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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] 2 points 1 year ago

Is used to use Pop OS but decided to switch to Arch after getting a new pc.

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

I daily drive Garuda XFCE on my main computer, and have been for a year. Before that it was Manjaro for 2 years. I switched when Windows 10 nuked itself after an update.

On my almost 10 year old laptop I use Arch with Hyprland as my window manager.

My home server is about 6 years old and has been running Debian for 5 of them. I used Manjaro on that for a year before getting rekt by a broken NVIDIA update and went back to Debian. On the plus side, I did learn that Duplicati+Storj is capable of recovering from 100% data loss because I pressed the reset button at the wrong time and broke BTRFS too lol

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

I use EndeavourOS with Hyprland on my laptop but I am considering trying VanillaOS (once they move to Debian base). On desktop I have Ubuntu 20.04 and EndeavourOS (both on Gnome)

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

Zorin is nice, it's got a phone app too so you can get your phone notifications on your PC and transfer your clipboards. But Bluetooth doesn't really work on Linux so I still use Windows half the time

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

A mix of fedora and alma Linux I like all the redhat tools and which one I use depends on if I want new shiny or fewer major upgrades

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

Currently, mint and debian.

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

I am currently using Alpine linux on my servers and arch linux on my laptop but I plan on switching my laptop to alpine this summer. I am currently using the sway window manager and I used awesome wm before that.

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

Now I am using fedora, before that I used debian stable.

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

I'm using Fedora - was using Arch for a while, but realized I didn't want to put in the work to keep up with/migrate to the newest tech (Wayland, Pipewire) but I also didn't want to fall behind. Fedora has been great at integrating new tech without me needing to pay close attention or migrate to it myself.

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

I personally use Fedora. It just works and is that perfect middle ground between Debian and Arch.

That and I just like gnome. Simple, intuitive, and doesn't distract me which helps keep my ADHD at bay.

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

EndeavourOS. Best distro by a longshot. I used openSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora, ZorinOS and ofc Ubuntu in the past.

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

Mint these days, coming off a several year antiX and MX spell. I switched because I wanted something more pedestrian that would let me run modern diversions without much fuss.

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

Lubuntu. I loved Crunchbang back in the day.

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

At the moment I'm dual booting between Endeavor OS and MX, I'm really enjoying them both.

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

Hi for now i'm on Debian 12 on my laptop Asus gl553vd, all is working great

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

Ubuntu for my work laptop, debian for my servers. My third choice would be arch, but I'm not using it currently.

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

I use Mint for desktops, Debian for servers. There's a mix of RPiOS, Armbian, and some other ARM linuxes for the SBC systems.

I've got some kids in Ubuntu for hardware reasons, but it's not a go to.

I really miss Crunchbang #! Linux. That was a great low resource release.

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

I used Endeavour, but hopped to openSUSE Tumbleweed and I am currently very happy with it!

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

I use arch on my home server, raspberry pi Os and Ubuntu Server.

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

I have two machines for different purposes - the desktop is the one that other people use that I'm not allowed to break, so that one just dual boots Pop!OS and Windows 10.

The laptop is my own tinkering machine, so that one is Arch and KDE, perpetually in various states of disarray.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  1. Arch Linux (current)
  2. NixOS
  3. Fedora
  4. Ubuntu
  5. Gentoo
  6. Red Hat (first)

Switched often over the last 20 years. Considering Fedora Silverblue.

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

Silverblue is surprisingly good.

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

Choice can be one of the huge strong suits and weak points of Linux. I know over the last 30 years I've switched distros a lot. My first was a two floppy slack distro. One for boot and one for root. There was no pretty X server on top of it lol.

These days for my personal systems I definitely like the rolling releases. Currently have endeavor OS on a few systems. But I still have debian Ubuntu or Fedora running on certain systems for specific tasks. They aren't always the most up-to-date. But they are some of the more stable and secure. And when you're serving that's typically what you want.

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

I use Pop OS as my daily driver. It's been hectic configuring things to work at times but I'm pretty happy, I have all the games I want to play compatible with it and I don't really need any Windows apps so it works perfectly for me.

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

Fedora on my regular laptop, Debian on another, and Bodhi on this HP all in one that someone gave me. Twenty years ago I loved the experimentation and played with Red Hat and SusE and now I just want everything to work without spending hours figuring it out. So nowadays I just experiment on non-critical equipment, like the HP all in one on my kitchen table.

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

Fedora for gaming and Debian for the servers. I was an avid Ubuntu user for years, but for some reason snap doesn't do it for me.

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

I use Arch Linux on my laptop and debian on my desktop. I'm currently working towards setting up a server on my desktop, just need to figure out where to start and what I want in it. I personally love Arch for it's repos as it's all there at my fingertips if I want to download them.

In terms of DE/WM I use qtile on arch and cinnamon on debian. I don't know what I'd do without qtile lol not sure if I'd ever switch it as my main WM.

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

I use Ubuntu latest LTS for all my servers

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

Fedora because it just works

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

Kubuntu mainly and Mint

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

Arch

I find that bugs in linux programs (and they will happen regardless of distro) are more easily tweaked in systems that do minimal modifications to upstream programs and keep them updated regularly with what the developers release

Also AUR makes it easy to install pretty much anything without having to add ppas, new repo links, etc

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

@owatnext At the moment Ubuntu 23.04. But I am planning to hop to Linux Mint or Fedora in order to check them.

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

I use Linux Mint XFCE on my laptop and desktop. And the standard Steam OS on my Steam Deck.

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

Recently switched from Gentoo to NixOS. Not really sure if I will not switch back but so far interesting experience. Being able to define your entire system configuration with just a few files is really cool, plus it is really nice for setting up development environments.

On my Laptop I just run arch because I find it easiest, and it is mostly multimedia laptop. Same with my home server (NAS, self-hosted stuff, VR) where I just need rolling distro with good support for gaming.

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

Linux Mint on my main PC (which still has a Windows drive on it) but I really want to get a bigger Linux SSD and I want to try out OpenSUSE Tumbleweed instead.

I also use Fedora on my laptop.

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

Nobara on my gaming PC, I keep windows on a laptop just incase i need it for something. So far literally the only thing I needed windows for is to rip a steam skin from an installer so I could port it to Linux lol.

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

TuxedoOS, Pop!_OS, and Ubuntu (work forces me to use it 😬)

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

Mostly Gentoo with a sprinkle of Arch and Debian. It used to be Ubuntu, then Arch, but Gentoo has opened up so much for me - I just cannot go back to a binary distro.

At this point most issues I run into at work where it's not Gentoo - I just nod and smile, and wish we had switched to it already. And then proceed finding a workaround because that's the best Ubuntu and the likes can offer.

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

btw I use Arch ;-)

The meme aside. I use Arch, on my laptop, desktop and my home servers. On the few VPS'ses I have running at Scaleway and Hetzner, I use Debian.

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