose any of them but lately I have been using cachyos which is a clean and fast arch based distro.
Hannah Montana Linux
True.
While a joke, it’s actually a very well put together distro.
Void Linux for the arch and gentoo crowd. It’s a system that can be assembled more cohesively.
Nix and Guix - the ideas they bring to the table are revolutionary. I prefer Guix due to its use of Scheme (guile). But Nix is more mature and has more packages.
It’s a nice one for low end machines
Heh. I think of MX as the bloated heavy big brother of AntiX.
It kinda is, but it’s usually easier for people new to linux
Reinstalled my OS (after losing my prior OS from lightning & powercut)… and it’s MX Linux! Hehe. … Hijacked with bedrock linux in seconds after first booting into it. Added a fetch of gentoo and void, and imported an old artix from my other computer (since artix fetch still currently broken).
Bleh… XFCE. I gotta get back into a tiling window manager soon. ;D Lagging on doing that, since I’m doing stuff (like playing long video playlists, keeping an eye on IRC, and so on).
With only a little configuration (like turning off the dyslexia worsening transparency on terminal background), MX Linux does not hurt.
I was a Arch Linux fan for at least 5 years. Tried all the main ones except gentoo. Kept coming back to Arch. But now I’m one week into using NixOS. I don’t think I’m ever going back. It has completely blown my mind, and fixes every minor thing I didn’t like about arch. Mainly how package dependencies work. I’m sure there will be a downside somewhere, but so far the only issue I’ve had is just trying to learn how to config everything.
TLDR: NixOS. I don’t know how I didn’t know about it till recently. Seems like it would be a lot more popular than it is.
Just curious, revisiting this old thread…
I was a Arch Linux fan for at least 5 years. Tried all the main ones except gentoo.
Have you tried VoidLinux?
… And… Still on NixOS after 2 years?
