What’s your Linux distro?

  • adrianmalacoda@lemmy.ml
    5·
    4 years ago

    Ubuntu 2008 - 2010, Trisquel 2010 - 2014, Debian 2014 - 2019, GNU Guix System 2019 - present

    I talk about why I use Guix System here.

  • N0b3d@lemmy.ml
    3·
    4 years ago

    I use a mix. Debian on my “servers”, Ubuntu on my laptops, and Arch on my SBCs. Apart from the Arch installs, which are necessary because of the hardware, it’s mostly just personal taste - Debian seems “right” for servers, to me, and similarly Ubuntu for individual use (even though I can’t stand, and don’t use, their desktop environment).

  • nour@lemmygrad.ml
    41·
    4 years ago

    Mostly Gentoo, sometimes Debian. I’m thinking of installing Qubes OS, but first I need to figure out whether my device fulfills its requirements.

    • N0b3d@lemmy.ml
      3·
      4 years ago

      I tried Gentoo because I like the idea of it, but couldn’t get it properly installed/setup. There was nothing exotic about the hardware, but something or other failed a build step and I eventually gave up.

      • nour@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        4 years ago

        May I ask what failed a build step for you? (Most likely I can’t give you any advice, as I only got into Gentoo a few months ago, but I’m still interested in knowing.)

        I actually had some trouble with installing Gentoo myself, though it didn’t fail any builds for me. I needed full-disk encryption. I followed this guide (except for the part about configuring the kernel; I’m using the pre-configured distribution kernel for now), but it didn’t work. On boot, Gentoo would throw an error message about “Failed to find LUKS device”, then exit to the fallback shell. Searching the message gave me this forum thread, I tried several of the things that thread says to. What finally made it work is dracut --force -H --kver <gentoo-kernel-bin-version>. I need to re-run this command every time I upgrade the kernel to a new version so that the new version works.

        • N0b3d@lemmy.ml
          1·
          4 years ago

          I can’t remember now, sorry. It was BC (“before Covid”), so not recent.

  • Adda@lemmy.ml
    3·
    4 years ago

    ArcoLinux, an easy-to-install and fun Arch-based rolling GNU/Linux distribution with freedom of choice… of everything. I have been using Linux Mint in the past, too.