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    I like both, but usually prefer Ubuntu (slrpnk.net)
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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    They are good distros for beginners. But over time some people switch to Arch-based systems or NixOS. Because of HUGE software list that you can install without much hassle, you don't have to add 3-rd party repositories or PPAs or figure out how to install .tar.gz package in your system or how to compile from source. You just type one command to install something hard to obtain in other distros.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    If something isn't on nixpkgs and doesn't have an appimage I generally just don't use it lol gotta be the biggest package repo excepting maybe the aur

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Same, except nixpkgs and flatpak

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

    I like appimages because they're just a single file/dir and I know where it is on my filesystem at a glance Could also probably add an appimage to bin pretty trivially