Linux

Been using Debian stable again this year, but this time in a VM (Windows host. I know, I know.)

I'm very happy with it. I tried other distros but kept coming back to Debian.

I currently use endeavourOS and I am happy with it, due to it being "just Arch with some wallpapers and optional extras".

I am open for more though, even if it's just for trying out :)

I like it but Wayland has given me nothing but issues

Pretty happy. Debian works good. Rhel works good too.

The Toyota Camry and Lexus 300 of distros.

I enjoy Fedora. I can complain all day about Redhat being evil, but I haven't found a desktop distro that scratches the same itch, so I'm happy for the time being.

On the server side, Debian is perfect for me and I have zero qualms with it.

Currently on Fedora. Pretty stable, but I really hate some parts:

• RocM just straight up doesn't work for some reason? this is really annoying for AI and Blender
• No h264/265 decode support in mesa by default 😬
• redhat is now owned by IBM
• dnf is very very slow (I don't mind this as much since I use the GUI software center and flatpak)

Otherwise

Using Mint on my laptop for 3 years. I don't really like it. I want to switch on OpenBSD to taste pain and suffering (But Devuan is my plan B. I love Devuan :3)

On my desktops and laptops, I've been slowly migrating from Mint to EndeavourOS. Mint will always have a special place in my heart and I don't think I'll ever abandon it completely, but I've been falling in love with Endeavour lately. The Arch ecosystem had a bit of a learning curve, but once it clicked, it felt great. And then for servers, I've finally switched away from Ubuntu over to Debian. The familiar environment without all the bloat feels perfect to me.

I’m kind of souring on Fedora Kinoite. I generally sometimes pop in to try how Linux is doing, and I had great hopes for KDE Plasma 6 and immutable distributions for stability. However, I’ve found that many things in the UI are still wonky and broken, fonts don’t render well, and I keep running into limitations in the flatopak/containers ecosystem.

Here are a few paper cuts:

• I can’t get the launcher to do web searches despite them being available and configured, even when manually invoking the keyword
• fonts look blurry and render weirdly; all of the household macs produce ok output on the same screen so it isn’t the issue
• I really miss having consistent emacs text navigation bindings but shortcuts like C-a/C-e are already taken and remapping is difficult to get to work consistently
• I’ve been trying to compile parts of the Linux minidisc system but the dependencies aren’t available outside of a toolbox and USB isn’t available inside. I think, it’s difficult to google and I’ve time boxed trying to fix it to N hours and exhausted those, so it’s either impossible or too difficult
• for a long time Obsidian (from flatpak) couldn’t agree with the window manager to draw drop shadows and window decorations which meant that figuring out where obsidian ended and the white window underneath it began was literally impossible
• sometimes the wired USB keyboard stops working if I unplug it and doesn’t start working until I’ve plugged it in/unplugged it a few times

I want something that looks like Q4OS (looks like XP or 7) but with Wayland like Kubuntu. I'm not quite there yet.

Tried out Mint, Debian w/ KDE, switched to Debian w/ gnome, now settled into Cachy OS. Only thing I'm wanting for is support for my Dell Canvas touch and totem, but I expect that'll get pushed to Open Tablet Drivers before long

Kubuntu: It's doing the job I expect it to do.

I've been using Ubuntu or one of its variants for the last 20 years after having moved from Mandrake back in the day. It has never let me down. It's hands down one of the easiest distros to use and I trust the company behind it, Canonical, which has helped Linux move forward in great strides.

Part of which I've stayed with Ubuntu is also because it uses the Debian package system which, back in the early 2000's, was the easiest to use with its automatic package dependency management, contrary to Red Hat's RPM based packaging system where you could fall into a dependency rabbit hole. And I've never wanted to go back to and RPM-based distro ever sine from the PTSD lol! Though recent experiences with CentOS showed me it has improved quite a it.

Very happy with my Arch setup since 3-4 years I believe. But my laptop that I use and update too irregularly to justify having Arch on it, probably needs an alternative :D

I stopped distro hopping pretty much after trying arch. I still love arch, but my new love is chimera Linux.

For servers I used to run Debian stable, but these days I'm pretty set on alpine.

Have you ever gone wandering under a clear blue sky?

Somewhat happy with NixOS. Documentation is still abysmal but it's the most stable yet up to date distro I've used so far.

I wish the community were better and the decision-making less top down and anarchist at the same time, but there's maybe a fork in the making (Auxolotl) that I'm keeping an eye on. Maybe it'll pop up in phoronix or the nix community forums once it's stable, then it might be worth switching to.

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