Linux

I'm on EndeavorOS. It's essentially Arch Linux with very specific training wheels. I switched to it about a year ago and remain exceedingly happy with it.

I use Arch, btw

Where my Mint peeps at?

Ubuntu Budgie is my main OS. Works well but if I install another I'll give NixOS a spin. I like the idea of generally immutable systems.

Gone through many distros. Always end up back with Ubuntu as it just works for when I need to get things done.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE

Ubuntu. Keeps it simple and streamlined between my PC, my servers and my EC2 servers.

Pop!_OS on my laptop for everything except gaming. Programming, media consumption, reading, etc. I am much more productive using their stupid simple tiling window manager.

On my servers/cloud VM's I run Ubuntu Server.

On my NAS I run TrueNAS Scale. To be completely honest I kind of regret "upgrading" from TrueNAS to TrueNAS Scale. It's less performant and the amount of issues I've had with their application setup made me completely abandon it and just run Docker on a separate computer, which defeated the entire purpose of installing Scale. I'm sure they'll iron everything out over time and it's not like the performance is horrendous, it's just incomparable to good ol' regular TrueNAS (based on BSD instead of Linux with great ZFS support).

I’ve been using Fedora for the past couple of years, but have been putting some time into NixOS VM’s recently

Fedora Kinoite:

• https://fedoraproject.org/kinoite/

Technically Universal Blue:

• https://ublue.it/images/

I was on Fedora KDE since 32.

But as of late, RPM Fusion drops the ball more and more often.

Package lag time was breaking updates on my AMD system even. Unless you swap mesa/mesa-freeworld back to update....

Because I like hardware acceleration and encoding/decoding -.-

Universal Blue takes the pain away for AMD and Nvidia users alike. Think Chromebook easy but it's Fedora.

• https://ublue.it/guide/codecs/

• https://ublue.it/images/nvidia/

I'm embracing Flatpaks now. For things not available as flatpaks, I just export from a toolbox or Distrobox.

• https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

I have a messy writeup here:

• https://gist.github.com/Eeyoresyndrome/06bf92bd975769c4b46bda34db261a17

I thank Steam Deck for making me realize immutable/cloud based image-Desktop isn't scary anymore.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Seems to work pretty well.

In the past I used Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch, and they've all been fine, but Tumbleweed has been the least annoying.

Ubuntu, it just works. Hardly notice any genuine issues with Snaps as well, but I also rarely use them.

Manjaro i3wm edition held together by duct tape and willpower

Garuda linux for me, I like its arch based and the kde plasma desktop works best.

Artix on one laptop, and Debian stable on another.

Another Zorin OS here. I was surprised and delighted by how little it gets in your face. Updates also seem extremely fast compared to the (many!) other distros I've tried. Unless there's a kernel update, there will just be a little notification at boot asking "There are these updates. Do you want to update now or later?" - and I always choose now because it's so fast and gets out of your way. I also appreciate the defaults.

Arch + KDE. I think I started using Arch in 2007, and KDE since 2009 or so.

Debian Bookworm.

The purpose of my home computer is to help me work or play games. I don't want to expend effort updating/fixing my computer.

I would use Ubuntu but Snaps is impossible to turn off and they are insanely slow. CentOS/RHEL/Rocky seem to make every package require a full Gnome install and I use KDE. That only leaves OpenSUSE and the multi arch Debian installer makes installing Debian easier than OpenSUSE.

Arch. I'm thinking about using NixOS too.

I've started using linux roughly a month ago and I am using Garuda. I'm amazed how easy everthing is. I expected there to be a lot more troubleshooting.

Pop is, it basically is what you did out of the box plus a lot more great tweaks. I have to use Ubuntu for work and it's kinda aggravating now.

Fedora KDE spin. Took a bit to understand but is stable and IMOH better than Ubuntu in terms of software package updates

Arch Linux, for many years now. No DE, lightdm for login, i3 for WM, no graphical file manager, Alacritty + zsh w/starship for my terminal emulator, shell, and prompt. I'm extremely comfortable with this setup and have no plans to change it (except for a probable move to sway, once I can finally get a system without an nvidia GPU).

Currently Arch with i3wm. I'm up to try NixOS after i'll pass exam on monday.

Fedora Workstation 38

I used to run Garuda Linux on my desktop and surface but even though Arch is pretty awesome with the AUR I always ran into issues when updating the system. As I do like KDE though I daily drive now KDE Neon (bleeding edge KDE ontop of Ubuntu).

Apt is just comfort to me :)

Xubuntu minimal install with DWM currently.

Nix looks interesting though.

Zorin OS 16.2 at the moment.

I keep coming back to Void Linux.

It's more hands-on and takes a little more work to set up initially than something like Ubuntu or Pop!_OS, but it's simpler and generally more stable than Gentoo or Arch and has a nice, snappy package manager. The underlying system is simple enough that in the rare event something does break, it's relatively easy to fix.

It's the first distro I've returned to since leaving Slackware a second time.

Arch with NEWM and Garuda with Sway

Y'all are gonna make me say it, I run Arch BTW. The AUR and wiki are compelling reasons, but the truth is I was interested in being forced to learn how things work on a lower level, and the more I understand the more control I have over how things are done.

Fedora. I used Arch for over a decade and decided to give fedora a go recently. It's been great so far.

I Use ~~WiNdOwS~~ Ubuntu. With snaps ~~because I like getting kicked in the balls~~

I tried many distros. Currently, I have Debian oldstable on my laptop and Manjaro on my work machine.

Arch Linux on Desktop, Endeavour on laptop (because there's no way im installing arch on a laptop), and Raspbian for server.

arch on my desktop and on my server