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What is your go-to Linux distro and why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'd like to settle on a distro, but none of them seem to click for me. I want stability more than anything, but I also value having the latest updates (I know, kind of incompatible).

I have tested Pop!_Os, Arch Linux, Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu. Arch and Pop being the two that I enjoyed the most and seemed the most stable all along... I am somewhat interested in testing NixOS although the learning curve seems a bit steep and it's holding me back a bit.

What are you using as your daily drive? Would you recommend it to another user? Why? Why not?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I distro hopped a lot in the 2006-2011 era, and eventually settled on Arch. I like the initial simplicity, the wiki was and still is the best resource to this day, and anything I needed from the kitchen sink was accessible via the AUR. I've ended up using it on my workstations, work laptops, and personal machines ever since.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does Arch have built in disk encryption?

I'm on Manjaro but I'm sick of having to unlock the LUKS drive encryption every time I start the computer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

AFAIK, if you want disk encryption on Arch, you gotta set it up yourself (i.e. follow the wiki).

And last time I installed manjaro (couple years ago), the installer would let you decide whether you want disk encryption or not. So nobody is being forced to use it.

Then again, if you are tired of it, there likely is a way to effectively disable it for your current install. But most likely that will be quite a bit more involved that just unchecking it during install.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I do want disk encryption enabled, I just find the boot & login process on Manjaro a little clunky and I've heard its a little simpler on other distros.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I do want disk encryption enabled, I just find the boot & login process on Manjaro a little clunky and I've heard its a little simpler on other distros.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that the point of full disk encryption, to make sure you're authorised to boot? That at least is the behaviour on a Mac if you enable full disk encryption. Or do you mean every time you wake it from sleep?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Basically on Mac, your login password decrypts the drive which is what I'm hoping for with a Linux distro, rather than having to decrypt the drive and then log in