Linux

Oracle Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky for work Ubuntu for desktop Raspberry Pi OS

Slackware 15.0 on my desktop, Void on my laptop. I try other stuff on my laptop from time to time (FreeBSD has been my favourite experiment so far, but the wifi and bluetooth are just too bad for me to be able to use it regularly), but always go back to Void. I don't distro-hop on my main machine.

Gentoo on most of my machines, CentOS on an internet connected server.

I have tested a lots of distributions over the years including Ubuntu, Arch Linux and Gentoo. Nowadays I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my desktop and Ubuntu server on a VPS.

So far, OpenSUSE is the distributions I got the best time with. It's easy to install and configure. All my programming tools are there. There is some down side however, there is no proprietary codecs in the official repo but it can easily be fix by using the Packman repo.

I sometime do miss Gentoo and it's wonderful customization possibility. But what prevent me from goings back is the 6/7 hours of compilation every 3 weeks. This huge time of compilation is primarily due to the large amount of software I need.

Although I use Ubuntu server for stability, I don't realy like it as a daily driver. It's maybe juste préjugés but it feel souls less to me.

I'm currently dualbooting Gentoo (w/ AwesomeWM) and Fedora Silverblue.

Gentoo started as a challenge to myself, but I really fell in love with the customization and portage is an amazing package manager.

Silverblue, was a similar challenge to push myself to try something different. Still trying to wrap my head around containers and working around the limitations of flatpaks, but I'm enjoying it.

I find myself switching between the two on a regular basis. A couple of days to a week in one before switching back to the other.

Recently switched from Fedora to Manjaro.

Unfortunately I found Fedora to be too unstable for daily use. Just too many issues, some (like shim-x64 versions after 15-8 not being able to boot my system) which just didn't get fixed. And every new major version had its own new set of issues. So after seeing the umpteenth attempt to automatically install a firmware update fail due to shim-x64 being too old and the gazillionth window manager crash wiping all my open applications I bit the bullet and migrated away.

So far no major issues with Manjaro, one of the things that did work excellent on Fedora was Wireplumber automatically switching Bluetooth profiles when I connected to a online call. That seems to be a bit more unstable in Manjaro and often requires manually changing to the correct one. But I don't attend enough meetings for that really to become a major issue for me.

I'm using Void too! I love it.

I used to use Slack, but it lost its way. Arch is really, really cool, but I've become more interested in Void. Currently, perhaps surprisingly, I use Alpine because I like how minimal it is.

Debian on everything. Steamos on deck (arch or manjaro under the hood). A couple of rasbian instances and Ubuntu for work.

Ubuntu 23.04 on home media server mini pc and on second laptop. Ended up being the most stable for my use cases and with the most sane defaults, requiring only a couple of extensions. Used Pop_OS! in the past, will switch to their desktop once it's released next year.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma. TW is both stable and maintains up to date Plasma, which in my opinion is the most powerful desktop for productivity. On my Raspberry Pi Server I run Debian 11 with an audiophile music player (MoodeAudio).

Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma

I am using Pop!_OS, but probably want to change to something leaner soon.

Proxmox for VMs. Fedora on my personal workhorse laptop. Arch for my PineTab 2

I daily drive Zorin, it is a fork of Ubuntu that carries some Windows like features and has been helping me transition over.

i'm a pretty big fan of "Just Works" stuff in general, so i went with fedora, especially considering my pc (originally built for windows) has a nvidia card.

though, in the future, i might like trying out a rolling-release distro like arch.

Artix for my desktop and Alpine for my pi. I like my minimalism and hate systemd with a passion.

I mainly use Gentoo as my linux distro and OpenBSD on any ThinkPad I have, I have used void a lot in the past and I would still use it to this day

Ubuntu and arch

I've been using Arch for the last couple of years. I migrated from Ubuntu after having intermittent network issues, and ever since my machine has been stable as a rock

(Servers only)

• Rocky Linux 9 by default
• If something is not supported on Rocky Linux 9, I revert to Centos 7
• Debian as a last choice if what I'm using does not support RHEL for any reason

Debian Stable... I just upgraded to Debian 12!

I've used pretty much all the things, from slackware and debian to redhat and arch and even various BSDs, but these days it's mostly nixos that makes me happy. High initial investment, but so worth it in the end.

MATE Mint at work, Fedora KDE at home. I am a fan of both, I dont see myself switching any time soon

I use debian testing with XFCE. I get fresh enough packages and the only time I had trouble with it was when I didn't had space for /tmp

I use KUbuntu. It's got the packages of Ubuntu, but seems somehow to be better across the board.

Fedora because it just works

Fedora @home ubuntu @home for my server (eventually switch to fedora server)

Ubuntu @work kinda have to stay in the debian/*buntu universe, probably test mint or popos with the next lts

Been running Arch on both private desktop an work laptop for multiple years. Although there was never an incident, I always hat the constant fear of turning on one of the machines one day and nothing works.

Now it's Debian on the work laptop and Tumbleweed on the desktop. Having btrfs and automatic snapshots enabled by default gives a warm feeling of security. The TW community feels way smaller though. I know I could've have set up the same on Arch, but I wasn't that familiar with btrfs back then.

However, I do have to give credit for the speed of pacman. And setting up proprietary codecs was somehow way harder than I expected on TW compared to Arch.

I fall firmly in the Ubuntu/derivative camp for the most part. My laptop is on Pop, some of my virtual servers are on Ubuntu. Only exception is UnRAID, which is technically Slackware.

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

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

I love Manjaro when I just want things to work out of the box, but I use EndeavourOS on my main machine for better AUR compatibility. I love how minimal Endeavour is. The few issues I've had (always due to me screwing up updates) have been fixed in minutes with Timeshift + BTRFS snapshots. KDE Plasma always. I love KDE software, and you can customize it for any workflow - I've got my system exactly how I want it for the sort of work I do.

I wish Arch could be installed everywhere. My Desktop PC, Laptop and Raspberry PI 4 use Arch Linux while my Server used to run Rocky Linux but is abandoned and my Chromebook Duet 3 uses Debian 12 with KDE. I think I could easily install Arch on it after having my Kernel compiled and working with debian.

The Star64 still needs development to be used.

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