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What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?

I myself am a daily Void user. I used to use Devuan, but wanted to try rolling release and ended up loving Void!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Archlinux for about 8 years now. Before that I used Ubuntu. Before that I used Gentoo. And before that was Debian, back in the dark ages when I installed Linux from several floppies.

Along the way I tried a few others, too, but never really stuck with them.

[–] vaargk 3 points 1 year ago

Arch Linux is hard at the beginning but I never will look back using something else as daily driver.