Which one(s) and why?

  • Engywook@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Arch. Minimal, fast, rolling and it doesn’t break. Plus, the AUR and the Wiki are unvaluable.

    Had been on: RedHat (199something), Mandrake, Slackware, Ubuntu and Debian before.

    • Kory@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Oh I completely forgot about RedHat! Yes, that was my first one too. Then Ubuntu was kinda the thing to go to and it worked for a good while until it just didn’t work for me anymore.

      Today I’m on Mint because it was the first distro I tried that was able to get the Wifi working on my super old/bad HP Laptop. I started to like it and then also moved to Mint on my desktop. Running it for a year now and since my PC isn’t the youngest anymore, I doubt I will switch distro again anytime soon.

    • OOFshoot@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I thought Arch was notorious for breaking all the time? Is that a specific version of Arch?

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        1 year ago

        Dunno, during 8ish years I have only hada couple of minimal problems due to updates (and the solution was promptly available on Arch homepage). Can’t speak for other, though.

      • ducking_donuts@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        That’s not my experience - have been using arch for around four years and it broke only once by not letting me log into the system after I failed to update pam configs after the system upgrade.

      • twei@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        We’re using Arch 2

        (No it doesn’t, it just has some bugs here and there, e.g. my media keys don’t work after a couple days of uptime (gnome). I stopped actively looking for and reading the release notes years ago as it just works… and if it doesn’t, I still have a btrfs snapshot from before the update)

      • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        I tried Manjaro for awhile and had some major system breaks. Manjaro is/was often pitched as newbie-friendly arch, so having it break made me think arch was going to be even worse.

        Been running endeavour for a few years now though, and haven’t had any real issues. Much smoother than my Manjaro experience.

        • anon5621@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Agree about manjaro they doing really weird things about their system and it’s breaking.