Pick your poison, /g/
Fedora
>>52313675
Arch. AUR is great and you don't actually have to rice your desktop.
Why Arch
>rolling release
Everything is fresh and when I read some news about new kernel it is on my machine within few weeks. When theres new version of whatever application, its extremely fast in repos.
>AUR
The huge community driven repository that arch has - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/
It feels like what was promised when I switched to linux, but has not been delivered in other distros. When I read about something, I can find it on AUR, when I see someone mention a new project, theres very likely a git package on AUR of it. It's incredible and makes arch feel much more comfortable than dicking around with google and PPA on buntu distros and such.
>ease of customizability
Of course you can play with any distro and switch stuff around, but arch is build from the ground up and maintained in the spirit that you get to choose your combination of packages, and if you want i3 on top of KDE with custom kernel running, it is absolutely prepared to guide you and deliver that. You have this ease of switching between DE/WM without leaving your distro in any way.
>>52313786
>the community
When I was choosing distros and was hopping around my most important requirement was that it has to have larger active community to have somewhere to turn for news and help, and feel like project is moving and living. Arch community goes beyond this. Its incredibly vibrant. Even some programs I use like Deadbeef or Bomi seems to originate on arch forums.
>clean packages
I dislike modified packages that you sometimes get in other distros, some can be of interest, like opensuse firefox-KDE has better file picker dialog(btw its on AUR). But generally I really like having packages to be vanilla without modifications. You know what you are getting and wont get some surprises, making you wonder why something is different.
>using it provides knowledge
I've been on linux almost a year, on arch 6 months, I feel that if I would stay on mint/opensuse that I was on first part of my linux experience, I would learn a lot less. Maybe this knowledge is virtue out of necessity, but in the end it still knowledge.
Fedora probably.
It'd be redhat if i had the money for license and actually needed the stability and long term support of it.
>>52313675
I'll take windows thanks
Arch or bust.
*buntu kids feel free to not post and go home
>>52313786
>rolling release
that bleeding-edge stuff is exactly why I don't run Arch, or any of the other distros like it. Sooner or later, shit breaks. More than nine out of ten times, version x + 1 of the kernel or any other package doesn't have anything in it that I'm dying to have over version x. Debian stable for me
>>52313675
:^)
>>52313675
What's with this shitty ass list?
>mandriva
>pclinuxos
>sabayon
>slax
>foreskin linux
>listing ubuntu 4 times
9 times out of 10 I'll go with Arch everytime.
Xubuntu, it just werks.
>>52313675
Arch+Manjaro dualboot
>Triggered in 3...2...1
>>52314187
But why?
>>52313675
>2016
>Implying there are people still using Slackware because muh_oldfaggotry
>>52313675
Mint. It just werks.
>>52314200
1. A just werks version of KDE (file-picker, android file transfer, screen sharing etc)
2. For normie tier things
>>52314062
>foreskin linux
This intrigues me, how does it compare to Jewbuntu?
>>52313812
Gentoo is way better for all of this
slackware or freebsd
>>52313675
M'kali
Manjaro, fuck everything else
>>52313675
Debian
>>52314187
>>52314709
I see Manjaro is becoming more accepted, that or the antergosfags left...
antergos? anyone? i motherfuckin love me some antergos man. it just werks in every way and its so customizable and easy and the AUR makes life smooth as fuck. its arch without the bullshit and i adore it for that. its so much easier than any debian based shit ive used, better than the buntu based distros too. it just works and with kde it just works while looking slick as fuck. fuck vanilla arch and its fucking bullshit antergos is where its at
Right now I'm trying Manjaro, but I'm still pretty new to the whole linux thing so don't kill me
>>52314855
Get ready for antergos shills
I love Arch and everything it stands for, to be honest. It's my favourite distro.
As far as bobdistros go, I liked elementary. It's really well designed. Call it what you will, but it's got a lot of eye candy. Even if it's a OSX ripoff or whatever, it's a fantastic piece of software.
That being said, I'm leaving Linux for a while and continuing on the botnet that is Windows 10. I'm so goddamn tired of having to spend hours trying to make stuff work. Love Arch man but sometimes I just want to have screen smoothness and no screen tearing and some other goodies and it's a fucking pain in the ass. Arch in itself is remarkably stable, which surprised me a lot. It's just a really amazing OS and everyone who contributed and still contributes to it deserves praise.
Linux has great software and great people behind it and I really wish it keeps growing and getting even better and I, naively, hope that, someday, it'll blow proprietary OSes out of the fucking water but I'm taking a break.
>not using the OS created by our glorious leader, redstar
Debian 4ever.
>>52315070
i took a break one time man. i took a long ass break and i have to say, the added support is fucking sweet. everything just works in windows. but wheres the fun? wheres the eye candy and the beauty and the freedom? you cant have the peace of mind that linux gives while your on windows unless you never connect it to any network ever, including the internet. its kind of scary to me, i never really do anything in it that can put me at risk. i play games on windows and thats about it, otherwise im dualbooting with antergos (im this fag >>52314835) and its just fucking perfect for me
>>52314226
Guilty as charged, your honour.
>>52313786
Arch is good for preparing your computer for use, not using it.
My takeaway from posts like this >>52313812
is that archfags are newfags.
>>52313675
Arch because of what >>52313770
said and because you make it how you want it.
>>52315397
>its arch without the bullshit
yeah but what if something breaks and you don't know how to fix it?
ANSWER THAT PUNK!
>>52317187
you kill the x server and go back to a terminal prompt to fix it yourself. not that challenging desu senpai
Opensuse is the only usable distro, everything else is garbage
>>52317956
YAST is utter pile of shit
>>52317956
>Outdated wiki
My sides
Arch mainly for AUR and has a pretty sane config/setup.
>>52314855
Seriously just use arch, use the architect installer to use a gui installer and you don't have to fuck with the abomination that is manjaro or any error, I'm like less than a month into linux, arch is not that scary I promise
>>52318415
>any error
Fucking autocorrect meant to say antergos
>>52313937
Fuck off sperm burper.
>>52313675
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>>52313675
mint is my drug
>>52318439
It's alright anon, antergos was a mistake (like Manjaro)
>>52313675
Debian Testing.
>>52313675
Mint because im not a shitlord that needs anything other than a functional OS to do my work on.
>>52313675
Debian for life.
>>52314017
Debian stable's packages are really old, as in not being able to install something you want because the dependencies are too old and then you end up compiling everything yourself and it's basically Gentoo but not automated or managed.
>>52313675
Debian Stable
Planning to dual boot with either Archbang or Arch at some point
>>52313675
Mint
>it just werks
>best default DE
>no muh freedom faggotry (see debian)
>no adware (see ubuntu)
>>52313675
>no CENTos
fucking dropped
Arch 4 lyf
>>52319236
>server distro
>not debain
commit jewicide
>>52319440
>falling for the debian jew
enjoy your dead creator that got sodomized by a policewoman's flashlight faggot
Xubuntu
>>52319472
at least he hated niggers such as you
Arch + i3
Can run on a fucking toaster and has everything you'd ever need unless you're a hardcore gaymer.
Mint, my full time job is dealing with Linux bullshit so I prefer to use something that just werks in my free time
>>52313675
Gentoo is actually good though.
>>52319694
only niggers use gentoo
>>52319916
based niggers
I use Fedora. I like that Fedora sorta strikes a balance between stability and bleeding-edge software (newer than Debian Stable, but not as new as Arch).
But, I've used Ubuntu (pre-Unity), openSUSE, Antergos, and Arch (if using Architect counts) in the past.
>>52313675
anyone else notice debian has been striped right down? no more games, no more extras, no more bloat unless you install that crap yourself.
Ubuntu on my server
>>52320249
actually I should have said mate, games arent even in the menu anymore
Windows 10
>>52319916
i guess they have good taste in software then :))))))
>>52313675
Fedora!
>>52313675
Ubuntu gnome because I'm a noob
>>52313886
>Green is my pepper
Xubuntu
>>52313675
>Look mom I can install i3 Lunix Wizard
>Plebian
>FreeRHEL
>Discontinuated
>Funroll-Loopux: Installing Firecucks takes an hour edition
>People still use this thing?
>Plebian Cinnamon Edition
>Plebian kBloat Edition
>BloatedSUSE
>Oh hi, 2005
>ExpensiveRHEL
>Gentoobuntu
>1996 will be the year of Freax desktop
>Surprisingly decent-seeming live distro
>Plebian Unity edition
>Plebian [DE] edition
Gonna pick Arch
>>52313675
Ubuntu is the only decent usable OS. Unity + Compiz outperforms any other combination of DE/Compositor. It has the best audio/video playback by default without any tweaking to remove screen tearing and suffering from low volume problems. Games run better on Ubuntu than any other distro I have tried including Xubuntu.
Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity 8 / Mir will destroy all other distros and finally the Linux ecosystem can be consolidated and get behind one proper project. Ubuntu is the only distro to have gained normie acceptance and is now the face of Linux worldwide.
suffering miserable baby kittens
>>52322651
>Gonna pick oh_xorg1.18_wasn't_supported: the distro
>>52313675
Arch linux master race.
>>52322871
>implying normie acceptance is necessary or even desirable for Lunix users
arch and gentoo master race here
After getting errors in the install of manjaro, ubuntu, debian, and opensuse on my shit laptop I'm stuck with mint.
they only true distros are debian, gentoo, slackware, and maybe m'linux fedora
people who use arch are just cowards that can't install gentoo
OpenBSD since I'm not stupid enough to use GNU/Linux.
>>52313675
OS X
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>>52313675
>implying I'd run anything but Win 7
Fuck off with shitty distros faggots.
Xubuntu is best
>>52324821
if my desktop looked this bad i'd go to applel store and bought a macbook the very moment i saw this
>>52318447
>takes forever to compile packages
>openrc is shit
>use flag changes between upgrades regularly cause your machine to spaz out unless they're defined in portage's config files
>portage will regularly overwrite its config files if not supervised
>many broken c libraries
>bad logo
>makes you look like an autist
Arch is superior in every way.
ubuntu MATE is unbeaten
