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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I made the unfortunate post about asking why people liked Arch so much (RIP my inbox I'm learning a lot from the comments) But, what is the best distro for each reason?

RIP my inbox again. I appreciate this knowledge a lot. Thank you everyone for responding. You all make this such a great community.

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[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's my plan. Not in the mood to distro-hop on my laptop right now, and I got to get through my Epic Games backlog (and also the Steam demos I can't be bothered downloading again) before I swap over my Windows 10 desktop.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

I tried OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, that was a massive mistake (video codecs broken, froze whenever I tried to enter my password without changing from X11 to Wayland or vice versa (a theme was installed)).

Just reinstalled it with OpenSUSE Leap and at least the video codec issue is gone.

Did need to manually configure my disk partitions to get full OS encryption and now my partition table is a REAL mess.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 15 hours ago

Odd; some codecs are surely not available by default, but can be downloaded from Packman repo, and for the rest I didn't ever face it.

[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago

I was told I was missing H264 codecs but it's 2025 so I doubt that'd have the effects I saw. I tried following the instructions to install them provided by OpenSUSE but some kinda dependency nonsense occurred with ffmpeg. Either way, I guess a rolling release isn't for me.

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