Linux

EndeavourOS :)

arch on my desktop and on my server

Y'all are gonna make me say it, I run Arch BTW. The AUR and wiki are compelling reasons, but the truth is I was interested in being forced to learn how things work on a lower level, and the more I understand the more control I have over how things are done.

Ubuntu with the Window Maker window manager.

Arch with NEWM and Garuda with Sway

Trying out Fedora now, was partial to Pop os, but liking the feel of Fedora!

Been running Void Linux for a few years now and it's very good. I like xbps and the void-packages repo (it's like the AUR but sane).

Ubuntu. I started with Mint when I first dropped Windows because it had a similar look. But I found it was harder to find answers to problems I had with Mint than with Ubuntu because more people use it. So I switched to Ubuntu.

Fedora 38 KDE Spin. Truly awesome experience!

Took a while to learn and get all set up but now all my stuff uses NixOS.

Main machine thinkpad x60: Trisquel

iBook G4: Debian

thinkpad t450: Linux Mint

on all my other laptops: LXLE

on my old desktop: LXLE

on my main desktop Minisforum UM500: Manjaro (But only because I have no idea how it works and Manjaro came with the UM500 and I'm afraid I can't install something else that will work with all the graphics.)

Ubuntu Studio (XFCE desktop). It's not the fanciest desktop, has one or two rough edges, and there are one or two tweaks I make right away on any new install, but I can get most things done without thinking about the OS at all now.

I like the UI eye candy of KDE, but I find it too weighty for an everyday use distro.

I used to use Debian plus XFCE, but it's a bit too spartan for me these days.

Artix with awesomewm and Linux Mint in case something doesn't work on Artix.

Arch linux on my "big" PC and Armbian on my smol PC.

Thats a very complicated quesiton. I have 3 computers, of which 2 are ThinkPads, and one Asus Gaming Laptop. The Thinkpads are spread out over the places I usually do stuff, and I have an encrypted portable Sandisk 1TB ssd with Debian installed on it, that i take wherever my thinkpads are to do stuff. My asus gaming laptop runs Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS and i haven't bothered to change it to Debian. I use that one mainly for stable diffusion, voice to text with AI and to play minecraft singleplayer, with shaders.

My thinkpads can work without my portable ssd, and they run unencrypted Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS with basic stuff like firefox and realistic documents and normie stuff, so that it doesn't look suspicious :)

pretty cool :=)

Slowly moving to nixos for everything but still have a few laptops on arch. For servers I'm on CentOS for work compat/similarity. And one Ubuntu server for Plex.

I use Gentoo. We have what's probably the most flexible and powerful package manager for Linux.

Adding new packages is trivial; an ebuild script is created which describes how to build the package, along with a little metadata. This is placed into an ebuild repository - I like to contribute to the Gentoo one, but any folder structure will do (however git is by for the most common method). It's not uncommon for a Gentoo user to package software outside the official repos. These will have all of the features (like configurability via USE flags) that ebuilds in the official repo have.

These repositories, for convenience, may be registered with Gentoo and linked on https://repos.gentoo.org/ where the eselect repository tool can be used to add them by name from the index. http://gpo.zugaina.org/ indexes known ebuild repos and can help you to identify whether or not something has already been packaged.

Nobara 38 - Gnome/Wayland

I started with Ubuntu a few years ago and have stuck with Debian-like distros ever since.

I currently use Pop!Os on notebooks and OMV on my NAS.

If I ever find the time, I plan to play around with something Arch based for my gaming PC when the time comes to switch from Windows.

Ubuntu / PopOS user here.

Someone here mentioned NixOS and it made me want to speak up. I've been thinking of moving to BlendOS or VanillaOS for a while now. I've been using them virtualized and I think I like blendOS more.

With that being said, I'm really intrigued by all those distros picking up the immutable atomic core update model. I want my system to always be up to date but I want it to be stable as well. I feel this is the true power of containers.

My question here is, does anyone use an immutable and atomic distro on their desktop PC like blendOS, VanillaOS, Fedora silver blue, or NixOS?

If so, what is it like?

Note: I know that steamOS, HoloISO, and ChimaeraOS are also immutable and atomic but I don't count those as "desktop" distros. I have been testing ChimeraOS myself on an AMD 5600X3D based platform and aside from Bluetooth latency issues, it's very very nice.

EndevourOS. A better just-works Arch based distro than Manjaro. I might switch to Arch

Laptop: NixOS, mostly to try it out. So far I'm really liking it. Fileserver: Open Media Vault (it's Debian with a cool web UI) Container servers: Ubuntu, but I'm thinking of switching them out. Still contemplating between Rocky or Debian.

Arch on my desktop; Debian on the box running my Lemmy instance; and macOS on my laptops. I've tried all the major ones; I've only ever liked Debian, pre-snap Ubuntu, and Arch. I'm only using Arch on my desktop because the RX6000 series drivers weren't in the Debian repos at the time I installed (and had just recently been merged). I'll probably switch back to Debian when it breaks; but for now, Arch works and has been pretty stable.

As someone who was pretty die hard Ubuntu since 08.04, around 22.04 ish I started to get rather irritated with the direction Canonical was pulling in. I tried Fedora, Arch, and Opensuse Tumbleweed, and ended up settling on Tumbleweed. It's kinda nice being so close to the bleeding edge, but without some of the annoyances of Arch. I've stuck with Tumbleweed for around 8 months now and don't think I'll be going anywhere for a while.

Server stuff - I used to run Ubuntu server with docker, but these days I'm running Proxmox and am using Alpine as the OS for the VMs/LXC containers it hosts.

Rocky Linux. Trying out something out of my comfort zone.

Started with Slackware back in 1993. First issue was convincing my boss I needed a couple dozen 3-1/2 inch floppies. Next was compiling the kernel with support for my network and video cards. Good times!

These days it's pretty much Ubuntu everywhere and all the time from our cloud systems to the deep learning workstation I built last month.

I don't miss compiling my own kernels.

Ubuntu 23.04 for my laptop. I experiment with other distros from time to time when I grow bored but getting back to Ubuntu is like putting on my favourite pair of jeans.

Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition is my home. It has been since almost the beginning of my Linux journey (Raspbian Wheezy was my very first distro). I just love how polished it is.

I went from Debian to Solus, tried EndeavourOS for a while and finally settled for Fedora.

Fedora XFCE spin <3

I'm running Armbian Debian on my Orange Pi Zéro running Adguard Home.

artix with xfce, i ve used arch with bspwm for a while now i m a simpler man

I've been running Fedora for many years now. Prior to that, I tried used Ubuntu for a bit. When Unity's search started throwing in Amazon results, I said nope, I'm out.

Fedora is fitting. My very first distro was RedHat 6. I picked up a book from the public library with install discs. (A friend told me all the hackers use Linux, so I figured I needed to get it. After all, I could compile basic C++ programs in Microsoft Visual Studio!) I tried Mandrake too. A coworker of mine helped maintain a compile-from-source distro called Lunar, so I ran with that for a couple years. Then Debian, then Ubuntu, and finally Fedora.

My early distro hopping was a combination of curiosity and a heavy handed solution to not knowing how to get something to work. Some library version isn't easily available in RedHat? Wipe the system and try Mandrake!

Tumbleweed with KDE is my favorite flavor. I have all sorts of machines and vm's running which use Debian, Ubuntu, Leap, Rocky, and Alma.

Tumbleweed is my daily driver. Ubuntu and Debian have been my primary vm distro, but Alma and Rocky I've been dabbling with. I use Leap on various apple machines I have as it seems to play nicer with the stupid Broadcom wireless adapters apple uses.

Gentoo

Desktop/Workstation = Arch

Servers: Ubuntu

I'm also tech support for my wife's laptop running Kubuntu.

Fedora now and probably forever but I wanna try NixOS for a month soon. I installed it in a VM and it is very different to any other distro I've ever tried