What Distros do you want to shoutout and why you think they are doing well/are the best at what they do?

I am curious what is out there and have only had some experience with Linux Mint, SteamOS, and Pop!_OS

  • iopq@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 days ago

    NixOS by far has the most momentum right now.

    Just check the non-unique package counts:

    https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/nonunique

    More than 80K packages that exist in other distros, more than all of packages in AUR combined with 90%+ being the newest version in unstable

    And you can run unstable without an issue since you can downgrade individual packages whenever

    • trevor (he/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      All those packages, but terrible/lacking documentation and LSP support 😭 And, yes, I’ve tried nixd and nil, and they’re not even close.

      I’ve tried to learn Nix multiple times, and even got by okay running NixOS for a year or so, but doing almost anything that isn’t just adding a package to a list in a nix file or flake was like pulling teeth because everything is documented so poorly (or not at all). It would take me hours to do what I could have done in seconds with any other package management tool or configuration management because I’d have to scour hundreds of search results to find someone that did the thing I’m trying to do because there was little-to-no documentation for it.

      Nix is a tool with amazing promise that could solve so many problems if they could get their documentation and LSP support up to the standard of something like Rust.