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My daily driver is macOS on my personal Mac mini and the MacBook provided by my work. I also run Opensuse tumbleweed on an older dell Inspiron.
My server rack consists of a dell r730 running VMware and most of the vms are various versions of Ubuntu.
I’ve also ran arch and mandrake in the past and cut my teeth on Slackware back in 97 or so. It’s been a journey.
I'm using Qubes OS on my laptop, HardenedBSD on my desktop and OpenBSD on my server. I use both BSD and Linux depends on the use case. For the phone, I prefer GrapheneOS all the way!
Spiral Linux, I wanted something close to just Debian that was fast and ran xfce so that's what I went with.
I was using Pop!_OS for a long time, but finally switched to Fedora and I love it because it feels so up to date.
My progression was: Mandrake, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Arch, NixOS. At work I use Nix flakes on Debian machines, so one month back I figured out I could install NixOS at home to get familiar with Nix. NixOS is really something different and it brings me back to the old times when Linux was new for me. It’s again an adventure!
I'm using macOS also but I'm a arch/Debian guy. i know both of them. I'm not an expert but before macOS i was using Linux. I came to macOS cause of school just wanted something solid. I still help people though if I can with Linux problem when I can
my debian vm box is solid too, installed it yesterday, only audio issues with muting, for some idiotic reason, but I made a simple modification to the system, high hopes it will help with this.
Gentoo when I want to do Linux at an enthusiast level and out of technical interest, and PopOS when I just want everything to work.
Due to computer games, my desktop PC runs Windows 11, but my dissatisfaction with Windows is growing. I use MacOS on my MacBook Pro because it works so nicely with my other Apple devices, but I need a change every now and then and try new things, so I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon on a relatively old laptop and it's a great pleasure to work on it. So at the moment I would say that Linux Mint Cinnamon is my favourite operating system.
I hate cinnamon, but everyone has different tastes: I when I use linux, if I need to have gui installed mate, or else system will go rm -rf / I saw gnome, desktop doesn't work with orca, menu start stopped working after some updates, so mate all the way, I tried kde, but i gave up on it, it just didn't clicked out, desktop was not accessible, menu start too. everything is bork. mate is not, for some reason, so I have it on my debian vm on utm. I'm forced to use debian, as I can't find fedora mate arm64, or fedora with old gnome 40.0
Void Linux is home. Plus, as soon as word got out that Windows 11 had those insane system requirements and the TPM stuff I decided I would abandon Winblows for good once 10 reaches end of life.
Not Arch!!!
why not!?
ignore. testing in prod!?
I'm using Nobara KDE, but that only due to the fact that it works better with my hardware than Fedora. Otherwise, I would be using the KDE spin of Fedora.
I'm also waiting for a KDE version of Vanilla OS. I really dig the all design of Vanilla OS. I think when they will have it, I will be switching.
I use FreeBSD on my home server, and LineageOS without any Google services on my phone.
macOS at work and Debian on my personal computer.
Slackware. Though I can make most things work.
EndeavourOS. It's Arch but without the faff, it just works and looks gorgeous.
I've always just used ubuntu with i3 because I honestly dont really know what I am potentially missing out on. What is a reason to use something else?
I prefer Debian since Ubuntu is basically just a more bloated version of it.
Oh okay so it is like a performance thing?
For me it's that there are fewer moving parts that can break.
Ahh alright, that makes sense! thanks
chromeOS user here
I've been thinking about trying Illumos for a while. Currently using Fedora.
My first foray was with Ubuntu and Mint, and I found the whole experience far too on-rails for me. A few years later, I made the permanent move from Windows to Arch, largely because of how good their documentation on GPU passthrough via OVMF/VFIO was. It was also an excellent opportunity to be forced to learn how my computer works.
Ironically, I almost never open virtual machines for gaming, I have come across very very little that cannot be handled by wine, ge-wine, or proton.
I have used several other distros on and off, but I feel Pop!_OS is the macOS of Linux. Long time macOS user turned macOS(client)+Ubuntu(server) user by profession, turned Pop!_OS(client)+RHEL8(server) user (new job! Loving it).
I don't use derived OS. Either Debian or Arch.
I'm mainly using Fedora these days, but for some games I still have to dualboot Windows, which I can't say I'm enjoying. Just over an hour ago the Nvidia drivers crashed. On Windows. Repeatetly.
Anyway, I'm quite happy with Fedora but I haven't tried many OS to be honest. I prefer stability over the slight advantages other OS might have
I'll probably have to go with FreeBSD for their minimal base and incredibly clean and well-documented code and utilities.
Currently EndeavourOS, it fits my usage pretty well, is Arch-based, and even has a Sway version!