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What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?

I myself am a daily Void user. I used to use Devuan, but wanted to try rolling release and ended up loving Void!

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[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you considered Aeon (Gnome) or Kalpa (KDE Plasma) from openSUSE?

[–] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't really, I've always been a bit scared off by the alpha warning on kalpa

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was considering a switch to it and put it on my play-puter to see what it was like. Despite the alpha status, it was perfectly usable and I didn't have a single crash, perhaps I got lucky. I ended up staying with Tumbleweed in the end.

[–] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How come you went back to tumbleweed?

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It wasn't for me. I felt it took away a lot of my control and did things its way which would be fine if it matched my use case.