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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* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fedora gnome, manjaro kde was very buggy and unstable for me

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

ParrotOS for personal, current Ubuntu LTS for business

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
  • Arch Linux on desktop and laptop
  • Ubuntu on server, with containers running mostly Alpine Linux
  • postmarketOS (Alpine Linux based) on mobile phone (pinephone)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ubuntu or Kubuntu. Long are gone the days where I used to tinker with different Linux flavors.

Fortunately, I can afford powerful enough systems so I do not have to be worried about optimizing every single aspect of the OS.

I want things just to work out of the box. I am aware that this applies to more distros than Ubuntu, but I just do not have the time and energy anymore.

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

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

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

Debian. Stable for critical stuff and unstable for everything else.

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

After using Arch for years due to the convenience of the AUR, I took the plunge and switched to NixOS. My company uses it and I thought it would be a good idea to learn as much as I could about it. I've been absolutely loving it, you basically get the stability of debian/rhel while being able to use a package repository bigger than the AUR. It's super easy to configure the system exactly how you want, which has been really useful for hosting game servers on super low powered hardware. It's easy to remove anything you don't need. It also makes configuring your applications really convenient because in most cases you can set up the package configuration in the main system configuration file, which is super helpful for syncing application configurations across systems.

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

I use Arch Linux, had to say it :)

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

My laptop is my oldest install, running Ubunutu. Started out on 14.04 and I've been updating ever since. My desktop runs Arch, although it used to be Antergos. I kinda convinced it to be Arch after Antergos died so I kept getting updates. Finally I'm currently trying Fedora on my secondary PC filled with old hardware from previous builds.

Honestly, out of these I personally like Fedora most currently. It seems to have up-to-date enough packages and seems quite stable. The AUR on Arch is a powerful thing, but it can also be quite hit or miss. While Ubuntu was fine as a first distro, I don't really like how outdated all the packages are. I've had quite a few cases where packages where more than a year out of date.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

EndeavourOS for desktops, Ubuntu for servers

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

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

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

Archlinux on all desktops and laptops, Debian on all raspis, FreeBSD on the firewall (pfsense).

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

Been using Fedora Ublue for a while now. It really just works and is up to date. Even nvidia drivers and secure boot works immediately. The updates also happen automatically and are actually just immages being downloaded and switched to by a reboot. And of courss I have a distrobox with arch for the aur

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

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

Servers: Debian/Proxmox

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

Nixos since 3-4 years. Arch Linux before that.

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

What advantages have Nixos over.. lets say arch or debian stable ?

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

I use NixOS on all of my servers.

[–] ober 1 points 2 years ago

I've been on Linux for around a year now and for most of that I've been on either Arch or Gentoo. On Arch I start to miss the features of Gentoo and it's modularity, so I switch. Then on Gentoo I start to get frustrated from my inexperience and move back to Arch. Then the cycle repeats. Personally though, I like Gentoo better, I just get lazy sometimes and move to Arch.

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

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

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

Ubuntu LTS. Started to use Linux about a couple of years ago with Debian, but felt too limited by conservative approach of that distro. Ubuntu was a natural transituon. Now contemplating a move to Fedora - don't like all the snaps pushing Ubuntu does

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

Debian is the best

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

Fedora @home ubuntu @home for my server (eventually switch to fedora server)

Ubuntu @work kinda have to stay in the debian/*buntu universe, probably test mint or popos with the next lts

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

Zorin is nice, it's got a phone app too so you can get your phone notifications on your PC and transfer your clipboards. But Bluetooth doesn't really work on Linux so I still use Windows half the time

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

Been using PopOS for my living room AMD GPU pc, and it’s been the most seamless steam machine experience I’ve had so far. Tried multiple distros on my Nvidia one, and I just had no luck, I’ll move my Nvidia pc into Linux soon for another attempt.

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

TuxedoOS, Pop!_OS, and Ubuntu (work forces me to use it 😬)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Peppermint OS for a dinky little Chromebook, that’s my daily laptop lol.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  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.

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

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.

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

My first Linux install, about 25 years ago, didn't come with a working XFree as well. Talk about getting dropped into the deep end. Things are so much easier these days. Thankfully.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just put Ubuntu on my gaming computer a month ago. it's my first time trying Linux and so far I'm enjoying it a lot. the first couple weeks were hard when I was trying to handle the weird things in my setup that didn't work right away, but now that most things are set up I can't imagine ever switching back to windows. Even just using plasma I stead of gnome feels a little weird now, like it's too windows-y lol

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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 ❤️

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