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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Linux because it runs fast and does what I need it to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

As a non technical user that has switched to Ubuntu from Windows, Linux is light years ahead. Any os without a decent package manager like apt or flatpak is unusable for me and that's without mentioning the ads...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We're an all-linux household.

  • Endeavoros on my gaming desktop
  • Garuda on my Framework laptop
  • Kubuntu on my partner's Framework laptop
  • Endeavoros on my server. Plus a handful of Pis and appliances.
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago
  • EndeavorOS on the gaming desktop
  • Fedora on my framework laptop
  • 2x Fedora Server version.
    1. Media
    2. Several pods
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I use ArchLinux BTW, because

  1. It's very minimal, no bloatware
  2. AUR
    ~~3. I feel superior~~
  3. It just worksβ„’*
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Btw I use Archlinux

I switched to it 50% for the AUR: I regularly install softwares not from the classic repos, and the AUR is a godsend compared to cloning a Github, make install and thinking about updating it. The rest is a mix of the ArchWiki, its lightness and openness.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

NixOS, because all of the config in my system is declared in a few files on GitHub and it has a huge package repo.

Also it has all of the other advantages of a Linux distro, like privacy, speed and customisability.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I use Debian because it's what I've been using for the last twenty-two years.

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[–] grte 12 points 2 years ago

Strictly Arch Linux since 2008

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

fedora

overall a great experience, very easy to set up and configure, great software support, excellent privacy, etc. my personal favorite linux distro atm. i also like gnome a lot, especially once tweaked with good extensions like dash to dock and transparent top bar.

fuck microsoft and windows.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm still using Windows 10 on my personal computer. Oh I'll probably have to upgrade someday, some game or other program will come out with exclusivity of some kind and I'll eventually install Windows 11. But for the most part, I don't want to fuck with it, everything works and I really just don't want the hassle.

Running Linux Mint on an old laptop, mostly because it's too old to decently run Windows 10. Don't use it for much, mostly troubleshooting things.

At work the laptops are Windows 10 and I don't think there's a push to update. Of course all the servers are Redhat Enterprise Linux, and that's where the majority of my work takes place.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I use Mint because it just works. I'm thinking of trying Endeavor tho

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I use NixOS. The nice thing about NixOS is that you can set the state of most of your computer in a file or files that can be tracked on git, and any updates can be rolled back.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Linux mint. I stopped doing any gaming and Windows has become an advertisement platform rather than an OS.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Fedora is the most solid thing I've ever used. I use the KDE version on my desktop and silverblue on my laptop. Never have any problems

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Linux. I use Arch on my laptop and PopOS on my gaming rig. Still using Windows on my company laptop, but daily driving Linux on the others for over a year now.

Really dislike the Microsoft push for telemetry as well as the integrated ads and other processes wasting my resources.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Windows 10 because I don't want to deal with the hassle of anything else.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Fedora work station, it just works.

[–] lemmy_nightmare 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Debian Stable 11, shitjustworks

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Arch+Plasma+Wayland+GTX1660Ti+Samsung monitor with freesync120Hz. Great freedom. Great custom. Nice performance in gaming. Great software management. Awesome usability for technical user. I had also install apparmor and firewalld for security and timeshift for btrfs snapshots. I think, for me, there is no sense to switch back to windows.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Laptop is Linux because it's sort of required for the work I do.

NetBSD on the home server because of pkgsrc and the ease of customizability.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kubuntu. I like KDE and Ubuntu was very easy to get into, so here I am.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Endeavour os, has all the good stuff arch brings, but the setup is faster. Lot of Linux comments here compared to reddit lol

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Pop! OS. It's been almost 2 years since Microsoft arbitrarily told me that my Ryzen 1 wasn't compatible with Windows 11. It's not been entirely smooth sailing, but if i'm honest, i love it when it's not entirely smooth sailing. My relationship with my OS has fundamentally changed and I love it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I've been using NixOS since February and have never been this happy with a Linux distro. It's seriously a game changer and it allows me to have a peace of mind about my installation that I could never have with other distros (I was using arch before that).

[–] KronosaurusRex 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I use macos. I find that it gives me a lot of the UNIX stuff (most of the terminal tools that I love) and has a good compromise with quality apps and integration with my phone.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Well that clearly shows the community are mostly linux people. Nice. Early adoptors. Debian and POP here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Fedora KDE on the framwork laptop. Not the only one here it seems. My pc still runs Windows 10 but I'll change that once I have the time.

Fedora is cool because it is about as user friendly to beginners as Ubuntu, without Canonicals shenanigans. It's a freedom respecting community project and always pretty up to date. I like the quick release cycle. It seems like a good balance between a rolling release and slow fixed releases. Upgrading to the next version takes no effort. And KDE is just cool for it's customizability.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

openSUSE Tumbleweed because it is the most reliable rolling release distribution I have used. I love the automatic btrfs snapshots and wish other distributions would have them setup out of the box.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Fedora with KDE for my work laptop and windows 10 for my gaming PC. I greatly prefer linux but had several problems getting it to work properly on that PC and then I had to run the games too.

As for Fedora, I chose it because I wanted a system that just worked out of the box. Since I don't do games on that computer for the most part, it's much easier. Ubuntu unfortunately hard broke several times on me for reasons that were probably my fault but I don't entirely comprehend. Some were fixable but it wasn't worth the trouble. Fedora has never had any major issues for me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Windows 11 as my daily driver/gaming machine, Debian for my proxmox cluster/vms.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Arch Linux. Its comfy. I like that I don't get spied on. Furthermore it is not made by a company and 100% community driven, which makes it the best Distro for my usecase!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Arch.

One day several years ago I had to replace some hardware and the copy of Windows that I had installed decided that I was no longer authorized. I got fed up and left Windows behind for good. For a few years I had Manjaro installed, but eventually I needed a change and wanted to start fresh so opted just to go straight to Arch.

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[–] pumpkin 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Opensuse Tumbleweed.

I use it because I want a up to date stable system and it seemed like a pretty good option. I've been on it for a few years and really like it. I have tried to switch to Guix several times with however never quite stuck, mostly due to its kde plasma support. I think it's getting better recently though which is nice. Maybe I should try switching to nix instead which offers a lot of the same sorts of things but with mature kde plasma support and a wider package offering.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I use Pop!_OS on my desktop PC because i'm tired of microsoft deciding everything of my digital life and also because I just find myself really comfortable with GNOME and the POP!_Shell

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Had Ubuntu for a decade then got bored and turned my hp Spectre laptop into a Hackintosh and got hooked. So it's macOS now.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I use Linux Mint. I started using Linux in 2007 and was an Ubuntu guy. When Ubuntu switched to Unity I wasn't a big fan. At the time, Mint was providing an experience fairly close to what I was used to so I gave it a try. It does everything I need so I haven't looked back. I don't tinker as much as I used to and it's very stable.

Also have a windows install I use for gaming and music production, but 95% of the time I'm on mint.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Arch Linux with KDE. Windows is trash.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I just finished moving over from Manjaro to Fedora 38 KDE on my framework, and everything just worked out of the box. I didn't need to install any extra packages to get gestures or make the fingerprint reader work.Much more stable, and has btrfs by default. The only thing I miss is the ZSH from manjaro was brilliant, but I guess I can set that up to be similar later on.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I am using POP_os! It has been very stable and up-to-date, so it has been my daily driver for about 3 years. Sometimes I think about switching to nixos for its declarative system though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Ubuntu since 2006

  • It just works for the simple things
  • It is as powerful as needed for the complicated things
  • It runs nearly everywhere
  • It's universally supported by anything that supports Linux
  • It's supported at my workplace
  • It's got the largest community and body of documentation available which makes solving problems easy
  • It's got pretty good UX (I miss Unity)
  • I like Snap
  • It's got very, very long term security support for free which makes supporting it easy
  • I know it very well and can bend it to my will in any way I need
  • I'm infinitely grateful to the Debian community for making it possible
  • If the BDFL loses his B, there's an obvious backup plan - migrating to Debian

DOS and Windows up to 2006

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I’m on MacOS for work, Linux Mint for personal computer.

I’ve been on MacOS all around for over a decade. I found that I liked the mental model better than Windows. I had tried linux at the time (Mandrake and Suse) but they didn’t quite feel like something I could use daily, when friends were on MSN Messenger for comms.

The company uses MacBooks for developers and I enjoy that experience.

For personal, I couldn’t justify the cost of a Mac for the limited amount I’m currently using a personal computer. A year ago I resurrected a computer from a junk drawer and put Mint in it. It’s been a great experience, but the hardware has aged and some things were tricky (like typing, and hearing audio). So I bought a 3-4yo refurb Dell business machine and popped Mint on it. Am happy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Endeavour OS KDE. It just works and you have access to the AUR repository, which is huge.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Fedora Silverblue, immutable, secure :)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I use Linux Mint and Windows 10. I'm kinda stuck on windows because I'm a gamer. I can run a fair share of my games on Linux but it requires a lot of compromises and there are some games that straight up don't work because of anti cheat.

I wanna go full Linux though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Linux Mint!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Arch.

I once ran Ubuntu, but the install instructions for so many programs are 'import this key', 'add these dependencies', and the system quickly became a mess. I had install scripts to install and uninstall some things, but it was too much for me to take care of.

Eventually I found that if you want the latest terragrunt and i3, Arch Linux is easier than Ubuntu.

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