I occasionally see love for niche small distros, instead of the major ones…

And it just seems to me like there’s more hurdles than help when it comes to adopting an OS whose users number in the hundreds or dozens. I can understand trying one for fun in a VM, but I prefer sticking to the bigger distros for my daily drivers since the they’ll support more software and not be reliant on upstream sources, and any bugs or other issues are more likely to be documented abd have workarounds/fixes.

So: What distro do you daily drive and why? What drove you to choose it?

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I don’t get “distros”

    I can customize my system to my liking. There some popular bases but that is it

    • superkret@feddit.org
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      3 months ago

      I used to think that, too. But even Ubuntu and Debian are very different operating systems now.
      On the other hand, it’s all Linux under the hood, and almost all computing tasks can be done on almost any distro.

      Finally, almost all distros exist because people choose to maintain them as a hobby without payment.
      Who am I to judge whether they should pool their resources on fewer distros in their free time?
      I drink and doomscroll in mine.