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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] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I personally use NixOS (unstable) on my PC and openSUSE Tumbleweed on my laptop (didn't have time to switch it to NixOS).

I also use NixOS on my Pi 4

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

NixOS on my Pi 4

Interesting. Any particular reason/advantage over using Raspbian?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, I can have the config for the Pi in my dotfiles repo, just like my PC. Also, it's reproducible and declarative, so if my SD card breaks, I can install NixOS on another one, switch to my config, and be up and running again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That does sound mighty convenient. Looked it up, feels like HashiCorp Terraform but for an OS. I'm definitely switching at some point.