Post by Bill Cypher
I'm finding Ubuntu Long Term Stable to be a bit lacking in the Stable part lately. Thinking about switching and decided to #asknostr what #linux distros are recommended these days.
Debian seems like the obvious transition. What else is there? I want to be able to tinker when I want to tinker but I also want it to just keep working the way I left it in between uses. Ubuntu has been too crashy. I've been a linux user for decades so I'm not interested in a full grandma safe hand hold first time away from windows distro.
Lots of forum posts equals solid LLM help for my tinkering, so size of userbase is being considered.
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I can't imagine running linux on anything other than nixos. I haven't had to do a reinstall of my machine since 2016
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same but with gentoo. Everytime I'm tired of rebuilding things I'm always in the situation where rebuilding my configs on a simpler and basic distro would require a lot more time.
I'm actually blocked in 2009, its pretty cool.
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Gentoo and NixOS might be an option, but it is way more advanced and I am not sure if it isn't an overkill for your case.
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I tried gentoo once over 20 years ago. Too much tinkering just to get by back then and I ended up on Arch for ages.
Arch rolling releases got to be too much reading docs with random breaking changes that required manual intervention. That was years ago too.
They may both be more daily driver frien
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I think its based on Ubuntu but I have been really happy with Pop OS lately.
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I used Pop_os for something like 4 years, no issues no problems yet, it's stable because the team are focusing on the new DE COSMIC, so I expect to face issues when it's released.
system76.com/cosmic
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For the desktop, I've been liking PopOS a *lot* more than Ubuntu. It's still Ubuntu-based, but whatever they're doing with their packages is loads more stable.
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Out of interest what problems have you run into? I've had Ubuntu 23.10, then updated to 24.04, then updated to 24.10 and it's been rock solid even with lots of messing about.
By the way if you're looking at Debian then you might want to look at Spiral Linux. It's not a separate distro, it's just a
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Crashy desktop and GUI apps. Are you using the default GUI or something else? EncryptedZFS? Those are my leading guesses for why it works great for some and not me.
I hate flatpack, snap, and RPMs. All have burned me in the past.
I'm really leaning toward manjaro, arch with a little less messing a
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Arch/Manjaro
NixOS
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It seems to me that you are ready to switch to Debian stable. Nowadays there are many tools to tinker on top of a solid base system.
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