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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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[–] datwillpowerdo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

I use primarily Fedora for desktop/dual boot and minimal Rocky for server. I mess with Arch and Manjaro when I'm feeling adventurous.

[–] Link@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago
[–] branchial@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

Guix. It's awesome to know exactly what I have installed and be able to replicate it on other machines.

[–] hugz@lemmy.ml 5 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

[–] Ultra980@lemmy.ml 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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[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] AceLucario@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

After some hopping, I've been settled on Fedora KDE spin for a while because it just works for me.

[–] singron@lemmy.world 5 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.

[–] lemmy_349q8@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] dirac_field@lemmy.one 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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[–] petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

I'm using Fedora Silverblue. I can recommend it.

[–] matt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Debian.

Just works, things are made targetting it specifically, able to get latest software if I need it by installing flatpaks.

Can't complain really.

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[–] cefadroxilthranduil@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] open_world@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Endeavor OS. I've been sticking to solely Arch or Arch-based distros since 2017 and I've been pretty happy so far.

[–] retnuh@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

Switched around in the past but been on Debian with KDE for the past year or so

[–] soller@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a few dozen computers and most run Pop!_OS.

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[–] estebanlm@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Manjaro. I am a guy of habits, so I never really distro-hopped, I once tried to install Arch and failed to configure everything so I tried endeavour and failed too (which would mean I am not a tech guy either ;). Ultimately, I'd say that the distribution does not matters much once you are used to it, you can always get what you want from any of them. The only thing I really like in comparison with others is pacman :)

[–] Signfeld@lemm.ee 5 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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[–] Malin@omg.qa 5 points 2 years ago
[–] deeznats@lemmy.ml 5 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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[–] TooLazyDidntName@lemmy.world 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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[–] d4r1us_drk@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

I use Fedora Kionite. I was using Silverblue previously but Plasma 5.27 got me. I also tend to switch to Arch sometimes to play with tiling window managers.

[–] poorsocialskills@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

My initial Linux years ago was RedHat, then Fedora. Since then I’ve generally used Ubuntu mainline with a healthy pile of Gnome customization. Right now I’m looking at Kubuntu or KDE Neon, since I’m finding I prefer KDE Plasma to Gnome.

[–] dufkm@lemmy.world 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.

[–] myogg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Arch, nothing beats the availability and ease of installing packages from the AUR

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[–] kudzu@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used Fedora for a while but now I'm using OpenSUSE and I like it

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[–] Lyxea@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[–] marcdw@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Currently... Slackware on main laptop. Slint (Slackware-based) on mini-pc. MX Linux (fvwm respin), Void, and OpenBSD on old laptop. NsCDE is desktop on all except MX.

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[–] kylian0087@lemmy.world 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!

[–] KHTangent@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I've used Mint since I started using Linux, and never had any major issues. I've therefore just stuck with it. I don't always have the time to tinker with my machine if something should break, and Mint usually just works when I need it, while still providing flexibility when I want it (and Timeshift to fix it when I break stuff)

[–] Adi2121@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Fedora. I started my Linux journey 1 year ago with Pop!_OS, then switched to Endeavor OS, an Arch based distro for beginners because I felt limited due to the Ubuntu/Debian base. I liked Endeavor, but it was too easy to break and I had to reinstall it several times. Ichoese Fedora due to its stability while maintaing up-to-date packages. Fedora has been a great experience for a long time.

[–] atamblingpoder@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

Fedora Silverblue (I made the final switch from Tumbleweed when I discovered that flatpak mpv also has vaapi and the steam and lutris flatpaks work flawlessly)

[–] nobloat@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Currently using Fedora. I love the experience

[–] coldredlight@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

I run PopOS on my laptop. It's been really solid, except Linux doesn't support the speaker amp so I can only get sound out via the headphone jack or bluetooth.

[–] hellothisisdog@yiffit.net 4 points 2 years ago

fedora and void :D fedora mostly because my work uses centos so the muscle memory is already there for almost everything. void because it is cool and fast 💙

[–] CaptJRoger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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.

[–] fernandu00@lemmy.ml 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

[–] lynny@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Gentoo Linux. I am too particular about my system to use anything else.

Takes a lot of time to set up and get running, but once you have it running it's rock solid.

[–] alcoholic_chipmunk@lemmy.world 4 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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[–] Saauan@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kubuntu, not much configuration and pretty accessible for me !

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[–] EXiLExJD@lemmy.ca 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.

[–] orsetto@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Arch on the desktop.

I'm using my laptop to try out some distro just because i don't use it very much so i don't have to reconfigure a lot of stuff.

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