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What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?

I myself am a daily Void user. I used to use Devuan, but wanted to try rolling release and ended up loving Void!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Gentoo on most of my machines, CentOS on an internet connected server.

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

I'm using Void too! I love it.

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

\o/

How is it compared to Devuan? I have never used it but I've always been curious about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Arch and fedora

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I dual boot Silverblue/Gentoo on a workstation, and Mint on a spare machine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If I'm running it on my main machine, Arch Linux with KDE. I have 3 monitors and live to have an autohiding panel on either end of the displays. One on the far right and one on the far left. With a sys tray in the top right corner with the time as well. On my NAS I'm running Debian with open media vault and I'm running ubuntu minimal on a little odroid device with pihole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ubuntu 23.04 on home media server mini pc and on second laptop. Ended up being the most stable for my use cases and with the most sane defaults, requiring only a couple of extensions. Used Pop_OS! in the past, will switch to their desktop once it's released next year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Fedora on my desktop and laptop since a few years. Proxmox on my server, Openmediavault on my nas, Ipfire on the router, Openwrt on the access point and Debian(stable) on my virtual machines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Usually EndeavourOS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Debian (usually Sid) and Arch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Debian with KDE for my trusty X230 ThinkPad and Kubuntu for my desktop (mostly due to more up-to-date drivers for my gaming needs).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Manjaro on the workstation and Laptop, Arch on the server - with exposed BSD VM, else isolated

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I daily drive Zorin, it is a fork of Ubuntu that carries some Windows like features and has been helping me transition over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Tried various ubuntu/debian based distros in a vm on my windows laptop at first. Eventually realised I was only using Windows to run the vm so took the plunge and wiped windows, I couldn't be happier. I've rolled around a bit but for now I'm settled on arch with xmonad and I love it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I use Debian 12 with Plasma at home. I'm retired so no work computers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm currently in the middle of setting my laptop up with a dual boot into Arch (btw).

My reasoning is that it's more customizable and I can more easily know everything on my machine...

...my real reasoning is I like the logo better.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I had to move away from good old Ubuntu as it seems to get worse and worse with every new version. I have had such odd issues with even office like programs and video, I miss the time when it just seemed to work out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah I don't have time to reinvent the the wheel anymore. Anything that has ever gone wrong has been solved on Ubuntu.

I'm equally happy to run Centos on a server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I like PopOS quite a bit.

I started using it less though when I got an HDR monitor- can’t wait for that to be supported in Linux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ubuntu on my servers and as container base images.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

KDE Neon on desktop. I want to be on the latest Wayland I can for feature support (and Waydroid), without being on the bleeding edge for stability, and it checks all those boxes. Based on Ubuntu LTS, with latest Wayland and KDE software.

For my home servers I like to try out different distros. I have a thin client on openSUSE Tumbleweed running Portainer, a couple Armbian SBCs for reverse proxies, my main Unraid storage server, and a thin client running NixOS at my parents' house for backup storage and remote troubleshooting access.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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

Currently a Fedora guy, and have been for a while. Who knows if that will change tho...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just Ubuntu. I have tried plenty of others but Ubuntu just seems to tick most boxes for me.

EDIT: I am looking forward to the new Pop! when it comes out, I will surely give it a try, No idea if I will switch then though.

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