I’ve been a Linux user for about a decade and a half, most of that time I’ve been using OpenSUSE, but recently I’ve been hopping again.

For my main machine, I needed a distro that natively runs and installs .deb packages at root for the program used for my language lessons (fcitx5 nor ibus played well with sandboxes) so I’ve landed on Kubuntu for that machine.

But I’m really intrigued by the setup of VanillaOS, apx seems like such a perfect solution in many ways to my needs, but I don’t have as much experience with immutable distros.

Lastly I’m fascinated with NixOS, and really want to get into it, but life is just so busy that I don’t have the energy to devote to learning it.

So, what about you folks?

  • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    26 days ago

    Been happy with Debian for a couple years now. After spending time on a few other distros I realized that I really value predictability in my daily driver and don’t really care about most bleeding edge features. My computer does exactly what I expect it to every time I run it, updates don’t randomly break things that were working yesterday, sometimes I have to deal with for example my version of Firefox not supporting something but it seems to me those issues are far less common than the ones I’m dodging.