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Discussion on: What's YOUR Linux Distro of choice? (and hurdles?)

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Jonathan Boudreau

Hardware, or base PC / laptop

  • Custom desktop build using nvidia card + intel cpu for personal use
  • System76 laptop for personal use
  • Work laptop is a sager machine (basically just a Clevo reseller)

Package manager, or compiling, and its failures

Well, I mainly use apt, but a lot of the stuff I use for development is containerized. I don't normally install things directly on my machine unless its a GUI application.

Desktop environment

Gnome, I don't like to spend too much time configuring my desktop.

Comparisons between your past choices

ElementaryOS was cool but it seemed to lack features. I'd end up having to drop to the terminal too often to do basic administrative tasks. This was years ago though, so it might've changed.

At some point I was also had an i3 session of set up. The overhead of maintaining it didn't seem to make much sense after I started to use tmux for development.

Currently my desktop is set up with Ubuntu.

All my other machines are using Pop!_OS. The desktop environment comes with several tweaks and there are extra packages available which makes things a little easier.

ext4 vs btrfs filesystem, Swap

ext4 works fine for me.

Also, tools to cleanly migrate to a new distro?

That's really going to depend on what you want to migrate. For me though the vast majority of my games are in steam. My development environment is fully containerized (editor included), and the few external configurations I have are in a git repo. I recently switched of jobs and it took me about about an hour to setup (mainly downloading).