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What is your preferred daily driver distribution? (lemm.ee)

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Considering switching away from Fedora and to another distribution. Does anyone have any suggestions for distributions I should consider?

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

Also easy to install with auto btrfs snapshots so that updates can never really break anything.

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

I use btrfs actually as well, but mainly just for compression/deduplication. I've been meaning to get snapshots set up but haven't gotten around to it yet.

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

You really should. It can save your butt, and it's only a few shell commands.