Probably gentoo. Compiling everything would get old real quick. Maybe for a very specialized purpose, but I think something else would probably be better.
Ubuntu. Every few years I fall for it and try to use it for something that it seems perfect for, but the last couple attempts they shipped a release that was so buggy I couldn't actually get it installed. I've *tried* to use it plenty, but never actually have because the installer has never actually left me with a functional system so I always end up spending 2-3 days trying before I give up and spend the next thirty minutes getting Arch/Fedora/Debian working just fine...
I can get Arch setup without an installer doing the whole chroot setup thing, but Ubuntu? That shit is too hard, can't figure it out xD
arch-based distros. I tried cachyOS and regret it now, because in the end I made it a arch distro with cachyOS repos and some software.
And gentoo. Because if you want to compile, just use LFS. Takes a bit more time, but the result is kind of the same? You can turn it into gentoo later if you want.
hate to say it but Ubuntu. I started out with it. Now it seems entirely to bloated for my needs. Yes I know the net install iso exist (I think). But I prefer to use what I call its root distribution, Debian. The one distro with I swear at least a thousand derivitives. ( sarcasm at the end)
Manjaro. it's horrendous. you're telling me this is somehow considered a go-to Arch-based distro when its developers are more well known for breaking upstream than they are for working on Manjaro?
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Crostini, though partly it's bad due to being in a container on ChromeOS. Partly bad due to using Wayland and Chrome Browser / ChromeOS for desktop I hated it so much I risked bricking the Chromebook. I soldered link on main board and replaced the BIOS to have a native Mint install.
I've used Redhat, CentOS, Suse, DSL, Debian and Ubuntu. Looked at a few others since 1998. I used Cromix and MS Xenix in 1980s
basically everything because while switching to Linux was worth the learning curve, switching to an unfamiliar linux wouldn't be worth another learning curve
This all depends on the use-case. I do not currently have a use case for what Gentoo, Arch or NixOS specialize in.
Also, I would usually not install another Ubuntu nowadays, but if it would get that Pinephone brave heart edition in working shape without hardware fixes now, I still would give it a 3rd try.
Pretty much whichever one my very annoying brother-in-law Steve recommends. He can be a real prig about Linux purity. So, out of spite, I have installed Ubuntu and bragged about how much disk space it took up, just to see him tremble with impotent rage…
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •Ubuntu. Every few years I fall for it and try to use it for something that it seems perfect for, but the last couple attempts they shipped a release that was so buggy I couldn't actually get it installed. I've *tried* to use it plenty, but never actually have because the installer has never actually left me with a functional system so I always end up spending 2-3 days trying before I give up and spend the next thirty minutes getting Arch/Fedora/Debian working just fine...
I can get Arch setup without an installer doing the whole chroot setup thing, but Ubuntu? That shit is too hard, can't figure it out xD
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •arch-based distros. I tried cachyOS and regret it now, because in the end I made it a arch distro with cachyOS repos and some software.
And gentoo. Because if you want to compile, just use LFS. Takes a bit more time, but the result is kind of the same? You can turn it into gentoo later if you want.
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Partly bad due to using Wayland and Chrome Browser / ChromeOS for desktop
I hated it so much I risked bricking the Chromebook. I soldered link on main board and replaced the BIOS to have a native Mint install.
I've used Redhat, CentOS, Suse, DSL, Debian and Ubuntu. Looked at a few others since 1998.
I used Cromix and MS Xenix in 1980s
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Despite everyone saying the opposite it's not easier to setup than Debian or Fedora, and all this snap nonsense and other weird design choices, ...
Of course also some distros with weird ideology like omarchy. But luckily no-one recommended me any of those so far.
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This all depends on the use-case. I do not currently have a use case for what Gentoo, Arch or NixOS specialize in.
Also, I would usually not install another Ubuntu nowadays, but if it would get that Pinephone brave heart edition in working shape without hardware fixes now, I still would give it a 3rd try.
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