I made the unfortunate post about asking why people liked Arch so much (RIP my inbox I’m learning a lot from the comments) But, what is the best distro for each reason?

RIP my inbox again. I appreciate this knowledge a lot. Thank you everyone for responding. You all make this such a great community.

  • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social
    11·
    5 days ago

    Why my distro (pop!_os) is the best? Well it’s probably not, but here’s why I went with it:

    • ubuntu based, so lots of applicable tech support online
    • looks nice out of the box (imo)
    • comes with nvidia drivers. Not a major point cause they aren’t hard to get, but it was one of the things I considered when I unintentionally ended up with with nvidia
    • tiling (the big one imo)

    Aand that’s kinda it :3… at the moment it’s kinda behind all the other stuff cause they’re working on the new COSMIC DE, which im hoping is gonna be an upgrade to the GNOME with extensions the current version has

    • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      31·
      5 days ago

      While COSMIC is certainly an upgrade, current gnome extensions won’t be compatible. COSMIC uses applets instead of extensions. Fortunately, there’s already an ecosystem of applets for COSMIC, many of which have been ported from GNOME extensions.

      • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social
        4·
        5 days ago

        Ye :3… honestly as someone who doesn’t use that many extensions other than the pop-shell ones, im not too worried about the extensions, since basically all of that is coming as a base part of COSMIC’s interface… I think the only extension that im hoping gets a COSMIC applet soon after release is KDEconnect lol

        • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          Same. I think there’s one extension I run in my top bar that lets me individually stop, start, or restart specific system services. It’s very handy, and I’ll miss it.