• Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org
    20·
    2 hours ago

    Man… I just fucking love CachyOS. I switched from Win11 a few weeks ago and up until now it is just a great experience.

  • Affidavit@lemmy.world
    2·
    56 minutes ago

    Yep, this is me. I’m currently using an old Nobara kernel… Because the latest kernel install (w/dependencies) completely fucked up everything and I honestly cba wasting any more time troubleshooting (tldr Wayland is NOT ready for production).

    Just waiting till the motivation hits so I can do a complete rebuild. Mint is at the top of my list—it just works.

    Edit: should add, one good thing Nobara does is that it keeps previous kernels installed, so that if they fuck things up (and they do), you can just select a previous kernel when booting.

  • mikerr@programming.dev
    2·
    1 hour ago

    Mint forever, Ubuntu without the snaps, and It generally is fuss free.

    Shout-out to antiX though, revived many a “useless” old laptop with that.

  • Emi@ani.social
    8·
    2 hours ago

    I tried CachyOS and so far it’s been alright besides having bit difficulty finding software so I have stuff from multiple sources.

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Hmm? The AUR is one of the biggest pros of Arch and derivatives imo

      If the software you need is available as .deb or .rpm, you can use Distrobox. For everything else, AppImages and Flatpaks

    • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      1 hour ago

      I’ve been living with fedora (ultramarine) kde for a while now because people praised fedora so much, but i think mint still wins. and i chose ultramarine because am a noob, don’t sue me.

      there are many little things that just don’t work and i seriously can’t figure out. here’s a few: discover fails to update the system and i always have to do it manually from the terminal. wine is broken, it literally can’t run anything i throw at it that worked on mint. plasma theme customization is somewhat broken (also custom themes prevent updating…). using alt key in games run with wine causes some annoying notification sound (not in system keyboard shortcuts). often keyboard leds stay on when system suspended, system can’t be woken up from keyboard. can’t use flameshot with kb shortcut.

      this isn’t a hate comment though, a lot of things are better than i had with mint cinnamon. i do like how it’s a lot faster than mint when under heavy load, autosuspend actually works, no issues with screen not waking up. currently my media pc with mint can’t update because all sources are unavailable and it has some conflict with python3 which it won’t let me uninstall (which i suspect would be unwise, idk)

      • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        I can only recommend regular Fedora because I have a feeling you just wouldn’t have those issues but I am not a doctor.

  • Brusque@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 hours ago

    Just switched from Mint to CachyOS due to some upgraded hardware and it’s been pretty nice so far. Mint will stay on all my other devices though.

  • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de
    26·
    4 hours ago

    There is no one reliable distro. Mint, itself is based off Ubuntu and also releases LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).

    If reliablility is measured in terms of how stable a distro is, then likely Debian with it’s conservative approach to packaging updates comes to mind (No wonder large number of distros are based off Debian only).

    I would even argue as long as someone isn’t messing with a niche distro such as KDE Neon( meant to showcase KDE packages) or Linuxfx (or whatever it has renamed itself to, one of the few shady ones IMO ) or Trisquel OS (a GNU certified distro where running into dependency hell isn’t new); it will suit user’s case.

    Debian, Slackware, Void, Zorin, even rolling release like Arch (basically any one that meets the user’s use case is reliable)

    • woelkchen@lemmy.world
      111·
      4 hours ago

      I would even argue as long as someone isn’t messing with a niche distro such as KDE Neon

      KDE Neon is dead because its developers found out that putting an add-on repository on top of Ubuntu is not reliable at all. That’s why KDE Linux is now in development.

      • [object Object]@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 hour ago

        Is there a writeup about their problems with Ubuntu? Adding repositories to Debian and/or Ubuntu is how plenty of software is distributed, so I’m surprised to hear they’re unhappy with it.

      • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I used Neon for a while, discovered that KDE were letting it go, and switched to Kubuntu. I love Kubuntu.

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      1 hour ago

      Unironically my most headache-free Linux experience in 10+ years. The handful of times an update doesn’t go through you just need to visit the homepage and follow the manual intervention steps outlined in the announcement.

      At least, once I freed myself from Nvidia x)

      • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        21 minutes ago

        I cannot count the number of times Debian Upgrade broke on me. My memory tells me I had issues with all upgrades (on various machines with mostly defaults) since Debian 8. It’s 13 now. I did follow the correct upgrade process and quite familiar with it, yet every single time I had issues at least for some of the desktops of my elder relatives and friends that I managed. Arch was just stable. And manual intervention is usually needed only if you have this particular thing installed. So, quite seldom. For servers, I think that was much better for me, but now I’m either Arch or Fedora (for situations where I don’t bother with setting my personal environment).

    • Ooops@feddit.org
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Back then it was for many simply the first rolling distro they tried… to suddenly realize that without tedious (and rarely unproblematic) release upgrades the reasons for a new install (thus trying out yet another distro) also vanished.

      • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        2 hours ago

        I have reinstalled Arch on the same machine only once, after SSD of my super old MacBook Air got corrupted. I haven’t used the laptop for like five years. Weirdly, a reinstall went well, and it looks like the SSD works well so far. Apart from that, my oldest system is about 7 years old, and it’s running well. I have no reason to reinstall. That very machine is a server. Also, I had a MacBook Pro broke keyboard on me, I simply rsynced my entire system to another MacBook Pro, and was done within about two hours. Needed to update /etc/fstab and maybe something else too. So, apart from Arch becoming a bit of a meme, I cannot recommend it more. It taught me quite a lot too. It was mostly stable for me.