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I've been using arch for the last two and a half years. No prior experience with other distros, but also not felt any reason to look at using anything else since the switch from windows.
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openSUSE Tumbleweed is probably closer to the Arch experienceI haven't used many distros. I enjoy using Arch, Debian, and Ubuntu.
I keep meaning to try out OpenSUSE.
Yeah…that’s what everyone thinks…you’ll get the itch again…I'm still using TuxedOS. It's been brilliant and I think I may have finally stopped distro swapping.
Something i've never understood on linux forums is why people post a desktop image of a vanilla install?
Cause when most people have it installed they have no idea what else to do with it
I like both, but you do realise you can restore the 'X' (and/or the middle restore button) with a single click in Gnome Tweaks, right? Use whichever distro you prefer, of course, but missing window buttons are definitely not a differentiating factor.I like Fedora as its the most vanilla of the big distros but I use Ubuntu as some of the small details of Fedora annoy me like no x button to close windows etc... so Ubuntu is my distro of choice.
Technically I believe that’s more of a GNOME design choice than a Fedora choice as they intentionally ship a very vanilla experience of it (I appreciate that sounds rather pedantic but I do feel it’s a relevant distinction to make)I like Fedora as its the most vanilla of the big distros but I use Ubuntu as some of the small details of Fedora annoy me like no x button to close windows etc... so Ubuntu is my distro of choice.
Stability. (e: In the true Unix sense, meaning 'changes' not 'breaks'. It releases far too often, updates base packages etc.)My new favourite this week is Fedora-Server. Easy to install, ifconfig works out of the box.. and after including headlesstools the terminal pointed me to port localhost:9090 what a joy! Great work whoever you people are. It just works. and the install was also very liberating to use. I'm now thinking what is the downside here?
Thanks I'll take a look at that. The reason I reached for it was I've been trying out iperf3.16 as it's been updated to use multithread cpu now. I got pretty frustrated trying to plant an OS that was easy to push across multiple systems... wsl old bare metal and new ish stuff, tried Arch Debian which just didn't translate as well. It runs better than I expected though.Stability. (e: In the true Unix sense, meaning 'changes' not 'breaks'. It releases far too often, updates base packages etc.)
Try Rocky Linux instead. Same ease of use, same tools (plus some quality of life addons) but 10 years of rock solid reliability and updates. It's my first reach on a server nowadays.