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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Former distrohoppers, where did you settle down? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by tet@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Which one(s) and why?

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[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Fedora atomic GNOME aka silverblue

It has very good defaults, works out of the box, I can switch anytime to another de or a ublue image without messing around with my setup
selinux
podman
flatpak centric
auto updates
widely used

Current Cons:

openssl is not installed by default (for gsconnect)
gnome-tweaks is not installed by default
uses toolbx instead of distrobox. Toolbx is better for servers, distrobox better for desktop, imo.
flatpak firefox isn't used

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Opensuse micro has distrobox as the default shell. It still needs some work before i daily drive it tho

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

And it uses firefox flatpak and iirc it installes gnome tweaks by default. Opensuse does right what fedora missed until today.

But, ostree is incredible. There's no ostree on opensuse and what do I want with btrfs snapshots if I can have ostree's image based approach? I love opensuse for tumbleweed but fedora rocks with ostree. I could switch to a ublue image but I can also just overlay the packages which isn't that bad. It's just bad for newcomers. And no newcomer should have to use ublue because the official image lacks stuff. But it is what it is.