What is your go-to Linux distro and why?
What is your go-to Linux distro and why?
I'd like to settle on a distro, but none of them seem to click for me. I want stability more than anything, but I also value having the latest updates (I know, kind of incompatible).
I have tested Pop!_Os, Arch Linux, Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu. Arch and Pop being the two that I enjoyed the most and seemed the most stable all along... I am somewhat interested in testing NixOS although the learning curve seems a bit steep and it's holding me back a bit.
What are you using as your daily drive? Would you recommend it to another user? Why? Why not?
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I use NixOS on my main PC.
If you want to use NixOS, you have to be willing to read.
Two things are especially difficult:
Coding: You will have to learn the Nix-specific way for everything you do. How does Nodejs work in NixOS? How does GCC work in NixOS? How does my IDE work in NixOS?
Using unofficial packages: The nix repos are very large and you'll most likely find everything you need there (or on flatpak/flathub). But if something isn't there, the easiest way tends to be packaging it as a nix package yourself. And that's something many people probably don't want to do.
The coding thing is annoying enough that I may switch away from NixOS at some point.
Other than that, NixOS is great.
I'm trying to solve problem with coding in NixOS with Distrobox and Archlinux container with all the tools for development. Work fine for me.