I've been using Mint Cinnamon for a while now. It runs beautifully with fewer firmware issues than Ubuntu on my XPS. Even though it shipped with Ubuntu.
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For my main computers, I've moved them all to Arch from Manjaro & EndeavorOS within the past 4 years. Though been meaning to try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed eventually. Haven't used OpenSUSE in over 10 years.
I have a laptop running Proxmox for my servers, which is debian-based but uses a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel. Great to use to try out other distros in VMs as well.
Laptop and Workstation run Fedora. Servers run Proxmox.
Can't say that there is anything new and exciting. Big change for me has been that I have accepted flatpacks. I've gotten to the point where I don't care about being a purist, don't care about customizing and theming everything. I just want to use my computer.
Debian testing. Seriously. That is reasonably easy to install and configure unlike Arch or Gentoo, but doesn't come with "user friendly" corporate crap like Ubuntu and its derivatives.
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Arch + gnome but it doesn't matter at this point
Fedora. I've been looking into fedora silverblue and vanilla os as well but I'm chilling with regular fedora for now
Void
Garuda on my gaming desktop, fedora bazzite on my gaming laptop. Loving both to be honest.
I'm a Mint Cinnamon guy.
Fedora but I’m not loving it. Due to my hardware I think I’m limited to that, arch and openSuse.
? If you're hardware runs Fedora, it should run anything
OS/2
Fun fact, it took os2 5 years to implement a tcpip stack. It was like 1993 before it could do internet things
To be fair, Winsock was a kludgy mess for the better part of a decade itself.
Dude.
I'm about ready to hop back in and daily drive Linux again after the nightmare that was attempting debian w/KDE plasma and Wayland. I have a Nvidia GPU on my laptop and for some reason I did not have luck at all after moderate success daily driving opensuse tumbleweed and kubuntu for a while.
I'm admittedly looking to onboard myself to the gnome workflow and leave the comfort of the windows style desktop environment experience. Gnome seems a bit more polished and stable than KDE plasma but it's interface isn't intuitive to me yet.
Ideally I'll be using Debian or Arch when the time comes for me to dive back into desktop Linux.
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Devuan (Debian without systemd), stable (Daedalus) with backports. Been running Debian since 2000, Devuan since 2018. I am at a point where I just want consistency and familiarity in my setup.
Edit: as far as cool new things, I have moved to pipewire for audio and leveraging a selfhosted nextcloud for web based file storage. For a personal setup (limited users) I just installed Nextcloud office which is basically Libreoffice in a browser like Google docs. I am also using mythtv with an hdhomerun for broadcast tv. None of this is really "new" but new to me. The setup of these functions has been fairly straightforward for me and I appreciate all the work these projects have put to make the setup and maintenance fairly painless.
- Laptop: Opensuse slowroll with Sway
- Home PC: Arch with KDE
- Home server: Debian 12 (headless)
Nobara because I am a beginner that uses his PC primaryly for gaming
Mint, mint and mint (laptop, pc, server), just because I'm a lazy bum.
I mean everything is working so... (I'm not a *nix nerd so I just don't understand flatpak pacman etc.)
Cheers !
kubuntu
kde connect wasn't working on endeavouros with sway and i wanted something easy and debian based