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What Distros do you want to shoutout and why you think they are doing well/are the best at what they do?

I am curious what is out there and have only had some experience with Linux Mint, SteamOS, and Pop!_OS

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[–] sem@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fedora Silverblue -- a very good balance of immutable distro and user friendliness. Stability and reliability of being immutable without low-level hacking like in Nix / Guix.

[–] unixcat@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

There’s also secureblue, which is a fedora atomic fork with nice security hardening

[–] NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (13 children)

Why go immutable? You can't install shit on immutable distros.

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[–] commander@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

The whole of Fedora atomic distros are interesting in an exercise in getting good with layering and distrobox. Pop_os 24.04 just to see if a third pillar of Linux frontends with GTK and Qt is viable. People are always pissy about Manjaro but they seem to have an interesting present being pre installed on the Orange Pi Neo handheld

Linux Mint DE and Arch, the ultimate duo of Stability/Freindlyness & Power/Control

Linux Mint DE and Arch, the ultimate duo of Stability/Freindlyness & Power/Control

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

EndeavourOS, it's Arch with a familiar installer, several useful helper scripts, and a friendly community.

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[–] Loucypher@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If you leave alone the haters, Ubuntu is doing great. Mint LDME also fantastic if you wish to have a rock solid base.

[–] hash@slrpnk.net 3 points 20 hours ago

Anything in particular I should be wary of switching from Mint to Mint DE?

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago

It's doing great unless you want to debug why chromium is not connecting to your USB devices

Hint: because they forced snap in you which doesn't support USB access

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 0 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Been using Ubuntu for about 4 years now without issue. Even upgraded LTS versions without problems!

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