• Affidavit@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Yep, this is me. I’m currently using an old Nobara kernel… Because the latest kernel install (w/dependencies) completely fucked up everything and I honestly cba wasting any more time troubleshooting (tldr Wayland is NOT ready for production).

    Just waiting till the motivation hits so I can do a complete rebuild. Mint is at the top of my list—it just works.

    Edit: should add, one good thing Nobara does is that it keeps previous kernels installed, so that if they fuck things up (and they do), you can just select a previous kernel when booting.

    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It’s so fucking perfect. Hadn’t felt so wowed by a slick put-together complete operating system since I first started using Mac OS X as a teen in like 1999. It’s literally more usable than every commercial OS on the market.

  • mastod0n@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Desktop? Debian with GNOME. Laptop? Debian with GNOME. Tablet? Debian with GNOME. Server? Believe it or not, Debian without GNOME.

    • KnoLord@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Okay, I’ll bite:

      Why GNOME? I personally find it very limiting, especially when attempting a Vanilla GNOME config.

      • shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        A lot of people seem to feel like this. It’s obviously a valid viewpoint. Gnome certainly has some flaws.I think KDE has better technical foundations and is probably much more appealing to Windows refugees.

        And it’s always fun to customise a window manager setup. I usually have another setup or two for playing around. Currently niri as I got bored with regular tilers.

        I always find it a little surprising how much some people dislike gnome. We are all on holiday here and the whole family got up early today and logged into gnome sessions and started recording and editing videos,.composing music and gaming. They don’t tell me their desktop sucks like people do online.

        • rustyj@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Out of curiosity, what music software are you using on Linux? I haven’t found a DAW I’ve liked.

          • shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            3 months ago

            We are just getting into this. One kid has been heavily using lmms the last couple of months. It is very limited but perfect for him composiing game music.

            Other family just do basic editing with ardour. We want to level up a bit. Just bought a reaper licence and have been playing with it and a midi controller and some plugins.

            Bitwig also looks very nice and seems easy to use.

            We are newbs with this stuff. Normally I like to only use free and open source only but both reaper and bitwig feel like pretty good value.

    • Saprophyte@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      :s/GNOME/KDE/g

      One small change and we could be twins. My Debian server also runs Proxmox though, that’s where I distrohop. In VMs.

    • AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network
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      3 months ago

      Debian is my favorite as well. I prefer KDE, though, because it is pretty. I also don’t get the GNOME hate, I just don’t love it as much and at this point KDE is way more familiar.

    • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz
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      4 months ago

      I’ve been living with fedora (ultramarine) kde for a while now because people praised fedora so much, but i think mint still wins. and i chose ultramarine because am a noob, don’t sue me.

      there are many little things that just don’t work and i seriously can’t figure out. here’s a few: discover fails to update the system and i always have to do it manually from the terminal. wine is broken, it literally can’t run anything i throw at it that worked on mint. plasma theme customization is somewhat broken (also custom themes prevent updating…). using alt key in games run with wine causes some annoying notification sound (not in system keyboard shortcuts). often keyboard leds stay on when system suspended, system can’t be woken up from keyboard. can’t use flameshot with kb shortcut.

      this isn’t a hate comment though, a lot of things are better than i had with mint cinnamon. i do like how it’s a lot faster than mint when under heavy load, autosuspend actually works, no issues with screen not waking up. currently my media pc with mint can’t update because all sources are unavailable and it has some conflict with python3 which it won’t let me uninstall (which i suspect would be unwise, idk)

      • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I can only recommend regular Fedora because I have a feeling you just wouldn’t have those issues but I am not a doctor.

    • satanmat@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Kinoite Ride or die

      FOR ME it does the things I need it to do; and it works; and hasn’t blown up my house yet so 🤞

    • Strider@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      From the bottom of my heart fuck rolling releases. Never worked for me (nobody get worked up please, ymmv).

      • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        lol it’s funny how proactively defensive everyone is about their distro choices

        I use a Mac for my server 🤓

  • durinn@programming.devEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I went Debian -> Ubuntu -> Lubuntu -> Mint -> [some obscure abandoned hobby distro] -> Arch. I’ve been on Arch for three years now.

    • BlueAure@infosec.pub
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      4 months ago

      I’m really enjoying Bazzite for gaming and uCore for servers. It’s reassuring knowing that I can just rebase and revert to a known good state with working drivers easily. Highly recommend a try

    • LostWanderer@fedia.io
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      4 months ago

      Bazzite is nice, I’m running it at the moment. The gaming customizations are nice and having the latest kernel stable+NVIDIA open drivers is swell. You can even use Distroshelf (to emulate a distro) and App pass through to install apps that don’t have a Flatpak version. Or package layering, which is needed for VPNs like Mullvad to work properly; that’s also pretty easy to manage, so I never feel like I don’t have access to software. Too bad stock Fedora cannot be arsed to make NVIDIA drivers brain dead easy at the time of installation.

      • phcorcoran@piefed.socialEnglish
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        3 months ago

        If you are happy with Debian, I’d say stay with it. I have tried many distros but I like Debian and return to it for most of my devices. Sometimes Debian will have older versions of software if you use stable, I don’t really mind personally

    • zorro@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I’ve been running sid on my personal laptops for more than a decade. Can’t imagine doing anything else

    • ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I use arch btw

      Arch is on my gaming pc and is alot of fun, but I must admit my old reliable is straight Debian, after hopping through a couple of Debian based distros, I tried straight deb and agree it just works. So it’s installed on anything I don’t wanna tinker with

    • dontsayaword@piefed.socialEnglish
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      4 months ago

      i might try various other distros for my desktop usage. But for my home server it will always be Debian. Rock solid.

    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      Same. It’s like coming home.
      Switched my gaming PC over to Arch a little while back but the server’s always going to be Debian.

    • The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I changed one of my PCs over to Debian this month, and I was surprised at how smooth it is. I guess I was expecting it to be way more barebones. I don’t know if I need more than this!

    • 4grams@awful.systemsEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Thats what LMDE is for, Linux Mint Debian Edition. Been my fairly driver for years. Otherwise I use vanilla Debian for all my server and headless stuff.

  • Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    Man… I just fucking love CachyOS. I switched from Win11 a few weeks ago and up until now it is just a great experience.

  • Brusque@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Just switched from Mint to CachyOS due to some upgraded hardware and it’s been pretty nice so far. Mint will stay on all my other devices though.

  • _stranger_@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I tried Mint this weekend. Steam was broken out of the box, when it works flawlessly on Ubuntu and Manjaro on the same hardware.