What Linux Operating Systems do you like?

Just asked AI and it seems to depend on what hardare controller you have and it varies between consumer , enterprise drives , Unless it's just making stuff up?

A consumer NVMe drive capable of 500,000+ random write IOPS can plummet to just 200 to 400 IOPS under a heavy fsync load (like a transaction database or Proxmox virtual disk). Its latency spikes into milliseconds, making it perform closely to an old spinning hard drive.
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Why Enterprise M.2 Drives Escape the BottleneckEnterprise M.2 NVMe drives (such as the Samsung PM9A3) feature built-in hardware capacitors for Power Loss Protection (PLP).

When an enterprise drive receives an fsync, it can safely instantly acknowledge (ACK) the write the millisecond it hits the drive’s internal onboard DRAM.The drive knows that if power fails unexpectedly, the onboard capacitors hold enough physical charge to safely flush that RAM data into the flash chips anyway.

Because of this, enterprise NVMe drives can easily process 40,000+ fsync operations per second instead of a few hundred.
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I ran the KDE plasma for a couple of hours last night and even though i didn't hate it i just don't feel inspired to run it full time.

I get the same feeling every time i try it, Yet i find it nigh on impossible to articulate why!
 
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Ice Tea said:
I ran the KDE plasma for a couple of hours last night and even though i didn't hate it i just don't feel inspired to run it full time.

I get the same feeling every time i try it, Yet i find it nigh on impossible to articulate why!
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I'm still running KDE on my two newest PCs so a few weeks with it on the main one. There's things I like about it better than GNOME, but overall I think I'd still choose that. The system settings alone can take me a minute to find stuff sometimes. Although I'm trying to stick with KDE and give it a really good run.
 
I see a lot of people complaining on Reddit how heavily stripped down GNOME is but it's not like you're average user is constantly changing settings.

The only thing the bugged me was the lack of minimise and maximise and that was quickly sorted with GNOME tweaks.
 
My only complaint with GNOME is that you should have the ability to hide audio devices from the drop-down like KDE, or Windows. That requiring an extension feels broken to me.
 
Christ Titus put out a video that I didn't expect. Although I know he's only one influencer on Youtube but he's always been quite vocal against Redhat. So interesting take although the comment 'three weeks later: why i switched back to arch' made me laugh a bit.

 
Timber said:
Christ Titus put out a video that I didn't expect. Although I know he's only one influencer on Youtube but he's always been quite vocal against Redhat. So interesting take although the comment 'three weeks later: why i switched back to arch' made me laugh a bit.
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I haven't watched the video - but likely all just for content, he knows it'll be a good viewing for something quitting Arch at the moment and Fedora is a pretty hot topic. It's doing good numbers for an 8 hour release for his channel stats.
 
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I haven't watched the video - but likely all just for content, he knows it'll be a good viewing for something quitting Arch at the moment and Fedora is a pretty hot topic. It's doing good numbers for an 8 hour release for his channel stats.
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For sure. It's odd because he loves tinkering and building modular linux and I think he sorts of points out the bad things with Arch, but these don't really fit with a reason for him not to use Arch. Although it definitely benefits him to use the different distros.

It does make me want to install Fedora again. With all the instability issues I've had I was trying CachyOS for the more up to date kernels for some amdgpu fixes, but I do prefer Fedora.
 
Timber said:
It does make me want to install Fedora again.
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I've used Fedora quite a lot the last 18 months, 42-44 releases for a specific timeline, works great, I'm not one for distro hopping in general, it's only when I get a new machine, or a new mini PC that I tend to tinker, or a new drive. I do a lot of RHEL based stuff at work and wasn't as comfortable in RPM/DNF as I'd have liked to have been which was one of the main reason. GNOME is even growing on me with a bit of customisation, but I suspect I'll still end up back in the super-minimalist setup I've been going for the last few years.
 
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What MX Linux can do with Fluxbox is pretty amazing, unless that's too bloated for you. :)
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I'm still primarily a tiling window manager guy to be honest. No frills, no fancy bars, no animations. I think the next time I have to re-install or move PC (which will probably be shortly as I'm redoing my setup) it'll end up running sdorfehs as the window manager and nothing else. Might even try to daily my n100 running it for a while. I have some free time after all.
 
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I'm the complete opposite, The closer i can get to point and click the better.
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Same. Despite some incresding use of keyboard shortcuts since using Linux I'm just too ingrained in using a GUI to make the change. Also helps that KDE and GNOME tend to lead the way for gaming too.

But I sometimes look at these super cool tiling manager setups with a bit of envy.
 
I've been playing with latest MX linux (Debian Stable) and was deeply impressed that they have now added things like Zram as a point and click option!

Not that i'd ever use Zram, but if i did i could point and click it. :D
 
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The less redhat clowns the better really. Slowly moving 5k over to debian/ubuntu. Network manager can f right off.
 
Looking to potentially move away from Windows, all I use my PC for is work and a bit of PC gaming. I have a 5070ti, any recommendations as to which OS to use?
 
Mint is a good user friendly distro. I would personally start here. Nobara is a good one that balances gaming and normal use. This might be better for your nVidia card. I use EndeavourOS for everything but it's more complex and can be a bit too much for new Linux users.

Realistically the main thing to look at is the desktop environment (KDE, Gnome etc.) as this will be the thing you interface with the most. The next thing is installing and updating software. Mint and Nobara are easier on this front.

You can evaluate all of them without changing your PC by using by making Live USB sticks.
 
Anyone else tried AnduinOS 2.0 .... very nicely polished... optimized Ubuntu reskinned... Although I think I am a Plasma-boy by nature
 
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