I’m wondering what the current favorite distros are besides the most popular ones like Arch, Debian and Fedora.

  • Gentoo. It’s amazingly customisable, easy to configure and write packages for, has an extraordinarily good wiki (and installation instructions), and is always seeing new and active development.

    There is also official binary package support for architectures as of recently too, which makes it easy to mix and match compiling from source and binary packages.

    •  Flaky   ( @Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ) 
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      510 months ago

      +1 for Gentoo - Portage can be fun in a weird way. I’m more of a “just work” type of person though, so I’ve stuck to Arch, but the time I had with Gentoo was pretty great and the new binary package format might bring me back. I do have a 7950X nowadays so I wonder if that’d fly through Gentoo on bare metal.