I’m between distros and looking for a new daily driver for my laptop. What are people daily driving these days? Are there any new cool things to try?

I have been using linux mint recently. I have used nixos and arch in the past. Personally, linux mint uses flatpacks too much for my liking. Although, I might have a warped perspective after using arch. (the aur is crazy big)

  • onlinepersonaEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Until the kernel updates to something unsupported and you find out that they don’t keep old kernels in the rolling release. An amazing experience.

    • kylian0087@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Never hat issues on my 10+ year old system. I did how ever with rocky linux 9.4. It is unsupported on my old dell r610s

      • onlinepersonaEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I had it on two systems. Some peripherals stopped working after an update on one system and the attempt to downgrade it to the LTS (Leap?) failed miserably --> Ubuntu. On another one the graphics card stopped working and somehow forced it to the LTS with a custom kernel. That worked until trying to upgrade it by two minor releases (X.2 to X.4? Can’t remember if it was 13.Y 14.Y or 15.Y). There were so many conflicts and messing around with the source lists (or whatever they’re called)…

        It was the most difficult system to update that I’ve ever had. YaST is great though. Best GUI for system configuration I’ve had so far.