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What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?

I myself am a daily Void user. I used to use Devuan, but wanted to try rolling release and ended up loving Void!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've been using Fedora with Cinnamon almost exclusively for more than 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I run PopOS on my laptop. It's been really solid, except Linux doesn't support the speaker amp so I can only get sound out via the headphone jack or bluetooth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Pop!_OS on my System76 laptop. Debian|Ubuntu on my VMs. If I add a desktop environment, it's typically KDE. I have a soft spot for XFCE though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used to use Debian but after switching to Fedora Silverblue two years ago I've had zero urge to distrohop. I love that it allows me to tinker without breaking my system (which I used to do with Debian).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Arch baybeeee 💯💯💯

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Arch.

I've done a reasonable amount of distrohopping, but I always come crawling back because I've never found anything that can compete with the AUR.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm running Ubuntu for my servers, with kali on my laptop

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

Kubuntu, not much configuration and pretty accessible for me !

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've been running Kubuntu for a decade, (including the dark days of of early 4.0, 4.1). Kubuntu has been striking a nice balance of newish software, newish kernel and newish KDE

Though recent changes like the snapification of Firefox has left a bad taste. Might try OpenSuse KDE or Fedore KDE instead soon

Flatpak and AppImages has also changed the equation a lot, so maybe an old/stable base like Neon or Debian isn't so bad anymore

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Arch on my workstation (home and work) and Debian (formerly CentOS) on corporate servers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

With Debian 12 being out, I'm back to Debian and for good this time. We got the last plasma 5 and the inclusion of nonfree firmware on theisoo makes it easier to install. After all these years, Debian still feels like home.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My favorite are Alpine Linux and NixOS, I use Alpine Linux mainly for my home server and nixOS on my laptop. I really like the power they give you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

OpenSuse Tumbleweed. I tried so many others, and I really wanted to like Arch and the Arch-based distros, but they just weren't for me.

Honestly, I've been trying to jump ship. Suse has some things I would like improved, but I still want that stable rolling release. So I might just be joining you there on Void. My main concern with void for some reason has always been the package manager, but considering Flatpaks are fully matured now and apx is available if I really need it, I don't have much of an excuse other than the fact that I need to do some testing first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been using ubuntu for quite sometime now it just works for me. Not much setup needed and currently has most of the support of my favorite programs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Debian testing w. KDE on the desktop, & stable on my vps

edit: oh yea username checks out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been mostly using Ubuntu and it's been working mostly well but I do want to switch at some point. I've tried Porteus but I've tried it on two different computers and I couldn't get the WiFi adapter to work on either of them. I know why it's not working on one of the computers but the WiFi adapter in the other one works just fine with Ubuntu so I have no Idea why it's not working.

I've got my eye on some other distros that I want to try but I haven't had the time or the desire to try them yet.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I’ve dabbled in Linux more recently and set up some VMs to see what I like. I’ve settled on arch with Gnome

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nixos, mostly because I wanted to have configuration manage for my laptop and VPSs, and it solves that and the problem of configuration (installed apps etc. in my case) drifting. Also nix as a whole idea is cool, but I figured that out later.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Manjaro GNOME on my desktop. Still looking into what to install onto my work notebook when I get the new one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Fedora, it has fairly new software, it doesn't break and it's big enough to have a lot of distro specific support. The only thing that bothers me is that dnf is a slow ass package manager.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm using Fedora Silverblue. I can recommend it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I came back to stay on Fedora and so far I'm really liking it haven't changed for ages. I came from endeavour OS because eventually some updates just broke the system which is why I switched to it in the first place from Manjaro. the only trouble I had was reinstalling nvidia graphic driver after an upgrade from 37 to 38 but I got sorted eventually.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

MX Linux, with XFCE. Has some tools built in that makes configuring the system so much easier. The package manager is solid with all the debian repos available, plus flatpaks. Sane DE defaults.

Does not use SystemD, but can be turned on at boot.

It is stellar. I no longer feel the need to distrohop. Yet... It has been awhile.

Also, for reason NVIDIA drivers don't load when I need to enter my encryption password, so life can be better.

I do not care about SystemD, and it seems everything would be easier if I chose a distro that uses it. I may just do that.

I have tried to like Fedora because it is excellent, but I always run into issues that annoy me. I used to adore Manjaro, but it just got worse over the years. Cannot stand it now. I just don't like Arch.

Maybe I will try Pop_OS! again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I run pop os. But I can see myself moving to something non-ubuntu in the future. For server stuff I'm most familiar with Debian/RedHat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Arch with Cinnamon DE and I use flatpak and not the AUR.

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

These days I'm basic and I use Ubuntu.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Only used Linux for a couple of months and use Fedora currently. Been through a fair few distros, but think Im gonna stick with Fedora for a while.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use Crystal Linux (Arch-based) on my computers, Debian on my servers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Debian since version 7.0 always with old gnome. I try other OS, like slack or arc, and other DE but I always come back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Desktop: Ubuntu, mainly because that's what we support at work

Servers: Debian/Proxmox

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

i switched to linux so that i could customise everything, so ubuntu and manjaro (the first two i used) didn’t really do anything for me. After using a macbook for a bit (still my primary laptop), I found Arch which i now daily drive and love it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Void Linux as well here. Actually keep using it because I maintain some packages there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Pop_OS on the desktop. Still haven't found the fortitude to change the OS on the Asus laptop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Mint. Mint has largely continued to be good for me and if I build another desktop myself I'll probably put Mint in again. That said I've heard good things about PopOS, and if I end up buying direct from System76 I might stick with that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Been on Linux Mint Cinnamon for at least a decade. I love Cinnamon; most don't take the time to understand how to customize it, and it's not hard. Mint removes all of Canonical's bullshit in Ubuntu and it just works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use Fedora Kinoite for my non-nvidia laptop, and uBlue's nvidia Kinoite image for my desktop. I switched after I got my Steam Deck and found I just really liked the idea of an immutable OS with KDE.

I guess that also means I use SteamOS 3 too!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

openSUSE Tumbleweed on my main PC. Ubuntu on the other.

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