• bold_omi@lemmy.today
    2·
    7 days ago

    I do not consider Arch the best. Artix is better because is is systemd-free. I have not switched yet.

  • KottonKrown@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Using Manjaro and Artix. Both are really great.

    Artix is a healthy systemd-free distro, so I’m slowly migrating everything to it.

    Manjaro just works, is stable, reliable, updates never break my system, their tools are very handy (Pamac GUI is the best software manager I’ve used in 21 years of Linux, with Synaptic).

    I only installed Manjaro once 7 years ago, and ever since I’ve had that install copied on several partitions with success and reliability. The day I move away from systemd entirely (it’s a matter of when, not if), I’ll regret Manjaro deeply.

    Artix is pretty damn good though, so I’m also looking forward to it.

  • crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    9 months ago

    I use Arch, btw, but I don’t consider it the best (yes I do.) I could easily transition to Fedora, for example (I would never do that,) and be completely happy (I would rather continually hit my head with the metal stapler gun on my desk.)

  • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    2 months ago

    Omarchy because it installed in under ten minutes. Also it has a well riced Hyprland setup from the start. A complete install of LazyVim, OBS, and KDEnlive. I was able to start doing real work in the time it takes on other distros to read the installation instructions, let alone add nonfree packages or install lazyvim. It’s the most fun and productive Linux installation I’ve experienced since Ubuntu sent out CDs for free.

    DHH is a bit of a douche. However the number of unsavory character and unpleasant people in the Linux community has always been non negligible. Starting with Stallman’s pedo chatter to Greg Kroah-Hartman banning Russians.

  • Paranoid Factoid@lemmy.world
    1·
    22 days ago

    I’ve been running Ubuntu Studio for almost a decade, but I’m pretty fed up with it. Maybe I’ll switch to Arch. I dunno. Having a turnkey media production distribution was handy. It did audio well. But with pipewire, that seems redundant now.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Zorin is boring. uses ubuntu stable, out of the box distro so you can do anything you want to do right after installation (including installing a windows program with play on linux but also like burning a disk), emulates windows. Add kde if you want to spice it up (distro really needs to change to kde out of box.). If someone is from windows and does not want to learn all that linux stuff they can pretty much go for most things right away and they can use the software store, choose the debian download for anything they find online if its available and if not they can download the windows right click and say install with play on linux. Its the lazy mans linux and im plenty lazy.

  • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    openSUSE Slowroll and Secureblue are my favorites ATM. Slowroll for gaming, Secureblue for mobile device. Both are hardened for security because that matters to me.

    • woelkchen@piefed.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      I recently installed Slowroll in Steam Deck’s Distrobox. First day and yt-dlp was already too outdated.😅

      Adding OBS repos got weirdly broken since the last time I did it. Some packages cannot be forked into one’s home repo because they are on openSUSE’s git and zypper ar does not add the repo type to the offline file, so zypper ref complains about an unknown repo.

      In the end I found some other repo containing a recent version of yt-dlp that I could fork into my home repo and edit the file in /etc/zypp/repos.d by hand. I assume this is transition pain during the move from OBS to git. I hope they’ll get this done soon.

  • Mugita Sokio@lemmy.todayEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    Any Arch-based distribution gives you a ton of control to do whatever you want with it as long as you know what you’re doing. Having used Linux myself for 5 years, nothing beats Arch-based for me. Sure, I started with Manjaro (a big mistake for a beginner in my opinion), though I used around four or five distros (including the now defunct Arco Linux while editing for CoculesNation on YouTube), and stuck to CachyOS (same with my producer, actually).