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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] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fedora gnome, manjaro kde was very buggy and unstable for me

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

Arch and have been for many years. I did want to change to NixOS or Fedora but it really isn't broke for me so why "fix" it, you know?

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

Been hopping for a bit, think I finally settled on redhat9. Packages are new enough for my needs, amdgpu-pro gives me better opencl and rocm, everything is as I like. chefs kiss

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

Debian! I like stable, boring, bug free :)

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

Antergos [RIP], so "btw I use arch" for my personal desktop and Debian/Ubuntu for servers

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

My laptop is my oldest install, running Ubunutu. Started out on 14.04 and I've been updating ever since. My desktop runs Arch, although it used to be Antergos. I kinda convinced it to be Arch after Antergos died so I kept getting updates. Finally I'm currently trying Fedora on my secondary PC filled with old hardware from previous builds.

Honestly, out of these I personally like Fedora most currently. It seems to have up-to-date enough packages and seems quite stable. The AUR on Arch is a powerful thing, but it can also be quite hit or miss. While Ubuntu was fine as a first distro, I don't really like how outdated all the packages are. I've had quite a few cases where packages where more than a year out of date.

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

Antergos <3 I still use it on my main desktop.

Did you test or know some good gui arch installers? (As I was thinking of reinstalling my laptop running some random dystros to also use Arch, so I'm looking around for alternative arch installers with good setup that would still be in the end just nicely setup pure arch for longevity)

How is your experience as a long time Arch user on switching to Fedora, pros and cons?

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

Using Mint on my laptop, haven't made the jump yet on my desktop. I was using Pop OS for a while, but I like Mint's Cinnamon interface better.

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

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

[–] sneakyninjapants 1 points 1 year ago

Fedora Kinoite on my desktop with a dualboot to Windows for specific software, mix of Ubuntu server / Debian / Alpine for VM's and LXCs on my servers and I think some distro with Gnome? on my touchscreen laptop that I never use due to better touch support. Really liking Kinoite though, can reccomend

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

I'll never tell :P BTW

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

I have two laptops that run Ubuntu and one that runs Mint. I've always liked Mint, and trying most other distros feels too different from what I'm used to at this point.

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

I am using Ubuntu lunar.. don't shoot me. Lol

Although I am always looking for a faster feeling OS.. so send up your recommendations.

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

I currently only use Linux in a VM, but Fedora Kinoite! Immutable distros need more love

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fedora Silverblue user checking in. I've broken my system many times over the years, and I've yet to break this one.

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

I've been quite happy with Linux Mint on all my devices, but since I've started using i3 and apt purgeing cinnamon, I'll probably switch to Debian the next time I set up a PC of mine.

[–] RedComet91 1 points 1 year ago

I run an Archman installation that I then deconstructed and then built back up again with Openbox as the WM. Was something I did to improve my knowledge of how Linux works.

Really happy with the results, Openbox is lightning fast.

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

For daily driving I use MX, which is a flavor of Debian.

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

My first Linux was an Ubuntu that started with a "D". I ended up on Arch for quite awhile when I enjoyed learning and tinkering. For the last couple of years I've been really happy with Manjaro. No tinkering required! 😁

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

Arch and fedora

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

I've been distro hopping (mostly Debian-based) for a while, and for some reason, I just kind of settled on Zorin. Mostly because I didn't feel like setting things up again, but it's also a decent distro that just works for me.

[–] ScreaminOctopus 1 points 1 year ago

After using Arch for years due to the convenience of the AUR, I took the plunge and switched to NixOS. My company uses it and I thought it would be a good idea to learn as much as I could about it. I've been absolutely loving it, you basically get the stability of debian/rhel while being able to use a package repository bigger than the AUR. It's super easy to configure the system exactly how you want, which has been really useful for hosting game servers on super low powered hardware. It's easy to remove anything you don't need. It also makes configuring your applications really convenient because in most cases you can set up the package configuration in the main system configuration file, which is super helpful for syncing application configurations across systems.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Opensuse tumbleweed on my own computer. Rolling release with snapper is very cool.

Work machines: some rhel8 machines, some AlmaLinux machines. Local development happens in a Fedora vm, because that's how most colleagues role. I hope someday my employer enables us to run a linux distro on our work pcs directly, because most of our stuff runs on linux servers and most of us only use windows to launch our fedora vms.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I moved 3 of my 4 PCs over to Mint. I still can't make the move for my gaming PC yet.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Peppermint OS for a dinky little Chromebook, that’s my daily laptop lol.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guix on my personal computers and NixOS on my work computers.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use KDE Neon. I was and still am a big fan of arch, and while I appreciate the philosophy behind it, I just didn't feel like setting it all up this time around, KDE Neon had the software I was looking for and just got out of my way (outside of needing to deal with NVidia drivers, which seems like a pain wherever I go, I eternally hope for improvements from Nvidia)

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