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I like both, but usually prefer Ubuntu (slrpnk.net)

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[–] stebator 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

They are good distros for beginners. But over time some people switch to Arch-based systems or NixOS. Because of HUGE software list that you can install without much hassle, you don't have to add 3-rd party repositories or PPAs or figure out how to install .tar.gz package in your system or how to compile from source. You just type one command to install something hard to obtain in other distros.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If something isn't on nixpkgs and doesn't have an appimage I generally just don't use it lol gotta be the biggest package repo excepting maybe the aur

[–] Neon 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Same, except nixpkgs and flatpak

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I like appimages because they're just a single file/dir and I know where it is on my filesystem at a glance Could also probably add an appimage to bin pretty trivially