What are people daily driving these days?
What are people daily driving these days?
I'm between distros and looking for a new daily driver for my laptop. What are people daily driving these days? Are there any new cool things to try?
I have been using linux mint recently. I have used nixos and arch in the past. Personally, linux mint uses flatpacks too much for my liking. Although, I might have a warped perspective after using arch. (the aur is crazy big)
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I'm using Mint, but I've avoided using flatpaks (generally downloading DEB packages directly, or adding ppa sources). It's worked pretty well so far.
I do have a handful of AppImages, but they're a bit easier to work with.
Why avoid using Flatpaks if you don't mind me asking
Two reasons: they're big, and they're sandboxed.
I was on a 5Mbit connection until recently, so a lot of flatpaks being 1GB+ was frustrating (especially when their native packages were <100MB). And I was using a 250GB SSD, which filled up rather quickly.
And it turns out I wasn't a fan of the sandboxing aspect. In theory it should be a good thing, but turned out to be frustrating.
Thanks for the answer, I bever relized that they were larger