Hello, I wanna know which distro could be could for productivity (not gaming). Maybe a debian based one, I don’t know and I don’t care about the desktop env. Thx!
This is gonna be super far fetch, but hear me out… Debian…
THX
This gave me a good laugh
Just about any major distro.
There’s so many distro’s to choose from that can all be productive.
If the question is this short, my answer is too: Go try at least 10 and then come back to tell us what you liked and what not.
Without any further information it’s like going into a forest and asking people to point out a tree. Unless you look for some specific tree all will do…
Edit: Fat fingers
Linux mint Debian edition or Opensuse tumbleweed.
Slow Internet/less updates, older, more tested software, slightly wider package availability: LMDE.
Faster Internet, more updates, very new (but well tested) software, needs slightly more technical knowledge sometimes: Opensuse tumbleweed.
I personally use Opensuse Slowroll, which is a slower rolling release experimental version of Opensuse tumbleweed.
Ok thx
+1 for debian.
No need to mess around with debian derivatives for whatever pointless extra widgets they have.
It’s good enough for most stuff and has “allow nonfree drivers” choice which helps with annoying hardware problems of the past.If you don’t care about desktop env, you probably don’t care about wayland vs xorg either.
So I’d try XFCE, simple, basic, lightweight, fast, probably not the most modern or flashy,
but you’re getting to work faster.Pretty much any distribution would meet that criteria.
Is just pick one and get going. If you run into problems, you’ll now have more specific selection criteria and can make a more discerning choice of another distribution.
Given your initial “maybe Debian” just grab Debian stable and see where it takes you.
Throw a dart and use whatever it lands on. If you don’t have any actual requirements, they’re all pretty okay.
Check out MX (Debian + extra tools to make desktop use easier)
Depending on what you need for productivity, you’ll most likely be fine with just using flatpak to install any fresh packages.
Fedora is pretty good if you want a more up to date experience. Fedora Silverblue if you want fast atomic updates and just want to run flatpaks (or use a toolbox/distrobox for traditional packages or even overlay them completely). Otherwise Ubuntu has always felt like a very complete experience, just don’t get crypto wallets from the snap store.
You can use almost any distribution for productivity. First, what type of productivity are we speaking off? Secondly your hardware. Do you need the newest of the newest or are you one who want to stay at the same known version of operating system for as long as possible?
All kinds of productivity, office to programming. And I’m on AMD platform + I don’t care about the newest, but want to have something maintained
Try Distrochooser: https://distrochooser.de/en/
Just to see what it gives to you and think and discuss about the suggestions.
I got Void Linux, which is exactly what I use. Neat.
(and Artix which I used before switching to Void)
Lol, top answer is Void LInux for me too. I’m not sure if they are weighted and if the top most is the best recommendation for me. I’m an EndeavourOS user and that is not suggested unfortunately. But Artix is second for me too. Maybe I should look closer to Void LInux too. I wouldn’t change, just curious now. Maybe I’ll test it in a virtual machine. :-)
Edit: BTW I did not click the option to avoid systemd. In fact, I don’t mind systemd.
Can u explain me systemd?
systemd is a big collection of software to manage the system. In example to start services or commands to shutdown the pc. The problem for many is, that this one big collection of software is developed by people from a giant company who already has lot of other stuff in most LInux systems integrated. The argumentation is that this company has much power over the system. There are arguments for and against it and I don’t want to get too much into it. Therefore some people create alternative versions of distibutions without these services they call bloat.
In short people don’t like it either because of bloat or because it’s all one giant collection of software or because the developers also work for Red Hat. There are maybe other reasons, but that is what I read mostly in forums/social media.
Here bunch of links you can read if you want.
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- QA on Linode, 2. manpage, 3. Wikipedia, 4. Debian Wiki, 5. Arch Wiki, 6. Gentoo Wiki
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I’m a long time Mint user. My Mint laptop is my daily drive and it served me well even with my not IT related job during the pandemic home office days.
And it’s a 2nd gen i5 with 8 gb memory, it handled like a champ for 3d mechanical design.
Linux Mint EDGE
i cant say enough about mint. its handled all the nonsense ive thrown at it and then some.
Mint is my go to desktop option. It usually does the job.
I don’t usually worry about older packages. Most things run fine. I don’t spend a lot of time trying to make my UI pretty. For me, the GUI is a place for terminals, web browsers, my IDE, and general tools, not some kind of whiz bang thing to tweak all the time.
Debian: good enough and stable. No worries > new features.
I’ve been on Debian 12 for almost a year. It’s rock solid and its Gnome is on version 43, which is current enough. I’ve been watching reviews of 45 and 46 and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything. I installed Flatpak to get current apps and it works flawlessly. I’m expecting Debian 13 to come out sometime around Summer 2025, which doesn’t feel too far away given my satisfaction with Debian 12.
I dumped ubuntu for debian 12 due to snaps, and i’m very happy so far. I run sway as my window manager. I guess we’ll see how i feel in a year but i honestly can’t think of any software i run that i’m simply fine with it not being the most recent. I’m even using the firefox-esr version that debian ships with and it’s fine.
