I just recently switched to Arch and I gotta say, the AUR is indispensible! Also really like how fast pacman is.
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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.
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Gentoo Linux. I am too particular about my system to use anything else.
Gnu guix
I like to keep things somewhat basic so I use Arch btw....
I'm using Fedora Silverblue. I can recommend it.
I used Fedora for a while but now I'm using OpenSUSE and I like it
Both great Distros. I personally prefer Fedora, though.
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.
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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
Using Arch everywhere (home, work, laptop). It's boring, but it just works.
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!
Debian testing w. KDE on the desktop, & stable on my vps
edit: oh yea username checks out
OpenSUSE, Tumbleweed on workstations (KDE) and Leap on my server.
Debian since version 7.0 always with old gnome. I try other OS, like slack or arc, and other DE but I always come back.
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).
Linux Mint with Mate DE.
Kubuntu 23.04. Eventually going to try Mint, see if it's more stable on my machine, but there isn't time just now.
I use Arch Linux with KDE Plasma myself
Debian
NixOS everywhere (except for one server which I have yet to migrate from Rocky to NixOS)
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Arch Linux everywhere. I'm curious about NixOS but I don't have the time to tinker anymore.
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.
- Arch Linux (current)
- NixOS
- Fedora
- Ubuntu
- Gentoo
- Red Hat (first)
Switched often over the last 20 years. Considering Fedora Silverblue.
Choice can be one of the huge strong suits and weak points of Linux. I know over the last 30 years I've switched distros a lot. My first was a two floppy slack distro. One for boot and one for root. There was no pretty X server on top of it lol.
These days for my personal systems I definitely like the rolling releases. Currently have endeavor OS on a few systems. But I still have debian Ubuntu or Fedora running on certain systems for specific tasks. They aren't always the most up-to-date. But they are some of the more stable and secure. And when you're serving that's typically what you want.
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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
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.)
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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.
Currently using Mint 21.1 with KDE Plasma as a DE
Linux Mint on my main PC (which still has a Windows drive on it) but I really want to get a bigger Linux SSD and I want to try out OpenSUSE Tumbleweed instead.
I also use Fedora on my laptop.
Slackware 15 on desktop, Devuan 4 on laptop, Rocky 8 on my RPI and LineageOS 18 on my phone. Slackware is really awesome.
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.
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.
Fedora on desktop, Rocky on servers except my K8s cluster which is on Fedora Coreos
Manjaro on desktop. Otherwise mostly FreeBSD.
Switched from Windows to Fedora Workstation some months ago and really happy with it workflow and feeling.
Debian (usually Sid) and Arch.
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.
SUSE
Gentoo, currently trying to install LFS
The best distribution is Fedora Silverblue KDE, I refuse to call it kinoite or any other stupid mineral name though.
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
Hi for now i'm on Debian 12 on my laptop Asus gl553vd, all is working great
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
Ubuntu for my work laptop, debian for my servers. My third choice would be arch, but I'm not using it currently.
I am currently using Alpine linux on my servers and arch linux on my laptop but I plan on switching my laptop to alpine this summer. I am currently using the sway window manager and I used awesome wm before that.