I miss slackware.
It still kinda exists, but really has become a ghost of its former self.
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Alpine was the most interesting for me. It goes against the tendency of complicating the systems. I have to use Arch because everything can work on that distro.
NixOS, would like to try Guix
MX Linux only because I have it on some very old 32 bit laptops and it supports 32 bit. I don't really know why I keep those laptops around but they are functional.
On the laptop I got less than a week ago for college, I've been having fun using Mx with KDE. It's been pretty good so far on my galaxy book.
elementary!
Tiny Core runs on my 25 year old Pentium 2.
Kubuntu
postmarketOS and UbuntuTouch
not sure if it really counts but I like Universal Blue, specifically using their silverblue-framework image because it already has all the drivers and stuff set up for my Framework laptop
Tiny Core OS, because I want a super light distro to run from memory when trying to access computers where the data is still there but something went sour with the OS
Personally, alpine linux grew on me a lot.
Another NixOS user.
Endeavour OS?
MX Linux. It's exactly how I'd set up Debian if I wasn't too lazy. Although, I've gone back to Debian after Bookwarm was released. I love it but miss MX
I am using void at the moment, pretty stable even tho it is rolling release
LMDE cuz sometimes i just need dead simple.
Nobara is superb for gaming.
Manjaro is one of the few that tries to package sway and i3 (even if the editions are community-based) into a coherent whole. Those editions are not great yet, but pretty good and might become great one day.
I'm really happy with Manjaro. I thought it would be a detour from Debian on my laptop, but I've been running it for like 2 years now.
Kubuntu
LMDE, MX, Ubuntu etc are based on Debian. Mint is based on Ubuntu, so Debian. Chimera/Endeavour are based on Arch, etc.
In the linux world, you have a linux kernel, systemd or init, a bunch of gnu utils, a window system like X or Wayland, whatever DE you want (Xfce, gnome, kde, name it) and a packaging system (apt, yum, pacman), but for me, it's all the same.
If you want something different, try a BSD distro then? FreeBSD, OpenBSD, GhostBSD, etc
I love using Alpine Linux on my server. Super light and quick to start up.
Solus as the Almighty Todd says "it just works" And that comes from someone which always has at least one problem, that problem being gaming.
It aint solved mind you but it works marginable better on it.
Example, anno 1404, no matter what distro or silly protondb config, or if I use a new steam profile or fresh distro , works.1 out of 10 times.
But Solus, it just works, no hoop jumping needed
Annie Linux, but sadly it doesn't exist yet.
How do people feel about Garuda? I put it on a laptop to try it out. I'm still undecided.