Mint!
... alright, go ahead and shoot.
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F-that! Take pride... Mint is ridiculously good. Well managed, stable, "just works" and yet has all the capabilities you want, including auto-running near the edge for current kernels (backed down to stable) without doing jack. You can run at the bleeding edge if you want to manage it yourself.
And for any haters - here's my take: I've been working with Unix for 30+ years, I installed Slackware off of floppies when 16MB of RAM was god-like. I have built, compiled and managed nearly every distro at some point certainly the upstream giants. I've been there for the birth of all of them. I've also professionally worked on AIX, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX. Yes there's a lot of fun in maintaining and running things to your satisfaction, but when you hit a certain inflection point of balancing your real life and maintaining distros across multiple machines and decide "This is the way" - Mint just fits the bill on so many levels.
Mint is the bomb and I'm done pretending. Fight me (not you, OP, you're cool)
20+ year Linux user here. Fuck it, I ain't got time to manage dumb shit. Install and go, please.
Though I am curious about LMDE.
LMDE - the emergency escape hatch for mint. gotta love the forethought.
100%.
It's my daily driver; the benefits of mint with the stability of a Debian base.
LMDE is the same, just debian. You can't really tell the difference.
I've got to admit, I do love Mint. I've thought about hopping, but I've never had a serious problem with Mint (that wasn't my own fault) so I've never really had the motivation.
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All my homies love mint, just because it's friendly doesn't mean it's bad!
Mint is the basic bitch of distros. Sure she shows up in fugly ugs, leggings, gripping a pumpkin spice drank. But she shows up! Works hard. That girl fucks! Make no mistake, basic bitches make the world go round.
Mint is the shit!
Mint works pretty well! I've never been much of a power user so using its GUI (Cinnamon 'cause I failed miserably at running KDE) to update and install certain programs is pretty convenient.
Mint power
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Arch, but not fully installed. Just persistently in installation process.
OpenSUSE TW KDE supremacy!
Debian 12
It's just so good
It really is
D - to the E - to the ma' fuckin' BIAN
Puppy Linux, baby cuz I got that dawg in me!
First? Mandrake.
Now? Debian.
Ubuntu actually. I hated Ubuntu for a long time, until there was a game which only ran on Ubuntu. And now, after installing it, I'm actually pretty impressed and like it a lot. Yaru is a very good-looking theme, and the customizations Ubuntu made to stock GNOME are actually pretty logical (like adding windows buttons). It has among the best documentation and package support in the whole Linux universe. I'm a guy who likes to tinker, but for whom it is more important that the PC runs well, and I haven't encountered a single problem with Ubuntu yet - no kernel panic, no weird Bluetooth stuff, no apps which don't run for some reason,...
Everything just works. And that makes me happy. So Ubuntu it is.
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Endeavour, fixing issues is easy enough.
Yes I have the arch logo as a wallpaper of my PC and my phone why do you ask?
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Recently switched to NixOS.
Opensuse. Screw all the haters, it just werks (except for codecs needing to be installed and some minor fiddling)
My first was SUSE followed shortly thereafter by the initial release of Fedora Core. Lots of distro hopping and tinkering later, I run LMDE these days as my daily driver and I distro hop on the other computers in my collection.
Debian 12
GNU Guix where even geeks are G
Kubuntu, because I did the "hard"-distro-to-show-off thing with Gentoo 20 years ago and can't be bothered anymore.
Depends on the machine.. Debian, arch, and fedora
Depends on the machine... Arch, Debian and ...Asahi! (Actually Fedora)
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Debian. Always have, always will
Um...
Manjaro (Stable) with Plasma 6 (and broken Oxygen icons).
I plan to merge those icons with GNOME icons... which are also partial, but I am too lazy. I like their early 2010s 3D look, but currently nearly half my icons are just missing.
I should be able to just rsync them together I hope and name it something else. Then also rsync the default Breeze icons as a last resort. I should be able to do that with --ignore-existing I think.
Fedora Kinoite The Future Is Now, Old Man😎
My first distro was Slackware 4. Now that I'm old and don't got time for that, I'm running Linux mint on my main PC, 2 raspberry pi OS, and Ubuntu LTS for a Minecraft server.
Red Hat 4, father say me down on one of his Frankenstein computers built out of his trash heap in our basement and told me to have fun. I found tux racing konquest and played the shit out of them
I'm far from OG, unless you count my dad's SUSE that I "used" as a child for a while. I fondly remember SuperTux. But I didn't really interact with the system much beyond starting games or a browser.
Later (about six years ago, I think) I started dual-booting Ubuntu as a side piece for productive stuff while gaming on Windows. Gradually tried gaming on Linux too, then made the jump to Linux (Ubuntu) exclusive late 2021.
Since a recent PC upgrade, I've used an additional disk to try Nobara and am happy with it so far. I've now got a spare disk and more time to try new distros, so I plan to explore the distroverse some more, but all in all I'd consider myself more of a newcomer or at best a resident than an OG.
Gentoo for the last 20+ years. Slackware before that.
Ran something or other off dual floppy drives at some point in the ancient times... A boot diskette and a root diskette.
NixOS, surprised nobody mentioned it
They're too busy compiling the 15678th generation of their systems
Debian Busta!
I use void because I liked the name
Puppy Linux 4.20 in a pentium 3 laptop.
Current distro of choice is just bunsenlabs.
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