Been using Debian stable again this year, but this time in a VM (Windows host. I know, I know.)
I'm very happy with it. I tried other distros but kept coming back to Debian.
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I've found that Windows is a pretty bad hypervisor
It really is bad compared to KVM. Though for my usecase of pandoc+vim, running Debian with VMware does the job. Browsing the web, watching videos, and listening to music are okay too. It's very bad for GPU accelerated stuff though which is what the Windows host is for.
I want to dual boot again but I'm still working on this project on one of my SSDs so I don't want to touch anything yet.
You also could virtualize Windows. Just make it full screen or do GPU and USB passthough
I haven't tried it yet but I would rather dual boot for games with anti-cheat that don't work with Wine or a VM.
I think how happy I am depends on what I am comparing it too.
Compared to Windows? I am very happy with Mint since thus far everything I need works, and I can even play some games.
Compared to my dream distro which doesn't exist. Not as happy. Since it works, but asks me to use the terminal more than I want to.
I use Fedora Silverblue which actively discourages using the terminal.
In fact I hid it from the gnome application menu since I can't think of a reason to ever use it.
I currently use endeavourOS and I am happy with it, due to it being "just Arch with some wallpapers and optional extras".
I am open for more though, even if it's just for trying out :)
Pretty happy. Debian works good. Rhel works good too.
The Toyota Camry and Lexus 300 of distros.
I enjoy Fedora. I can complain all day about Redhat being evil, but I haven't found a desktop distro that scratches the same itch, so I'm happy for the time being.
On the server side, Debian is perfect for me and I have zero qualms with it.
Currently on Fedora. Pretty stable, but I really hate some parts:
- RocM just straight up doesn't work for some reason? this is really annoying for AI and Blender
- No h264/265 decode support in mesa by default 😬
- redhat is now owned by IBM
- dnf is very very slow (I don't mind this as much since I use the GUI software center and flatpak)
Otherwise
Using Mint on my laptop for 3 years. I don't really like it. I want to switch on OpenBSD to taste pain and suffering (But Devuan is my plan B. I love Devuan :3)
Tried out Mint, Debian w/ KDE, switched to Debian w/ gnome, now settled into Cachy OS. Only thing I'm wanting for is support for my Dell Canvas touch and totem, but I expect that'll get pushed to Open Tablet Drivers before long
I want something that looks like Q4OS (looks like XP or 7) but with Wayland like Kubuntu. I'm not quite there yet.
Somewhat happy with NixOS. Documentation is still abysmal but it's the most stable yet up to date distro I've used so far.
I wish the community were better and the decision-making less top down and anarchist at the same time, but there's maybe a fork in the making (Auxolotl) that I'm keeping an eye on. Maybe it'll pop up in phoronix or the nix community forums once it's stable, then it might be worth switching to.
I stopped distro hopping pretty much after trying arch. I still love arch, but my new love is chimera Linux.
For servers I used to run Debian stable, but these days I'm pretty set on alpine.
Very happy with my Arch setup since 3-4 years I believe. But my laptop that I use and update too irregularly to justify having Arch on it, probably needs an alternative :D
Have you ever gone wandering under a clear blue sky?
I’m kind of souring on Fedora Kinoite. I generally sometimes pop in to try how Linux is doing, and I had great hopes for KDE Plasma 6 and immutable distributions for stability. However, I’ve found that many things in the UI are still wonky and broken, fonts don’t render well, and I keep running into limitations in the flatopak/containers ecosystem.
Here are a few paper cuts:
- I can’t get the launcher to do web searches despite them being available and configured, even when manually invoking the keyword
- fonts look blurry and render weirdly; all of the household macs produce ok output on the same screen so it isn’t the issue
- I really miss having consistent emacs text navigation bindings but shortcuts like C-a/C-e are already taken and remapping is difficult to get to work consistently
- I’ve been trying to compile parts of the Linux minidisc system but the dependencies aren’t available outside of a toolbox and USB isn’t available inside. I think, it’s difficult to google and I’ve time boxed trying to fix it to N hours and exhausted those, so it’s either impossible or too difficult
- for a long time Obsidian (from flatpak) couldn’t agree with the window manager to draw drop shadows and window decorations which meant that figuring out where obsidian ended and the white window underneath it began was literally impossible
- sometimes the wired USB keyboard stops working if I unplug it and doesn’t start working until I’ve plugged it in/unplugged it a few times