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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] 3 points 1 year ago

Slackware 15 on desktop, Devuan 4 on laptop, Rocky 8 on my RPI and LineageOS 18 on my phone. Slackware is really awesome.

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

Gentoo, currently trying to install LFS

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

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

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

I seem to keep coming back to Arch and/or Manjaro.

[–] [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

Currently I use Fedora KDE spin because it fully suits me out of the box and while it's packages are not bleeding edge, they are still relatively fresh. I had some stability problems with Void when I used it on my primary machine last time, so this was the only reason to switch to Fedora. I used Void for many years, and nowadays if I get some poor hardware (like old laptops or PC's) I prefer to install Void. Can't say if it any lighter than Fedora, but for me tinkering with Void is much more enjoyable

[–] [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

I have been using Fedora for two years now.
Before that I used Pop_OS! for a short time, but I didn't like it that much.
Vanilla Gnome was more to my liking.

[–] [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* (last edited 1 year ago)

Manjaro on desktop (well, i3wm). Otherwise mostly FreeBSD.

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

Right now i am using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. But i am experimenting with NixOS as well. Bdw first comment on lemmy!

[–] [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 (1 children)

@owatnext
I'm a debian user primarily; I occasionally mess around with other distros in VM's on my Proxmox server, but I'm always drawn back to debian when I need a solid and dependable base distro.
@linux

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[–] [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

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

[–] [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 (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

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

[–] [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

I've really been enjoying CachyOS on the desktop, seems it's got the performance tweaks for gaming but without the bloat like in Garuda. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with Gnome for the laptop. I thought I didn't like Gnome but it's a breeze with a trackpad

[–] [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

I used to distro hop A LOT, but by now I'm mostly on Arch [my laptop still runs Nix but I'm thinking of going back to Arch on that one too - Nix is nice but I feel like the difficulties for non-pre-packaged stuff aren't worth it for me personally], just because it's simple enough that I know where to look to fix things, plus the wiki is great.

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

Ubuntu 20.04 with GNOME. As a non technical user it works great. I made tge switch from windows at the beginning of 2023 and not looking back. When I distrohop it will probably be Debian but that will require time I currently don't have.

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

EndeavourOS (arch based) with i3 on my desktop, mainly for the AUR and not needing to worry about OS versions because everything is rolling release. Fedora for work the match our servers, and honestly it's probably like my second choice for home anyway just cause of the stability.

I just use i3 everywhere because tbh what pc isn't made better with vi shortcuts as part of the desktop environment....

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

I’m seriously considering partitioning the old MacBook and dual-booting into a new distro, but I’ll need to look up the process again, and it’s been quite a while. That is part of the fun, though…

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

KDE Neon. I actually love it as a daily driver. It’s stable and familiar and I think it feels quite polished for regular casual use.

[–] [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

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

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed with Plasma. It's the perfect combination!

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

Debian on all of my servers.

I've had Fedora on my Framework laptop for the last year and have really enjoyed the out-of-the-box usability. I think the only troubleshooting I've had to do over that year is some weird issues with CUPS.

I'd love to check out Void one of these days, though, or switch back over to Arch, which was my primary for a few years before Fedora. As an aging dude, distro-hopping isn't quite as exciting as it was 10-15 years ago when I had more time and energy to play around.

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

I'm using Mageia at home.
I like its stability, and ease to do almost anything with CCM.

Also Raspbian on a raspberry.

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

I use kubuntu for work. At home I have a mix of centos 7 and ubtunu server.

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

I personally use Pop OS just because it has so many of the settings I like out of the box. I started out on Ubuntu, but one day I felt like a change but I couldn't get into other distros for one reason or another. Pop OS was similar enough to what I liked, but also different enough to be fresh for me.

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

I've primarily used Arch for my workstations since around 2007, and sometimes Debian Sid. I recently switched all of my workstations to Fedora Silverblue however, and I've been very happy with this type of workflow; flatpaks for user apps, containers for my dev environments, and automated image-based core OS updates. I am convinced this is the future of Linux computing for most users.

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

I've been using fedora for the past couple months, seems to be keeping me from distrohopping

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

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

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

Have been using Fedora for a year now. Had used Pop OS for about 6months before that.

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

Fedora Rawhide with GNOME on my desktop, and Arch with GNOME on laptop (only because there are fingerprint reader drivers for my T470s on AUR)

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