yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

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    PopOS. It was the easiest to get my Nvidia GPU set up and plays all the games that I wanna play without too much pain. I’ve been meaning to try something like Arch with KDE, something like what my SteamDeck is using… but I don’t wanna fuck around setting up Arch.

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    I use NixOS for my desktop because I hate myself you can configure everything without needing to edit a bunch of different config files that use different configuration languages.

    I use Arch btw for my Minecraft server because I am crazy.

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    Arch because it helped me understand the os better and i like tinkering. Also pacman and the aur

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    CachyOS. I use it because I am a fan of Arch based systems, rolling releases etc, but CachyOS is optimised for my generation of hardware, and has lots of good default configurations for various apps. They have a customised proton version, a good default fish profile etc.

    tl;dr It’s Arch, but optimised, and slightly more pre-configured out of the box.

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    Kubuntu, because when I got my Vega 56 GPU on release day (August 14, 2017), I had to download the proprietary driver straight from AMD to get it working, and Ubuntu was the only distro supported by both it and Steam at the time. (Otherwise, I would’ve picked Debian or Mint.)

    I don’t love Ubuntu (especially how they push Snap), but I can’t be bothered with the hassle of reinstalling my OS.

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    OMG I use cachyOS too, for the same reasons, plus I love how much I can tinker with it.

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    Alpine:

    • Rolling release (Alpine Edge) yet stable
    • Extremely lightweight
    • Very customizable
    • After setting it up I find that it works very well
    • Decently sized repo
    • OpenRC rather then SystemD (I prefer the way it handles services)
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      I wonder how hard is it to download apps on Glibc-free systems, On Systemd-free systems ik there is Flatpack and stuff , asking this bcs many apps on Linux only work on Glibc.

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        I personally haven’t ran into any yet, tbh I have more issues with SystemD dependent apps (Also keep in mind Alpine packages and maintains apps in their repo so they don’t require GLIBs/SystemD)

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          Ohh, so only open source apps and closed source apps that work on non glibc/systemd then ig

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            I managed to get Steam working with some work, heroic games launcher worked with no extra effort, and everything in the repo is good (Alpine is independent)

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    Fedora Silverblue

    • I like Gnome
    • I like that Fedora adopts new technology quickly
    • I like how it makes updates more reliable
    • I like flatpak
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    I recently installed OpenSuse, I have been using FreeBSD mostly, but have used linux through the years. I decided to go with an rpm based distro and I’ve always likes the chameleon mascot of Suse. I’m used to Debian based linux, so it’s been a slight adjustment but it’s been nice and smooth. I’m running Tumbleweed right now and all my Steam games work, as well as my 3d Windows applications via wine. It just works* I am too old and tired to spend time tweaking anymore.

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    from the comments, there’s a split between

    • linux as a tool: debian, mint, fedora, opensuse, etc.
    • linux as a toy: arch, gentoo, nixos, etc.

    i wish this split was made more explicit, because more often than not someone comes looking for recommendations for linux as a tool, but someone else responds expecting they want linux as a toy. then the person will try out linux and will leave because it’s not what they want, not knowing that there is a kind of linux that is what they want

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    Linux Mint, because I don’t like to tinker with the system, I like good defaults (and Mints has them).