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Easy and for AMD/Intel/Nvidia users: mageia, Nobara Project, Mint, ROSA Fresh, Neptune, openKylin, GhostBSD, siduction, ALT Sisyphus, EndeavourOS
Average and for AMD/Intel users: Devuan, Void Linux, OpenBSD, Clear Linux, Artix Linux, DragonFly BSD, Alpine Linux, FreeBSD
Average and for Nvidia users: Void Linux, FreeBSD, Artix Linux
I can work perfectly well with all the operating systems currently listed in DistroWatch's top 200, but for several reasons I always prefer one of the systems I list in the above list. I recently tested openSUSE Tumbleweed and what immediately struck me was that Firefox takes almost exactly twice as long to open as it does on Void Linux. A second thing I noticed was that Firefox on Tumbleweed had frequent hiccups where it became completely unresponsive for several seconds, and then became fully responsive again. I never saw this on Void Linux where Firefox was always perfectly responsive. It is also no secret that Btrfs is not yet working perfectly as it should. Red Hat has literally said recently that they do not want to continue with Btrfs and that it is actually not suitable for professional use. Only RAID 10 currently works reliably on Btrfs, all the other modes are unstable. More generally, you can say that only two really decent file systems currently exist, and they are ZFS and HAMMER2.
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I also have a custom from-scratch system, but I can only play native 64 bit games there. No steam, no wine, no lib32. I'm looking forward to the day that I don't need all that junk, when Wine's internal thunking will allow 32 bit games without needing a multilib system. I use that for work, research, even multimedia entertainment. I also have Qemu set up there for virtual machines.
That's what I've got on my rig.
Debian unstable my primary system
Debian experimental when I feel unstable isn't quite unstable enough
Debian stable mostly on the laptop
Debian oldstable because inertia upgrading said laptop
Debian oldoldstable why upgrade a sleepy old VPS when it just works?
Have I left any distro out? Oh, Debian testing, have to get that one off the bucket list someday!
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Ha, sounds pretty close to me.
Server runs Debian Stable
Yoga laptop Debian Stable with Liqorix kernel.
Desktop Debian Unstable with random Experimental stuff (though now I'm not using nvidia less of that). Also Arch
Thinkpad P51, Debian Unstable + Whatever Distro project.
plus most of my other random stuff has Debian on it. I wish Asahi would be Debian based...
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Debian stable (with armbian kernel) on my small server.
Openwrt on my router, it is unfortunately too cheap to install debian on.
I learned a few operating systems and I usually see which one works best for the hardware and for the specific purpose.
PCLinuxOS -- https://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=180
FreeBSD -- https://www.freebsd.org/
Alpine Linux -- https://www.alpinelinux.org/
ROSA Fresh Desktop -- https://rosa.ru/rosa-linux-download-links/
mageia -- https://www.mageia.org/fr/downloads/
Gentoo -- https://www.gentoo.org/
OpenMandriva -- https://www.openmandriva.org
Clear Linux -- https://www.clearlinux.org/downloads.html
EndeavourOS -- https://endeavouros.com
OpenBSD -- https://www.openbsd.org/
ALT Linux -- https://en.altlinux.org/Regular
openSUSE -- https://www.opensuse.org
Void Linux -- https://voidlinux.org/download/
GhostBSD -- https://ghostbsd.org/
Artix Linux -- https://artixlinux.org/download.php
For Linux gaming: https://chimeraos.org/about/
The desktop systems I use as daily drivers are mainly FreeBSD and Alpine Linux.
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Intel i5-12600K | Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition | 32GB DDR4-3200 CL16 | Intel UHD 770 | Mesa 23.0.4 | Western Digital Black SN850X 2TB | MSI Pro Z690-A DDR4 | Dasharo 1.1.1 | InWin 303 Black | Trisquel 11 | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 6.8.4-gnu | MSI G2730QPF 2560*1440 @ 165hz | Corsair K70 Brown Switches | Vaxee Outset
My secondary gaming desktop for any games that don't run on that is on Manjaro:
AMD FX-9590 | EVGA CLC 240 | 16GB DDR3-2133 | XFX RX 590 8GB Fat Boy | Mesa 24.0.2-manjaro1.1 | Samsung QVO 860 1TB | Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z | | InWin 303 Black | Mate 1.26.1 | Kernel 6.8.4-1-MANJARO | AOC G2460P 1920*1080 @ 144hz | Zowie FK2
My laptop is a Librebooted T400 on Trisquel:
Intel Core2 Extreme Q9300 | 8GB DDR3-1066 | Intel GMA 4500 | Mesa 23.0.4 | Crucial 250 GB SSD | Bleeding Libreboot 1.9 | Trisquel 11 | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 6.8.4-gnu
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- openSUSE
- Debian
- Fedora
- Ubuntu
- Arch Linux
- Rocky Linux
Last edited by Vortex_Acherontic on 6 April 2024 at 6:00 pm UTC
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FreeBSD seems to like my old macbooks better than Linux does though (they're weird and contain two nvidia chips)