I’m very curious of which distro users loves the most that they have it on their daily hardware?
LFS
Fedora. Any kind.
Debian Stable. Predictable, low-maintenance, and well-supported. From time to time, I think about switching over to Alpine or even BSD, but the software selection and abundance of Q&A posts for Debian and its derivatives keeps me coming back. Having been a holdout on older Windows versions in the past, I’m quite used to waiting for new features and still amazed at how much easier life is with a proper package manager.
MX Linux is the best, obviously. Otherwise it wouldn’t be #1 on DistroWatch, right? /j
I got arch cus its light af basically, id just install what i want/need myself
Gentoo, it just works
just works
After compiling and configuring for a few hours sure
Debian for my daily workstation. Minimal terminal-only install, and then I piece together my environment.
For smaller, headless applications I like Alpine. Containerized projects, VPS, etc.
Okay. What are your thoughts of KISS linux? It’s pretty minimalistic and have a very tiny package manager which is written entirely in Bash script.
I’m unfamiliar with KISS. I don’t really distro hop, since what I use has satisfied all my needs to date.
KISS
Debian is KISS. Grab it and use, no need to overcomplicate things.
KISS-ish. Default init is systemd. Debian also provides customized configuration of services.
Building a deb package isn’t that straightforward as Arch’s PKGBUILD.
Sounds like a remake of Slackware.
I just installed Bazzite about a month ago and love it! Used Ubuntu in the past and it was ok, but eventually went back to Windows. I definitely don’t feel that way about Bazzite though, I think I might stick with it as my primary OS!
Fedora, but I wouldn’t say I’m in love with it. It frustrates me the least. No Linux distro is perfect, but they’re all better than Windows.
Nix and Bazzite
Gentoo, because no other distro offers as much choice.
Opensuse Tumbleweed. Sometimes I try something else, but Tumbleweed is the one I keep going back to. It is quite solid and rolling release.
I use Gentoo and I love it. The installation process is a bit more complex than Arch but it doesn’t have to be if you choose the precompiled kernel.
The package management is extremely flexible and the community are great. I have a morning routine where I log onto my gentoo desktop before work and update everything; would compare it to raking one of those miniature buddhist sand gardens. Very theraputic!
Have got Debian on an old thinkpad too because it is too under resourced to compile everything. I think Debian is amazing for a solid, reliable distro if you have weak hardware.
Over the course of the last 20 years, I’ve gone from Arch -> Void -> Pop!_OS -> Ubuntu, and that is what I use on all my machines (laptops, desktops, servers).
I can’t define one favorite distro. I change my daily driver sometimes but it’s always something Arch based, even though I think OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is the ultimately best distro/base.
