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Ask HN: What is your favorite Linux distro?

9 points by langf 8y ago

jrepinc 8y ago
openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma desktop
hsnewman 8y ago
kubuntu!
- kleer001 8y ago
  Same. It's my first. But as I install things and modify it I'm not finding it disappointing. Also I've used RedHat at work a few times, fwiw.
robgibbons 8y ago
Usually I roll with XFCE on top of a debian clone. Right now I'm using Ubuntu MATE and enjoying the more polished UI.
BrockSamson 8y ago
Mint with XFCE. Fast, lightweight, and good stability.
vga805 8y ago
Arch. Always liked the rolling releases and the community is excellent. Even when I don't use Arch, I'm almost always finding myself on its forums when I need some help or guidance on something.
- mapping_assets 8y ago
  I'm on Arch since 2010, so almost a decade! Tried other distros, none worked for me as well as Arch.
kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
Ubuntu LTS. My computer isn't a Raspberry Pi or a creaky Thinkpad from 2007 that I hang on to as some sort of streetcred hacker Shibboleth so Gnome's resource utilization is irrelevant to me. What isn't irrelevant is stability. Ubuntu LTS is as close to a de-facto standard as you can get in the Linux world and it is supported by most, if not all, third parties when it comes to installing things like Tensorflow and CUDA. With other distros you have to hold your nose and dive into personal blogs (where my Fedora if-not-true-then-false readers at?) and add third party repos hosted in Malwaristan to get things done. You don't have to run pacstrap to install i3, apt can do that. I also have $20 in my storage budget so I don't care about saving 376kB by running a "lean" install.
paulrpotts 8y ago
Currently my wife and housemate are both really enjoying Ubuntu MATE. It seems to provide a simple and responsive GUI on older laptops without elaborate gaming-level video support.
notomorrow 8y ago
debian
chmielewski 8y ago
GNU+LinuxBBQ LinuxBBQ.com GNU+Debian TAILS OpenBSD It's a shame that so many people are mentioning their desktop environments, as if if you were to take this away and leave them with their distro at the command line they may switch or choose something that better fits their use case. My two cents. i3 and NoX user here.
PeterHK 8y ago
NixOS
throway88989898 8y ago
(2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7230840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7230840
oriettaxx 8y ago
Fedora
adontz 8y ago
Fedora.

9 points by langf 8y ago

jrepinc 8y ago

openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma desktop

hsnewman 8y ago

kubuntu!

kleer001 8y ago
Same. It's my first. But as I install things and modify it I'm not finding it disappointing. Also I've used RedHat at work a few times, fwiw.

robgibbons 8y ago

Usually I roll with XFCE on top of a debian clone. Right now I'm using Ubuntu MATE and enjoying the more polished UI.

BrockSamson 8y ago

Mint with XFCE. Fast, lightweight, and good stability.

vga805 8y ago

Arch. Always liked the rolling releases and the community is excellent. Even when I don't use Arch, I'm almost always finding myself on its forums when I need some help or guidance on something.

mapping_assets 8y ago
I'm on Arch since 2010, so almost a decade! Tried other distros, none worked for me as well as Arch.

kilo_bravo_3 8y ago

Ubuntu LTS. My computer isn't a Raspberry Pi or a creaky Thinkpad from 2007 that I hang on to as some sort of streetcred hacker Shibboleth so Gnome's resource utilization is irrelevant to me. What isn't irrelevant is stability. Ubuntu LTS is as close to a de-facto standard as you can get in the Linux world and it is supported by most, if not all, third parties when it comes to installing things like Tensorflow and CUDA. With other distros you have to hold your nose and dive into personal blogs (where my Fedora if-not-true-then-false readers at?) and add third party repos hosted in Malwaristan to get things done. You don't have to run pacstrap to install i3, apt can do that. I also have $20 in my storage budget so I don't care about saving 376kB by running a "lean" install.

paulrpotts 8y ago

Currently my wife and housemate are both really enjoying Ubuntu MATE. It seems to provide a simple and responsive GUI on older laptops without elaborate gaming-level video support.

notomorrow 8y ago

debian

chmielewski 8y ago

GNU+LinuxBBQ LinuxBBQ.com GNU+Debian TAILS OpenBSD It's a shame that so many people are mentioning their desktop environments, as if if you were to take this away and leave them with their distro at the command line they may switch or choose something that better fits their use case. My two cents. i3 and NoX user here.

PeterHK 8y ago

NixOS

throway88989898 8y ago

(2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7230840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7230840

oriettaxx 8y ago

Fedora

adontz 8y ago

Fedora.