Asklemmy

Ubuntu guest, Windows host. Windows - good enough for most things. Ubuntu - open to neglect, unlike Arch. Easy to work with, i3wm is amazing. Allows me to do actual “work” without having to learn how people program on windows.

My main personal computer is a macbook with apple silicon. I use "Mac OS X" since the inital Public Beta - and man i miss the PPC days... - but i also use MorphOS daily (Mac Mini G4) and Linux/SteamOS in for personal computing in its dock from time to time. macOS has still the best UX for me - i still hope it will return to a more desktop and less mobile UX/UI like in the 10.4 - 10.14 days... SteamOS works just awesome for a Linux and is very polished compared with for example a stock debian installation imho

At home? Manjaro Linux. When I was looking to learn Linux I compared different distro's and decided that one seemed the nicest combo between ease, stability, and power. Overwrote my Windows on my school laptop and figured "now I have to learn".

Over the years I tried some others like Ubuntu (and related) Debian (and related), and Kali. But I never found them as nice to use. But to be honest, since I'm quite content I'm not distrohopping too much and most where tried out of necessity.

Been running Manjaro for a few years now as main OS everywhere on my own computers, with only a minimal Windows installation on a separate SSD for the few games that don't work smoothly on Linux yet. At this moment, only 4 are left, mainly due to mods that don't run in Linux rather than the games itself.

Still got a Windows laptop for work, as it's necessarily there. Also got a few Linux servers there as well tho, to which I connect remotely when needed.

After using Pop OS for about a year I'm going back to Debian. I missed the stability and the new Debian 12 is very polished.

I have 2 laptops (work and personal) and both run Arch Linux.

Reason:

• Rolling release
• AUR
• ArchWiki

Arch Linux on my main PC because it 1) is not Ubuntu and 2) has very up to date drivers and software packages which means running the latest hardware isn't a problem. I have an Intel Arc A770 in my main PC and the last time I tried running even Debian unstable on it, it didn't have graphics drivers at all. Also, the AUR is an incredible thing with pretty much any software you can think of being made available for Arch by the community even if it isn't in the official repos.

Debian Testing with XFCE. When I need Wayland (for testing my app), i use Sway.

1. Performance. I'm stuck with an old computer right now.
2. No reliance on quirky black-box packages. It is less 'wrapped' unlike Mint, and more 'wrapped', unlike Arch. Compared to Arch (btw), Debian has some distro-management apps, like update-alternatives and synaptic. Also, it breaks less often, provided the system is used properly.

Also, I use Debian Stable on a VPS, because you don't want to sacrifice security to bleeding edge.

Linyx because it doent get in my way unlike windows, and because I like FOSS. Arch linux in particular, but anything is better than windows or macos. (well, not chromeOS)

Pi Desktop

Simple and fast

I had a windows 7 desktop that I muddled through the process of setting up a dual boot with Ubuntu. I could not get certain programs to work that I needed to use for work, so just left that partition in place and went back to Windows 7. Partly because I'm not OS tech savvy and not certain how to remove it and partly because I have a new computer that is Windows 10 and is my daily driver now. The Windows 7/Ubuntu computer is now just sitting in the spare room running an RTL-SDR dongle using Windows 7 as an AIS feeder. I'd set that up on the Ubuntu partition but haven't had a chance to learn how to do that yet.

windows 10 desktop PC for ableton live, linux mint xfce laptop for productivity

Arch Linux

• AUR
• Up to date packages + AUR, so no need to manually install things or search for third party repositories
• Arch wiki
• I started using it and it works
• etc.

Windows 11

• laptop ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Linux since Windows XP. Windows Update broke me.

Fedora. Why? Because its the best!

Windows 11 because I'm a gamer

Fedora Kinoite from ublue.

Windows is a pain to use. Its uncustomizable, lacks pretty much all its features after making it semi-private. Apps look horrible, theming is nonexistent for the apps I use. All the apps I use in exchange of the Windows shit are also available on Linux.

So I distrohopped, stayed with KDE all the time. Everything broke but I also didnt want "stable" outdated software, until Wayland, fractional scaling and more are fixed.

Fedora Kinoite is very up-to-date, and its OSTree model is similar to git. You have an immutable system image that you can change by layering or removing RPM software, but you should do that as little as possible.

The ublue team takes care of adding Codecs and NVIDIA drivers, so client-side layering can stay minimal. This means reproducible bugs, always. You can reset the system, you have atomic updates (either it fails or succeeds) and you can save as many versions as you want.

Updates run in the background, you get your Software through Flatpak (which is more uptodate, isolated and officially supported anyways), its pretty awesome.

Arch Linux and Windows 10 dual boot.

Generally, I like Linux because it's FOSS and I can use i3wm. Arch Linux specifically because the AUR makes installing software really easy. Almost everything I use is available there.

I keep Windows for programs that don't work under Wine. I haven't touched this disk for some time because all of my Windows programs work on Wine now.

I run Arch Linux with KDE for my workstation, and Fedora for my ThinkPad. My server runs Rocky Linux and I plan to get another (possibly in the cloud).

Windows 11 for gaming and SuSE Tumbleweed for work and development, mostly Rust.

Only thing preventing me from gaming on SuSE is that the speakers on my Asus Strix laptop sounds godawful on Linux and the microphone is full of static crackle.

Fell in love with macOS since I started using it in elementary school. Been using macOS as my primary OS for many years now, with Windows 11 for gaming whenever I decide to game on my PC (which isn't too often) and I also have a Chromebook that I put EndeavourOS on just for fun.

NixOs everywhere except my phone. It takes about 2 hours to go from blank drive to 100% identical device when a drive fails. Can't beat it.

I used windows for years but i'm Mac now.

Mainly switched because I have an iphone, apple watch, and airpods so it just seemed to make sense.

It does hurt browsing steam now though. CONSTANTLY finding tons of games I want to play and then they're windows only. ):

used a chromebook for a while, that just sucked all around.