What Linux Operating Systems do you like?

Bluecube said:
That's a near 20 year old OS. I wouldn't have such an old OS anywhere near my hardware! Shove it in a VM!
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That's a good shout but the whole point was get a feel of how it responds on bare metal

Anyway experiment done.

Did like ubuntu 25, especially liked some of the easy to get to power mode settings in the toolbar

The one thing that has been a constant disappointment over the past 20+ years is the scrolling and the touchpad motion never got used to it even when using it daily. It's the same even when linux is booted on a macbook pro :confused:
Pity really as if it were not for this I would be back to using linux desktop as my daily driver. Overall an LDE is much quicker and more efficient than windows - pity really

Tails OS I'll definitely keep for when I need it, especially like that it randomises your MAC at boot up
 
Subliminal Aura said:
Boo ! Ubuntu 6.06 doesn't have UEFI support and I didn't want to completely bust secure boot on my laptop (no option to simply disable it through the bios just an option to remove keys which I wasn't keen on doing)

On the plus side

Tails OS worked and is slick but the promise of 'all traffic' being routed through tor is a lie .... It's only true if you use the tor browser, even then dnsleaktest tells me that the DNS server being used is cloudflare, I guess that is what the exit node is configured as

Will try the others
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Blast from the past, 6.06 was my first ever Linux install. I miss the old Gnome 2.0.
 
Users choosing rolling/blazing new distros based on rolling distros - it's a bit of a recipe for disaster really. I get it people want shiny. I'm still primarily on Debian and rock solid stable, but playing a bit with Fedora too with my new build, but gonna be back to Debian land soon.
 
You pays your money and makes your choice.

Everything has it's place. As long as you understand what you're getting into and mitigate accordingly (backup, backup, backup :) ), or choose a more stable flavour to start with (but still backup, backup, backup) because you will break it. :)

My concern is people will look at the new shiny bleeding edge stuff and the first time it ****s itself will be put off and never come back.
 
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Just wondering what the views were on cachyos? I've had a couple of people suggest it to me as a good performance option that isn't too fiddly to install and maintain.
 
Mercurial said:
You pays your money and makes your choice.

Everything has it's place. As long as you understand what you're getting into and mitigate accordingly (backup, backup, backup :) ), or choose a more stable flavour to start with (but still backup, backup, backup) because you will break it. :)

My concern is people will look at the new shiny bleeding edge stuff and the first time it ****s itself will be put off and never come back.
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I feel much more confident now with snapshots enabled in cachyos. Any updates or package installs triggers a snapshot and on boot I can just choose to go back in time. Its no replacement for backups but should be harder to properly break :D.
 
meandu229 said:
I feel much more confident now with snapshots enabled in cachyos. Any updates or package installs triggers a snapshot and on boot I can just choose to go back in time. Its no replacement for backups but should be harder to properly break :D.
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This is the main reason I like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. The snapshots and reverting snapshots make it much harder to break things.
 
meandu229 said:
I feel much more confident now with snapshots enabled in cachyos. Any updates or package installs triggers a snapshot and on boot I can just choose to go back in time. Its no replacement for backups but should be harder to properly break :D.
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I felt the same way, I run limine with snapper enabled, but as a belt and braces also keep systemd boot installed as a fallback. It didn't matter the other day as the entire bootloader corrupted, so didn't get a opportunity to use the snapshots. :(

Easy enough fix, but if I were new/inexperienced (and not been half expecting it at some point), it would have thrown me and made me question Linux as a viable choice especially with the current hype of how great Cachy is (which to be fair it is, but it can bite ;) ).
 
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Bootloader issues are the main ones I've had since I've switched to Linux. The only time it's been Linux's fault is when pacman didn't remove old kernels when installing new versions and the partition filled up. The other times have been BIOS/UEFI updates and Windows updates both of which are rare that I need to do. I only keep windows around for a legacy project that I might need access to.

I'm actually waiting for things to really go **** up so I can have a reason for a clean install or to do some distro hopping. EndeavourOS is holding strong so that might be a long way off!
 
meandu229 said:
I feel much more confident now with snapshots enabled in cachyos. Any updates or package installs triggers a snapshot and on boot I can just choose to go back in time. Its no replacement for backups but should be harder to properly break :D.
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Cromulent said:
This is the main reason I like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. The snapshots and reverting snapshots make it much harder to break things.
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Fortunately these aren't limited to these distros - happily running BTRFS with snapshots in Debian stable - although OS install is largely irrelevant for me as I separate my data out and rsync it across for backups every day. I have an Ansible playbook which configures my OS.
 
As much as I like ZFS, I would probably go Btrfs as things are so much easier when it's part of the kernel and there are more tools like Timeshift and Snapper with ongoing support.

Projects seem to pop up for ZFS and then vanish.
 
Ice Tea said:
As much as I like ZFS, I would probably go Btrfs as things are so much easier when it's part of the kernel and there are more tools like Timeshift and Snapper with ongoing support.

Projects seem to pop up for ZFS and then vanish.
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Wouldn't bother running ZFS on Linux personally. Just run it on FreeBSD, although I fancy taking a look at pure OpenZFS / IlluminOS at some point. I love that niche stuff.

Got some physical MySQL Clusters running on ZFS at work. They work great to be fair.
 
I started off on Linux Mint a long time ago, dual booting with Windows but Microsoft is now all but extinct in the house and I now run CachyOS (latest and LTS kernels as boot options) as the daily, dual booting with Ubuntu LTS as an immediate backup* should it be needed given the rolling release double-edged sword of Arch/CachyOS (hasn't been needed yet!). Using Limine as the bootloader/manager gives direct access to the btrfs snapshots from the boot menu.

I'd still recommend Mint to anyone starting off with Linux. Not a big fan of Ubuntu's look and feel, it's just there as a stable emergency backup. Really like CachyOS though of course nothing's ever perfect.

* Data and large applications are stored on a seprate Ext4 partition so available to all and would survive a nuking/replaceing of either of the OS' in the future.
 
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