So, title. Personally after trying out pretty much every major distro save gentoo, I've come back to Ubuntu because it just works and I can focus on my work. Did remove snap and install flatpak, but other than that it's mostly stock ubuntu.
Laptop: NixOS, mostly to try it out. So far I’m really liking it. Fileserver: Open Media Vault (it’s Debian with a cool web UI) Container servers: Ubuntu, but I’m thinking of switching them out. Still contemplating between Rocky or Debian.
Someone here mentioned NixOS and it made me want to speak up. I’ve been thinking of moving to BlendOS or VanillaOS for a while now. I’ve been using them virtualized and I think I like blendOS more.
With that being said, I’m really intrigued by all those distros picking up the immutable atomic core update model. I want my system to always be up to date but I want it to be stable as well. I feel this is the true power of containers.
My question here is, does anyone use an immutable and atomic distro on their desktop PC like blendOS, VanillaOS, Fedora silver blue, or NixOS?
If so, what is it like?
Note: I know that steamOS, HoloISO, and ChimaeraOS are also immutable and atomic but I don’t count those as “desktop” distros. I have been testing ChimeraOS myself on an AMD 5600X3D based platform and aside from Bluetooth latency issues, it’s very very nice.
Ubuntu. I started with Mint when I first dropped Windows because it had a similar look. But I found it was harder to find answers to problems I had with Mint than with Ubuntu because more people use it. So I switched to Ubuntu.
on my main desktop Minisforum UM500: Manjaro (But only because I have no idea how it works and Manjaro came with the UM500 and I’m afraid I can’t install something else that will work with all the graphics.)
To Gentoo users: what I’m supposed to do about the upgrades of browsers if I don’t have a great CPU? Do you install alternative/smaller browser or compile them on night? I feel like there are too many sites that require Firefox/chromium to run functionally, I’m pretty sure Firefox (the only one I tried) accounted for over 1/3 of the compile time with its dependencies.
Maybe there is some setting, preferred hardware, that makes the compiling a bit easier. Outside of NixOS (might want to learn) and Arch (currently using), Gentoo (know how to use but too much compiling made me not install on new PC) is the only distro I’d like to daily drive, so would be cool to get some advice on it.
Tumbleweed with KDE is my favorite flavor. I have all sorts of machines and vm's running which use Debian, Ubuntu, Leap, Rocky, and Alma.
Tumbleweed is my daily driver. Ubuntu and Debian have been my primary vm distro, but Alma and Rocky I've been dabbling with. I use Leap on various apple machines I have as it seems to play nicer with the stupid Broadcom wireless adapters apple uses.
I've been running Fedora for many years now. Prior to that, I tried used Ubuntu for a bit. When Unity's search started throwing in Amazon results, I said nope, I'm out.
Fedora is fitting. My very first distro was RedHat 6. I picked up a book from the public library with install discs. (A friend told me all the hackers use Linux, so I figured I needed to get it. After all, I could compile basic C++ programs in Microsoft Visual Studio!) I tried Mandrake too. A coworker of mine helped maintain a compile-from-source distro called Lunar, so I ran with that for a couple years. Then Debian, then Ubuntu, and finally Fedora.
My early distro hopping was a combination of curiosity and a heavy handed solution to not knowing how to get something to work. Some library version isn't easily available in RedHat? Wipe the system and try Mandrake!
Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition is my home. It has been since almost the beginning of my Linux journey (Raspbian Wheezy was my very first distro). I just love how polished it is.
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