Arch Linux. Always very up-to-date and the AUR is huge. No dealing with PPAs or snaps or flatpaks or appimages. Just paru -S any-software-ever-made. Also very streamlined (systemd for everything lol) and well documented. I tried NixOS for a bit but it was very inconvenient in comparison and I felt like it was impossible to tinker with or understand if you weren't good at Haskell. Terrible documentation.

For servers it's definitely Debian + docker.

Debian. Several reasons:

• It's trustworthy.
• It's not going anywhere. Debian existed when I was a kid and it'll probably still exist when I draw my last breath.
• I know how to use it, since, once again, I've been using it since I was a kid.
• It has all the desktop environments.
• It fully supports systemd. I do not miss the unreliability, slowness, and complexity of what came before that. (Normally I wouldn't mention this, but your former distro of choice exists solely for the purpose of not having systemd, so it's relevant this time.)

arch

Fedora, because it just works and it ships recent software versions.

I also like Fedora Silverblue, and projects like ublue are very interesting in my opinion.

I use Debian with a patched version of motif window manager. The 90s never ended:

NixOS everywhere (except for one server which I have yet to migrate from Rocky to NixOS)

I was a distro hopper once, then I saw the light of NixOS...

Linux Mint with Mate DE.

I use opensuse with kde and I love it. Have been using it for 2 years now.

For server use at home I use Ubuntu Server and Alma Linux (mostly)

At work it is all RedHat.

I've been a daily fedora user for the half year. Initially I started off with ElementaryOS but it was so filled with bugs, and glitches, so it didnt last for more than a couple of months. While the fedora experience is way more streamlined.

Ubuntu for life. Unpopular opinion i know, please don't stone.

I have a few dozen computers and most run Pop!_OS.

Linux Mint. Nothing beats your computer just working when you have shit to get done.

Using Arch everywhere (home, work, laptop). It's boring, but it just works.

OpenSUSE, Tumbleweed on workstations (KDE) and Leap on my server.

Kubuntu for me. Ive been an on again off again user of either Ubuntu or kubuntu for over a decade now, but that might have to change here soon. The integration of snap is driving me insane, so I've been looking into arch distros recently

NixOS. Declarative config with opt-in state is awesome.

I use Arch Linux with KDE Plasma myself

I used to use Debian but after switching to Fedora Silverblue two years ago I've had zero urge to distrohop. I love that it allows me to tinker without breaking my system (which I used to do with Debian).

Mint with Cinnamon is my daily driver on my desktop and laptop for almost 3 years now. I ran a company for a while using Linux and managed to find everything I needed for software to run administration. It was great. I still have a windows tablet for troubleshooting and equipment specific requests, but I always feel weird logging into it.

Arch on everything, including servers. It's just so easy to install everything via the AUR & configure everything easily. Plus the wiki is amazing. Although it is a pain to setup sometimes

At work we are mostly Rhel, so then at home I have some Rocky VMs and main system is Fedora. I used to run Arch, but then got lazy…

Garuuuuuda. Love it. Been running it for the past few years. The devs come off as assholes, but they're actually just German;)

I used to use Void as my main distro, but then the developer drama made me shy away from it (keep in mind, this was like forever ago and I haven’t looked at Void at all since). After that I floated around trying everything, from Gentoo to the BSDs (I know, not Linux). Nowadays I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I got tired of doing everything manually and OpenSUSE just makes everything so much easier to use, IMO.

Fedora on the desktop. I got my start on Red Hat Linux so I've stuck with it since.

For servers I use Debian. Lightweight, widely used, and gets the job done.

Arch Linux everywhere. I'm curious about NixOS but I don't have the time to tinker anymore.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my laptop, Debian on my server and SteamOS on the Steam Deck.

I'm currently using a mix of Arch and Fedora, but I've been starting to look in to NixOS.

I'm a opensuse tumbleweed user on my desktop and laptop. I also have an ubuntu home server.

I really like tumbleweed, but I have been thinking of switching to an immutable distro like guix or nix. I've tried guix several times and found it pretty good, but never stick with it due to its lack of KDE plasma support. Maybe I should give nix a try.

Guix. It's awesome to know exactly what I have installed and be able to replicate it on other machines.

Mostly NixOS unstable. I have one machine still on Arch, but i plan to switch that to NixOS too.

Currently... Slackware on main laptop. Slint (Slackware-based) on mini-pc. MX Linux (fvwm respin), Void, and OpenBSD on old laptop. NsCDE is desktop on all except MX.

Gnu guix

Does SteamOS count? My steam deck is my current “Linux” machine.

Linux Mint, it just works

Debian

Endeavour OS. Been on it nearly for two years now.

Mainly running Gentoo, on my desktop, laptop, and even my desktop at work. Though my homelab is mainly Debian, with a small number of AlmaLinux nodes as well.

At work it's almost all RHEL though, since support contracts are nice.

I use NixOS for everything. I have a Nix flake that defines my systems (two VPS, a desktop, a laptop and a little home server) and I can modularize the config snippets that apply to the machines so I can effortlessly reuse them. Add to that the atomic updates and reliable rollback and there you have it.

Servers: Debian Stable no DE

Desktop: Pop OS or Ubuntu

I've used everything from Arch and Gentoo to fedora and Ubuntu. But I found myself enjoying the stability of Debian but hating the lack of newer packages. The latter of which isnt usually a problem when it comes to single purpose servers.

SUSE

I just recently switched to Arch and I gotta say, the AUR is indispensible! Also really like how fast pacman is.

Proxmox on server with Debian VMs. Debian 12 with KDE Plasma on workstation. So basically Debian all the way.

Have used Linux Mint and Pop!_OS in the past, but the name of the latter is annoying enough to make me use something else.

Xubuntu for over ten years now. It was the first thing I landed on when in a panic that my store-bought, WinXP -preinstalled PC was failing and I couldn't afford to be without it nor replace it. Even after being so grateful for it rescuing me, it's also taught me, and worked flawlessly for all I need from my computers since.

I use NixOS on all of my servers.

Arch Linux with KDE Plasma

Had previous experience on Linux Mint way back, then Ubuntu. Had Manjaro with‌ XFCE for a couple of years before moving on to my current one.

Moving on to Arch, btw, wasn't my idea. Someone convinced me to let him have a go at converting my Manjaro installation to Arch. It was an interesting experience, but not one that we would want to go through ever again.

Fedora, I'm not a tech person by Linux user standards and I just need an OS that works

Hanna Montana Linux as my daily driver. Endeavouros for work.

Arch baybeeee 💯💯💯

Arch.

I've done a reasonable amount of distrohopping, but I always come crawling back because I've never found anything that can compete with the AUR.

Gentoo Linux. I am too particular about my system to use anything else.

Takes a lot of time to set up and get running, but once you have it running it's rock solid.

Been using NixOS for a couple months. It’s gotten easier to configure and change because of it, and new computers are super easy to setup because I can just change/apply the config and system wide changes will apply with one command!

I use primarily Fedora for desktop/dual boot and minimal Rocky for server. I mess with Arch and Manjaro when I'm feeling adventurous.

Just created that account on https://iusearchlinux.fyi/

Debian is the best

Been on Gentoo for a long time. My current image has been rolling forward since 2008 which is when I switched to 64 bit but I started using it long before that.

I value transparency, control and customizability. I occasionally look into other options (and use them at work and in other contexts) but haven't yet found a better fit for my personal preferences.

Debian testing w. KDE on the desktop, & stable on my vps

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xubuntu. when this install gets too messy i'm probably going to try the minimal edition and install my old openbox or awesome wm configs.

I've used Mint since I started using Linux, and never had any major issues. I've therefore just stuck with it. I don't always have the time to tinker with my machine if something should break, and Mint usually just works when I need it, while still providing flexibility when I want it (and Timeshift to fix it when I break stuff)

I like to keep things somewhat basic so I use Arch btw....

Pop_OS on both laptop and desktop, since it has integrated nvidia graphic drivers and handles them without too much hassle. Before switching to Pop_OS I used to use Fedora for many years.

After some hopping, I've been settled on Fedora KDE spin for a while because it just works for me.

My laptop is on Manjaro and has been running flawlessly for years ...such a great experience with gnome 40+

My desktop is also on Manjaro, and things could not be more different. No Wayland, no animations in the gnome desktop, visual glitches since the last update ...guess it doesn't play well with Nvidia drivers. Anyone managing something decent with gnome+Nvidia?

I'm using Fedora Silverblue. I can recommend it.

Debain - cuz my production VMs need to run all day, every day.

Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Arch. :) I need to learn NixOs or something that is immutable / reproducible at some point.

Manjaro. I am a guy of habits, so I never really distro-hopped, I once tried to install Arch and failed to configure everything so I tried endeavour and failed too (which would mean I am not a tech guy either ;). Ultimately, I'd say that the distribution does not matters much once you are used to it, you can always get what you want from any of them. The only thing I really like in comparison with others is pacman :)

I use Pop OS! on my daily computer and laptop and Ubuntu on my home server

Arch, nothing beats the availability and ease of installing packages from the AUR

I've hopped distros in the past, chasing the holy grail of "optimization". Turned out I never noticed much difference with using plain Ubuntu. So I'm using that now for years. It works. Lots of people use it, so if I run in a problem, probably someone else already found the solution. And you can alwsys consult the arch wiki to solve Ubuntu problems... 😉

openSUSE Tumbleweed, it just works for me.

Fedora, for the “It Just Works”™ experience of an enterprise-supported distro.

I've been using Fedora with Cinnamon almost exclusively for more than 10 years.

Alpine is honestly my go to

Fedora on an old laptop, piOS on a pi2 and Ubuntu on my newer laptop although I'm planning to change it to Fedora too..after 12 years of Ubuntu and 4 release upgrades in a row my system seems kinda broken and my apt is definetly broken with many sources.list entries that didn't upgrade well.. I don't like having dozens of loopback entries when I do a fdisk command ..it's annoying and looks like it's because of snaps ..also I get every day to update something in snap store but it fails every single time ...so maybe I'll go by Fedora next..Planning to use the new Debian Bookworm to set a server with this old desktop I getting from a friend to self host some services

A couple of them. At home my main distro for desktop and laptop is openSUSE Tumbleweed. I like it the most since it is a rolling release (with fresh and up-to-date software versions) and they actually have some CI/testing setup so they do some basic tests of packages before releasing them and it is thus one of the most stable rolling release distros. On top of that they also ahve a system setup so that a BTRFS snapshot is done before and after each update automatically and a GRUB boot entry is added. In this case if something would go wrong with the update you can always boot back into old system before the update. Also they have one of the best KDE Plasma integrations.

In addition to this I also use SteamOS (Arch-based) on the Steam Deck, PopOS on my work laptop (would use Kubuntu but that is what they forced us to standardise on), and one machine I have is still running Gentoo. All are runnign with KDE Plasma as a desktop.

I'm a basic bitch. Ubuntu LTS. Just works, no hassle, lots of support.

Currently i'm on Arch. Mostly because it's the easiest option for me to get a Plasma Desktop that's up to date. KDE moves so fast nowadays, that i want to be on the edge.

Right now I'm using PopOs but I'll switch to Opensuse Leap or Fedora. I hope they don't give me any trouble with the Nvidia drivers

I run PopOS on my laptop. It's been really solid, except Linux doesn't support the speaker amp so I can only get sound out via the headphone jack or bluetooth.

Some may call me basic but I always come back to Linux mint. I always try new distros but mint just works for me without issues.

Next distro I will try is pop os

Debian

Pop!_OS. I have always loved System76 and have one of their laptops, as well as an HP Dev One that I use as a daily driver. The convenience and tiling system of the DE is the simplest I've used so far and works perfectly. I used to run Arch but I just don't want to deal with it anymore, honestly.

Switched around in the past but been on Debian with KDE for the past year or so

I tend to use Ubuntu most of the time - because I am familiar with it. Then again I have been using Linux for over 25 years and am a professional Linux Admin - so I am familiar with most of them!

Fedora. Used to use Arch but it broke and I moved to Fedora, it's a way more polished experience. I like how Fedora is stable but not "stale" like Debian. Want to try Fedora Silverblue as well.

I used to use Arch but recently switched to Fedora. I need stability now.

Arch on everything.

NixOS. Declarative reproducible immutable systems are the future.

I started using Linux in October 2020 with Manjaro KDE (not including trying out nearly every major beginner-friendly distro in VMs before installing it on bare metal), then I moved to EndeavourOS - still with KDE - in July 2021 and am still on that same install.

arch

Using Garuda (basically just Arch with some bloat) because I'm 1) too lazy to install Arch myself and 2) on an Nvidia card and Wayland WMs still seem buggy for me. Once (if ever) Wayland is stable on Nvidia I'll probably look for an alternative

Manjaro KDE for last few years

Kubuntu, not much configuration and pretty accessible for me !

I've felt in love woth Debian the moment I used it for the first time

fedora and void :D fedora mostly because my work uses centos so the muscle memory is already there for almost everything. void because it is cool and fast 💙

I'm using Manjaro but I feel that people are constantly moving away from Manjaro...

Been on Linux Mint Cinnamon for at least a decade. I love Cinnamon; most don't take the time to understand how to customize it, and it's not hard. Mint removes all of Canonical's bullshit in Ubuntu and it just works.

Linux Mint for desktops/laptops (Cinnamon if the hardware can handle it, MATE if it's a bit long in the tooth), and Debian for servers.

I've used several distros (yes, even Arch btw) through the years but I just keep finding myself coming back to the Debian-based ones. I guess I just feel most at-home with the way it has things set up, or something.

Kubuntu mainly and Mint

Switch from Windows to Fedora as my daily driver and for some gaming. Works flawlessly and I love every parts of it. Linux has such cool distros and communities

I distro hop a lot. After using Majaro (gnome) for a long time I switched to Pop_OS for a long time. I switched back to Manjaro (Gnome) again, but after a week of use I've just downloaded Ubuntu.

I'm getting basic display issues that I've never got in another distro (including tails!) and it's generally annoying me. I'd rather use a distro that doesn't require troubleshooting on Day 1

I started with Kubuntu, then hopped to EndeavourOS and then moved to Fedora KDE. I've been using Fedora KDE since F36 released and have been quite happy with it.

I am using Arch Linux for more than 10 years.

KDE Neon. I actually love it as a daily driver. It’s stable and familiar and I think it feels quite polished for regular casual use.

Been really enjoying fedora KDE spins, specifically kinote now, was garuda before that, but fedora has been so stable that I haven't needed to switch. Really tempted to point to ublue and try my hand at really using image based distros more fully.

These days I mostly use Manjaro, though I've been thinking of giving the Suse rolling release a try.

Pop_OS on the desktop. Still haven't found the fortitude to change the OS on the Asus laptop.

I switched from Windows 10 to Nobara last month when I built my new PC! I used Ubuntu back in 2012-2013 but I ended up switching back to Windows. Now that I'm much older my priorities have changed and with the big push for Linux gaming in recent years it seemed like a no-brainer to me. I always enjoyed the tinkering back in the day and now I feel at home.

Main System 76 Wild Dog Pro desktop - always on: Pop_OS 22.04 LTS

Secondary (underpowered) desktop - always on: Fedora 38

Secondary System 76 Meerkat desktop: Pop_OS 22.04 LTS

Lenovo Carbon x1 laptop: Fedora 38

Cloud web servers (60+): transitioning from CentOS 7.x to Ubuntu

Only used Linux for a couple of months and use Fedora currently. Been through a fair few distros, but think Im gonna stick with Fedora for a while.

I personally use Pop OS just because it has so many of the settings I like out of the box. I started out on Ubuntu, but one day I felt like a change but I couldn't get into other distros for one reason or another. Pop OS was similar enough to what I liked, but also different enough to be fresh for me.

After using different distros for more than 10 years, I reached a never imagined level of not caring anymore. Nowadays, I use any of them, and it's fine. I don't even care to change the wallpaper or tweak most settings anymore.

For the record, I'm using fedora on my main rig, mx linux on my low-end laptop, and armbian on my orange pi board.

Fedora. I started my Linux journey 1 year ago with Pop!_OS, then switched to Endeavor OS, an Arch based distro for beginners because I felt limited due to the Ubuntu/Debian base. I liked Endeavor, but it was too easy to break and I had to reinstall it several times. Ichoese Fedora due to its stability while maintaing up-to-date packages. Fedora has been a great experience for a long time.

Pop!_OS on my System76 laptop. Debian|Ubuntu on my VMs. If I add a desktop environment, it's typically KDE. I have a soft spot for XFCE though.

EndeavourOS on my desktop, Red Hat and Ubuntu on servers(at work).

I came back to stay on Fedora and so far I'm really liking it haven't changed for ages. I came from endeavour OS because eventually some updates just broke the system which is why I switched to it in the first place from Manjaro. the only trouble I had was reinstalling nvidia graphic driver after an upgrade from 37 to 38 but I got sorted eventually.

Right now i am using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. But i am experimenting with NixOS as well. Bdw first comment on lemmy!

My initial Linux years ago was RedHat, then Fedora. Since then I’ve generally used Ubuntu mainline with a healthy pile of Gnome customization. Right now I’m looking at Kubuntu or KDE Neon, since I’m finding I prefer KDE Plasma to Gnome.

I’ve gone from Pop!_OS to Mint, but I always come back to EndevourOS with KDE. I just can’t quit that distro.

openSUSE Tumbleweed with Plasma. It's the perfect combination!

Debian stable on everything

I run Lubuntu on my main laptop, Xubuntu on my wife's; she had no preference when we were setting it up, so I figured it would be a good test, she can compare using hers vs mine. She still has no preference; oh well, I tried.

Debian on my linode and local server. Some godforsaken Debian spinoff on my Rock64, which is pretty much exclusively an SMB/NFS server.

Oh, and the Windows 7 laptop, chugging along running a few services, mostly through inertia. We don't talk about Windows.

Pop!_OS on both my main machine and my laptop. Endeavour OS and Fedora, too. /e/OS on my phone (I don't know if that counts, it's based on Lineage OS)

No matter what I do I always end up back at Fedora, Silverblue specifically for the last several releases, fits my desire for an OS that gets out of my way and just lets me do what I need to do.

Debian, for ultimate stability, Fedora for every day, and Arch for my project box.

Linux Mint for desktops because even as an experienced Linux user, I want a system that has a good balance been stability and having the latest packages. Plus Cinnamon is awesome.

For servers it is 100% Debian and always has been.

#BTW I USE ARCH

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

I have two machines for different purposes - the desktop is the one that other people use that I'm not allowed to break, so that one just dual boots PopOS and Windows 10.

The laptop is my own tinkering machine, so that one is Arch and KDE, perpetually in various states of disarray.

Desktop: Ubuntu, mainly because that's what we support at work

Servers: Debian/Proxmox

Fedora on my personal lenovo laptop, „It just works“

Mostly Gentoo with a sprinkle of Arch and Debian. It used to be Ubuntu, then Arch, but Gentoo has opened up so much for me - I just cannot go back to a binary distro.

At this point most issues I run into at work where it's not Gentoo - I just nod and smile, and wish we had switched to it already. And then proceed finding a workaround because that's the best Ubuntu and the likes can offer.

I use Crystal Linux (Arch-based) on my computers, Debian on my servers.

I use mint, but I run i3-gaps on it

I want things to be up to date, stable, and customisable. Oh and not have the crap Ubuntu tries to shove down my throat these days.

Fedora because it just works

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.

Manjaro GNOME on my desktop. Still looking into what to install onto my work notebook when I get the new one.

I've really been enjoying CachyOS on the desktop, seems it's got the performance tweaks for gaming but without the bloat like in Garuda. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with Gnome for the laptop. I thought I didn't like Gnome but it's a breeze with a trackpad

I use kubuntu for work. At home I have a mix of centos 7 and ubtunu server.

I use Lubuntu 22.04 on my old laptop from 2009. It still shows it's age while surfing the web, but it's surprisingly snappy and usable otherwise.

Currently I use Fedora KDE spin because it fully suits me out of the box and while it's packages are not bleeding edge, they are still relatively fresh. I had some stability problems with Void when I used it on my primary machine last time, so this was the only reason to switch to Fedora. I used Void for many years, and nowadays if I get some poor hardware (like old laptops or PC's) I prefer to install Void. Can't say if it any lighter than Fedora, but for me tinkering with Void is much more enjoyable

I'm an arch boi through and through

Gentoo, currently trying to install LFS

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.

Ubuntu 20.04 with GNOME. As a non technical user it works great. I made tge switch from windows at the beginning of 2023 and not looking back. When I distrohop it will probably be Debian but that will require time I currently don't have.

I use Arch Linux on my laptop and debian on my desktop. I'm currently working towards setting up a server on my desktop, just need to figure out where to start and what I want in it. I personally love Arch for it's repos as it's all there at my fingertips if I want to download them.

In terms of DE/WM I use qtile on arch and cinnamon on debian. I don't know what I'd do without qtile lol not sure if I'd ever switch it as my main WM.

Long time Kubuntu user.

I seem to keep coming back to Arch and/or Manjaro.

I use Ubuntu latest LTS for all my servers

I'm a forever Linux noob currently using Q4OS (Debian-based with TDE/KDE) because it is for a toaster with a small storage and I'm used to Windows.

I use Manjaro, but I run it like vanilla Arch (for example pacman/yay and not pamac). I find this to be a sweet spot for me - rolling releases are so incredibly nice, and Manjaro being slightly slower than Arch is good from a stability standpoint in my experience.

I use ZFS all over the place, including the root storage pool on my home server, which has overall been a great experience with systemd-boot.

@owatnext
I'm a debian user primarily; I occasionally mess around with other distros in VM's on my Proxmox server, but I'm always drawn back to debian when I need a solid and dependable base distro.
@linux

These days I'm basic and I use Ubuntu.

I’ve dabbled in Linux more recently and set up some VMs to see what I like. I’ve settled on arch with Gnome

I was a longtime Arch user 10+ years up until recently when I decided to give Void Linux a shot. In hindsight I wish that I'd made the switch earlier as I love it !

Just plain old netinst installed Debian with XFCE. It just works.

I'm using Mageia at home.
I like its stability, and ease to do almost anything with CCM.

Also Raspbian on a raspberry.

I have been using Fedora for two years now.
Before that I used Pop_OS! for a short time, but I didn't like it that much.
Vanilla Gnome was more to my liking.

Archlinux for about 8 years now. Before that I used Ubuntu. Before that I used Gentoo. And before that was Debian, back in the dark ages when I installed Linux from several floppies.

Along the way I tried a few others, too, but never really stuck with them.

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

I'm pretty vanilla. I use fedora for desktop and debian for servers.

EndeavourOS (arch based) with i3 on my desktop, mainly for the AUR and not needing to worry about OS versions because everything is rolling release. Fedora for work the match our servers, and honestly it's probably like my second choice for home anyway just cause of the stability.

I just use i3 everywhere because tbh what pc isn't made better with vi shortcuts as part of the desktop environment....

I run pop os. But I can see myself moving to something non-ubuntu in the future. For server stuff I'm most familiar with Debian/RedHat.

• Debian: home laptop, home PC, work PC
• Ubuntu Server: at work (servers)
• Rocky Linux: at work (servers)

Arch on the desktop.

I'm using my laptop to try out some distro just because i don't use it very much so i don't have to reconfigure a lot of stuff.

I've been using Arch for years, but NixOS may be in my near future.

Debian and really only Debian… I distro hopped a lot when I was first messing with Linux in the late 00s, settled on Arch for a little while when I was daily driving Linux, but finally just landed on Debian for all my server needs. It’s stable, reliable and the upgrade path is pretty simple. Rolling release is cool and all, but Debian’s upgrade process is just as easy too.

Pop!_OS because Im a normie lmao

Nixos, mostly because I wanted to have configuration manage for my laptop and VPSs, and it solves that and the problem of configuration (installed apps etc. in my case) drifting. Also nix as a whole idea is cool, but I figured that out later.

Fedora Silverblue (I made the final switch from Tumbleweed when I discovered that flatpak mpv also has vaapi and the steam and lutris flatpaks work flawlessly)

I personally use NixOS (unstable) on my PC and openSUSE Tumbleweed on my laptop (didn't have time to switch it to NixOS).

I also use NixOS on my Pi 4

I use Fedora Kinoite for my non-nvidia laptop, and uBlue's nvidia Kinoite image for my desktop. I switched after I got my Steam Deck and found I just really liked the idea of an immutable OS with KDE.

I guess that also means I use SteamOS 3 too!

Back on Mint (Ubuntu base) again. It took me being forcibly reminded that Red Hat shouldn't be trusted, unfortunately. Anyone have any other ideas for distros that's recent but not bleeding edge? Unfortunately, I have an Nvidia card, so Tumbleweed is probably out.

Now I am using fedora, before that I used debian stable.

@owatnext At the moment Ubuntu 23.04. But I am planning to hop to Linux Mint or Fedora in order to check them.

Have been using Fedora for a year now. Had used Pop OS for about 6months before that.

Alpine Linux with I3WM

With Debian 12 being out, I'm back to Debian and for good this time. We got the last plasma 5 and the inclusion of nonfree firmware on theisoo makes it easier to install. After all these years, Debian still feels like home.

Fedora on my desktop, Alpine on cloud servers, Debian on my Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu for work. Also messing around with Arch, Debian, and PeppermintOS on some older boxes.

I’m seriously considering partitioning the old MacBook and dual-booting into a new distro, but I’ll need to look up the process again, and it’s been quite a while. That is part of the fun, though…

I've been using fedora for the past couple months, seems to be keeping me from distrohopping

I personally use Fedora. It just works and is that perfect middle ground between Debian and Arch.

That and I just like gnome. Simple, intuitive, and doesn't distract me which helps keep my ADHD at bay.

I use EndeavourOS with Hyprland on my laptop but I am considering trying VanillaOS (once they move to Debian base). On desktop I have Ubuntu 20.04 and EndeavourOS (both on Gnome)

OpenSuse Tumbleweed. I tried so many others, and I really wanted to like Arch and the Arch-based distros, but they just weren't for me.

Honestly, I've been trying to jump ship. Suse has some things I would like improved, but I still want that stable rolling release. So I might just be joining you there on Void. My main concern with void for some reason has always been the package manager, but considering Flatpaks are fully matured now and apx is available if I really need it, I don't have much of an excuse other than the fact that I need to do some testing first.

Arch Linux with GNOME on my primary desktop. Fedora for other desktop. Rocky Linux on servers.

Hi for now i'm on Debian 12 on my laptop Asus gl553vd, all is working great

Void Linux as well here. Actually keep using it because I maintain some packages there.

Mint. Mint has largely continued to be good for me and if I build another desktop myself I'll probably put Mint in again. That said I've heard good things about PopOS, and if I end up buying direct from System76 I might stick with that.

Usually EndeavourOS

Currently using Nobara OS and Vanilla OS. I really like Nobara because Fedora is a well supported OS (Thanks RHEL) and Nobara made setting up fedora really easy on my AMD CPU/ Nvida GPU. The only other ones which I liked as far as the out-of-the-box experience was: Endeavor OS for Arch-based and Zorin OS for Ubuntu-based. I appreciate Vanilla OS, and while they are pitching it as something for beginners; it is absolutely not. You need to understand at a basic level the relationship between containers and the host system, apx is a beautiful piece of software which makes containers incredibly easy to use, but you still need have a basic understanding. You also need to know when to interface with the host system, e.g installing gnome-tweaks. You also need to know when the default Ubuntu container isn't the best container to use. That said, the transaction system for manipulating the two root directories and most software being siloed off in containers ensures that the shitty laptop I am using hasn't ran into the many issues I have had in the past with it breaking updates randomly.

Arch with Cinnamon DE and I use flatpak and not the AUR.

Moved from Arch to Nix and loving it!

openSUSE Tumbleweed. It seems to work most of the time.

Mint and LMDE just cause I think they are neat

I've been mostly using Ubuntu and it's been working mostly well but I do want to switch at some point. I've tried Porteus but I've tried it on two different computers and I couldn't get the WiFi adapter to work on either of them. I know why it's not working on one of the computers but the WiFi adapter in the other one works just fine with Ubuntu so I have no Idea why it's not working.

I've got my eye on some other distros that I want to try but I haven't had the time or the desire to try them yet.

Arch, Debian, NixOS, Fedora Silverblue, Raspbian, GrapheneOS[Android]

Debian on all of my servers.

I've had Fedora on my Framework laptop for the last year and have really enjoyed the out-of-the-box usability. I think the only troubleshooting I've had to do over that year is some weird issues with CUPS.

I'd love to check out Void one of these days, though, or switch back over to Arch, which was my primary for a few years before Fedora. As an aging dude, distro-hopping isn't quite as exciting as it was 10-15 years ago when I had more time and energy to play around.

Manjaro for the best 🥰

Pop_OS. I picked it because someone called it the "zoomer OS" lmao.

The best distribution is Fedora Silverblue KDE, I refuse to call it kinoite or any other stupid mineral name though.

Fedora, ofc. KDE spin in my case. Stable, up to date, no nonsense and well supported, fits well for both my work and personal needs.

I'm on Endeavour right now. I just got a Thinkpad E15 G4 specifically so I could have a Linux PC, as I'm regrettably running Win11 on my tower PC w/RTX GPU because of how many games I (and more significantly my children) play that either don't work or don't work as well on Linux.

I start with Mandrake in 2002, then Ubuntu from 2005-2013, and have been on Arch pretty exclusively since 2017 aside from some random distro-hopping for fun. I was gonna run it on here, but I just didn't feel like going through the installation process today, so I said screw it and threw on Endeavour, and honestly it's really nice having a fairly vanilla Arch experience without having to figure out my network manager, and starting every little thing from scratch and all that. Think I'll probably stick with it ❤️

Fedora, it has fairly new software, it doesn't break and it's big enough to have a lot of distro specific support. The only thing that bothers me is that dnf is a slow ass package manager.

I use EndeavourOS with Hyprland. I once use LinuxMint for a long time though, I love their stability and sane default but I just found Hyprland to be a perfecr DE for me. Alas Debian based distro currently unable to install Hyprland due to library and toolkit issues.

Currently using Arch (btw). I've only used linux for probably about 8 months and my first distro was Nobara & then Endeavour.

Endeavour w/ i3 is my desktop daily driver as of a few months ago. Switched from Kubuntu, but have been using i3 on top of it for several years now.

PopOS on my laptop.

NixOS on everything but my Steam Deck which is running SteamOS.

I use mint cinnamon edition on my main pc and chrome os on my garbage chromebook

I have been using Artix Linux for many years now. On laptops I prefer to use either Fedora or PopOs!

I use Debian for my docker servers. I try to use it on the desktop. Was using pop-os, games kept crashing, replace with arch? Archinstall wouldn’t work. Back to windows I guess. Maybe I should try Debian on the desktop since it’s the only one I ever get working properly.

MX Linux, with XFCE. Has some tools built in that makes configuring the system so much easier. The package manager is solid with all the debian repos available, plus flatpaks. Sane DE defaults.

Does not use SystemD, but can be turned on at boot.

It is stellar. I no longer feel the need to distrohop. Yet... It has been awhile.

Also, for reason NVIDIA drivers don't load when I need to enter my encryption password, so life can be better.

I do not care about SystemD, and it seems everything would be easier if I chose a distro that uses it. I may just do that.

I have tried to like Fedora because it is excellent, but I always run into issues that annoy me. I used to adore Manjaro, but it just got worse over the years. Cannot stand it now. I just don't like Arch.

Maybe I will try Pop_OS! again.

Using Arch Linux for over 12 years now.

I absolutely adore Linux Mint, used it as my daily driver for a while; it was the distro that really sold me on Linux as a desktop OS. Recently made the switch over to Gentoo though (partly as a personal challenge, partly to get more familiar with Linux, and partly to take advantage of the flexibility that comes with literally configuring everything yourself lol).

I use Fedora Kionite. I was using Silverblue previously but Plasma 5.27 got me. I also tend to switch to Arch sometimes to play with tiling window managers.

I had to debug my Parents-In-Laws' Old laptop. Turns out it can't really run Win10 in any functional capacity.

So I first tried to get Debian 12 installed and setup. It's a bit annoying if you don't have the non-free CD as wifi will be bugged even if you have the firmwares separately. So I had to go back and get the DVD download.

My review: Honestly their user management (no usermod command installed??) and lack of sudo access from the get go is a safety risk. Users would either set a weak root password or try adding the usual sudo package back in and break security in some manner. So, Debian is not as suitable for old laptops for normal people.

So I went ahead and installed Linux Mint 21.1 XFCE. That was quite a breeze. I would not install debian on old laptops unless it's a system I will be able to manage on the daily.

My favorite are Alpine Linux and NixOS, I use Alpine Linux mainly for my home server and nixOS on my laptop. I really like the power they give you.

LTS

Currently using Fedora. I love the experience

Used to use Ubuntu for almost everything, but I switched to Arch for my desktop a few years ago, and love it. Still use Ubuntu for basically all of my servers (personal and work).

• Arch Linux on desktop and laptop
• Ubuntu on server, with containers running mostly Alpine Linux
• postmarketOS (Alpine Linux based) on mobile phone (pinephone)

Debian, I love this distro

Kubuntu on my main machine, KDE Neon on my netbook.

Was a long time Mint user, coming on ten years, but prefer KDE. Resisted leaving mint until finally a dist upgrade went utterly pear shaped (yes, I know, I had done something like 8 in place version upgrades and finally it decided enough was enough)

So moved to kubuntu on that machine

Kubuntu/Plasma on the desktop, plus the Steam Deck

Fedora KDE, it finally put an end to my distrohopping.

Manjaro on desktop (well, i3wm). Otherwise mostly FreeBSD.

No, I do not value my time.

I use openSUSE Tumbleweed with Plasma on both my desktop and laptop, I used Arch before.

Nobara on my gaming PC, I keep windows on a laptop just incase i need it for something. So far literally the only thing I needed windows for is to rip a steam skin from an installer so I could port it to Linux lol.

Fedora Kinoite. I installed it a few months ago and I'm loving it.

History as far as I remember: Mandriva -> Debian -> Sidux -> Ubuntu -> Fedora -> Kubuntu -> Fedora Kinoite

I am constantly switching back between:

• Fedora Linux, both KDE and Gnome versions.
• Arch Linux, thanks to Archinstaller. (almost only Plasma DE).
• EndeavourOS, I probably have written it wrong. I hope I won't get phished because of my goddamn illiteracy.

Fedora 38 Workstation Edition both on my laptop and desktop. I love the stability, all the up-to-date features and the general look and of GNOME. It works great for general computing, software development in VSCode/Codium and Android Studio, and gaming. Especially with one-to-one gesture on my laptop.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It works, nuff said.

I used Arch for a few years before that and got tired of dealing with Nvidia drivers. OpenSUSE has BTRFS snapshots out of the box, so if anything gets borked, I can quality roll it back. Before that was Fedora and Ubuntu.

As long as OpenSUSE keeps working, I'll probably stay.

btw I use Arch ;-)

The meme aside. I use Arch, on my laptop, desktop and my home servers. On the few VPS'ses I have running at Scaleway and Hetzner, I use Debian.

Fedora for desktop/laptop, and Debian or Ubuntu for my servers.

1. Arch Linux (current)
2. NixOS
3. Fedora
4. Ubuntu
5. Gentoo
6. Red Hat (first)

Switched often over the last 20 years. Considering Fedora Silverblue.

Recently switched from Gentoo to NixOS. Not really sure if I will not switch back but so far interesting experience. Being able to define your entire system configuration with just a few files is really cool, plus it is really nice for setting up development environments.

On my Laptop I just run arch because I find it easiest, and it is mostly multimedia laptop. Same with my home server (NAS, self-hosted stuff, VR) where I just need rolling distro with good support for gaming.

Ubuntu for my work laptop, debian for my servers. My third choice would be arch, but I'm not using it currently.

i switched to linux so that i could customise everything, so ubuntu and manjaro (the first two i used) didn’t really do anything for me. After using a macbook for a bit (still my primary laptop), I found Arch which i now daily drive and love it!

Fedora all the way. I've been using it for 6-7 years now, I simply love how it is pretty stable, while still being able to have mostly up-to-date software. And I never had any issues during versions upgrades. And I guess that I can also count SteamOS as a distribution that I use thanks to my Steam Deck.

Currently ZorinOS on my Main Machine and Arch on my Notebook, but when i have my new AMD GPU i will use Fedora.

I'm currently using Linux Mint on my desktops and Debian for my servers.

I'm currently running Mint on my Computer and Ubuntu on servers.

I mainly use Linux for my job (instead of a daily driver), where I'm primarily running Kali and Ubuntu.
I've also got a Steam Deck, though, so I believe I'm contractually obligated to tell everyone I'm running Arch.

Switched from Windows to Fedora Workstation some months ago and really happy with it workflow and feeling.

I have a proxmox server at home running a Kali and Debian distro atm!

Garuda Linux. It's Just Works (TM).

I have been running Gentoo on my desktop since uni(In dual-boot with the popular game loader from Redmond - although Proton is getting pretty good in some cases now). At work I use Xubuntu, again, with Windows.

Arch Linux since 2012 - I even use it at work now.

With all the custom dotfiles, PKGBUILDs and package lists, I couldn't imagine switching to anything else.

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

I use Pop OS as my daily driver. It's been hectic configuring things to work at times but I'm pretty happy, I have all the games I want to play compatible with it and I don't really need any Windows apps so it works perfectly for me.

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

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.

Not for daily use but I run 3 Ubuntu servers here hosting various types of services.

NixOS!

I've switched my PC over to it after checking Nix (the package manager) out on Arch. Fell in love. It's a bit hard at the beginning, but it's worth it. Now my entire system configuration is in a GitHub repository, I can easily share it across devices, and when I fuck something up, I can just press arrow down when booting and have an older, working configuration.

Arch

I find that bugs in linux programs (and they will happen regardless of distro) are more easily tweaked in systems that do minimal modifications to upstream programs and keep them updated regularly with what the developers release

Also AUR makes it easy to install pretty much anything without having to add ppas, new repo links, etc

I'm using fedora for my main workstation at home. most of my servers are run on almalinux but I do have a few that are ubuntu and proxmox for virtualization. At work we only use and support RHEL.

debian stable on servers, sid on daily driver

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

Ubuntu or kde neon are my go to distros

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.

Ubuntu 22.04 has been quite good for me.

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'm a relative Linux noob so I've got a couple machines with Ubuntu, an old laptop with cinnamon, and an orangepi with the specific Ubuntu image for that.

Been using ubuntu for quite sometime now it just works for me. Not much setup needed and currently has most of the support of my favorite programs.

Look at my username and take a wild guess btw lol

Started on Ubuntu like most, but Arch feels like home.

Currently, mint and debian.

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

I started with Mandrake, then Xubuntu 6.06, then moved onto Debian for some years. However, a new laptop got me into trying out Ubuntu again some years ago, just to see how it progressed from 6.06, and I've stuck with it since.

I've got lazy (lazier) over the years. ;-)

I've been using Arch as a daily driver in my main PC. I have other PCs where I tried Manjaro and Arcolinux. I have also made a few VMs with Gentoo, but I don't think I'm ready to daily drive that. And lately I've been looking at Fedora, I would like to try that and see if I install it on a PC.

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)

Lubuntu. I loved Crunchbang back in the day.

After hopping around from PopOs, Debian, and EndeavourOS, I've been settled on Opensuse tumbleweed for a couple years. Have no desire to change because it does everything I want and YAST is awesome.

I've been using Manjaro and having a pretty good time. I mainly use it because I like the idea of Arch, but not the time investment needed to get everything set up how I like it. I originally moved over because I wasn't happy with Ubuntu putting ads in the terminal when updating through apt.

Arch BTW

I've used linux either as my main or secondary OS for about 18 years. Ubuntu is still the easiest to setup and get started, but in my experience becomes the least flexible over time to tweak to my liking. Arch linux does have its cons, and often requires care and time to address updates, but it is by far my favorite distro — pacman + AUR and the full control of my OS are what makes it truly feel like my own OS and computer

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...

I used Fedora for a while but now I'm using OpenSUSE and I like it

I dualbooted Mint Cinnamon + Fedora and I mainly use Mint. Fedora is mostly used as a Red Hat learning tool. I do all of my everyday stuff inside Mint.

I use Arch on my desktop and Asahi Linux on my laptop

I'm using Fedora - was using Arch for a while, but realized I didn't want to put in the work to keep up with/migrate to the newest tech (Wayland, Pipewire) but I also didn't want to fall behind. Fedora has been great at integrating new tech without me needing to pay close attention or migrate to it myself.

QubesOS

Fedora on desktop, Rocky on servers except my K8s cluster which is on Fedora Coreos

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

These days I use Linux Mint for desktops/laptops, and Ubuntu Server for servers.