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What was your first Linux distribution?
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Arch in like 2019 maybe.
I still like Arch, I tried all sorts of distros in VMs, most feel clunky to me.
Tiling manager, GUI file explorer, minimal status bar and I'm set.
For my laptop this is swaywm, swaybar, nautilus.
I also use drun-like programs