What Linux Operating Systems do you like?

Ice Tea said:
One of the few things I miss about Windows is that you could just point, click, and get on with your life!
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Put like that it makes a benefit of having no choice at all :)

After over a year I'm still using CachyOS primarily for home use even after hopping to here and there. It really is a polished piece of work (though not immune to the foibles of it's rolling nature) for an Arch based distro with clunkiness reduced to a minimum. Which although I like it; PikaOS which I also use, especially around it's update workflow could benefit from (the two projects share some features & resources).
 
Ice Tea said:
One of the few things I miss about Windows is that you could just point, click, and get on with your life!
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To be fair you can happily do that with many of the Linux distros about, if I didn't care about "modern" stuff like FSR4, HDR, Wayland etc I think I'd happily pick something like Mint or maybe Kubuntu (maybe the LTS version)
 
Mercurial said:
Put like that it makes a benefit of having no choice at all :)
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Well , you don't need to install VM or proxmox to test a 100 different versions of windows to find out you've wasted your time for sake of a different skin, icons and fonts.

Users just need to weep into their cupper when microsoft piddles about with the start menu. :D

will13 said:
To be fair you can happily do that with many of the Linux distros about.
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I hazzard a guess that you're talking about moving the mouse around the desktop? :D

RGB for example is rarely point,click and get on with your life under linux.

Earth[Tera].bin said:
Yes, it is what it is and It's productive, but I can't help feeling a bit off with all the telemetry they're pulling from you.
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Exactly, i'm not interested playing that game of whack-a-mole any longer, though i'm not happy with the amount of AI that's creeping towards linux.
 
Ice Tea said:
Out of interest did you try the N305 as a daily linux desktop?
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No it's running as an unraid server actually.

I do have a Beelink Mini ( n105) and a GMKTec m5plus ( Ryzen 5850U ) that will happily run a Linux/Freebsd desktop. Standard stuff mind you, no gaming, heavy video editing etc.

As for the distro hopping, I've got too much time on my hands , otherwise I would simply settle for a distro and leave it at that. Probably Debian.
 
Ice Tea said:
I hazzard a guess that you're talking about moving the mouse around the desktop? :D

RGB for example is rarely point,click and get on with your life under linux.
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Thankfully I don't bother changing my RGB lol, signalRGB set a "profile" year or two back and it's stuck between OS's, but no I do relatively new things on Linux which is why I like Cachy (or EndeavourOS) mostly since it makes doing those things easier
 
If I had to use Windows again, I would probably try Windows 10 LTSC, as it is still supported until 2029/2032.

As it is a bare-minimum OS, however i would not be surprised if the telemetry features returned in some form once you begin installing all the software suites required for gaming and so on.

Throrik said:
Nix is just another illness though
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Nice to see you active, I was starting to think you had left us!
 
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Ice Tea said:
Nice to see you active, I was starting to think you had left us!
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Not been much interesting unfortunately. I have no interest in distro-swapping/suggesting these days, same with DE/WMs. I use what I use, it's all ancient and it's all the way I like it. So I have so little to add to newer people to Linux, because my setup is so old-fashioned. Plus become a bit jaded with some of the new fangled stuff, Ala Omarchy and funding etc. More and more on BSD these days.
 
Ive been playing around with winboat, its pretty cool stuff if you have anything left you really need windows for that wine cant solve. For me its syncing my ipod classic to itunes, works great with winboat and usb passthrough. I used to run a vm on one of my mini pcs just for this task. Just a call out to say its worth checking out https://github.com/TibixDev/winboat its basically a VM wrapped in docker wrapped in a nice UI which can RDP you into a specific app.
 
Had a spontaneous operating system lobotomise itself episode yesterday on CachyOS, no warning, I just switched the system on and nothing, nada to boot into, just an offer to boot into the BIOS. The only surprise is that it has been this long coming. Previous recent updates had completed fine with no warnings, but obviously something went screwy somewhere and trashed the bootloader.

This is where good documentation comes in; https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/cachy_chroot/ outlines the steps to boot into a live instance and then connect to your install's root. I ran pacman, then (because I use Limine) limine-mkinitcpio, let it finish, exited and rebooted. Back up and running in less than 10 minutes.

The thing is, although a great experience and no drama to recover, this could really put a crimp in someone's day if not expecting it and why one should be wary of rolling distributions. A quick search afterward of the cachy forum confirmed a few other instances yesterday, so it may not just have been my bad obs to blame this time.
 
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Haven't used a linux desktop in donkeys years and am curious

Any distro recommendations ? Anything that is not arch or kde based ;)

EDIT : Downloaded
ubuntu-6.06.1-desktop-amd64 (for a bit of nostalgia)
ubuntu-25.10-desktop-amd64
linuxmint-22.2-cinnamon-64bit ( I recall using mint cinnamon back in 2018 not had a linux desktop since then )
 
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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
 
Subliminal Aura said:
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)
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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!

I always recommend Linux Mint Cinnamon for anyone starting out. It's a well supported workhorse with everything where you expect it to be. I've not enjoyed trying out the likes of Fedora which have gone for a right pain in the rear desktop environment based on making everything full screen.
 
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