Fedora on desktop, Rocky on servers except my K8s cluster which is on Fedora Coreos
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I used to distro hop A LOT, but by now I'm mostly on Arch [my laptop still runs Nix but I'm thinking of going back to Arch on that one too - Nix is nice but I feel like the difficulties for non-pre-packaged stuff aren't worth it for me personally], just because it's simple enough that I know where to look to fix things, plus the wiki is great.
use debian on all my servers and microcomputers and am currently torn between arch an debian for my main pc
Fedora KDE, I was using opensuse KDE previously but software availability was being a pretty big annoyance
Garuda Linux. It's Just Works (TM).
Yeah, been using Garuda for a while now. There's a few things that break, but that's kinda to be expected.
Currently Ubuntu LTS on my server and an old Laptop. On the server I will switch to Debian now soon because I don’t like Snap, and think that does not belong on a server at all. For my Desktop I wanted to try out Arch. Most likely it will be EndeavourOS. EndeavourOS because it’s mostly vanilla ArchOS with a nice installer. I will not use Manjaro because they are much more opinionated and do not have the best reputation (there were multiple issues in the past were they let run out certificates for example).
Mint 21.1 Xfce, and if Android counts, ArrowOS 13 (on phone) and BlissOS (on an old computer)
Debian testing until it gets stable, then stable until I get envious of new stuff then testing again. For about 20 years, can’t really remember when I switched from SuSE.
Manjaro on my private desktops, Mint on my work laptop and Ubuntu on my servers. I am getting a non-Nvidia machine soon and I am looking forward to giving Manjaro with Wayland a try.
Look at my username and take a wild guess btw lol
Started on Ubuntu like most, but Arch feels like home.
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I use a mix of Fedora and endeavour, love fedora to bits, but I had some issues that were solved by using endeavour
EndeavourOS for desktops, Ubuntu for servers
Been using Manjaro as my daily driver for ages. Tried a few others over the years but never found them comparably nice to use. Works out of the box, performs well incl in games, rolling release yet never had much stability issues, and access to the AUR.
That is, for my laptop and desktop ofc. Servers I wouldn't run on it, at least no serious production ones. Not too important home servers maybe out of lazyness (I know this well, so easier to get stuff done).
Fedora for desktop/laptop, and Debian or Ubuntu for my servers.
Debian 12 for now is a great investment for the next 5 years, tho.
Archlinux user for ~13 years, I'm now on Fedora Kinoite.
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.
I haven't used Linux much last few years, used to run Ubuntu. Currently I have a crappy old hp stream thats happily running mint os tho! Poor thing barely booted windows at one point, now its again capable of surfing the web and downloading/viewing docs. Any better lightweight distros out anybody can reccomend?
Archlinux on all desktops and laptops, Debian on all raspis, FreeBSD on the firewall (pfsense).
Nixos since 3-4 years. Arch Linux before that.
What advantages have Nixos over.. lets say arch or debian stable ?
The whole os and all settings will be in one config file. So you can replicate your os in a different machine easily.
When you change the config and rebuild the system, a new generation is created. You can easily rollback to previous generations if you mess up. So it pretty much never breaks.
Nixos also has the largest and most updated package repository. It also has features that are very handy for programming like reproducible shell environments etc.
Of course this is just scratching the surface. The learning curve is insane. If you are a functional programmer. Nixos will suit really good.
Kubuntu/Plasma on the desktop, plus the Steam Deck
Although I'm using Fedora, I also make extensive use of Distrobox (specifically, with Arch and Debian Sid containers). Makes it easy to install software not easily available on Fedora, or when I want a version of a program from a different distro.
Switched to Slackware after 15 came out. Loving it.
Debian on servers and Arch Linux on clients. No bloat and simple!
Nobara Official, I pretty much only game on my pc and have had no issues with Nobara.
Arch on desktop and Fedora Silverblue on my laptop. I have a Proxmox server and on this I have VMs with mainly Fedora, Arch and Debian running.
I run Tumbleweed on my x86_64 machines, Asahi on my M1 macs. I might try to install Gentoo on one machine, tried in the past but my inexperience led to some frustration. Pretty confident I could get it running now and it would be pretty fun to learn!
Linux Mint (Yes I know. but multiple services I use need Debian-based sadly. I Wish to go back to Manjaro/Arch someday.)
I have openSuse Tumbleweed on my desktop and Ubuntu 22.04 on a laptop which I use as a server... But which has become my temporary, primary machine, as my desktop is down with a dead psu ATM...
EndeavourOS with Hyprland
Manjaro on my Gaming rig, AntiX on my laptops. Some other laptops use BSD distros. I'll switch to o Arch olonnmy Gaming rig soon as manjaro is way too unstable and the drivers for my new GPU don't work.