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So we can clearly see the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them, please follow this format:

  • Write the name of the Linux distro as a first-level comment.
  • Reply to that comment with each reason you like the distro as a separate answer.

For example:

  • Distro (first-level comment)
    • Reason (one answer)
    • Other reason (a different answer)

Please avoid duplicating options. This will help us better understand the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them.

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[–] speckonsponge@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BTRFS Snapper GUI preconfigured

[–] snoopa@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only Opensuse ships with this, right?

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[–] Lamy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[–] kafka_quixote@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

DietPi on my ARM devices

[–] ar0177417@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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Arch. It's a "build-your-own" distro without the hassle of compiling everything from source, like with Gentoo (still love Gentoo, though). Also, it has pretty big repos with the AUR on top of that.

And no, it's not unstable, if you can read. My oldest Arch install was 5 years old and even then, it didn't break. I just wanted to do a fresh install for no particular reason.

[–] CosmoCrow@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] CosmoCrow@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Looks good with gnome and has been stable for my pc.

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Arch, antix and linuxmint

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