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View Poll Results: Desktop Distribution of the Year
For me: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, no contest. Been using it for years (started with 42.1 to 13.2, Leap and now TW). Switched my parents desktop to it as well. Very reliable.
Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 21, MX-21, Manjaro
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For me: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, no contest. Been using it for years (started with 42.1 to 13.2, Leap and now TW). Switched my parents desktop to it as well. Very reliable.
I am running Devuan as my main os on my main (desktop) computer: sits there and does the job as expected. Fast, stable, predictable, light in resources, systemD free and the required maintenance of the system is minimal: huge repos to easily find anything, deb packages when needed and sparse updates to deal with.
I am using it also into an ancient, atom netbook with 1gb ram, 13-14 years old.
Try to use it on a multiboot system. Their installer is broken IMHO. I can't use it anymore since F17 or so...
Incidentally I recently heard (on a Linux podcast) that Fedora Silverblue does not support multibooting because of its special structure. Maybe that's what you're experiencing?
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No, that is not the problem. You simply can't tell the installer to use the partition you want it to use. I left off trying to install Fedora after F27 or so...
I cannot come up with a single answer for this. It depends upon your hardware and what you DO with your desktop. I run two machines now, down from five (and one server with no desktop that I will not discuss here). When I ran five no two ran the same desktop, each ran what was best suited to the purpose of that desktop.
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