Honestly it's just so good. The installation was a heck of a process the first time but it taught me so much, and no other distro I've tried has just worked like this across all my hardware.
Agree on this one, even when i use Windows, i mostly use winget or choco to install things.
So instead of going on the internet and finding where to install a thing, it is just one simple command and i'm there!
I'm using Arch (btw) but I'm running NixOS in a VM to play around & learn it. It's kind of wild, it's not like any way I'm used to thinking about an OS at all, so I'm still wrapping my head around it. Super interesting though!
Started out using Ubuntu since 6.06, tried out elementary OS for a bit, went back to using vanilla Gnome on ubuntu and have switched over to Fedora a couple of years ago
I recently switched from Arch to Debian. So far am happy with my choice. I had used arch for about 4 years beforehand but I eventually had enough of flaky AUR packages and decided to just build what I need by hand.
I’ve been using Void as my daily driver on my desktop for about six years now, I can see myself ever switching. Also have used Solus, Arch, Endeavour, and OpenSuSe on my laptop during that time, which have all been good. But I still prefer Void, it just feels so natural to me now.
I also used void for quite a long time, but then for some reason after an update my system bricked.
Also, for some reason, even when i turned on services in sv they would not start, take for example pulseaudio.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but for anything that doesn't require a GUI, Ubuntu Server is my go-to. If I need a GUI, then it's Windows. I've tried Linux on desktop dozens of times in the last 25 years or so, and there's always something lacking. Most recently, RTX support in Steam. Meanwhile, I have Ubuntu servers with > 1 year of uptime, and it would have been more if not for an UPS failure. Right tool for the job IMO.
EndeavourOS KDE on my laptop, Arch with KDE on my PC, and AlmaLinux 9.2 on my homeserver. Have used Xubuntu, Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro, and Mint in the past.
I switched away from Gentoo a few years back because I don't feel I have the CPU time to compile all the packages on my laptop. Now I run Gentoo on my Steam Deck because I need to customise the thing so badly.
CPU time has never been an issue for me, really. I am intrigued by Gentoo on a SteamDeck - how well does that work? I imagine a very tight thermal headroom gets in a way every now and then.
Gentoo on Steam Deck works great. The kernel must have all the drivers now. For audio it must use Pulseaudio/Pipewire for the speakers to work. Compiling Firefox just takes about two hours? I didn't time it. If it's not compiling then it has no noticeable heat pumping out.
Wow, People are replying!
That usually dosent happen on a first post...
I am running Windows at the moment, actually... but I will make a dual boot (once I have a working USB).
I have been finding PopOS to be good for me, so that's what I will use.
True that, I second Altair. But hey, there is a strong linux userbase on lemmy so I'm not surprised. I'm lurking for now, trying to figure out how to make my laptop dual boot and trying to decide which distro.
Ah, nice.
I did not mean apps shutting down, what I meant was subreddits closing down.
This seems to be more calmed down as well, seeing that if I visit reddit right now, most of my favourite subreddits will be online.
I just unsubbedd from almost all my subs (they were a lot lol), I found good alternatives here and that's fine for me, I don't care anymore what they do on reddit.
There's only 2 I still check every now and then, very small niche communities that are hard to replace, for now at least.
When I came back to Linux in 2020 as a non-technical user, I got recommended Manjaro by a friend. But I found it has issues and when I reinstalled I just went to Arch directly. I found it not that hard to install and use and it really serves me well. So I've stuck with it.
I love Kubuntu. I have had to go back to Windows for some very specific gaming situations, but once Linux gets more support and drivers I will switch right back.
Same. I wait patiently for cosmic because I've gotten use to the keyboard navigation. And I've used Debian-based distros for 20+ years and it feels like home.
Ubuntu Server for my home-lab. Fedora for my workstation (dual-booted with Windows, as work requires Windows or Mac, and Microsoft Flight Simulator only runs on Windows.
We should definitely not war on this - all linux is good linux.
If you want, you could try to install said drivers on something like Debian,
which is very similar to Ubuntu, which means you may be able to install your drivers there.
Arch Linux. Installed it 4 years ago and haven't had any issues. I tried several other distro's prior but there always seemed to be some annoying bug that would make me look elsewhere.
Arch. I've been running it on my laptop for the last 3 years, and I've only switched my gaming PC from Windows in the last couple of months. Really impressed with how much Proton has improved since the Steam Deck has come out.
Moved from Ubuntu as I was having issues with the WiFi drivers on my laptop, and both my systems have been rock solid ever since.
It really depends on what software you have installed. Quite a few packages require Python to function, and removing it will prevent/affect their functioning. This is one of the main advantages of Arch though: you start with a bare-bones system, and build from there as you need.
One question though, why do you need to uninstall Python?
Mint on my media box. Still Windows on my daily driver, mainly for gaming. I did try Mint for it and while I did like it, I couldn’t make the full switch.
I scrolled way too far to find Fedora. I was on Slackware until I ran out of time to download, build and install everything by hand, then Red Hat until they started charging, then moved to Fedora.
Using Debian for headless servers, though. You can't beat the stability if you don't need the latest & greatest.
To me it's replaced what Ubuntu used to be, a simple easy to use Linux Distro that is great for beginners. Granted I'm no beginner, but I still like the OS.
On my server I run Debian oldstable until I find the time and energy to upgrade to stable. On my homeserver I run Ubuntu. Probably the latest LTS. Started out as Medibuntu to host a MythTV backend. But we haven't watched TV in a long time so that's not used at the moment.
Been using Linux for the past 10 years and have tried just about every distro. I decided to stop hopping and have been on Fedora for the past year and a half. Fedora has worked great for me and I have no plans on changing it anytime soon. Also should add I use KDE fedora because I can’t stand gnome
If you truly care about privacy, I would recommend to stray away from it.
Try something like Debian if you still want apt without all of the canonical things.
Ubuntu studio for it's real time kernel and music software. Connecting a MIDI controller is a pain and I only ever did music stuff few times with it. Now I use it for anything but music.
I've always been more of a "jump into the deep end and learn then learn to swim", so when I originally was looking at trying Linux, I was searching for the most non-user friendly distro (and at the time, the most popular opinion online for that was Arch). So that was my first distro.
Over the years, I've tried Gentoo and Void as well. But I've always been coming back to Arch.
As a long term windows users, I recently switched to kubuntu and I’m loving the kde plasma desktop. I like the look and feel of windows but not the telemetry so kubuntu really is the best of both for me.
Arch for personal and Alma Linux on my servers, but have been playing with the thought of NixOS for a while. With the new Red Head changes though I think I'll migrate my servers to NixOS soon. Maybe my personal setup will follow after that.
Never used Debian, i used Alma Linux because of the RHEL compatibility but fuck that now. I'm mainly a developer so I try to do all my infrastructure as code and NixOS just seems like the perfect match for that.
Ubuntu on my laptop, proxmox on my server, pfsense on my firewall, openwrt on my AP. Computers are less of a hobby for me now than they used to be, so I'd rather not spend a lot of time on sysadmin work.
Gaming/personal project development gets done on my steam deck running Arch, work computer is Ubuntu.
Home lab virtual servers are all Ubuntu, I have some rasbian pis lying around, and whatever Proxmox uses for my three physical home lab servers.
I'm debating moving over to either Arch or straight Debian for my work computer, but I would have to basically lose a day repaving - so I'll probably wait for my next scheduled refresh to try Debian/Arch.
I have commitment issues when it comes to distros, but the one I seem to go home to most often is Endeavour. I could set up Arch myself, but Endeavour with KDE pretty much includes what I would want on my desktop anyway. Opensuse Tumbleweed gets an honorable mention too, I think their automated testing systems are a pretty neat idea.
Gentoo on my desktop and Mint on my work laptop. At work I just need everything to work, so I don't want to have to deal with some build related issues.
My primary computer: (NOT LINUX) Windows 10, I know, shocking.
Laptop for programming: It's an old HP Pavilion from 2015. Linux Mint with i3.
ThinkPad for fun stuff: Artix Linux.
Big ass Cisco servers in my room: openBSD emulation.
Gentoo's own handbook is very handy. If you're ok with Arch, you'll have no problem with Gentoo. And if you have questions, you can join my tiny Gentoo community here: [email protected]
I like Debian even if that makes me a plebian. It's pretty solid for all my use cases, from little bitty netbooks to my servers, I rarely if ever have issues. As for DE/WM, I alternate between i3 and XFCE on desktop, and only i3 on laptop. I've experimented with many popular distros as daily drivers, and finally settled on Debian about 6 or 7 years ago.
NixOS on two boxes (starting to deep dive big into flakes to try to automate how the separate devices are configured and apps installed, it’s pretty slick if you ever need to reload the PCs). I have endeavorOS for an AI test box since it was easier to get an arch based distro to work with the complicated install chain of Cuda and Python dependency hell. I have Fedora on an PC my wife uses with Budgie. I have a Debian box for my 3d printer controlling. I may move something back to Solus once they release their new ISO, I miss it. I’d probably end up installing nixpkgs on it so I don’t loose too much functionality/package availability.
I started with Fedora, then gave a few looks outside, now when I use Linux, it's 99% Ubuntu/Mint 1% Zorin (to show the similarities with Windows and explain how easy can be for an old newbie used to Win)
I did the same with manjaro, though I split it so I technically can get back to macos if I really want to. Annoyingly that now means I need to keep an eye on the disk usage.
main server is a gentoo beast. I chose gentoo because systems was actually causing some problems and reporting a "degraded" status. OpenRC is really nice after years of systemd :-)
second server, used for backups: NixOS, for no particular reason. I might install Debian 12 on it one day.
I used Pop OS for years until I upgraded my GPU and it had issues with Mesa 22. Now I'm on Manjaro.
I really like Arch and I used it years ago but the way it's allergic to a proper installer has always rubbed me the wrong way and Manjaro is the only Arch derivative that has a proper one.
Debian since '95, (After a try with Slackware and RedHat each for a month or 2-3)
I run testing on my home devices (trixie now). Totally happy with it. (I really don't like the rpm based ones, even more so since IBM bought RedHat) Tried Ubuntu once, didn't know how fast to get back after the 1st major upgrade killed my system years ago.
I used ctwm since '96, switched to xfce4 in '18 (and use it as wm), ctwm is still in use for vnc connections on the rpi.
Since 2008 I am an Arch Linux user (multiple PCs and laptops, as well as some Raspberry Pie devices and a "mini PC" used as home server).
I used Ubuntu since initial release in 2004 and before that I used Debian in dual-boot with Windows since around the year 2000. With switching to Ubuntu I completely ditched Windows and never used it on any non work-related machines again.
Just asking because I see you are a Wayland user, and I do not really get it,
What is the appeal for Wayland? I have seen a lot of people ditching X recently for it.
xorg is bloated and based on a very old protocol, and I generally personally like to support things where devs embark on big architectural changes to make software leaner and more modern. If people simply stuck with GCC because "it just works" we'd never have seen clang or musl.
Debian on servers, Ubuntu on desktop. I've used Linux exclusively since about 1998 and I used to really enjoying dicking about with it and trying other distros but now I just want things to work with the minimum messing about.
I started with it in the late 90s and tried to keep using it for a long time, but I got tired of dealing with dependencies. Eventually I switched to Kubuntu on my desktop and laptop, and Debian for my server. They may have added dependency checking since I gave up on it though. It has been a few years.
Arch and Debian. In the future I’ll probably move to something without systemd, but for now this is what I use. I don’t understand why so many people use Ubuntu and even fedora now with this REHL controversy. Why would choose to use a corporate distro when others are also just as good? Doesn’t that negate the purpose of using linux and free software in the first place? (This applies to popos, linux mint Ubuntu, and all those other Ubuntu OSes)
I recently just set up Mint on a virtual machine. I had the iso image and I knew how it's easy for me to get around, so I did it only to find the program I was looking for isn't what I thought it was. It's kinda my main go to for Linux work on a virtual machine because of how hassle free it tends to be for me.
That VM was made after I made the mistake of making a Liya one but not putting enough memory into the virtual hard disk.
I'm currently waiting to upgrade computers before I make the full jump since I already have everything set up just fine on my desktop, but I'm definitely thinking of starting with Mint for a general easy to use start or going to endeavourOS since I have some experience with that. (That's subject to change if I try more distros on virtual machines and find one I really like...)
I use Arch btw.
Yes, of course you do :) And next week, you'll be using NixOS :)
What is the fuss about nixos?
"He said the line!"
Honestly it's just so good. The installation was a heck of a process the first time but it taught me so much, and no other distro I've tried has just worked like this across all my hardware.
I'm on Arch because it's stock on the Steam Deck. I feel like a "participation award" Linux user, but I'm happy to be here at least.
Linux Mint, the vanilla distro with chocolate.
Mint user checking in. It's easy to use and I like Cinnamon. Only complaint is the lack of Wayland support.
Simple: Arch for desktops and Debian for servers.
This is it. This is the way.
Which tiling window manager? I want to switch to something else, been using i3wm for a long time.
Try AwesomeWM. Or if you are determined to have a tiling only then QTile is good.
I think I tried Awesome before, I'll give it another shot, thanks!
Most of the time I’m just using Plasma 5. But I had some great time with sway.
KDE is cool, I used it for a while when I couldn't figure out why my i3wm config was causing screen tearing. Turns out I had to install
picomPopOS. I love it.
Agree, the hybrid graphics are amazing but i don't really like the software center)
Yeah, pop shop is just a pain. It's why I started learning how to use the command line.
Agree on this one, even when i use Windows, i mostly use
wingetorchocoto install things. So instead of going on the internet and finding where to install a thing, it is just one simple command and i'm there!Also a fan
I am using NixOS but it's... difficult.
I was considering giving NixOS a go. What are you finding difficult about it?
I'm using Arch (btw) but I'm running NixOS in a VM to play around & learn it. It's kind of wild, it's not like any way I'm used to thinking about an OS at all, so I'm still wrapping my head around it. Super interesting though!
How so? I've always been interested in trying that one.
Steam os if this counts
The games are running smoothly? Even the heavy ones?
Vanilla Arch and Endeavour OS. Also looking at trying out Nix OS since I'm pretty curious.
Started out using Ubuntu since 6.06, tried out elementary OS for a bit, went back to using vanilla Gnome on ubuntu and have switched over to Fedora a couple of years ago
Debian always
I recently switched from Arch to Debian. So far am happy with my choice. I had used arch for about 4 years beforehand but I eventually had enough of flaky AUR packages and decided to just build what I need by hand.
My man.
Void Linux at work, Hanna Montana Linux at home.
Isn't HML a meme distro?
It's still usable
Pop!_OS
Tumbleweed
Ah, an OpenSuse user!
Really underrated distro. It’s even very good for beginners.
I’ve been using Void as my daily driver on my desktop for about six years now, I can see myself ever switching. Also have used Solus, Arch, Endeavour, and OpenSuSe on my laptop during that time, which have all been good. But I still prefer Void, it just feels so natural to me now.
Void is just Arch but better.
I also used void for quite a long time, but then for some reason after an update my system bricked. Also, for some reason, even when i turned on services in
svthey would not start, take for example pulseaudio.See my instance name.
self-explanatory.
I run about an equal number of Slackware and FreeBSD boxen.
Fedora KDE spin. I dunno how to feel about the recent announcement but from what I know, it shouldn't affect Fedora itself.
Currently Endeavour OS, but I mainly daily drive Fedora, because its the right mix between bleeding edge and stable (stableedge?) for me.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but for anything that doesn't require a GUI, Ubuntu Server is my go-to. If I need a GUI, then it's Windows. I've tried Linux on desktop dozens of times in the last 25 years or so, and there's always something lacking. Most recently, RTX support in Steam. Meanwhile, I have Ubuntu servers with > 1 year of uptime, and it would have been more if not for an UPS failure. Right tool for the job IMO.
100th comment! tbh, i totally get this. using the command line is much easier and a lot less "restricting" quote unquote than using GUI tools.
Xubuntu - back from the days with a slightly slower laptop.
Debian is my true love.
btw, I use Arch
Mint!
The "simple man with simple needs" distro.
EndeavourOS KDE on my laptop, Arch with KDE on my PC, and AlmaLinux 9.2 on my homeserver. Have used Xubuntu, Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro, and Mint in the past.
Gentoo, mostly. Some Arch and Debian testing here and there.
I switched away from Gentoo a few years back because I don't feel I have the CPU time to compile all the packages on my laptop. Now I run Gentoo on my Steam Deck because I need to customise the thing so badly.
CPU time has never been an issue for me, really. I am intrigued by Gentoo on a SteamDeck - how well does that work? I imagine a very tight thermal headroom gets in a way every now and then.
Gentoo on Steam Deck works great. The kernel must have all the drivers now. For audio it must use Pulseaudio/Pipewire for the speakers to work. Compiling Firefox just takes about two hours? I didn't time it. If it's not compiling then it has no noticeable heat pumping out.
This is so good to hear! Thank you!
garuda. arch based and beautiful. uses the regular arch repo, plus their own custom one.
Wow, People are replying! That usually dosent happen on a first post...
I am running Windows at the moment, actually... but I will make a dual boot (once I have a working USB). I have been finding PopOS to be good for me, so that's what I will use.
You can't just make this post and not add your answer...
I added my answer, but it may be a little disappointing...
True that, I second Altair. But hey, there is a strong linux userbase on lemmy so I'm not surprised. I'm lurking for now, trying to figure out how to make my laptop dual boot and trying to decide which distro.
Welcome to lemmy :D
Thanks! I know the api madness is probably over by now (I am seeing most of reddit going back to full working order),
but i made this account when it wasn't, so why not use it?
Not yet, apps will officially shut down on the 30th.
Ah you knew about the fediverse? I didn't, I found out when the blackout was announced. In any case, feels good to be here :)
Ah, nice. I did not mean apps shutting down, what I meant was subreddits closing down. This seems to be more calmed down as well, seeing that if I visit reddit right now, most of my favourite subreddits will be online.
I just unsubbedd from almost all my subs (they were a lot lol), I found good alternatives here and that's fine for me, I don't care anymore what they do on reddit.
There's only 2 I still check every now and then, very small niche communities that are hard to replace, for now at least.
Gentoo on my desktop and laptop. I also have an old thinkpad T41 that runs FreeDOS which isn't linux but is still awesome.
When I came back to Linux in 2020 as a non-technical user, I got recommended Manjaro by a friend. But I found it has issues and when I reinstalled I just went to Arch directly. I found it not that hard to install and use and it really serves me well. So I've stuck with it.
Manjaro
Arch with a Sway wm
you guys are not distrohopping every day?!?
Tumbleweed
Hobby: Arch Work: Fedora and RHEL
Im starting to lean towards Fedora, but this RHEL news is very concerning.
Fedora
Arch
Kubuntu 22.04.
I love Kubuntu. I have had to go back to Windows for some very specific gaming situations, but once Linux gets more support and drivers I will switch right back.
Yeah, when it gets more driver support...
Ubuntu with i3
Pop!_OS is what I keep falling back to. It helps that I use a System76 Thelio and a HP Dev One.
Same. I wait patiently for cosmic because I've gotten use to the keyboard navigation. And I've used Debian-based distros for 20+ years and it feels like home.
I am a penguin, quack quack. What is a distro? Is that a type of fish?
Nix OS, because I use both a laptop and a desktop constantly, so having a reproducible environment is key
You might also like Atuin, for syncing your shell history.
Ubuntu Server for my home-lab. Fedora for my workstation (dual-booted with Windows, as work requires Windows or Mac, and Microsoft Flight Simulator only runs on Windows.
We should definitely not war on this - all linux is good linux.
+1 on the "no war" thing, I was just saying this in the post because knowing Linux users, this may start a war in the replies
Sparky, Manjaro, Ubuntu or Debian testing, depending.
I'm boring Af, I use Ubuntu with Mate DE.
I would love to switch to Opensuse Tumbleweed, but I need Ubuntu because of some interactive board drivers that are only available for ubuntu... 😭
If you want, you could try to install said drivers on something like Debian, which is very similar to Ubuntu, which means you may be able to install your drivers there.
Puppy Linux on my already-not-fast-2011 laptop. Many thanks to the Devs on keeping my machine alive! True miracle makers!
Favorite? Arch. However I am using Ubuntu on all my server systems. Currently don’t have any desktop Linux systems.
Ubuntu 22.10
Xubuntu 22.04.
EndeavourOS, but only since a month ago or so. I used OpenSUSE Tumbleweed before that for over a year.
I just kind of settled with Pop but something broke miserably and now in sitting on KDE Neon
Main desktop is fedora workstation due to the intel a380 and to get my gpu runnin out the box.
Pinebook pro has manjaro will be going slackware once i order the nvme adapter to install it there.
Old lenovo computer - testing and learning netbsd on it.
Overall im hoping to get good enough to just have slackware for linux and any of the 3 main BSDs on other devices.
Arch with Hyprland on my laptop and desktop, Debian on my server.
I've settled on Manjaro with KDE on my current laptop. On my next one, I'll probably move to plain Arch. Alpine is quite cool as well.
Arch Linux. Installed it 4 years ago and haven't had any issues. I tried several other distro's prior but there always seemed to be some annoying bug that would make me look elsewhere.
I'm starting in the Linux world, so, my distro is Linux Mint Cinnamon.
Arch. I've been running it on my laptop for the last 3 years, and I've only switched my gaming PC from Windows in the last couple of months. Really impressed with how much Proton has improved since the Steam Deck has come out.
Moved from Ubuntu as I was having issues with the WiFi drivers on my laptop, and both my systems have been rock solid ever since.
Is there a risk that my Arch will start slowly disintegrating if I uninstall Python? Because that's what happened to my Ubuntu 18.04 install.
It really depends on what software you have installed. Quite a few packages require Python to function, and removing it will prevent/affect their functioning. This is one of the main advantages of Arch though: you start with a bare-bones system, and build from there as you need. One question though, why do you need to uninstall Python?
I have a T420 running Void Linux, another T420 running Mint, a T430 running Arch, and a T16 running EndeavourOS.
My T420 runs MX Linux, but I've considered switching to Mint. Hows it run?
Oh it runs great. Mint is so easy and it's basically built for old machines.
Nobara on the Desktop, Pop OS on the Laptop and the Surface (needs a custom kernel though). I'd use Nobara on everything but I am too lazy to switch.
Nobara os
Mint on my media box. Still Windows on my daily driver, mainly for gaming. I did try Mint for it and while I did like it, I couldn’t make the full switch.
Debian
Fedora with KDE!
I scrolled way too far to find Fedora. I was on Slackware until I ran out of time to download, build and install everything by hand, then Red Hat until they started charging, then moved to Fedora.
Using Debian for headless servers, though. You can't beat the stability if you don't need the latest & greatest.
EndeavourOS (Arch-based btw)
Arch btw
Pop!_OS.
To me it's replaced what Ubuntu used to be, a simple easy to use Linux Distro that is great for beginners. Granted I'm no beginner, but I still like the OS.
Debian. It works, that's what I care about.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for my gaming PC and laptop.
On my server I run Debian oldstable until I find the time and energy to upgrade to stable. On my homeserver I run Ubuntu. Probably the latest LTS. Started out as Medibuntu to host a MythTV backend. But we haven't watched TV in a long time so that's not used at the moment.
Pop_OS on my laptop
Fedora ofc
I used to run manjaro, but after some problems I decided to cut the middle man, and jumped to arch.
So now I use arch btw.
Debian since 1.1
Been using Linux for the past 10 years and have tried just about every distro. I decided to stop hopping and have been on Fedora for the past year and a half. Fedora has worked great for me and I have no plans on changing it anytime soon. Also should add I use KDE fedora because I can’t stand gnome
I've been really happy with Manjaro for quite awhile now.
EndevourOS, running gnome and x11 for better gaming performance.
Only really ever used Ubuntu, I've tried a small handful of others but I find I have less issues with Ubuntu so I keep going back to it.
If you truly care about privacy, I would recommend to stray away from it. Try something like Debian if you still want
aptwithout all of the canonical things.Fedora Silverblue.
Basically the same as Fedora Workstation, but bulletproof. Allow me to shill my review of it for those who are curious and want a more in-depth look.
Fedora
void
I'm a Trisquel user. Though, I'm thinking of moving to Guix.
Isn't Guix the "GNU official distro"?
I used arch btw, now I use NixOS btw
Daily use: Linux Mint
Funsies: VOID
xbps-install funI have Linux Mint on my laptop (Windows 10 on my desktop)
Ubuntu studio for it's real time kernel and music software. Connecting a MIDI controller is a pain and I only ever did music stuff few times with it. Now I use it for anything but music.
My other computer has just plain ubuntu.
Arch linux.
I've always been more of a "jump into the deep end and learn then learn to swim", so when I originally was looking at trying Linux, I was searching for the most non-user friendly distro (and at the time, the most popular opinion online for that was Arch). So that was my first distro.
Over the years, I've tried Gentoo and Void as well. But I've always been coming back to Arch.
As a long term windows users, I recently switched to kubuntu and I’m loving the kde plasma desktop. I like the look and feel of windows but not the telemetry so kubuntu really is the best of both for me.
Arch for personal and Alma Linux on my servers, but have been playing with the thought of NixOS for a while. With the new Red Head changes though I think I'll migrate my servers to NixOS soon. Maybe my personal setup will follow after that.
Any reason to not use debian, new update seems okay?
Never used Debian, i used Alma Linux because of the RHEL compatibility but fuck that now. I'm mainly a developer so I try to do all my infrastructure as code and NixOS just seems like the perfect match for that.
Alma Linux? what is that?
Ubuntu on my laptop, proxmox on my server, pfsense on my firewall, openwrt on my AP. Computers are less of a hobby for me now than they used to be, so I'd rather not spend a lot of time on sysadmin work.
Nobara Project 🤷
Gaming/personal project development gets done on my steam deck running Arch, work computer is Ubuntu.
Home lab virtual servers are all Ubuntu, I have some rasbian pis lying around, and whatever Proxmox uses for my three physical home lab servers.
I'm debating moving over to either Arch or straight Debian for my work computer, but I would have to basically lose a day repaving - so I'll probably wait for my next scheduled refresh to try Debian/Arch.
Do you ever find yourself getting mixed up on the commands that you need on Arch vs Ubuntu, for example around updating packages?
Sometimes, but I really try to manage both systems with respective Ansible playbooks.
Between that and zsh/oh-my-zsh command history is super easy to navigate to do what I need.
Debian stable on my main and arch on my laptop.
Arch. Super happy with it. Been running it on all computers for a decade or so.
I have commitment issues when it comes to distros, but the one I seem to go home to most often is Endeavour. I could set up Arch myself, but Endeavour with KDE pretty much includes what I would want on my desktop anyway. Opensuse Tumbleweed gets an honorable mention too, I think their automated testing systems are a pretty neat idea.
I'm very happy with Arch. Before that I was using Mint.
Arch w/ XFCE
Fedora. Cause it's the distro of choice of my employer and I'm just lazy.
Arch, or, well, EndeavourOS to be exact. Have it on both my Desktop and Laptop. It + XFCE cured my distrohoping
Gentoo on my desktop and Mint on my work laptop. At work I just need everything to work, so I don't want to have to deal with some build related issues.
Manjaro on desktop, Proxmox for my VM hosts, and usually Ubuntu Server on individual server VMs.
Endevour OS, with Hyprland WM
My primary computer: (NOT LINUX) Windows 10, I know, shocking. Laptop for programming: It's an old HP Pavilion from 2015. Linux Mint with i3. ThinkPad for fun stuff: Artix Linux. Big ass Cisco servers in my room: openBSD emulation.
Using Fedora 38 right now. Good stuff
Arch and it's variants, depending on when I feel like reinstalling again, currently testing the waters with EndeavourOS
Funtoo on my desktop and kubuntu 22.4.2 lts on my laptop
Arch, Suse Micro os and Fedora silverblue. I would like to add gentoo but by beard is not long enough.
Gentoo's own handbook is very handy. If you're ok with Arch, you'll have no problem with Gentoo. And if you have questions, you can join my tiny Gentoo community here: [email protected]
Thanks! It is couple of years since I tried it last time but maybe I will give it another go.
I like Debian even if that makes me a plebian. It's pretty solid for all my use cases, from little bitty netbooks to my servers, I rarely if ever have issues. As for DE/WM, I alternate between i3 and XFCE on desktop, and only i3 on laptop. I've experimented with many popular distros as daily drivers, and finally settled on Debian about 6 or 7 years ago.
I keep trying different distros, but I keep coming back to Mint. It's just the right mix of user friendly and customisable for me.
NixOS on two boxes (starting to deep dive big into flakes to try to automate how the separate devices are configured and apps installed, it’s pretty slick if you ever need to reload the PCs). I have endeavorOS for an AI test box since it was easier to get an arch based distro to work with the complicated install chain of Cuda and Python dependency hell. I have Fedora on an PC my wife uses with Budgie. I have a Debian box for my 3d printer controlling. I may move something back to Solus once they release their new ISO, I miss it. I’d probably end up installing nixpkgs on it so I don’t loose too much functionality/package availability.
I am running Ubuntu on my machines and spin up Docker containers if I need other flavours.
I started with Fedora, then gave a few looks outside, now when I use Linux, it's 99% Ubuntu/Mint 1% Zorin (to show the similarities with Windows and explain how easy can be for an old newbie used to Win)
Switched my 15 yo macbook to Xubuntu. Now it works much better than vanilla Ubuntu.
Gentoo!
Even started a community with a whopping 16 subscribers and almost no posts! [email protected].
Switched my 15 yo macbook to Xubuntu. Now it works much better than vanilla Ubuntu.
I did the same with manjaro, though I split it so I technically can get back to macos if I really want to. Annoyingly that now means I need to keep an eye on the disk usage.
Main computer: Arch (BTW) because I am a WM user (awesomewm) and AL has no bloat to remove. Also because of the AUR.
Servers:
Alpine Linux edge on most servers and desktops (yes I use a rolling release on servers) with sway wm on desktops
I used Pop OS for years until I upgraded my GPU and it had issues with Mesa 22. Now I'm on Manjaro.
I really like Arch and I used it years ago but the way it's allergic to a proper installer has always rubbed me the wrong way and Manjaro is the only Arch derivative that has a proper one.
Gentoo is my prefered distro.
Arch as a daily driver, Debian for my girlfriend and the self hosted stuff, Raspbian for the PiHole
Debian since '95, (After a try with Slackware and RedHat each for a month or 2-3)
I run testing on my home devices (trixie now). Totally happy with it. (I really don't like the rpm based ones, even more so since IBM bought RedHat) Tried Ubuntu once, didn't know how fast to get back after the 1st major upgrade killed my system years ago.
I used ctwm since '96, switched to xfce4 in '18 (and use it as wm), ctwm is still in use for vnc connections on the rpi.
Fedora because they keep the packages updated. I could go with Arch, but the amount of updates per day is too high.
Arch. Though I'm liking Debian headless a lot now.
Kubuntu LTS on my PC
Ubuntu Server LTS on my servers
Lubuntu on one laptop, Xubuntu on the other, as I still can't decide if I prefer LxQt or XFCE.
Debian for my servers
I've been maining endeavouros for a little over a year now. It's oddly easier than any other os I've ever run.
Since 2008 I am an Arch Linux user (multiple PCs and laptops, as well as some Raspberry Pie devices and a "mini PC" used as home server).
I used Ubuntu since initial release in 2004 and before that I used Debian in dual-boot with Windows since around the year 2000. With switching to Ubuntu I completely ditched Windows and never used it on any non work-related machines again.
Arch BTW for my personal machine and Debian for my server
Debian for servers. Darwin for desktop. :)
Linux MX (XFCE) on my gaming desktop and LMDE on my laptop.
Linux users are the last people on earth to start a war /s
real
Kubuntu
"I was a windows user and am trying Linux, but I am not afraid of hiding the fact that i was once a windows user."
Not saying this is bad ofc, just saying this as a joke 🤣
Me too, did the migration a year ago. Using Linux now for gaming even.
Arch Linux with a Hyprland desktop
Just asking because I see you are a Wayland user, and I do not really get it, What is the appeal for Wayland? I have seen a lot of people ditching X recently for it.
xorg is bloated and based on a very old protocol, and I generally personally like to support things where devs embark on big architectural changes to make software leaner and more modern. If people simply stuck with GCC because "it just works" we'd never have seen clang or musl.
Manjaro.
I am using Rocky Linux 9 on my home PC and Ubuntu 22.04 Server on my VPS.
You have no idea how much self-control it takes to not make a "the rock" reference. Also, what is special about it? ive never heard about it
Long-time user of Lubuntu.
Debian and Alpine
Alpine for Docker containers and Debian for general putpose and sometimes also for containers.
Debian on servers, Ubuntu on desktop. I've used Linux exclusively since about 1998 and I used to really enjoying dicking about with it and trying other distros but now I just want things to work with the minimum messing about.
currently I am on Manjaro with the i3 WM. switched from windows one year ago and it was the best thing I did.
Fedora Xfce spin here!
Same. Big fan of their net installer
Fedora KDE Spin, I like all the options to customize.
Debian testing
Mint on desktop, Fedora KDE on laptop.
I use windows on my main desktop.
I used to use arch btw till the repair guy took my arch lappy and ghosted me :(
MX Linux. I can customize and use many obsecure programs really easily.
Debian or CentOS. But I do server stuff.
Fedora for me, what I started on. Want to try Slackware though.
Is Slackware still active?
I started with it in the late 90s and tried to keep using it for a long time, but I got tired of dealing with dependencies. Eventually I switched to Kubuntu on my desktop and laptop, and Debian for my server. They may have added dependency checking since I gave up on it though. It has been a few years.
It's definitely still active, Praise "Bob". Idk about the dependancies though.
Def still active and sbopkg with sbotools as the main gui to take care of your dependency needs.
Thanks for the info!
Pop os, but tbh nowadays whatever the default steam deck is running
I've been running Fedora Silverblue by way of Universal Blue. ublue.it.
Currently Steam OS. Daily driving a Steam Deck.
This is... one odd answer.
Arch and Debian. In the future I’ll probably move to something without systemd, but for now this is what I use. I don’t understand why so many people use Ubuntu and even fedora now with this REHL controversy. Why would choose to use a corporate distro when others are also just as good? Doesn’t that negate the purpose of using linux and free software in the first place? (This applies to popos, linux mint Ubuntu, and all those other Ubuntu OSes)
If you are looking for a systemd-less distro, may i pique your interest with void linux? I have used it before, and it was good.
EndeavourOS - I've installed Arch from scratch and prefer the happy medium of configuration that EndeavourOS offers.
Linux Mint on Desktop, Arch on my laptop
I recently just set up Mint on a virtual machine. I had the iso image and I knew how it's easy for me to get around, so I did it only to find the program I was looking for isn't what I thought it was. It's kinda my main go to for Linux work on a virtual machine because of how hassle free it tends to be for me.
That VM was made after I made the mistake of making a Liya one but not putting enough memory into the virtual hard disk.
I'm currently waiting to upgrade computers before I make the full jump since I already have everything set up just fine on my desktop, but I'm definitely thinking of starting with Mint for a general easy to use start or going to endeavourOS since I have some experience with that. (That's subject to change if I try more distros on virtual machines and find one I really like...)
Mint, yet on my old laptop. Still on Windows on my main PC
The one that works for my use case.