Asklemmy

Arch because:

• it is the only distro I could install my wifi drivers on when I started with GNU/Linux
• too poor to afford hardware for Gentoo
• bloat = bad
• spyware = bad
• Appl€ & Micro$oft = bad

Windows 11.

I just require Windows for a lot of software. The thing holding me back from switching to a Linux distro, used to be Adobe Premiere and Adobe Photoshop. I have since moved to DaVinci resolve, and I also purchased the Affinity Suite.

Now the problem is that the Affinity Suite doesn't support Linux either..

It's getting exhausting trying to make Linux work for me, and I already have to give up a lot of stuff, and make compromises, so I'm just sticking with Windows.

Debian and Arch Linux. The Yin and Yang of Linux distros. Debian daily, Arch for occasional gaming

Laptop: popos Reason: 2 hours battery on windows, 8-12 hours on popos due to sleep issues on windows and Nvidia GPU not turning off on windows.

Desktop: Windows, too many apps without relevant replacements.

Servers: Linux or bsd(depending on vm/reason)

Ubuntu Mate on two main PCs. One running windows ten for TurboTax 😭

OpenSUSE on Desktop, macOS for laptop. I’ve used macOS on portables for years now but only in the last 3ish months have I gone the linux Desktop.

As to the “why” - macOS because it’s polished, tightly integrated with the hardware, the ecosystem works harmoniously, it’s secure and Unix-based (Darwin is the name of the base OS used for both macOS and iOS).

For Desktop - I used Windows pretty much all my life but it’s gradually turned into a bloated advertising and tracking engine. I’m speaking as a home user and a 10+ year IT professional. Linux has come in leaps and bounds and OpenSUSE is an enterprise-grade OS that also happens to run games and other personal things nicely. If I wasn’t using it I’d probably be using Red Hat but I dumped it largely due to their shitty business practices.

Desktop: Fedora Laptop: Arch

Both use KDE, though I've also played around with i3/sway/hyprland on my laptop.

I used to have Windows on a separate partition, then on a separate hard drive... Once I realized I hadn't booted into it in months I got rid of it completely and haven't looked back.

Gaming was one of my last tethers and it's gotten so good in recent years that at most I only need to do some minor setup and tweaking, if that. Proton ,Vulkan, and DXVK have really made it all possible.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, because it's stable enough while also beign a rolling release distribution. I wanted to remove the hassle of updating debian/ubuntu once in a while to jump through LTS versions.

Xubuntu because I am lazy these days.

Manjaro i3 as my personal machine.

Mac OS on M1 MBP as my primary work machine.

Win 11 on the company-provided laptop, primarily for when I need Windows-only software (Visual Studio, etc.) or run labs in Hyper-V.

I mostly use Arch Linux, as the customizability and package selection is excellent.
On the rare occasion I need to use a piece of software that doesn't play nicely with Linux (even with Wine/Proton), I boot up onto a secondary drive that has Windows 10 installed on it.

Win11 for work laptop. Wn11 on my personal desktop, with WSL. I use Debian on my personal laptop and a number of "servers" running Debian.

Well I currently only have a MacBook so MacOS :p

Ubuntu cinnamon on my shared computer. MABOX Linux on my fuck-around Chromebook.

Arch linux - Love the bleeding edge side of it, as well as the AUR, and wanted something with a bit more learning potential than Fedora, which is what I was previously using.

GNU Guix System. 100% free software, focus on reproducible builds, declarative configuration, packages are just Scheme modules stored in a git repository. I've written packages for guix (I helped with the Icedove package) and find it to be fairly straightforward once I understood the syntax and basic data structures.

One particularly nifty feature of guix is that you can specify a commit or version number to build a package with, so if the package is out of date you can still get the latest version (assuming it still builds of course).

Fedora 38 on a Framwork laptop.

I've been running linux as my primary OS (for personal and work) since the late 90s. Windows and Mac just feel so unproductive.

I'm using Linux Mint rn on my laptop. I am using it because I have used other Debians for 15 years and they are easy to use, and easy to tweak. And same commands!

Windows 10. Why? Because 80% of my creative software doesn't work on Linux and I dislike Apple products.

Windows 11

Archcraft with hyprland because it works exactly the way i want it to.

Windows on my PC (ugh) and Fedora on my laptop, been thinking of moving the PC to linux mint, but still a bit hesitant.

Pirated version of Windows 10 LTSC (v2021) because FUCK Microsoft.

Linux, usually Arch or Mint