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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

Pop!_OS because Im a normie lmao

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

I dualbooted Mint Cinnamon + Fedora and I mainly use Mint. Fedora is mostly used as a Red Hat learning tool. I do all of my everyday stuff inside Mint.

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

Manjaro XFCE after switching from Windows about 5 years ago. The first 3 months were rough and now when I have to use Windows I can't believe how badly Microsoft had everyone brainwashed into believing what an OS should be like. It's such a shame that 95% of the population thinks computer == macos || computer == windows

[–] [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

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.

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

Fedora on my desktop, Alpine on cloud servers, Debian on my Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu for work. Also messing around with Arch, Debian, and PeppermintOS on some older boxes.

[–] [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 (1 children)

I really like Endeavor OS. I think it's a great mix of ease of installation whilst still remaining close to Arch. I used to use Manjaro but I'm moving machines away from that as I need to rebuild them.

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

I use Fedora Kionite. I was using Silverblue previously but Plasma 5.27 got me. I also tend to switch to Arch sometimes to play with tiling window managers.

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

Mint 21.1 Xfce, and if Android counts, ArrowOS 13 (on phone) and BlissOS (on an old computer)

[–] [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

Using Garuda (basically just Arch with some bloat) because I'm 1) too lazy to install Arch myself and 2) on an Nvidia card and Wayland WMs still seem buggy for me. Once (if ever) Wayland is stable on Nvidia I'll probably look for an alternative

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

Debian (usually Sid) and Arch.

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

I'm currently using Linux Mint on my desktops and Debian for my servers.

[–] [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

I’ve gone from Pop!_OS to Mint, but I always come back to EndevourOS with KDE. I just can’t quit that distro.

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

Manjaro KDE.

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

Fedora Silverblue (I made the final switch from Tumbleweed when I discovered that flatpak mpv also has vaapi and the steam and lutris flatpaks work flawlessly)

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

Currently using Nobara OS and Vanilla OS. I really like Nobara because Fedora is a well supported OS (Thanks RHEL) and Nobara made setting up fedora really easy on my AMD CPU/ Nvida GPU. The only other ones which I liked as far as the out-of-the-box experience was: Endeavor OS for Arch-based and Zorin OS for Ubuntu-based. I appreciate Vanilla OS, and while they are pitching it as something for beginners; it is absolutely not. You need to understand at a basic level the relationship between containers and the host system, apx is a beautiful piece of software which makes containers incredibly easy to use, but you still need have a basic understanding. You also need to know when to interface with the host system, e.g installing gnome-tweaks. You also need to know when the default Ubuntu container isn't the best container to use. That said, the transaction system for manipulating the two root directories and most software being siloed off in containers ensures that the shitty laptop I am using hasn't ran into the many issues I have had in the past with it breaking updates randomly.

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

I love Nobara, the initial setup is so convenient!

And since it's based off Fedora, it feels polished.

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

Just plain old netinst installed Debian with XFCE. It just works.

[–] [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

Alpine Linux with I3WM

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

Long time Kubuntu user.

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

I'm currently running Mint on my Computer and Ubuntu on servers.

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed, it just works for me.

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

Currently, mint and debian.

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

I am Debian user as of now. Normally I either use Debian-based distros or Fedora.

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

Fedora, ofc. KDE spin in my case. Stable, up to date, no nonsense and well supported, fits well for both my work and personal needs.

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

Ubuntu or kde neon are my go to distros

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

Currently ZorinOS on my Main Machine and Arch on my Notebook, but when i have my new AMD GPU i will use Fedora.

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

Debian and Debian accessories.

Servers - Debian stable. The only choice.

Workstations/laptops - Either testing/RC or stable with backports enabled. Usually use Flatpak as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been switching between Arch and Linux Mint for a while now. I run Arch and EndeavourOS on my laptops (Arch on my daily 2-in-1, Endeavour on my TV laptop) but I can't decide which is better for VR on my main rig... probably because VR on Linux is kinda in a pathetic state anyway lol. Next week I'm getting a second GPU for simple display-out so I can use my 6800XT to run VR in a Windows VM, probably on Arch

Edit: landed on EndeavourOS, basically just Arch with a GUI installer, DE by default, and some other tweaks. It's what I kept turning Arch into pretty much lol

[–] [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

Proxmox on server with Debian VMs. Debian 12 with KDE Plasma on workstation. So basically Debian all the way.

Have used Linux Mint and Pop!_OS in the past, but the name of the latter is annoying enough to make me use something else.

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