Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them
Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them
So we can clearly see the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them, please follow this format:
- Write the name of the Linux distro as a first-level comment.
- Reply to that comment with each reason you like the distro as a separate answer.
For example:
- Distro (first-level comment)
- Reason (one answer)
- Other reason (a different answer)
Please avoid duplicating options. This will help us better understand the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them.
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NixOS, I have a fetish for configuration files
I'm currently doing my second pass of Nix after diving deep into it last time and coming out unsatisfied. The same problems that I had before with it are problems I'm seeing again:
- disjointed configs pulled from random source or build repos on the internet
- unintuitive grammars with parameters that require you to download an autocompletion spec
- flakes that aren't immediately easy to grok
Contrast that with my last Guix experience:
- Lisp form, super easy to understand grammar
- Recipes are so trivial that I've written three on my first day
- Source tree is included and you are expected to add branches to it
The only problem with Guix that I can see is that it's not as popular
Flakes are extremely simple (my whole system is a flake: https://github.com/cmargiotta/dotfiles ), but they are basically not documented.
The grammar is really really bad, I prefere a lot the Guix one too! I am using NixOS only because the last time I tried Guix I didn't find a lot of packages for their extremist GNU policy (I agree, but I need some packages), is it still like that?
is it still like that?
Yes and no -- there are now non-free repos (so you can install firefox for example), and even non-free binary repos too.
dupe