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What distro do you use and why? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Fedora Silverblue

I like Gnome
I like that Fedora adopts new technology quickly
I like how it makes updates more reliable
I like flatpak

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What do people use for command line utilities? The selection on flatpak is a bit sparse

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Options include:

Installing them through brew; this is setup, enabled and configured correctly by default on uBlue projects like Aurora, Bazzite and Bluefin.
Installing them within a container; be it though Toolbx or Distrobox. This is what Fedora Atomic initially intended (and probably still does).
Some users got a lot of mileage from utilizing nix to this effect.
If all else fails (or if you outright prefer it this way), you can always layer it through rpm-ostree.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

I use the Bluefin flavor of Silverblue. I like not having to tinker with my laptop to keep it working, everything happens in the background.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Same here, I use Silverblue as host OS on all of my workstations now, and Arch for nearly all of my containers.

Flatpak for just about everything in the userspace.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I like flatpak

i am kinda the opposite of you, i find flatpacks meh its alright.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I love flatpak. No more dependency hell!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Agree

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

While true... RIP disk space.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That's false

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I see being facetious is lost. Yes I know they don't use a lot of space, however, they do package all their own dependencies. That means you do end up with duplicates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

It depends on whether those dependencies are shared with other programs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago)

Appimages do. Flatpaks have runtimes. There may be multiple runtimes but space is cheap. You can even spare the amount of space on a phone.

I once thought I should compress my images because they had 10mb each. I was wrong. I just had to put them on my server with immich and I don't care about the space anymore. One 4k video is so big, all space related problems with apps or images are a real waste of time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

SSDs have become incredibly cheap, and flatpak doesn't even use that much storage space.