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Linux distro you are using for development?

Hi all I just wanted to know the different linux distros you are using for development and why you chose that.

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OmiD

i'm Debian user and i want to switch to arch base distro and i wanna use manjaro. do you suggest start with manjaro?

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OmiD

what do you think about manjaro?

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Gareth M.

I'm currently trying out Alpine Linux on this laptop. So far, I really like the package manager. It is very fast, and has had all the packages I have needed so far.

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Shobji

Hi all I just wanted to know which Linux distro is good for brockchain

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Adarsh

Sure

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Sean Killeen

Thanks, I really appreciate it!

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Cristian Molina

Any Ubuntu derivative should do the job pretty well. For me, ElementaryOS is the nicest. Clean, non-intrusive. Get a better terminal like Tilix, put some nice programming languages with a nice version manager like asdf or any_env, a good editor like VisualStudioCode, some docker love and you're pretty much done.

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Leslie Satenstein

I use Fedora and SUSE Tumbleweed. With each, it's Gnome or KDE.
I write C code and shell scripts.

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Juan F Gonzalez

I'm using Linux Mint(now the latest one) mainly because that was the linux distro that I used in my software classes back at college.
I also wanted to branch out of that and explore other options and I ended up landing on Manjaro, the homescreen and order of stuff seem familiar and is quite clean and well performing distro so I enjoy it too.

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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

I often distro-hop about, but I like Debian. I'm presently on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS running GNOME 3.28.2, but I also love the MATE desktop environment.

I've often considered using one of the more popular non-Debian distros, but I don't have the spare time to mess around with finding the software I need. Between the main apt repositories, PPAs, .deb files, and (occasionally) building from source, I'm always able to install everything I need pretty quickly.

(Incidentally, I'm not a big fan of Snap for a few technical and pedantic reasons. Good idea, just not my cup of tea.)

All that said, I have a septenduple-boot system running the latest versions of most Linux distros. That's 10% for technical reasons, and 90% because I felt like it. Within that context, I do rather like Solus.

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John Doe

Debian.
Cause I started with Ubuntu few years ago and I tired of the new interface.