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

Debian stable on my main and arch on my laptop.

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

Arch and it's variants, depending on when I feel like reinstalling again, currently testing the waters with EndeavourOS

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

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.

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

Debian since 1.1

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

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

[–] wilberfan 2 points 1 year ago

I've been really happy with Manjaro for quite awhile now.

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

Arch, or, well, EndeavourOS to be exact. Have it on both my Desktop and Laptop. It + XFCE cured my distrohoping

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

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.

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

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.

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

Daily use: Linux Mint

Funsies: VOID

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

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.

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

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.

[–] colonial 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] kabukimeow 2 points 1 year ago

I have Linux Mint on my laptop (Windows 10 on my desktop)

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

Manjaro on desktop, Proxmox for my VM hosts, and usually Ubuntu Server on individual server VMs.

[–] Tentaclius 2 points 1 year ago

Fedora. Cause it's the distro of choice of my employer and I'm just lazy.

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

Using Fedora 38 right now. Good stuff

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

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.

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

EndevourOS, running gnome and x11 for better gaming performance.

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

I'm a Trisquel user. Though, I'm thinking of moving to Guix.

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

Arch w/ XFCE

[–] G59 2 points 1 year ago

I'm very happy with Arch. Before that I was using Mint.

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

Arch. Super happy with it. Been running it on all computers for a decade or so.

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

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.

[–] corey389 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] kevinbacon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any reason to not use debian, new update seems okay?

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[–] Fudgeknuckles98 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arch, Suse Micro os and Fedora silverblue. I would like to add gentoo but by beard is not long enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] 18107 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] goodnessme 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am running Ubuntu on my machines and spin up Docker containers if I need other flavours.

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