What Linux Operating Systems do you like?

GR63 · 26 Mar 2025 at 13:11

santa said:
Fedora is my goto, it has a large install base which means things get tested more and they tend to keep the important toolchains regularly updated on very recent versions which is great for hardware compatibility. Don't much care about the DE or customising the look and feel and don't want to mess about too much, could happily use kde gnome sway cosmic etc. The main thing that makes a distro a distro is the package manager IMO, which Fedora does well.

Nobara (KDE version with stock KDE desktop) for me... basically Fedora with some sensible preinstalled tweaks

Earth[Tera].bin · 26 Mar 2025 at 17:12

I'm back on Gentoo, I did the distro hop a while back trying nearly every one under the Sun ,going down the rabbit hole trying to find something that felt suitable. Always ended up running into something that didn't quite work or lacking.

In the end I reverted back to what I know and happily have everything up and running as I want it to and only took half a day as opposed to a few days of compiling about 20 years ago

Ice Tea · 27 Mar 2025 at 10:16

Earth[Tera].bin said:
only took half a day as opposed to a few days of compiling about 20 years ago

That's a lot of piddling about just to look at Porn!

Earth[Tera].bin · 27 Mar 2025 at 10:52

Ice Tea said:
That's a lot of piddling about just to look at Porn!

Your timing is better than you know! . I got one of those bitcoin blackmail emails in my outlook - calling me a perv and threatening to share web cam videos of me having a ham shank whilst looking at dodgy porn lol.
(Don't even own a webcam)

adidan · 27 Mar 2025 at 11:00

Earth[Tera].bin said:
threatening to share web cam videos of me having a ham shank whilst looking at dodgy porn lol.
(Don't even own a webcam)

'Owning a webcam' the only denial lol.

adidan · 27 Mar 2025 at 11:01

GR63 said:
Nobara (KDE version with stock KDE desktop) for me... basically Fedora with some sensible preinstalled tweaks

How are you finding that gaming wise?

It seems to be between that and Bazzite for easy gaming.

Gregvivi0401 · Sunday at 08:41

Hi all my son wants to try Linux witch version do you recomend?

Cromulent · Sunday at 11:20

Gregvivi0401 said:
Hi all my son wants to try Linux witch version do you recomend?

For a new user I would say Fedora or Ubuntu.

Rabid Wolf · Sunday at 13:55

Cromulent said:
For a new user I would say Fedora or Ubuntu.

Add Mint to that.

Ice Tea · Monday at 09:01

CachyOS has started using limine bootloader, i assume it must be faster?

Mr_Orange · Monday at 17:06

Rabid Wolf said:
Add Mint to that.

I'd say Mint too. It sorts out a bunch of extra stuff that even Fedora or Ubuntu don't. As a first time user that is valuable. I've seen people give almost give up on Linux because they had to manually set up a few things in Ubuntu but when they went to Mint it all just worked.