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Experienced Linux users, what are you using?
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Now using CachyOS, I recommend Bazzite to newcomers.
I recommended bazzite to a newcomer. It went as poorly as you'd expect due to immutability being largely nonsense unless it’s handled like NixOS.
... How can anybody fuck up an immutable distro?
Same but I use Mint on my laptop
Aren't debian/ubuntu based distros a bit limited, though? I don't like having to reinstall an entire system every time there is a major update.
I used to love Manjaro for its ease of use, but it has gone so haywire lately that I switched to CachyOS with bazaar (flatpaks) for fancy apps.
Limited only in the about the amount of packages and major updates have not yet destroyed anything on my computer for the last 2 years. The reason I have it on my laptop is to be honest... I put it there a year ago before hearing of Cachy, and I only want the laptop for uni which I got for free since it was family electronic junk before used for heavy mechanical engineering computing for which it is now not usable. All in all it gets the job done. It has IntelliJ and most software is aimed at Ubuntu if they have Linux support, so I don't have to think when I have to install VPN a day before exam or something.