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What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?

I myself am a daily Void user. I used to use Devuan, but wanted to try rolling release and ended up loving Void!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Switch from Windows to Fedora as my daily driver and for some gaming. Works flawlessly and I love every parts of it. Linux has such cool distros and communities

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Fedora all the way. I've been using it for 6-7 years now, I simply love how it is pretty stable, while still being able to have mostly up-to-date software. And I never had any issues during versions upgrades. And I guess that I can also count SteamOS as a distribution that I use thanks to my Steam Deck.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My laptop is on Manjaro and has been running flawlessly for years ...such a great experience with gnome 40+

My desktop is also on Manjaro, and things could not be more different. No Wayland, no animations in the gnome desktop, visual glitches since the last update ...guess it doesn't play well with Nvidia drivers. Anyone managing something decent with gnome+Nvidia?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Servers: Debian Stable no DE

Desktop: Pop OS or Ubuntu

I've used everything from Arch and Gentoo to fedora and Ubuntu. But I found myself enjoying the stability of Debian but hating the lack of newer packages. The latter of which isnt usually a problem when it comes to single purpose servers.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I'm currently using a mix of Arch and Fedora, but I've been starting to look in to NixOS.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Debain - cuz my production VMs need to run all day, every day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Mainly running Gentoo, on my desktop, laptop, and even my desktop at work. Though my homelab is mainly Debian, with a small number of AlmaLinux nodes as well.

At work it's almost all RHEL though, since support contracts are nice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I personally use NixOS (unstable) on my PC and openSUSE Tumbleweed on my laptop (didn't have time to switch it to NixOS).

I also use NixOS on my Pi 4

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Garuuuuuda. Love it. Been running it for the past few years. The devs come off as assholes, but they're actually just German;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Kubuntu for me. Ive been an on again off again user of either Ubuntu or kubuntu for over a decade now, but that might have to change here soon. The integration of snap is driving me insane, so I've been looking into arch distros recently

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Fedora, for the “It Just Works”™ experience of an enterprise-supported distro.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Only used Linux for a couple of months and use Fedora currently. Been through a fair few distros, but think Im gonna stick with Fedora for a while.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I use Pop OS! on my daily computer and laptop and Ubuntu on my home server

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm a opensuse tumbleweed user on my desktop and laptop. I also have an ubuntu home server.

I really like tumbleweed, but I have been thinking of switching to an immutable distro like guix or nix. I've tried guix several times and found it pretty good, but never stick with it due to its lack of KDE plasma support. Maybe I should give nix a try.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm pretty vanilla. I use fedora for desktop and debian for servers.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Hanna Montana Linux as my daily driver. Endeavouros for work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I personally use Pop OS just because it has so many of the settings I like out of the box. I started out on Ubuntu, but one day I felt like a change but I couldn't get into other distros for one reason or another. Pop OS was similar enough to what I liked, but also different enough to be fresh for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

No matter what I do I always end up back at Fedora, Silverblue specifically for the last several releases, fits my desire for an OS that gets out of my way and just lets me do what I need to do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Right now I'm using PopOs but I'll switch to Opensuse Leap or Fedora. I hope they don't give me any trouble with the Nvidia drivers

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have been using Fedora for a year now. Had used Pop OS for about 6months before that.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I have two machines for different purposes - the desktop is the one that other people use that I'm not allowed to break, so that one just dual boots Pop!OS and Windows 10.

The laptop is my own tinkering machine, so that one is Arch and KDE, perpetually in various states of disarray.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Now I am using fedora, before that I used debian stable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

These days I'm basic and I use Ubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Right now i am using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. But i am experimenting with NixOS as well. Bdw first comment on lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I came back to stay on Fedora and so far I'm really liking it haven't changed for ages. I came from endeavour OS because eventually some updates just broke the system which is why I switched to it in the first place from Manjaro. the only trouble I had was reinstalling nvidia graphic driver after an upgrade from 37 to 38 but I got sorted eventually.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Proxmox on server with Debian VMs. Debian 12 with KDE Plasma on workstation. So basically Debian all the way.

Have used Linux Mint and Pop!_OS in the past, but the name of the latter is annoying enough to make me use something else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I use Lubuntu 22.04 on my old laptop from 2009. It still shows it's age while surfing the web, but it's surprisingly snappy and usable otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Fedora on an old laptop, piOS on a pi2 and Ubuntu on my newer laptop although I'm planning to change it to Fedora too..after 12 years of Ubuntu and 4 release upgrades in a row my system seems kinda broken and my apt is definetly broken with many sources.list entries that didn't upgrade well.. I don't like having dozens of loopback entries when I do a fdisk command ..it's annoying and looks like it's because of snaps ..also I get every day to update something in snap store but it fails every single time ...so maybe I'll go by Fedora next..Planning to use the new Debian Bookworm to set a server with this old desktop I getting from a friend to self host some services

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I used to use Debian but after switching to Fedora Silverblue two years ago I've had zero inkling to distrohop. I love that it allows me to tinker without breaking my system (which I used to do with Debian).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Pop!_OS. I have always loved System76 and have one of their laptops, as well as an HP Dev One that I use as a daily driver. The convenience and tiling system of the DE is the simplest I've used so far and works perfectly. I used to run Arch but I just don't want to deal with it anymore, honestly.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Been using nobara with kde for the last 2-3 months

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Linux Mint for desktops/laptops (Cinnamon if the hardware can handle it, MATE if it's a bit long in the tooth), and Debian for servers.

I've used several distros (yes, even Arch btw) through the years but I just keep finding myself coming back to the Debian-based ones. I guess I just feel most at-home with the way it has things set up, or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I distro hop a lot. After using Majaro (gnome) for a long time I switched to Pop_OS for a long time. I switched back to Manjaro (Gnome) again, but after a week of use I've just downloaded Ubuntu.

I'm getting basic display issues that I've never got in another distro (including tails!) and it's generally annoying me. I'd rather use a distro that doesn't require troubleshooting on Day 1

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been using Arch for years, but NixOS may be in my near future.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Xubuntu for over ten years now. It was the first thing I landed on when in a panic that my store-bought, WinXP -preinstalled PC was failing and I couldn't afford to be without it nor replace it. Even after being so grateful for it rescuing me, it's also taught me, and worked flawlessly for all I need from my computers since.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I started using Linux in October 2020 with Manjaro KDE (not including trying out nearly every major beginner-friendly distro in VMs before installing it on bare metal), then I moved to EndeavourOS - still with KDE - in July 2021 and am still on that same install.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just recently switched to Arch and I gotta say, the AUR is indispensible! Also really like how fast pacman is.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

These days I mostly use Manjaro, though I've been thinking of giving the Suse rolling release a try.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Manjaro is great. Gives you all of the needed features of Arch, without the need to go through a clean install.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mostly NixOS unstable. I have one machine still on Arch, but i plan to switch that to NixOS too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I tried NixOS for a bit. Why do you like it over Arch?

[–] EXiLExJD 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I started with Kubuntu, then hopped to EndeavourOS and then moved to Fedora KDE. I've been using Fedora KDE since F36 released and have been quite happy with it.

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