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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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.
Debian
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?
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.
I'm currently using a mix of Arch and Fedora, but I've been starting to look in to NixOS.
SUSE
Debain - cuz my production VMs need to run all day, every day.
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.
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
Garuuuuuda. Love it. Been running it for the past few years. The devs come off as assholes, but they're actually just German;)
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
Fedora, for the “It Just Works”™ experience of an enterprise-supported distro.
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.
I use Pop OS! on my daily computer and laptop and Ubuntu on my home server
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.
Gnu guix
Hanna Montana Linux as my daily driver. Endeavouros for work.
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.
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.
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
Have been using Fedora for a year now. Had used Pop OS for about 6months before that.
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.
Now I am using fedora, before that I used debian stable.
These days I'm basic and I use Ubuntu.
Right now i am using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. But i am experimenting with NixOS as well. Bdw first comment on lemmy!
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.
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
Been using nobara with kde for the last 2-3 months
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.
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
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.
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.
I just recently switched to Arch and I gotta say, the AUR is indispensible! Also really like how fast pacman is.
These days I mostly use Manjaro, though I've been thinking of giving the Suse rolling release a try.
Manjaro is great. Gives you all of the needed features of Arch, without the need to go through a clean install.
Mostly NixOS unstable. I have one machine still on Arch, but i plan to switch that to NixOS too.
I tried NixOS for a bit. Why do you like it over Arch?
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.