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Can I get your opinion? (lemmy.world)
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[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

My top five Linux distros:

  1. Debian: It may not be exciting but its rock stability is what makes it good for the vast majority of people (aka what I would genuenly reccomend to people)
  2. Alpine: Not the easiest or most stable but very lightweight
  3. OpenSuse: Stable yet up to date, very good defaults and themeing is amazing (especially on Sway)
  4. Arch: Ignoring the community or documentation you get a distro with up to date packages and not much else to seperate it
  5. NixOS: Way too advanced for me but I love the way it works, seems amazing for a select type of people

Of course my opinion is objectively correct and if you disagree im going to burn your house down with combustible lemons (made by my team of scientists ofc) /s

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago

Debian: It may not be exciting but its rock stability is what makes it good for the vast majority of people (aka what I would genuenly reccomend to people)

debian is what windows wishes it could be.

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah Windows is not stable at all :3

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

i have historically had more stability issues on windows, than on my bleeding edge archlinux workstation. Sure shit changes, sometimes things break, but i can fix them, or find alternatives/workarounds if i really need to.

Windows, uh. Good luck.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

based, alpine is really fun for running on obsolete hardware

[-] Twig@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

antiX is a pretty user friendly and light distro. Plus it's Debian based.

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Honestly when it comes to Debian derivatives Devuan is the only one I would reccomend (still doesnt get in my top 5)

[-] Twig@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

I've yet to try Devuan, but I quite like the fact antiX has a bunch of stuff setup, like the WM with Rox and a bunch of apps etc

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago

Devuan is like Debian but without SystemD and much lighter. Like Debian however you set it up yourself so feel free to use whatever WM you want (I personally like Sway).

[-] Twig@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

antiX doesn't use SystemD, so that works for me. A nice balance between lightweight and being lazy and not having to set it up from scratch, but it doesn't feel quite as janky as Puppy Linux.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Why wouldn't you like systemD? It's easier to learn than most distributions

I guess its commands are a bit long

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago

Imo when it comes to lightweight distros theres a reason why you set it up manually, when 100mb is the difference between a usable system it makes sense for the user to customize it to their needs.

[-] Twig@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

I get that. It depends what you're after. I just wanted something that'd run on old hardware without too much effort.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Debian is good for that, unless the system is a laptop with no RJ45 port and a wireless card which needs a non-free driver

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