yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

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OMG I use cachyOS too, for the same reasons, plus I love how much I can tinker with it.

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Yeah i kinda like it lets you install desktops that is in arch repos, well because its arch based.

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Fedora Silverblue

  • I like Gnome
  • I like that Fedora adopts new technology quickly
  • I like how it makes updates more reliable
  • I like flatpak
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I like flatpak

i am kinda the opposite of you, i find flatpacks meh its alright.

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I love flatpak. No more dependency hell!

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While true… RIP disk space.

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Agree

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Same here, I use Silverblue as host OS on all of my workstations now, and Arch for nearly all of my containers.

Flatpak for just about everything in the userspace.

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I was using Debian and Docker for my servers, but I’m switching to uCore and Podman. It was a decent learning curve, but I think I’m going to like it better.

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I hated postman so much I switched back to Docker. Why compose was better at handling dependent containers then quadlets. Yes I could use postman compose but heard it’s no longer supported and if I’m using it might as well use a supported docker compose.

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I use the Bluefin flavor of Silverblue. I like not having to tinker with my laptop to keep it working, everything happens in the background.

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What do people use for command line utilities? The selection on flatpak is a bit sparse

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Options include:

  • Installing them through brew; this is setup, enabled and configured correctly by default on uBlue projects like Aurora, Bazzite and Bluefin.
  • Installing them within a container; be it though Toolbx or Distrobox. This is what Fedora Atomic initially intended (and probably still does).
  • Some users got a lot of mileage from utilizing nix to this effect.
  • If all else fails (or if you outright prefer it this way), you can always layer it through rpm-ostree.
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  1. Flatpak, create a shell script to call the flatpak command and pass arguments
  2. If the app doesn’t work well as a flatpak or isn’t packaged, I would use distrobox
  3. If the app doesn’t work well in distrobox, I’d rpm-ostree install it
  4. If I’m feeling fancy, I might look into installing homebrew. But you need to do some workarounds with PATH and homebrew otherwise it can break things; Universal Blue includes these workarounds out of the box
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I use NixOS, Gentoo, and Debian:

  • NixOS because I like declarative configuration files.
  • Gentoo because I enjoy compiling from source.
  • Debian because the other two are more difficult to use.
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Technically NixOS is all compiled from source too (if you disable the binary caches). It has since taken away Gentoo’s raison d’être a bit in my head. Debian still holds a special place in my heart too, for its simplicity and stability!

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It has since taken away Gentoo’s raison d’être a bit in my head.

I wouldn’t say so. We currently don’t hold a candle to USE-flags. Many packages are already configurable but there’s no standard on anything w.r.t. that.

There’s no technical reason we couldn’t have such a standard but it hasn’t happened yet.

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I do this with my kernel & a couple of applications that either compile super fast anyhow or at runtime benefit from further compiler optimizations.

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Fedora, it has KDE spin and quite recent packages.

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Arch because it helped me understand the os better and i like tinkering. Also pacman and the aur

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Also pacman and the aur

Another reason why am using cachyos

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