Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them
Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them
So we can clearly see the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them, please follow this format:
- Write the name of the Linux distro as a first-level comment.
- Reply to that comment with each reason you like the distro as a separate answer.
For example:
- Distro (first-level comment)
- Reason (one answer)
- Other reason (a different answer)
Please avoid duplicating options. This will help us better understand the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them.
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Universal Blue / ublue-os
Based on Fedora
- Fedora uses the latest technology and is quick to adapt new features such as PipeWire, BTRFS, Wayland and etc, yet remains very stable.
why your comments are all over the place
Nvidia support
- Multiple Nvidia driver streams (525xx, 520xx, and 470xx)
- CUDA support
- Container runtime support
- Secure boot
- Hardware-accelerated video playback
- Selinux support
- Multiple Fedora flavors and releases
- Post-install setup with just
- Multi-GPU support with supergfxctl (optional Gnome Shell extension)
Cloud-native approach
- Reliable, atomic updates with built in rollback
- Known-good state and fewer failures
- Significantly reduced configuration drift
- No compiling or building Nvidia drivers on the local client, they come premade on the image
Built-in container tools for developers
- Consume packages and software from any repo without risking breakage on the client
- Easy consumption of other OCI images, if it's on the CNCF Landscape it's a first class citizen thanks to Podman!
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