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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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[–] Saturn 1 points 2 years ago

When I was younger my dad gave me a Linux magazine with a copy of Fedora Werewolf in it. That was part of my early exploration of Linux.

And now years later as an adult I tried Fedora again and I quite like it! So I’ve been using that for a while. ☺️