Asklemmy

Linux because it runs fast and does what I need it to.

I use ArchLinux BTW, because

1. It's very minimal, no bloatware
2. AUR
   ~~3. I feel superior~~
3. It just works™*

I use Debian because it's what I've been using for the last twenty-two years.

I use Mint because it just works. I'm thinking of trying Endeavor tho

Linux mint. I stopped doing any gaming and Windows has become an advertisement platform rather than an OS.

Fedora

It kicks ass

21 years on Linux, because master race

Windows 10 because I don't want to deal with the hassle of anything else.

openSUSE Tumbleweed because it is the most reliable rolling release distribution I have used. I love the automatic btrfs snapshots and wish other distributions would have them setup out of the box.

Well that clearly shows the community are mostly linux people. Nice. Early adoptors. Debian and POP here.

Kubuntu. I like KDE and Ubuntu was very easy to get into, so here I am.

I’m on MacOS for work, Linux Mint for personal computer.

I’ve been on MacOS all around for over a decade. I found that I liked the mental model better than Windows. I had tried linux at the time (Mandrake and Suse) but they didn’t quite feel like something I could use daily, when friends were on MSN Messenger for comms.

The company uses MacBooks for developers and I enjoy that experience.

For personal, I couldn’t justify the cost of a Mac for the limited amount I’m currently using a personal computer. A year ago I resurrected a computer from a junk drawer and put Mint in it. It’s been a great experience, but the hardware has aged and some things were tricky (like typing, and hearing audio). So I bought a 3-4yo refurb Dell business machine and popped Mint on it. Am happy.

I actually have all 3.

A windows PC for gaming A macbook for my laptop An Arch Linux PC/Server that I use for most of my work and that hosts all my services

The "why" for each is probably pretty self-explanatory for each. I'm a firm believer in using the right tool for a given job, and I think Windows has the best gaming experience, Mac has the "best" laptops (for my own subjective value of "best"), and linux is the best for software development and service hosting.

In a perfect world I'd use linux for all 3, but while gaming on linux has gotten a lot better, it's not quite "there" yet, and I just love the new Apple chips for laptops in terms of battery life, speed, and heat management

At work I use Void Linux since it's great for database/python work. At home I just use Windows because I am too lazy to mess with anything after work haha. Might install Linux at home too again once I have enough time for it.

Arch Linux with KDE. Windows is trash.

Linux Mint!

MX Linux.

Debian with perks.

I currently use fedora. I am absolutely fine with Ubuntu, but the setup process is a bit too much for me, as I prefer flatpak and vanilla gnome, so it takes a bit of work for Ubuntu to get there. Also I feel like ubuntu use a different gui for different purpose, it is a bit annoying (for example, there are three app, one update apt, one flatpak, one drivers.) It is not a big deal, but a bit annoying.

Mostly all I need is just a stable os that I can work in, and I don't really want to mess with my os. So I don't choose more cutting-edge/interesting distros like suse, arch, or Nix.

There are also distros like pop and mint, but they don't support gnome well, and I haven't get into the habit of cosmos or cinnamon.

I've been using Debian Testing on all my machines the last four-ish years

Edit: I like that Debian is one of the longest running distros, and the basis for many others. I switched away from Ubuntu when I realized it was easier than trying to uninstall all their extra stuff every time I had to upgrade

Linux

I swear that the last time I've ever shouted at a machine was when I was installing the latest release of Windows Server and I was unable to find the most basics elements on their graphic interface. It's like I was a baby in a toypark. And they have the guts to call it a server. I've seen enough dark patterns in their install steps to make any sane person go mad. Windows is leaking bad faith though all his interface. You know what I want to do and you purposefully stop me from doing it. You are not an ally and not even a tool.

I tried Macosx years ago too, but from now on I will only use any reasonable brand of linux.

NixOS unstable in my workstation and my laptop. Using sway on Wayland on top of all-AMD hardware. I play games with this setup and I write Rust and TypeScript for living. I love the customizability and the reproducibility of NixOS: I just clone my config and I have exactly the desktop I've always had, every little tool and customization included. If my hard drive fails, I just plug a new one and I am productive in about 15 minutes.

My sway desktop has been looking and working similarly for years, and before that I used i3 on Xorg for almost a decade. I like how the UI doesn't really change that much.

I use Ubuntu.Two years ago some updates on my Windows 10 machine made my laptop slow. I decided to try linux and I was impressed. Easy to use and install. It's faster and also made my FOSS journey quite easy on the PC.

Fedora Linux (KDE spin), and macOS (Hackintosh)

I like macOS quite a lot. It's UNIX and has much of the same tools as Linux, with more polish and commercial support.

I use Linux for gaming, macOS for general use.

I used to have a Windows partition but hardly ever used it. And every time I booted it I remembered why I dislike it so much. Also Windows Update is THE worst OS update solution there is.

If I ever get a better VR headset I might reinstall windows for VR gaming. But until then, don't need it.

Fedora with KDE for my work laptop and windows 10 for my gaming PC. I greatly prefer linux but had several problems getting it to work properly on that PC and then I had to run the games too.

As for Fedora, I chose it because I wanted a system that just worked out of the box. Since I don't do games on that computer for the most part, it's much easier. Ubuntu unfortunately hard broke several times on me for reasons that were probably my fault but I don't entirely comprehend. Some were fixable but it wasn't worth the trouble. Fedora has never had any major issues for me.

Linux, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed to be precise. Best rolling release distro in my opinion.

I use Gentoo on my desktop/file server. I like the freedom to set up things EXACTLY how I want them. Compile times are no worry with a Ryzen 5700x and I do major updates overnight.

I use FreeBSD on my laptop. It is super stable, resource efficient and soooo much more neat and organized than Linux. Core software does not change every other year and everything feels right at home. I highly recommended giving it a shot if you haven't already.

Nothing exciting, just Windows 11. It's a mostly hassle-free gaming experience and that's all I really need, I think.

I have a MacBook Pro which is stock macOS.

Doing software development for nearly a decade, macOS combines that ease of using widely used software tools with the stability of macOS that seems quite rare with Linux (especially in the long term, when upgrading across new OS versions). Also, things like being able to consistently sleep and wake up and my m1’s battery life keeps me on macOS.

With that said, I also have a thinkpad with pop! OS on it. It’s nice, but I have this issue that I can’t alt-tab like I can on windows thanks to gnome. It only alt-tabs the window group, rather than individual windows, and it drives me up the bend.

I use Windows 10 and Linux, but mainly use Linux for general tasks, and Windows for gaming

I use Windows 10 LTSC 21H2. It's the most up-to-date LTSC version.

LTSC = Long Term Servicing Channel, which is a special verson of Windows Enterprise that doesn't receive feature updates, doesn't come with all the extra bloat (onedrive, store, xbox game bar, candycrush, office trials, etc).. It's meant for special support enterprise systems like MRI scanners, industrial use, etc..

The reason that I (legally, but for the wrong usecase) use it is that I don't want to switch to Windows 11 or be nagged about it, nor do I want all the extra bloat on top of my OS. But I do want to stay secure, and I get security updates without trouble.

I would rather run a Linux distribution, sadly I do play a few games that are still not working on Linux, even with Proton and lots ot manual trickery. And I play them for about 40 hours a week.

I'm using Linux Mint rn on my laptop. I am using it because I have used other Debians for 15 years and they are easy to use, and easy to tweak. And same commands!

Pop_OS. It's the most polished Linux distro I've found and has nice keyboard workflows in the GUI.

Arch Linux for the past 15 years, Ubuntu for 4 years before that and I still use it on my servers but I might switch back to Debian that I used 20 years ago. I'm also using MOROS, a hobby OS I've been working on for the past 2.5 years :)

macOS on my laptop, windows on my PC. Also got a few servers running linux though.

MacOS on laptop and workstation (Mac Mini M1), windows in gaming PC, Proxmox on server.

I'm back to Windows 10 (now 11) on my main PC since I bought an Xbox and there's hassle-free Cloud gaming, crossplay etc.

When I exclusively played on PC and built the new Machine, I was too cheap to buy a Windows licence. I tried Pop!OS because I like their gaming-focussed apporach. All games that were relevant to me (via Steam, mostly) worked fine.

I've since bought a Steam Deck, so I'm running SteamOS as well.

Endeavour os, has all the good stuff arch brings, but the setup is faster. Lot of Linux comments here compared to reddit lol

NixOS, because all of the config in my system is declared in a few files on GitHub and it has a huge package repo.

Also it has all of the other advantages of a Linux distro, like privacy, speed and customisability.

Fedora! Have been super not a fan of Windows for years now so I avoid it hardcore when I can.

Linux in general is a lot easier to set up programming environments on, and also just generally it's a lot more flexible when it comes to customization, which is definitely important when you're a big picky bitchbaby like I am.

Fedora specifically I like because there's something I just really like about RHEL-related distros (to the point that i use Rocky Linux on my server also). They feel really polished and dnf is probably my favourite package manager of all the ones I've tried so far. I do have a few issues with it, and I miss having access to the AUR when I used various Arch-baseds over the years, but all in all I'm very happy with it and I don't see myself switching distros for desktop use any time soon.

Linux, usually Arch or Mint

Arch because:

• it is the only distro I could install my wifi drivers on when I started with GNU/Linux
• too poor to afford hardware for Gentoo
• bloat = bad
• spyware = bad
• Appl€ & Micro$oft = bad

Debian 11

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

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.