Asklemmy

Void linux with swaywm. Its blazingly fast and I lime to tinker

Linux, usually Arch or Mint

This week it's arch, though I do dual boot win11 specifically for iracing and iracing alone as that doesn't let me run it under proton.

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

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.

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

I'm a programmer and what you'd probably call a computer nerd. I used Windows XP, Vista and 7 until 2016, when I then decided to give Linux (Mint+Cinnamon) a try. Loved it so much, my dual boot days were short and I quickly started using the penguin OS as my sole daily driver. After some very traditional distro hopping, I landed on Manjaro KDE, and have been a happy user for some years.
From an end-user PoV, Manjaro is great because of the frequent rolling-release package updates, nice community support and kernel and driver tools (the mhwd ones), while KDE Plasma is by far my favourite desktop environment, being simple by default but very powerful when needed. GNOME has a more Apple-y look to it, which I know is quite attractive as well, but since I'm more of a power user, KDE stuff is a no-brainer. Other DEs and tilling WMs are also nice, but I'm so happy with KDE I'm not going to switch anytime soon.

Arch Linux (old laptop) and Windows 10 (on my gaming PC, at least until it reaches end of life, then it's all gonna be linux)

Windows. I have windows apps that I need to use at work, as well as MS Office functionality that is not well supported on MacOS. So at home I use the same OS, to avoid getting annoyed due to changes in the operating systems. I develop for Linux-based docker containers, though.

You must get a completely different view than "normal people" here. I use Alma Linux 9 (RHEL9 clone) because it's what we use at work, and I've known RedHat since 1999. I use it because it generally is exceptionally stable, and can easily go 6 months without forcing a reboot. It also is much less likely to spy on me, and does most everything I need a computer to do.

Also, using XFCE for my DE means I don't have to relearn something every release version (XFCE has stayed the same all through v4 more or less, which is like at least since 2012. Some new icons here or there.

No forced cloud integration, my account is local, the way I like it. I also am much less concerned about malware (maybe this is unjustified in 2023, I guess IDK).

I got fed up with Microsoft with the rollout of Win10, and switched to Scientific Linux 7 at that time (RHEL7) and just migrated this year to Alma 9 and a new PC. I actually ran the same workstation for 12 years before that. Somehow, even with updates Linux doesn't seem to bloat the way Windows did / would. I.e. I haven't had a Linux install get slower over time for no reason like every Windows install.

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

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.

I use Solus OS . Pretty much the perfect distro for me , I have tried so many distros (ubuntu , mint , endeavour , fedora etc) but no one felt as smooth and snappier to me as solus . Eopkg(it's package manager) might be limited but has all the softwares I need m so no complaining from my side . Also I like how fast it is . Solus is a rolling release distro and is still very stable , never encountered any problems with it . I was afraid that it may die and started looking for alternatives ,sadly never found one as good as solus to me . But thankfully Solus's founder and buddies of budgie's lead are back and making sure the project isn't dead.

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

Reason:

• Rolling release
• AUR
• ArchWiki

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.

Windows 10 I have to use it at work, so I am also using it at home, Tried to switch to Linux about 20 years. But it did not meet my primary use case back then (mostly gaming), so I switched back. Nowadays I am on my PC so scarcely that it does not make any sense to me to use this limited time to get used to a new OS.

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

Windows for when I'm gaming and anything else Popos. Linux is getting more support than ever for games thanks to valve/steamdeck though so I find myself switching back to Windows less and less

* tips Fedora*

Currently using void linux, but been thinking about switching to debian 12 when my exams are over ...

Windows 11. I play games and my PC is hooked up to an HDR tv, so it's easier than 10. I also don't want to be left behind on tech/UI because of my stubborness.

I don't think it's an improvement over 10, especially the Start Menu. I've had to do some 3rd party tweaking and change to Enterprise edition so I can get rid of "recommended" stuff.

I've had some small experience with Ubuntu and Linux in general via a laptop server and seedbox but I just find it too bothersome to do small tasks compared to Windows. I'm sure it'd change eventually but I don't want to have to look up a command every time I want to change something.

Windows 10 for machine learning and gaming, and Mint Linux for almost everything else. I fucking hate the NVIDIA/Microsoft monopoly with CUDA/etc but they're pretty much the only game in town at this point

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).

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

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.

Gentoo gang

Trying to balance all the libraries and programs I need for ham radio, astronomy, CAD/CAM, emulation (VMs and consoles), containers, gaming, flight simulation, and software development basically requires the granularity of fine tuning it provides.

Windows 11 on my gaming desktop because it's still difficult to beat in gaming workloads (although Valve is doing promising things with SteamOS along with the advancements in Proton and Wine) . macOS on my school laptop due to the battery life and great developer tools along with it's integration with iPhone/Airpods. Arch on my project laptop because it can run almost anything I can download off of Github and it has a great software library with the AUR. I'm not really loyal to any operating system, I just use what I think is the right tool for the job.

Windows 10. I got a Ryzen 5900x that works fine on an old bios version. Upgrading to windows 11 requires me to upgrade the bios or get tTPM stutters. However, the new bios versions reduce the (single core) performance...So I'm sticking with windows 10 for now. I have windows 11 on my laptop and don't mind it. Tried Linux multiple times over the past 15 years, but it always kills itself within weeks. As a server it works well though.

Pi Desktop

Simple and fast

Windows 10, mainly because two factors: I use a lot of macros on office at work, and Clip Studio Paint... But I'm considering going full Linux once Windows 10 goes EoL, since CSP is going with their subscription model I plan on using Krita. I just need to see if I can use my work files with office+wine

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.

Arch because of the neofetch

Debian Testing with XFCE. When I need Wayland (for testing my app), i use Sway.

1. Performance. I'm stuck with an old computer right now.
2. No reliance on quirky black-box packages. It is less 'wrapped' unlike Mint, and more 'wrapped', unlike Arch. Compared to Arch (btw), Debian has some distro-management apps, like update-alternatives and synaptic. Also, it breaks less often, provided the system is used properly.

Also, I use Debian Stable on a VPS, because you don't want to sacrifice security to bleeding edge.

Linux Mint (Cinnamon) as my daily driver, and if I absolutely must use Windows for something then it's LTSC IoT edition (at least then it is usable!)