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I made the unfortunate post about asking why people liked Arch so much (RIP my inbox I'm learning a lot from the comments) But, what is the best distro for each reason?

RIP my inbox again. I appreciate this knowledge a lot. Thank you everyone for responding. You all make this such a great community.

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[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Yast, actual stability.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

It isn't. I'm on PopOS 24.04 Alpha 7 (soon to be Beta 1), because of COSMIC (and because I was having some bugs with Fedora a few months back).

I recently wanted to tinker with a piece of software that wasn't packaged, and I couldn't compile it because of outdated libraries. I could return to Fedora specifically to tinker with it but as an ex-distrohopper, I know it isn't worth the effort.

Even though Fedora or some version of it will likely be my forever distro, I will stick to PopOS for now because I can't be bothered to distrohop and back up months' worth of files, including game saves and a ton of stuff in my Downloads directory.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I use Nobara with KDE for my gaming computer, Mint with Cinnamon for pretty much everything else.

Mint is the closest to a "Just Works" experience for me. Cinnamon is rock stable, especially on Mint Debian Edition. I don't remember the last time Cinnamon crashed or had any major bugs for me.

I use Debian for most of my servers, stable and simple. Arch on a junker Thinkpad to test and mess around with new programs and window managers.

[–] StarMerchant938@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Not very exciting or interesting but I prefer xubuntu. All the things I need from mainline Ubuntu, none of the things I don't.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

LMDE because I get the robustness of Debian stable and the quality of life goodies of Mint.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Mine is the best for me because I like it the best. It does what I need with a minimum of configuration or customization. My needs and preferences are probably different from yours though, so Linux Mint Debian Edition with Cinnamon desktop environment might not be the best for you.

[–] Prismaarchives@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Arch, because I get to say that I use Arch. /s

[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

the mouse is cute

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Windows, plays fallout 4 out the box.

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