I’d like to settle on a distro, but none of them seem to click for me. I want stability more than anything, but I also value having the latest updates (I know, kind of incompatible).

I have tested Pop!_Os, Arch Linux, Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu. Arch and Pop being the two that I enjoyed the most and seemed the most stable all along… I am somewhat interested in testing NixOS although the learning curve seems a bit steep and it’s holding me back a bit.

What are you using as your daily drive? Would you recommend it to another user? Why? Why not?

  • mrmanager@lemmy.today
    2·
    1 year ago

    Arch because I like simple.

    Other distros are an exercise in patience I think. Each Ubuntu version has different names and versions of stuff like docker, mysql and everything else. It’s really annoying to work with. I assume all six month distros are like that. And you have to add extra repos, keys and whatnot for it to even find things.

    With arch, since it’s rolling, I just install the latest version and I already know the command. It’s always the same. Always.

    There are many reasons I like arch but the simplicity of the installations is one of my favorite reasons to use it, and the fact that it’s always the latest version.

  • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Linux mint because it works out of the box and I’ve never had an issue installing it on any device I’ve needed.

    Most of my office apps are cloud based so all I need is Firefox to get to work. I can also use the live USB to just do work out of that if push really comes to shove.

  • Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    i settled on fedora kde a few years ago(altho i recently switched to fedora silverblue kde)
    imo a nice middleground.

    if you are intrested in immutable distros, i can recommend silverblue (not as drastic of a change compared to nixos)

    if you are intrested in nixos package management, you might want to try out the nix package manager on your current distro.

    an intresting way to get the fresh but stable system you want is to,
    install some rock solid distro like debian,
    and then use the nix package manager and/or flatpacks to get the fresh software you want.

  • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Debian stable, the os for 50 year old nudists.

    It’s the stable branch of one of the oldest distributions around.

  • TiffyBelle@feddit.uk
    1·
    1 year ago

    Debian. I always come back to Debian.

    It’s just a rock solid, multipurpose distro that has everything. If you have an issue with some older software versions, you can just track testing or sid and treat it as rolling release or use flatpaks for GUI apps.

    To me, Debian is almost perfect.

    • mrmanager@lemmy.today
      0·
      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t call it rock solid… It was running old versions of kde with lots of bugs. Bugs that had been fixed months ago.

      So I don’t know. It’s good we have choice but I don’t personally see Debian as more stable than arch. I see it as having older bugs than arch.

      • aport@programming.dev
        1·
        1 year ago

        KDE could fix 80% of it’s bugs overnight and it will still be the most bug-ridden DE by a longshot