• pinknoise@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Imo theres no best distribution, I just use what I see fit for a particular purpose. My favourite for personal laptop use (internet, development) is Void Linux for the following reasons:

    • Sane and minimal base system (I hate NetworkManager though, but it can easily be switched for e.g. connman)
    • The package manager is decently fast
    • Fairly recent software in the official repo, while still being stable
    • The documentation is good (It could be worded better though)
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      3 years ago

      I would also say familiarity and comfort are a lot bigger factor than some might admit. I stick with Fedora because I know it, not because it’s somehow objectively better than other distros. At this point, most distros will work ootb on most hardware and serve a lot of the same purposes.

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      Yes, obviously there isn’t a best one, I was just curious which one y’all like best using for your purposes. (Was that a bad way to phrase the question?) This is the first time I heard of Void Linux, I’ll have a look at the site you linked!

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        Yes, obviously there isn’t a best one, I was just curious which one y’all like best using for your purposes. (Was that a bad way to phrase the question?)

        No, the post title was very fine!

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        Some cool stuff I forgot because I only use it on my Laptop:

        • They offer an alternative build with musl libc, a less “bloated” and potentially more secure alternative to glibc (desktop stuff broke often when I tried it, but for servers it’s really nice)
        • They support ARM and have easy to use prebuilt images for popular arm boards