If you've hung out in Linux enthusiast circles lately, you'll have heard whispers that Arch Linux is no longer hot product. Instead, all the cool kids are using something called NixOS. Since I bricked my Debian setup in an unfortunate accident involving compiling from source, I decided to give NixOS …

Hey all, thought this might be of interest to some here.

Wrote about why I moved from NixOS to Ubuntu after using it for several months on my daily driver. Suspect that this take is likely to be kind of controversial and court claims of skill issues, which might even be true.

Let me know what you think.

    • mihnt@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      Great beginner distro for sure. On par with Mint with “it just works”.

    • Franklin@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      It’s honestly one of my favorite distros and has a lot of unique awesome features and guides for beginners.

      Discord has some rough edges if you use it regularly but it definitely still works.

    • fd93@programming.devOP
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      6 months ago

      They’re between releases right now, but once COSMIC desktop is ready and they release Pop 24.04 I’ll probably try it out. More likely that I’m moving to Xubuntu Minimal 24.04 on the daily driver though.

      PopOS is great OOTB but I’ve become attached to rofi and XFCE recently and like the old-school “apps are utilities” style of Linux desktops over PopOS / Mint which try to bundle everything together.