Zen, absolutely love the workflow and the fact that it is not chromium based.

Waiting excitedly for ladybird, it is already very impressive but still years left until it is daily drive able

The reason I mentioned i3 and hyprland was specifically to give an XOrg and Wayland alternative. Personally I think hyprland is a way better system than sway

If infinite customization is what you’re after you shouldn’t use a DE. A WM like i3 och hyprland is much better suited for that

Hyprland too

EndeavorOS is arch with an easy installer and some default apps.

Manjaro is a worse, split repo that doesn’t work at all together with the architecture they are building around. They actively encourage use of AUR packages whilst their own repo packages are sometimes out of date and create issues with AUR packages since they don’t delay updates from there.

There are also tonnes of other issues with Manjaro, overall, don’t use it.

Defaults hehe

I use arch btw

I think gnome used to be fantastic but sadly lost their edge over time. I love plasma but it is still a bit too unstable for my liking.

Personally use Hyprland nowadays and I think I’ll never go back to using a DE anyways

I got portuex, never used Slackware but seems serviceable, I’m just scared of nVidia driver setup haha

I know you can basically turn arch into catchy, but I see no reason to when there is a pre made distro.

As for Nix, I think it looks very interesting but I very much love arch for my desktop and am not really looking for a replacement at the moment, but it is number one on my list for the future if things change

Cachyos.

Used to use pure arch but I like the cachy optimisations and their repos

Well if you don’t want plain arch I’d go with cachyos or just endeavouros

Arch (cachyos) on my desktop, Debian on my server.

Doesn’t really get any better than those two in my opinion

Yes and no, they are not natively connected but there are bridges between that can be used

If manjaro is the most stable distro you’ve used you can’t have used a lot

If you spend some time looking into it you will realise how badly manjaro is run.

If a team can’t even manage to update their SSL certs in time (which is extremely simple to automate) and multiple times asked their users to set their system date back to solve it I really don’t think they are trustworthy when it comes to scraping user data.

It’s not that I expect them to use the data maliciously, I simply just don’t trust their security procedures when they fail to do something that simple.

But not to manjaro

I dont use a DE, I use a WM.

Semantics aside I’m on Hyprland, been using it for 6 months now and absolutely love it

Support should be in quotation marks. Yes it has security support but applications will stop supporting all windows 10 SKUs long before that

Unless you play games with intrusive anti cheat pretty much everything works flawlessly on Linux.

I moved to arch permanently (been using Linux for other stuff and on my laptop for ages) after nvidia finally sorted their wayland support back in spring and I haven’t had a single game not work for me