wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it’s a gacha. I don’t want to gamble with my account being banned, so I’m keeping windows for it specifically.) this’ll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with wifi and didn’t love the GNOME layout. I have a new distro picked out, but I just was curious what other people are using in this community. was also wondering what made you fall on your current one.

and maybe as some bonus questions, what are some distros you’ve tried but didn’t like? what about a distro you want to try eventually? I’ve seen distrohopping is a thing, hahaha.

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    I recently switched to Debian and use nix to install / provide the likes of node / python / go for development.

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      5 months ago

      Wait, how does that work? Can you do Nix package management on a Debian system or something?

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        Yes, you can just go ahead and install nix in your distro to use e.g. nix-shell to create a development environment.