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pjb88yesterday at 9:25 PM7 repliesview on HN

Any recommendations for a distro?

I've used Mint in the past, loved it until I spent a day trying to get scanner drivers to work. Don't know if that's changed now, was 4 years ago


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mixmastamykyesterday at 10:45 PM

Yes, Mint for most people.

I am using Fedora on machines with new hardware and liking it as well. It has small pluses/minuses vs Mint.

weaksauceyesterday at 11:02 PM

cachyos is a good os that is also performant. arch though so there are quirks around the rolling update model but you always have the newestish packages and if you update regularly there seems to be less headache.

lawnyesterday at 9:33 PM

Today I'd recommend CachyOS. While I haven't connected a scanner, everything else I've tried just seems to work.

delaminatoryesterday at 10:43 PM

Simple, Debian with i3-wm

2OEH8eoCRo0yesterday at 9:41 PM

You're going to get everyone's opinion here. Try a bunch of the major ones and see what works best. I did this and landed on Fedora but ymmv

desireco42yesterday at 9:28 PM

Omarchy is pretty streamlined for developers and you can play games as well as they work well.

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rifficyesterday at 10:16 PM

the Universal Blue project has got a great suite of distributions:

https://universal-blue.org/