Asklemmy

Linux, usually Arch or Mint

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.

Fedora and Arch right now. Fedora is what I main and Arch is just for ricing and testing things. Been trying out VanillaOS recently and I really like it. I use Void and Gentoo on occasion when I feel like tinkering.

I adore Linux, but at present, I use Windows 11 on all my devices.

My main PC is primarily for gaming, with an NVIDIA GPU (which whilst much better on Linux now, still isn't perfect), so Windows works better there.

For work, also Windows 11, since I'm a software dev, creating Windows software with .NET, ASP.NET, deploying to Windows machines, IIS, using MS SQL server etc. All in Visual Studio.

The Windows ecosystem just... works better for my use-cases, regardless of how much I do like Linux!

Windows 10 on my main box, Ubuntu on my two media servers and OSX on my laptop

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.

Linux Mint on my main computer, and I've been using my old laptop for distro hopping but I think I might settle on MX Linux.

Fell in love with macOS since I started using it in elementary school. Been using macOS as my primary OS for many years now, with Windows 11 for gaming whenever I decide to game on my PC (which isn't too often) and I also have a Chromebook that I put EndeavourOS on just for fun.

Void Linux on my Thinkpad and Thinkstation. On Pinephone and Pinetab I'm running postmarketOS. I really like postmarketOS and using apk, so if I were to get a new laptop or every change the distro on my laptop or desktop, then I might try Alpine. On raspberry pi 3, it's raspbian. I use that mainly to run pi-hole and pivpn.

I distro hopped for a little while, but then settled on Void. It does what I need and was easy to get set up how I want. It's a rolling release and I haven't ever had any big issues with upgrading. The worst issue I've had was when they recently removed pipewire-media-session and switched to wireplumber. After checking a couple posts on reddit and on void's documentation, I got it set up the recommended way without any trouble and audio is working fine.

edit: wanted to add that my Thinkpad also has OpenBSD as a dual boot option, but I haven't booted into it in a long time. One day I'd like to try a BSD as a server(not on a laptop, of course.) Also, the Thinkstation has Windows 10/Void dual boot, but I never boot into Windows.

Windows. Primarily because I play a lot of PC games and do PCVR and while Linux has come a long way it's still more of a PITA to use for a lot of things.

I just use Ubuntu 22.04 on my personal home-built PC. It just works, and I'm not interested in too much tinkering. My wife's PC also runs Ubuntu 22.04, I have a ton of raspberry Pi's with standard raspbian on them. And my work laptop runs Windows 11 and it is decent enough.

I'm happy. I can run Steam with all the games I want pretty flawlessly, with some minor tinkering sometimes. But it is a solid experience.

Arch Linux and Windows 10 dual boot.

Generally, I like Linux because it's FOSS and I can use i3wm. Arch Linux specifically because the AUR makes installing software really easy. Almost everything I use is available there.

I keep Windows for programs that don't work under Wine. I haven't touched this disk for some time because all of my Windows programs work on Wine now.

Windows 11 for gaming and SuSE Tumbleweed for work and development, mostly Rust.

Only thing preventing me from gaming on SuSE is that the speakers on my Asus Strix laptop sounds godawful on Linux and the microphone is full of static crackle.

My main personal computer is a macbook with apple silicon. I use "Mac OS X" since the inital Public Beta - and man i miss the PPC days... - but i also use MorphOS daily (Mac Mini G4) and Linux/SteamOS in for personal computing in its dock from time to time. macOS has still the best UX for me - i still hope it will return to a more desktop and less mobile UX/UI like in the 10.4 - 10.14 days... SteamOS works just awesome for a Linux and is very polished compared with for example a stock debian installation imho

Windows 10 on my desktop. I game and work on it, and there are applications for my job that I can't get to work on Linux (even on Wine).

My laptop is on Linux (Endeavour OS). It's my portable device and I don't use it for work so Linux, imho, is my best choice. It's pretty old as well.

Windows, it's easy to set up all the games I want and I'd have to run an emulator to use a Linux distro and still play everything I want to.

The last version I paid for was Windows 7 however, I only took the Win10 upgrade when things slowly stopped working because of driver issues.

I dual boot Windows and Arch Linux. I only keep Windows around for some games that don't work in Linux currently, as well as the occasional software that doesn't have a Linux equivalent (or the equivalent has issues such as compatibility) though. Mostly everything else is done in Linux, and I'm quite happy with it!

As for the "why" on Linux, I've always loved interacting in a CLI environment, and enjoy the dev experience on Linux. And as cliche as it sounds, I do like "owning" my system and feeling like I actually get to make executive decisions as to how/what it runs.

There's a lot I love about Linux, and when I ran a potato computer and ran my own business and had a PS2/3/4 for gaming, Linux was awesome. Got into Destiny back in the D1 days so when I built a PC in 2020 I definitely wanted to play D2, which meant I had to run Windows. By that point I had also been running Windows at work because I need a lot of Adobe and Excel so it wasn't too bad to switch.

I have 2 laptops (work and personal) and both run Arch Linux.

Reason:

• Rolling release
• AUR
• ArchWiki

Fedora 36 on both my desktop and laptop. (that's GNU/Linux). Its not the latest because I have outdated hardware. Occasionally dual booth Windows for Valorant and FL Studio.

As to why. I enjoy an Operating System where I can change everything. For me this is Linux. I customize to the point where everything works then I don't touch it. I used to be obsessed with changing stuff. But this way I have it the way I like it. If anyone is curious, go check out [email protected]

Windows 11. VR sim racing isn't good on Linux yet.

At home? Manjaro Linux. When I was looking to learn Linux I compared different distro's and decided that one seemed the nicest combo between ease, stability, and power. Overwrote my Windows on my school laptop and figured "now I have to learn".

Over the years I tried some others like Ubuntu (and related) Debian (and related), and Kali. But I never found them as nice to use. But to be honest, since I'm quite content I'm not distrohopping too much and most where tried out of necessity.

Been running Manjaro for a few years now as main OS everywhere on my own computers, with only a minimal Windows installation on a separate SSD for the few games that don't work smoothly on Linux yet. At this moment, only 4 are left, mainly due to mods that don't run in Linux rather than the games itself.

Still got a Windows laptop for work, as it's necessarily there. Also got a few Linux servers there as well tho, to which I connect remotely when needed.

* tips Fedora*

My daily driver is a MacBook but I have other machines running Windows and Pop! OS (System 76)

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on HDD and Windows 10 AME on SSD, on a ThinkPad. Best of all worlds. Works incredibly without hassles.

Also, I have Windows XP with MS Office 2007 in it, as a VM on Linux, which incredibly reduces my needs to use Windows directly.

I have three laptops.

My late-2010s home laptop runs Debian 11, because strangely nothing else will boot anymore.

My late-2000s ThinkPad runs Arch, because I like pacman and a ThinkPad like that needs a hackery OS. BSD, Slackware, Void and Gentoo would also fit, but I prefer Arch.

My mid-2000s MacBook runs GNU Guix. Not really sure why I picked it, but it's a working system on fussy hardware, so I'm happy. However, being a Mac, this doesn't really count as a PC.