Probably not the only distro that could do it, but I was pleasantly surprised bazzite handled my three monitors with three different refresh rates, two different resolutions, one with HDR, and one in portrait mode basically right out of the box.

Yeah, it'll do that

Same, but I like ubuntu and stopped at gentoo

First: ubuntu
favorite: nixos
distro I like the least: ubuntu
Distro I currently use: nixos
distro I used for longest time: arch
honorable mention: bazzite/aurora
Distro I want to use in the future: redox with nixos

i'm a recent nixos convert... I think once they improve the ux a bit it's literally the best of all worlds. fantasic idea. UX and documentation issues take a lot of patience though.. a lot.

When you surf the oceans of Distros long enough, I think you just get tired and the wanderlust fades. I know I did. Mint is a fine Distro, the Toyota Camry of distros. Solid and dependable with all that you need. It just doesn't look cool to all the hip-cat kids and their bleeding edge Arch.

I have settled on Fedora. And I prefer Plasma over Gnome, so I use Kinonite instead. There is even less hassle and effort that way. I don't even go to the bother of doing updates myself. It all happens in the background. Like you, I just want to use my computer. Not fiddle with it anymore

I was personally amazed that it handles my ancient printer from the get-go. None of the other distros had the driver available, it had to be downloaded and installed separately. Here on Bazzite - complete plug & play.

Be careful with Debian Testing, it is prioritized last for security patch frequency of the 3 Debian versions. It is possible to daily drive but not really meant for that, and even Arch has more safeguards.

SUSE has always kind of been of an also ran in the eyes of a lot of users. I have tried the stable versions before Tumbleweed and I have even used Tumbleweed for a while. It's a solid choice and the user base is awesome.

I really, really, wanted to love SUSE, but there is just something about it that I just don't vibe with. It's a good distro and offers a lot. But it's just a bit uncomfortable like a suit jacket that doesn't quite fit right through the shoulders.

The first distro I used was SuSE (yes, before there was "Open" in the name 😅) on a Pentium III

I spent many years on Arch, but it don't think it's the distro I used the most any longer...

The distro I am using now is Fedora Workstation, which has been my daily driver for a dozen years now, and it's also my favorite distro.

The distro I'll be using in the future may be Silverblue

The distro I hate the most... is Ubuntu 😆
I had so many troubles over the years with this one, there was always something nonfunctional

My honorable mention: CachyOS looks pretty nice 😉

As for all the distros I tried... there's way too many 😅

Somewhat accurate for me, but I dabbled with Ubuntu, Debian and Alpine for my server so idk if that counts, otherwise my first distro was Arch but the distro I recommend to everyone as their first is Mint+Cinnamon, especially if they're used to Windows

Yeah. I've been loving it as a rock solid base for a server. Trying to use it as a desktop though? For basic browsing and such, sure, but once you want to do anything complex and require recent packages it becomes a mess.

And take and red hat here then Slackware.... It's hard to believe you haven't tried fedora.

And if you like arch, try cachyos, it's the same but with more compilation optimization: performance for free.

Favourite/Current Distro/Distro I've used the most: Arch btw.

Distro liked the least: Ubuntu

First Distro Used: Corel Linux (I am old lol)

Honourable Mention: Pop!OS with the COSMIC desktop is pretty nice considering how new it is IMO.

Future Distro: I've messed around with NixOS a bit and I kind of want to try it. I like to tinker a lot though so sometimes immutable OS-es kind of interfere with that.

To be fair, some of these responses are clearly going back 20+ years and only have 8 total "hops". In that time a typical windows user would have gone through 7-10 different versions of windows depending on how lucky they got with stuff like ME and 8...

Snap is why I don't recommend it to anyone. It's super aggressive and responsible for problems (famous example). It also gives Linux a bad impression to new users who still think Ubuntu is a "vanilla" distro. Watching Gamers Nexus struggle with the Steam package is a good example of this, I think. Steve came out ahead of the comments, saying, "I'm sure lots of people know [you need to use the purge flag]." Actually I didn't know that because I avoid hostile distros that constantly fight me.

+1 for Mint. Snapbuntu must be dethroned as the default beginner distro.

That seems like a very plausible explanation! I tried mint 16 and didn't do the jump because it was not up to it just yet. Being a linux nerd 10-20 years ago and the differences were probably huge between distros, and they changed all the time too.

Smart thinking!

• Favorite: Gentoo
• First Distro Used: Ubuntu
• Distro You Want to Use in the Future: NixOS
• Honorable Mention: Debian
• Distro You Liked the Least: Ubuntu
• Distro You Currently Use: Gentoo
• The Distro You Used for the Longest Time: Gentoo

Where is nixos my old friend?

idk, is it really that bad? I've heard of many people using debian sid for daily

First? Redhat.

Used? Gentoo, Debian, Mepis, sidux, peppermint, mint, fedora, cachyos, puppy, damnsmall, evil entity, suse, opensuse, Slackware, arch, and who knows how many more.

Using right now: Debian, fedora, cachyos, opensuse, Slackware. Different distro depending on need and device.

Favorite? Real soft spot for mepis, it made it easy back in the day. Fedora right now: it always just works, there is nothing to do just update and move on. Also Debian. Because Debian.

Worst: Ubuntu. Such a piece of crap, always breaking since first release.

Other way around mostly...

Fedora trys stuff first.

Funny that it's not a rolling distro, yet it is often ahead of my cachyos box. It's astounding how fast fedora puts stuff out yet never any effort on my part to manage it. Unlike cachy or even arch.

Debian is for my homelab, where things randomly breaking would ruin the day of multiple family members. Arch is for my personal machines, where things randomly breaking is an excuse to learn more about my hobby

Is it a horrendous idea? No. I do realize people daily it. It is just not designed for it. If something breaks on Arch, you can just check social media for an update and know it'll be fixed shortly or what the fix is on your end. And the Arch community will probably loudly complain about it until it is back to normal, because people daily Arch. For Debian Testing/Unstable it's more like you report an issue and they go "noted!" and if you complain they'll go "use stable then". A bit of an exaggeration but there are no patch notes and no dedicated security team. Security patches will get to you maybe at some point. This isn't to trash Debian in any way, but it is what it says on the tin: the testing/unstable variant, not a rolling release.

TBH I have trouble telling why so many people in this thread complain about Ubuntu breaking, it always Just Works™ for me. Did they form their opinion around 2010, or are they using the six-monthly releases? I always used Ubuntu LTS (and never the default desktop).

Loved Crunchbang! Bunsenlabs is a neat successor, too.

Or, as honourably mentioned, OpenSuSE, specifically tumbleweed.

I've hopped around a lot when I first got into Linux (mostly to check out different desktops, see what the fuss is about rolling releases, and trying to get a little more performance). Haven't done any of that for about 5 years, I'm actually planning on moving from Ubuntu to Debian because of Canonical's corporate bullshit, but there's just too much annoying work to do to recreate my setup on a new install.

Started with their first release. So broken compared to everything else at that time.

Now on new releases to this day it still throws weird errors or doesnt work as expected AT INSTALL. Usually reboots will fix some of those issues, sometimes I don't even know if they are real issues, but it just shows Canonical doesnt make a very good product.

Then sooner or later, with Canonical not able to keep an idea longer than 6 months, something else will break. Its just the Ubuntu way.

Seems like their server version is better, I can't really complain about it. I don't have to interact with it much, but it behaves a lot better.

Also, Xbuntu and Kbuntu somehow fared better than Ubuntu, much less problems.

Do you have dotfiles available somewhere? I do quite like the window decorations and the rest of what I assume to be of the gtk theme.

Not for everything... but I can point you in some directions:

• GTK theme: orthogonal2, I think I'm using the "darkCold" one with the "dark-darkCold" color scheme. Read through the docs, it's an interesting customization system.
• Sawfish theme (the window decorations): customized version of the built-in "StyleTab" theme. I just picked some colors for the buttons, really. It's StyleTab's "Default" frame and button style, and the "Reduced" color proposals. I believe StyleTab is specific to Sawfish WM.
• Font: Orbitron Medium for the window titles, Avenir LT Std Roman elsewhere.
• Icons: Sours, the Full-Color variant.
• Mouse cursor: Hatsune Miku
• Aika's theme: the "dark-neon-alt" theme that's in my repo, it gets installed with rake install so just choose it in the config file.
• Wallpaper: I dunno, I found it while searching for cyberpunk wallpapers. And yes, half the signs are upside-down XD Here's a copy.

As for the dotfiles I can share, I don't have them in a repo, but I'll put them here:

• ~/.sawfishrc
• ~/.sawfish/custom (you don't edit this by hand normally!)
• Top fbpanel bar config
• Buttom fbpanel bar config
• That amigaos-line.sh script referenced in the top fbpanel config

I think that's everything...

People are/were actually using the default Ubuntu desktop, and modern Gnome in general? In a fediverse linuxmemes community?

Granted, it still doesn't speak well for them if their default desktop has so many issues that don't exist on the flavors.

I might have slipped up on my way here, but I'm happy with how it turned out.

What's up with the text in the wallpaper? I'd think it's slop, but it looks as if someone deliberately made it look borked.

I have no idea. I don't necessarily think it's slop (though it could still be)... I think someone just didn't know how to read Japanese. 'Cause like the sign that's advertising coffee and breakfast stuff is correct, and the sign further back labeled "Collisto" and "ブティッ" (rest is cut off, I suspect it's ブティック) is correct, but the rest are upside down. Though that doesn't explain the upside-down bottle with "Grape Boutique" or whatever on it.

So yeah, fuck if I know, I just found it and kinda liked it for the mood lol

I love Ubuntu currently but I'm planning on switching. I just love the feel of it.

Slowroll is my daily. I like it because most distros preach some kind of extreme philosophy, like Arch is ultra bare, Ubuntu et al are super easy, others are bleeding edge or slow and stable. openSUSE is (mostly) absolutely middle-of-the-road with a get-the-job-done kind of attitude I guess it makes it somewhat forgettable but I need the OS to just get out of the way and let me use my computer.

lol.

All my complaining about Ubuntu and yet I kind of liked Unity. I had it on a guest computer and a laptop for awhile.

I actually liked the orange colors. I liked the fonts. I even liked early unity as an alternative to gnome back then.

But it just kept changing!

It did have some design wins, I still use Ubuntu mono as my standard terminal font (this includes my Debian systems).

Ubuntu -> Mint.

I don't know why I'd change, Mint just works. That's all I ever wanted.

I had a similar experience. Smaller standard repositories, unfamiliar package manager syntax, a package manager that's probably even slower than apt (doesn't matter longterm, but makes learning it more annoying), and I didn't find using the community repositories particularly smooth. Plus I'm always running custom setups with tiling WMs, which is a bad fit for smaller, desktop-focused distros.

Same. It is really nice.

Favorite: Debian
First Distro Used: Redhat
Distro You Want to Use in the Future: Debian
Honorable Mention: Linux From Scratch
Distro You Liked the Least: Redhat
Distro You Currently Use: Debian
The Distro You Used for the Longest Time: Debian

My journey started with red hat, then gentoo, a few years back to Microsoft with windows vista, then back to ubuntu, and now arch. And i use raspbian and debian on my servers. Besides the install program and package manager, there doesn't seem to be a huge difference between different distros.

All I ever wanted. All I ever needed. Heeeere , in my arms.

Ever since snap arrived, I switched to Debian.

The only thing I dislike about Debian is that there is no "server/headless install image" available, so it's not a big deal.

Pop! OS does it better.

God himself was disappointed with your comment.