I use Ubuntu. I think it's funny how Arch users immediately assume they know more about Linux than me because of my distro choice. My hobby is learning about Linux and I can do that perfectly from my Ubuntu machine.
I've used Arch in the past, and let me tell you, nothing crazy is going on in there.
Yes, Ubuntu sucks because they are forcing Snaps on people while snaps are slow as hell. Thankfully they haven't fully shoved snaps down our throats. If they don't make snaps faster before shoving them down my throat, I'll just distro hop. Probably to Debian. I love Debian.
Arch user here. I have no idea what I'm doing. Killing Floor just crashed my graphics card or something to crash and my monitors aren't working after reboots. Oh god
They do know this is a popular myth spread around by the antiquities of debian/mint/ubuntu users who wait a few years for Arch users to locate any bugs.
I went from Ubuntu to Arch and I think I'm here to stay. Ubuntu was unstable for me for some reason. I would get freezes and crashes all the time. I feel like Canonical is making things slower and bloated but I have had pretty smooth experiences with Linux mint. On Arch I've been getting amazing uptime. But to each ones own, if you like it, who am I to judge.
One of my favorite features of arch is the aur, and because manjaro lags behind arch releases, you can run into trouble. If you want arch without the install difficulties, I would try something like endeaver os or garuda. You'll end up with actual arch in the end and you wont end up with some of outdated certs or whanever manjaro ucks up nowadays.
Mine too, but I did switch because I needed to reinstall and I would have just swiched out most of the tools that come preinstalled, to the point I didn't know why I would even use manjaro instead of arch if I'm reinstlling everything anyway...
People on the internet say to read the wiki and follow the directions but I'm a much more visual learner. If you follow this video, you should be all good if you want to use vanilla Arch. I do not have experience with Manjaro but one of my friends said he used it once and he enjoyed it. Though his cmos battery died and the OS bricked so he switched to Linux Mint. Installing arch might take around 30 min or an hour so it's not the hardest thing ever. I would recommend the archinstall script but that has never worked for me, if you can manage to use that script, setup is even easier.
I don’t get the complains about snap apps. My firefox opens near instant, even after a reboot. Maybe they fixed that with Lunar Lobster? That’s the first Ubuntu I installed on my PC since Ubuntu 9.04.
I have installed Firefox in my machine and the difference is around 3 seconds.
For me, how my system feels is pretty important. If something isn't snappy, my stress levels start to rise. So those 3 seconds do make a difference. Some people might not care at all, which is understandable.
If you don't care, use it, enjoy it. You're free to pick what matches your priorities and preferences.
I would care if it took 3s to start, after all I moved all my storage to NVMe for a reason. So I totally get why you would be annoyed with snaps, it’s just that in my experience there’s simply no noticeable startup time in 23.04, firefox opens in under a second.
So they either fixed that in LL or you can outmuscle it with hardware, and I’m genuinely just curios which one it is.
I'm inclined for the second one. It would be pretty big news if they fixed it. My hardware is not bad but it isn't great either. I usually get laptops from my workplaces so my personal laptop is kinda old.
Keep in mind that a lot of people use Linux exactly because they don't have good hardware specs.
I personally use #NixOS. The declarative nature of it is so nice.
It enables me to share common configuration between different computers while still allowing host specific differences without relying on hacky solutions like #chezmoi.
Not knocking chezmoi, it's great and I used it for years, I just prefer the home-manager module for NixOS.
I have seen a lot about Nix recently, and I must admit I’m really intrigued. I definitely want to play around with it more. Conceptually, it does sound pretty cool.
While it is definitely amazing for cluster deployments, Nix, the package manager behind the OS came out of the creators PhD thesis.
It is quite a successful attempt to make builds completely reproducible. NixOS, is what you get when you build a distro around a package manager, rather than a package manager around a distro.
I use it as my daily driver these days, and haven't had any issues with it for gaming, and due to the way its package manager works, I prefer it for development over anything else.
It is the most stable and unbreakable system I have ever used, despite using the unstable repos. It also has the most up to date repo on linux. As far as unique packages, it is a close second to the AUR, but it is catching up.
It isn't for everyone, and may be betamax to containerization when it comes to software development, but for the time being, I cannot see it going away anytime soon.
I second this. I'm a casual Linux user for hosting personal things at home. I'm not a tech professional. I use Ubuntu because I typically don't know how to do things on my own, so I need to be able to find guides.
I’ll never understand the Linux community in that aspect. We want the market share to grow but always clown on the Ubuntu users, who make up the majority of our market share. If you use Ubuntu, you’re already far ahead than OSX/Win users who complain Apple/Microsoft did a change they don’t like but still remain hostage in their ecosystem.
Exactly. I've run Linux almost exclusively for more than 20 years. I did the whole roll-my-own thing for a while. Now most of the computers I deal with regularly run mostly-stock Ubuntu.
After 19 years of Ubuntu, I have lived longer with it than without. At this point I'm pretty confident in my knowledge and ability to bend this OS to my will and have it serve nearly any purpose. If someone looked down upon you because you use Ubuntu, smile and move on.
Desktop mode is pretty essential to unlock the full potential, and I have a Windows 11 boot drive for it as well, but it's not my main machine.
Primary machine is a work laptop.
2nd use is my phone.
3rd is my tablet.
4th/5th are my PS5/XSX
6th is the Steam Deck
Literally everything else in my life...
Nintendo Switch
Linux mint is insanely user friendly, to the point where my father istalled it by himself as his first linux distro long after the first symptoms of dementia appeared and used it for years.
You can try to get away with the classic "I use Arch btw." Either they are seriously impressed and don't ask any further then, or you fucked up completely.
I tend to use whatever I consider the best one for that particular job. For example:
Desktop/gaming: I currently use Ubuntu here because of greater commercial compatibility. But I am using Pop_OS on my System76 laptop and am liking it and may switch to that next time I need to rebuild the desktop image since it is downstream from Ubuntu compatibility should not be an issue. It would save be several post install customizations.
Homelab virtual infra hosting: Proxmox. Because I wanted fancy features without having to pay for a VMWare VMUC license.
Firewall/Router: PFSense
Homelab Infra VMs: Debian Stable for what I consider "backbone" services like DNS and Ubuntu server for things like Jellyfin and my Bookstack server where I am less concerned with it being rock solid.
I used to keep a Windows VM for the rare Windows specific things I wanted/needed. But eventually I got rid of that because I never needed it anyway.
I'm really liking Pop OS! I'd still be using Ubuntu if it wasn't for Pop tbh. I've also had some fun with Elementary OS, but their hostile stance on tray icons is killing my workflow.
Ideological design bullshit shouldn't get in the way of making a good product tbh.
The Arch Dilemma. If you never update the system, it will never break. To update without breaking you have to carefully check every package update, but it's time consuming. So you either spend time productively on an outdated but working and stable system or you spend time carefully keeping up a bleeding edge updated system.
Garuda is an Arch distro that creates a system snapshot every time you upgrade. That way, if the upgrade breaks something, you can roll back to a previous, stable system.
The operating system comes pre-installed with a number of applications that monitor its users. If a user tries to disable security functions, an error message will appear on the computer, or the operating system will crash and reboot. In addition, a watermarking tool integrated into the system marks all media content with the hard drive's serial number, allowing the North Korean authorities to trace the spread of files. The system also has hidden "anti-virus" software that is capable of removing censored files that are remotely stored by the North Korean secret service.
XeroLinux. It's a nice, convenient Arch-based one with a good installer and helper app. Makes getting into Arch feel a lot more newbie-friendly. I disable the latte docker and crazier desktop effects though, I like mine more plain and fast.
My first thought with this meme was chronic distrohopping. Do I tell them what I'm using this week? Or the last distro I used for any amount of time? Do I tell them the obscure distro name or the name of the major distro it's forked off of? If I'm dual booting do I tell them the experimental OS I'm daily driving or the reliable fallback I have on my other partition?
I'd like to interject for a moment, what you are referring to as Mexico is in fact the United States of Mexico. A Federation Republic comprised of 31 free and sovereign States each with its own constitution, judiciary, and democratically election Congressional entity. The 31 individual and unique States form a Federation consisting of a bilateral Congress consisting of a Republic Senate and a Chamber of Deputies entrusted with creation of law, imposing taxes, ratifying treaties and international diplomacy. The Federal entity is further comprised of an Executive wing charged with enforcing the laws, emergency dictation and commanding the military. The third and final wing is a Judicial entity consisting of regional courts and a High Court of 11 jurist charged with interpreting any discrepancies that may between the Sovreign States or within the Law itself
Almalinux. I used to use centos on servers and fedora workstation on my desktops but have switched over to Almalinux for both. Will be interesting to see what shakes out with the whole Redhat source repo change.
Ubuntu was unstable for me on my desktop every time I tried. I always disliked Ubuntu on servers.
“Oh god, they will immediately be able to tell I am a fraud who has no idea what he’s doing when I tell them I use Ubuntu”
When I hear someone uses Mint I think "ah, they use better Ubuntu."
Either mint or pop
Ubuntu is fine and I actually am on Ubuntu after using Arch for many years
I use Ubuntu. I think it's funny how Arch users immediately assume they know more about Linux than me because of my distro choice. My hobby is learning about Linux and I can do that perfectly from my Ubuntu machine.
I've used Arch in the past, and let me tell you, nothing crazy is going on in there.
Yes, Ubuntu sucks because they are forcing Snaps on people while snaps are slow as hell. Thankfully they haven't fully shoved snaps down our throats. If they don't make snaps faster before shoving them down my throat, I'll just distro hop. Probably to Debian. I love Debian.
Arch users HAVE to know a lot because their updates break it conatantly
Honestly I've found it to be surprisingly stable, and the only time the system broke, it was my own fault.
It sounds like you have used it extensively then, because the myth is spread by people who never tried.
Arch user here. I have no idea what I'm doing. Killing Floor just crashed my graphics card or something to crash and my monitors aren't working after reboots. Oh god
They do know this is a popular myth spread around by the antiquities of debian/mint/ubuntu users who wait a few years for Arch users to locate any bugs.
I went from Ubuntu to Arch and I think I'm here to stay. Ubuntu was unstable for me for some reason. I would get freezes and crashes all the time. I feel like Canonical is making things slower and bloated but I have had pretty smooth experiences with Linux mint. On Arch I've been getting amazing uptime. But to each ones own, if you like it, who am I to judge.
I'm considering leaving Ubuntu. I'm currently looking at Manjaro because I don't think I have enough time to invest in learning arch. Any tips?
One of my favorite features of arch is the aur, and because manjaro lags behind arch releases, you can run into trouble. If you want arch without the install difficulties, I would try something like endeaver os or garuda. You'll end up with actual arch in the end and you wont end up with some of outdated certs or whanever manjaro ucks up nowadays.
While you're absolutely correct, in my personal experience Manjaro has been perfectly stable even with somewhat heavy use of the AUR.
Mine too, but I did switch because I needed to reinstall and I would have just swiched out most of the tools that come preinstalled, to the point I didn't know why I would even use manjaro instead of arch if I'm reinstlling everything anyway...
Yeah that sounds good to me - this is my work computer and I can't afford it to break or to spend even half an hour of the day fixing something
People on the internet say to read the wiki and follow the directions but I'm a much more visual learner. If you follow this video, you should be all good if you want to use vanilla Arch. I do not have experience with Manjaro but one of my friends said he used it once and he enjoyed it. Though his cmos battery died and the OS bricked so he switched to Linux Mint. Installing arch might take around 30 min or an hour so it's not the hardest thing ever. I would recommend the archinstall script but that has never worked for me, if you can manage to use that script, setup is even easier.
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https://github.com/arindas/manjarno read this before you move
Manjaro had a lot of dark history in past. Just use fedora workstation and chill.
I don’t get the complains about snap apps. My firefox opens near instant, even after a reboot. Maybe they fixed that with Lunar Lobster? That’s the first Ubuntu I installed on my PC since Ubuntu 9.04.
I have installed Firefox in my machine and the difference is around 3 seconds.
For me, how my system feels is pretty important. If something isn't snappy, my stress levels start to rise. So those 3 seconds do make a difference. Some people might not care at all, which is understandable.
If you don't care, use it, enjoy it. You're free to pick what matches your priorities and preferences.
I would care if it took 3s to start, after all I moved all my storage to NVMe for a reason. So I totally get why you would be annoyed with snaps, it’s just that in my experience there’s simply no noticeable startup time in 23.04, firefox opens in under a second. So they either fixed that in LL or you can outmuscle it with hardware, and I’m genuinely just curios which one it is.
I'm inclined for the second one. It would be pretty big news if they fixed it. My hardware is not bad but it isn't great either. I usually get laptops from my workplaces so my personal laptop is kinda old.
Keep in mind that a lot of people use Linux exactly because they don't have good hardware specs.
@Snickers @pazukaza
It used to be slow to start. I think I heard >5 seconds, but I don't have any first hand experience.
Isn't Arch a lot of manual compilation? Like I do that shit for work, I don't want to do it in my free-time too.
No, Arch has recompiled packages. Maybe you think of Gentoo?
Even then it's not "manual compilation", it's all automated.
Ah, I'm probably thinking of Gentoo, yes.
manual compilation aka >compile this like-this
22.04 LTS gang
Honestly, it’s kinda my default general purpose linux distro at this point. Set it up bare bones and headless, rip out
snap, and do what you want.@gravitas_deficiency @alcasa
I personally use #NixOS. The declarative nature of it is so nice.
It enables me to share common configuration between different computers while still allowing host specific differences without relying on hacky solutions like #chezmoi.
Not knocking chezmoi, it's great and I used it for years, I just prefer the home-manager module for NixOS.
I have seen a lot about Nix recently, and I must admit I’m really intrigued. I definitely want to play around with it more. Conceptually, it does sound pretty cool.
@gravitas_deficiency
I like it, but don't expect it to save you any time unless your managing 3+ computers.
Yeah, it definitely seems aimed way more at cluster deployments. Still, a very cool concept to tailor the OS towards.
@gravitas_deficiency
While it is definitely amazing for cluster deployments, Nix, the package manager behind the OS came out of the creators PhD thesis.
It is quite a successful attempt to make builds completely reproducible. NixOS, is what you get when you build a distro around a package manager, rather than a package manager around a distro.
I use it as my daily driver these days, and haven't had any issues with it for gaming, and due to the way its package manager works, I prefer it for development over anything else.
It is the most stable and unbreakable system I have ever used, despite using the unstable repos. It also has the most up to date repo on linux. As far as unique packages, it is a close second to the AUR, but it is catching up.
It isn't for everyone, and may be betamax to containerization when it comes to software development, but for the time being, I cannot see it going away anytime soon.
22.04 is fucking spectacular. Now that it's got 10 years of free support.... I don't know what I'm gonna do.
I moved to simpler distros after years of using Arch and derivatives.. I just can't be arsed any more.
Someone should make that bell curve meme where on the extremes they say "(i) use ubuntu", while mid is arch 'n stuff.
I rolled Debian for a long time, but now use Ubuntu as there’s a lot more online guides on how to do stuff in Ubuntu than in any other distro (IME)
I second this. I'm a casual Linux user for hosting personal things at home. I'm not a tech professional. I use Ubuntu because I typically don't know how to do things on my own, so I need to be able to find guides.
I’ll never understand the Linux community in that aspect. We want the market share to grow but always clown on the Ubuntu users, who make up the majority of our market share. If you use Ubuntu, you’re already far ahead than OSX/Win users who complain Apple/Microsoft did a change they don’t like but still remain hostage in their ecosystem.
Nothing wrong with that! I've been using linux for nearly a decade, and after your distro hopping phase, most people settle into something like ubuntu
Exactly. I've run Linux almost exclusively for more than 20 years. I did the whole roll-my-own thing for a while. Now most of the computers I deal with regularly run mostly-stock Ubuntu.
After 19 years of Ubuntu, I have lived longer with it than without. At this point I'm pretty confident in my knowledge and ability to bend this OS to my will and have it serve nearly any purpose. If someone looked down upon you because you use Ubuntu, smile and move on.
Long live Debian and the BDFL!
On WSL
"Steam Deck now leave me alone"
(cue DING sound and image of Arch installer)
AAAH!
(cue another DING sound with "Akira" echoing and an image of GNOME 3 desktop)
AAAAAAAAH!
Definitely not Arch then?
I use Arch, btw
Let me 1 up you... Artix BTW (with s6 init)
Cool, I use gentoo.
of course the true and only "hannah montana linux"
https://linuxreviews.org/Hannah_Montana_Linux
So what is your distro? ;)
Some weather we're having, eh?
Yeah totally, makes me want to discuss init systems for some reason.
By the way, which init is your favorite?
When you use BSD.
"OpenRC lad"
....git init?
Does making everything load in docker containers count?
@567PrimeMover @rustydrd @ricdeh
I personally really liked #openrc when I used #gentoo.
These days I use #nixos, so I am stuck on #systemd.
I like working with openrc more than systemd, but with nixos, I never have to really mess with it at all really.
struggles to not break eye-contact to "sudo pacman -Syu"
Steam Deck. ;)
Heck yes!
Do you use it as a computer too?
Desktop mode is pretty essential to unlock the full potential, and I have a Windows 11 boot drive for it as well, but it's not my main machine.
Primary machine is a work laptop.
2nd use is my phone.
3rd is my tablet.
4th/5th are my PS5/XSX
6th is the Steam Deck
Literally everything else in my life...
Nintendo Switch
Does steam OS count as an answer?
Yup, that's the extent of my Linux experience.
Yes.
Since developing early onset dementia, I've had to switch to mint.
To be honest it's possible they're not joking.
Linux mint is insanely user friendly, to the point where my father istalled it by himself as his first linux distro long after the first symptoms of dementia appeared and used it for years.
Glancing through their post history, probably not
Honestly if I was in the same boat, I probably would, too. Mint is so ridiculously good. Here's hoping they can make the Wayland transition.
That bad, huh? I am sorry, I hope you get better.
It goes to another school. You would not know it.
WSL
You can try to get away with the classic "I use Arch btw." Either they are seriously impressed and don't ask any further then, or you fucked up completely.
If they asked what distro, they know the btw meme for sure
What's a distro? I just use the Linux kernel on a potato 🥔
an Americanization of the word distribution (software that is).
Oh, so other countries don't say "distro"?
Si.
We say it in Australian English.
I live in greece and just say which linux do you have(τι linux έχεις;)
-What distro do you use?
-Chrome OS
avarage android user 🗿🗿🗿🗿🍾🍾wwwww
i orniginally said that but probably a coincidence
Sorry, I hadn't read through all the comments and didn't see yours at the time. Great minds think alike 🗿
Proxmox 😎
So debian with a really weird window manager?
I accept that. It helps manage my vms rather quickly.
Sometimes you just need an undebatable excuse. I use Linux Mint because LM are my initials and I'm too lazy to move to any other recommendations
I use Windows BTW
I use windows too, have to keep them closed on hot days though.
I use TempleOS BTW.
I use Raspbian BTW.
BuBut TemPlE Os iS SepRaTe frOm GnU/LinUX
BuBut TemPlE Os iS SepRaTe frOm GnU/LinUX
Umm... Arch... -buntu... Hat... Linux?
Just always answer "Red Star OS".
Raspbian 💪
I tend to use whatever I consider the best one for that particular job. For example: Desktop/gaming: I currently use Ubuntu here because of greater commercial compatibility. But I am using Pop_OS on my System76 laptop and am liking it and may switch to that next time I need to rebuild the desktop image since it is downstream from Ubuntu compatibility should not be an issue. It would save be several post install customizations.
Homelab virtual infra hosting: Proxmox. Because I wanted fancy features without having to pay for a VMWare VMUC license.
Firewall/Router: PFSense
Homelab Infra VMs: Debian Stable for what I consider "backbone" services like DNS and Ubuntu server for things like Jellyfin and my Bookstack server where I am less concerned with it being rock solid.
I used to keep a Windows VM for the rare Windows specific things I wanted/needed. But eventually I got rid of that because I never needed it anyway.
This is the way.
Its called a file
btw i use android
Android isn't linux though. That's like saying MacOS is BSD.
I'm really liking Pop OS! I'd still be using Ubuntu if it wasn't for Pop tbh. I've also had some fun with Elementary OS, but their hostile stance on tray icons is killing my workflow.
Ideological design bullshit shouldn't get in the way of making a good product tbh.
I also really liked these 2. you might want to check out ZorinOS, it's what I'm trying out now
I love mint and solus :) Currently on mint
Isn't it dead?
They formed a new team which revived the project. They recently released a new version after 2 years.
Cool! Didn't know that.
Windows of course. when you run wsl it becomes linux distro
As someone who gradually went from arch to Manjaro to Ubuntu because I kept breaking my installs or not having time, this resonates lol.
Manjaro likes to break on its own during updates in my experience
The Arch Dilemma. If you never update the system, it will never break. To update without breaking you have to carefully check every package update, but it's time consuming. So you either spend time productively on an outdated but working and stable system or you spend time carefully keeping up a bleeding edge updated system.
Or you take system snapshots so you can roll back when an update breaks.
Garuda is an Arch distro that creates a system snapshot every time you upgrade. That way, if the upgrade breaks something, you can roll back to a previous, stable system.
This
It’s, er, a variant of FreeBSD.
Is that code for MacOS?
Erm. Maybe. Don’t ban me.
This used to be me while I distrohopped. Now, I've settled on which distro I will use. I use Arch, btw.
Red Star OS.
What is thaaaat. Does it have any relation with the football club?
Nah
It's the official North Korean OS.
just searched it up, looks a lot like mac os how can i install it?
You don't want to
If you do, if it's even available, airgap the fuck out of it unless you want the North Korean government knowing what porn youre into.
Unless you're a North Korean citizen, what exactly are they going to do with this information anyway? :P
Masturbate furiously.
And it is linux based?
Indeed, and completely and utterly locked down and set up so everything you do is tracked by the government.
And you can't use anything else. It's the only OS you can use in the country, otherwise jail and torture I guess.
Unraid, pfsense, and ubuntu server running pterodactyl panel / wings
ManjaDebEndevNix is my favorite
I once was so enthusiastic about Fedora...
I settled on Fedora after distro hopping then the whole RHEL stuff happened and I'm so annoyed haha
I'll probably stick with it for the time being, but I should probably have an exit strategy
That exit strategy is called Debian
I like Debian, but I enjoy more bleeding edge distros so I probably wouldn't rock it as my daily driver haha
XeroLinux. It's a nice, convenient Arch-based one with a good installer and helper app. Makes getting into Arch feel a lot more newbie-friendly. I disable the latte docker and crazier desktop effects though, I like mine more plain and fast.
That's a lot of words to say "I use Arch btw"
Arch users don't like it when people say they use Arch when in fact it's an Arch derivative. Especially if you mention it on the Arch forums.
Arch fanboys will club to death anyone who says anything other than plain Arch is Arch. Derivatives are not Arch in their minds.
you guessed it, I use joborun, like arch without systemd, runit optionally s6/66
My first thought with this meme was chronic distrohopping. Do I tell them what I'm using this week? Or the last distro I used for any amount of time? Do I tell them the obscure distro name or the name of the major distro it's forked off of? If I'm dual booting do I tell them the experimental OS I'm daily driving or the reliable fallback I have on my other partition?
Hannah Montana Linux of course. Disney uses on their disney plus servers
This is now canon
I use Ubuntu ... but I frequent the Arch forums.
You're all beta testers for Rocky Linux.
Whatever the Steam Deck runs.
I was being facetious.
Grateful we have passed the point at which this meme is relevant. Microsoft would never have imagined this 25 years ago.
Mandrake, obv
Mandriva was my first distro!
I'd like to interject for a moment, what you are referring to as Mexico is in fact the United States of Mexico. A Federation Republic comprised of 31 free and sovereign States each with its own constitution, judiciary, and democratically election Congressional entity. The 31 individual and unique States form a Federation consisting of a bilateral Congress consisting of a Republic Senate and a Chamber of Deputies entrusted with creation of law, imposing taxes, ratifying treaties and international diplomacy. The Federal entity is further comprised of an Executive wing charged with enforcing the laws, emergency dictation and commanding the military. The third and final wing is a Judicial entity consisting of regional courts and a High Court of 11 jurist charged with interpreting any discrepancies that may between the Sovreign States or within the Law itself
(red star OS and android btw)
I like arch, but also use debian on computers I don't use often. Then I mess with the bsds on a few spare thinkpads.
Been using it for 2 years now, don't let the obnoxious 1% fool you, it is really cool.
Does anyone actually use Arch as a daily driver?
I use Arch with i3 on my main gaming/dev machine. Most of my other (older) machines are Manjaro or Debian though.
My primary gaming/dev machine is arch as well but i use kde.
I do, it's my main one. My primary computer uses arch. I just like debian for my not commonly used computers because it's a stable release.
Plenty of people do.
Almalinux. I used to use centos on servers and fedora workstation on my desktops but have switched over to Almalinux for both. Will be interesting to see what shakes out with the whole Redhat source repo change.
Ubuntu was unstable for me on my desktop every time I tried. I always disliked Ubuntu on servers.
Ubuntu. lol
Not for real, just want to stir the pot.
Say Debian and the type of person who asks this will immediately go “oh fuck. He’s a nerd…”
A large percentage of Distros are just rearranged Debian Sid
openKylin /s
When people hear I'm using Linux they're always like "Must be some Ubuntu" (I actually use Endeavour)
TEMPLE!!!!
smugs in Parabola
Would android count?
Retro pc/laptop (like my Thinkpad X200s) with AntiX linux + herbsluftwm is the perfect combination to feel "retro computing sensation."
It's crazy that out of so many replies not even one was LFS.
I will gladly tell them that i use arch btw
VoidLinux sounds pretty interesting.
btw i use android