Asklemmy

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.

Arch Linux and Windows 10 dual boot.

Generally, I like Linux because it's FOSS and I can use i3wm. Arch Linux specifically because the AUR makes installing software really easy. Almost everything I use is available there.

I keep Windows for programs that don't work under Wine. I haven't touched this disk for some time because all of my Windows programs work on Wine now.

Currently, Ubuntu. I've been flinging back and forth between Debian, Mint and Ubuntu for years.

It works for my goals. I can even play my halb dozen computer games. I don't need to deal with MacOS prices or annoying "must be Apple hardware to run" [I could run a Hackintosh but why?], and I certainly don't want to touch Windows with a 3m pole in my machine.

Windows 11 for gaming, EndeavourOS for everything else

Windows 11 because I'm a gamer

I've been using NixOS since February and have never been this happy with a Linux distro. It's seriously a game changer and it allows me to have a peace of mind about my installation that I could never have with other distros (I was using arch before that).

Manjaro i3 as my personal machine.

Mac OS on M1 MBP as my primary work machine.

Win 11 on the company-provided laptop, primarily for when I need Windows-only software (Visual Studio, etc.) or run labs in Hyper-V.

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

Reason:

• Rolling release
• AUR
• ArchWiki

Arch Linux

• AUR
• Up to date packages + AUR, so no need to manually install things or search for third party repositories
• Arch wiki
• I started using it and it works
• etc.

Windows 11

• laptop ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Fedora. Why? Because its the best!

I used windows for years but i'm Mac now.

Mainly switched because I have an iphone, apple watch, and airpods so it just seemed to make sense.

It does hurt browsing steam now though. CONSTANTLY finding tons of games I want to play and then they're windows only. ):

used a chromebook for a while, that just sucked all around.

Linux since Windows XP. Windows Update broke me.

Fedora, because it works well out of the box, and I like GNOME.

Arch+Plasma+Wayland+GTX1660Ti+Samsung monitor with freesync120Hz. Great freedom. Great custom. Nice performance in gaming. Great software management. Awesome usability for technical user. I had also install apparmor and firewalld for security and timeshift for btrfs snapshots. I think, for me, there is no sense to switch back to windows.

Arch Linux. Its comfy. I like that I don't get spied on. Furthermore it is not made by a company and 100% community driven, which makes it the best Distro for my usecase!

Fedora, because it's constantly up to date and it f a s t (except when updating)

I've been distro hopping lately and landed in fedora gnome, it seems to be a nice, stable OS, good for personal PC use (might try the kde version on my laptop, seems like a better experience). I haven't even checked on gaming tho, haven't touched the pc for that since I got the steam deck

My desktop PC is Windows 11, I've tried setting up dual booting but it never worked properly (probably because I wanted to have separate SSDs for each OS) so I just use Virtualbox if I need a different OS on there. I also have a laptop whose OS I change depending on what I need (generally Fedora, Win 10, or Debian) but I am considering shelling out for a Macbook as well.

I don't like committing myself to one specific OS.

Arch Linux, switched to it some time ago out of curiosity and stayed because I liked the way it works.

Archcraft. It's beautiful.

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

Arch Linux on my laptop, Debian on my server and Windows 10 on my gaming pc

My main laptop is on Gentoo, my gaming PC on EndeavourOS, server runs proxmox, and i use a Mac at work

I run Arch Linux with KDE for my workstation, and Fedora for my ThinkPad. My server runs Rocky Linux and I plan to get another (possibly in the cloud).

Windows. Use it for school and gaming. Almost never touch it tho.

Linux Mint for my laptop and Artix with S6 on my workstation.

Also, ARTIX USERS REPRESENT! We need to rep our distro a lot more!

Arch linux - Love the bleeding edge side of it, as well as the AUR, and wanted something with a bit more learning potential than Fedora, which is what I was previously using.

Fedora because I like it

I used to dual boot windows 10 and gentoo Linux before my CPU died ( 😭 ). There’s so many Linux games now I probably will just run gentoo… (I do have a windows 98 build I use for nostalgia)

Elementary OS because I like Arch, but I want things to be a bit more creature comfortable.