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Final thoughts on my Linux daily driving choice in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] [S] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Of course you can install them, but you need to do it. I didn't say that it would be complicated or not possible, I just said that I really appreciated Manjaro for shipping the nvidia proprietary driver directly at the start without any trouble. And I did not say that I chose Arch-based for the nvidia driver, but for the more up-to-date drivers.

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    So, few days ago I asked the thread which distro they'd recommend and one of the most recommended was debian and debian based. But I for myself(Even though the post says otherwise) now chose to use an arch based distro, because of the better supported and newer nvidia drivers as well as automatic hardware detection. So I wanted to hear some experiences of you, that you may have had in the past considering EndeavourOS, CachyOS, Manjaro and Arch itself. I personally have gone for Manjaro now, kind of hoping that it won't break on the attempt to cut themselves of the company side of Manjaro and becomming they're own non-profit.

    Greetings, Konke

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    [–] [S] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    My main conflict point with Arch is the maintenance factor. Whilst my priorities have been the bleeding edge for a long time, by now my thinking has been shifting more towards stability and being able to just use it. That's what I loved about openSUSE Slowroll, but I don't want to have a company behind it. And it had a KPM version mismatch resulting in broken nvidia driver.

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    [–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    I did enjoy debian a lot when I used it, I then left it for hyprland and the rolling release though. But debian is definitely something up top of my list right now. Especially because I am now back to KDE Plasma and I'm not planning to change anything about that soon. The only picky point was that it does not support BTRFS with custom subvolumes for timeshift out of the box. But the stability would be a blessing.

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    Hello everyone, I need help to decide on a Linux Distribution to settle and finally stop distro hopping. I have quite some experience with Linux(1year Mint, a quarter year Arch, nixos, debian, manjaro, fedora, suse tumbleweed and kalpa...)I have been experimenting for now almost 3 years. Now I finally want to setlle but I just don't know where. I like Nix's shell but don't like installing everything in five steps(with git because my brain can stand neither the dirty tree warning nor leaving out on the git push) and I don't need the reproducibility. I like rolling so I don't need to reinstall or do any major update, but even more appealing is low maintenance and stability in the sense of nothing unexpectedly breaking. I'll use the computer as an daily driver mostly for programming & 3d design, university related work, streaming and also some gaming. Thank you for your answers. #linux #distrohopping. EDIT: I don't want to have a company behind my distribution. And my specs: Nvidia RTX 4070, Amd Radeon 7 7840HS, 16GB of RAM

    Conclusion: Thanks a lot for all of that feedback, I decided to go for Debian 13 Stable and might check out MX once.

    The final conclusion :P: I will now install LMDE and either try to install KDE Plasma or just stick with Cinnamon. Its not as uncustomizable after all. And the flashbacks I got during the installation from me first stepping into Linux... ...definetly the rabbit hole I should have fallen into, even though I can now never live a normal life again :/.

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    [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    There have been bloated "easy to use" distros for a long time. But the based Linux distros like Arch & Debian have stayed pretty much untouched in my opinion. And, even tough I'm using plain Arch now, I also started into Linux using EndevourOS. It's just more convenient and not too big of a hurdle to get into the Linux universe.

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