What Distros do you want to shoutout and why you think they are doing well/are the best at what they do?

I am curious what is out there and have only had some experience with Linux Mint, SteamOS, and Pop!_OS

  • trevor (he/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 hours ago

    All those packages, but terrible/lacking documentation and LSP support 😭 And, yes, I’ve tried nixd and nil, and they’re not even close.

    I’ve tried to learn Nix multiple times, and even got by okay running NixOS for a year or so, but doing almost anything that isn’t just adding a package to a list in a nix file or flake was like pulling teeth because everything is documented so poorly (or not at all). It would take me hours to do what I could have done in seconds with any other package management tool or configuration management because I’d have to scour hundreds of search results to find someone that did the thing I’m trying to do because there was little-to-no documentation for it.

    Nix is a tool with amazing promise that could solve so many problems if they could get their documentation and LSP support up to the standard of something like Rust.

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      8 hours ago

      I discovered they have a Matrix server where people will literally debug your config for you and help you solve issues. But you are right, if you try doing it yourself without help you’ll be pulling your hair out