For me it’s PeppermintOS.

I started my Linux adventure a few years ago, and haven’t owned a Windows PC since.

I currently use Arch on my main rig, and I wanted to install Linux on two old laptops that I found laying around in my house

I then remembered the first distro I ever used, which is PeppermintOS, and I was amazed at the latest updates they released.

They even have a mini ISO now to do a net-install with no bloat, with a Debian or Devuan base.

Sadly, I believe the founder passed away a few years ago, which is why I was really happy to see the continuation of this amazing project.

  • aramus@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Whenever somebody recommends NixOS, I just want to spam the comments with Guix. I prefer configs I can understand, and I think lisp makes that easier. Other than syntax, the only thing I see is people complaining about the free-oftware-only. But the recently hyped distrobox solves that (together with the nonguix repo). Yet nobody recommends guix in all these “immutable” distro threads.

    In my opinion Guix is the best mix of:

    • Arch (rolling release),

    • NixOS (“immutable”, atomic updates , rollback, reproducible, declarative configs)

    • Gentoo (source code based, write your own package definitions for any source code you find),

    with some lispy syntax.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Pop_os!

    Like why is ubuntu still the newbie friendly distro to recommend? I feel like pop_os is a no brainer, and yet i never see it mentioned 😂

    Edit: just look at this post, im the only mention 😂

  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Void, Slackware, Alpine, Gentoo, Devuan (although I’d like for them to remove even the slightest semblance of systemd), FreeBSD

  • intrepid@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    Void Linux for the arch and gentoo crowd. It’s a system that can be assembled more cohesively.

    Nix and Guix - the ideas they bring to the table are revolutionary. I prefer Guix due to its use of Scheme (guile). But Nix is more mature and has more packages.

  • visnudeva@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    All of them, thanks a lot for all the Devs hard work, I’ve tried and loved so many distros that I can’t choose any of them but lately I have been using cachyos which is a clean and fast arch based distro.

  • Unmapped@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I was a Arch Linux fan for at least 5 years. Tried all the main ones except gentoo. Kept coming back to Arch. But now I’m one week into using NixOS. I don’t think I’m ever going back. It has completely blown my mind, and fixes every minor thing I didn’t like about arch. Mainly how package dependencies work. I’m sure there will be a downside somewhere, but so far the only issue I’ve had is just trying to learn how to config everything.

    TLDR: NixOS. I don’t know how I didn’t know about it till recently. Seems like it would be a lot more popular than it is.

  • crash_stop@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Gnuinos or Trisquel - Trisquel cos its clean and just works. Gnuinos cos its interesting, Devuan based and just fast.