Asklemmy

Ubuntu on company's laptop, Pop OS on my own, and I also have a macbook.

Windows, because of gaming, otherwise I'd use a Debian based distro or Fedora.

I use Debian on my servers.

windows, I need fusion 360

Arch.

One day several years ago I had to replace some hardware and the copy of Windows that I had installed decided that I was no longer authorized. I got fed up and left Windows behind for good. For a few years I had Manjaro installed, but eventually I needed a change and wanted to start fresh so opted just to go straight to Arch.

Fedora Kinoite from ublue.

Windows is a pain to use. Its uncustomizable, lacks pretty much all its features after making it semi-private. Apps look horrible, theming is nonexistent for the apps I use. All the apps I use in exchange of the Windows shit are also available on Linux.

So I distrohopped, stayed with KDE all the time. Everything broke but I also didnt want "stable" outdated software, until Wayland, fractional scaling and more are fixed.

Fedora Kinoite is very up-to-date, and its OSTree model is similar to git. You have an immutable system image that you can change by layering or removing RPM software, but you should do that as little as possible.

The ublue team takes care of adding Codecs and NVIDIA drivers, so client-side layering can stay minimal. This means reproducible bugs, always. You can reset the system, you have atomic updates (either it fails or succeeds) and you can save as many versions as you want.

Updates run in the background, you get your Software through Flatpak (which is more uptodate, isolated and officially supported anyways), its pretty awesome.

I just finished moving over from Manjaro to Fedora 38 KDE on my framework, and everything just worked out of the box. I didn't need to install any extra packages to get gestures or make the fingerprint reader work.Much more stable, and has btrfs by default. The only thing I miss is the ZSH from manjaro was brilliant, but I guess I can set that up to be similar later on.

Linux. Debian.

Is there another pissibility, why you ask "and why"?

Windows 10. I got a Ryzen 5900x that works fine on an old bios version. Upgrading to windows 11 requires me to upgrade the bios or get tTPM stutters. However, the new bios versions reduce the (single core) performance...So I'm sticking with windows 10 for now. I have windows 11 on my laptop and don't mind it. Tried Linux multiple times over the past 15 years, but it always kills itself within weeks. As a server it works well though.

macOS

I’ve been a Mac user since college. I’ve got a lot of utilities and software that I’m very comfortable with, my brain is mapped to the keyboard shortcuts, and I enjoy the UX. There’ve been a couple bumpy patches in the last twenty years, but never enough to cause me to give up on the platform.

I am on Mac OS El Monterey for audio production work, and Windows 10 for general productivity/gaming.

I love Fedora, but found battery life less than optimal, and many of the programs I need for employment simply do not have Linux versions.

Right now use Windows 10 on my PC. Not interested in 11 at all. I've been thinking about buying an old chromebook and tossing Linux (probably Mint) on it. A friend made one of those and I thought it was really neat. Just gotta find the time, I suppose.

Windows 11. It came with a license, I'm depending on the Adobe Suite and several productivity tools that run trouble free on a Windows machine. My instance has been cleaned up by Windows 10 Debloater and Shutup10. I feel like I need to make excuses for using Windows but when it's set up properly, it is very familiar and intuitive. Plus, whenever you get new equipment or need a niche plugin, you can count on it that they'll have a well maintained Windows application.

Arch because of the neofetch

Archcraft with hyprland because it works exactly the way i want it to.

Windows 11.

• Familiarity
• Tools, Software, Workflows

Over Windows 10: Up-to-date tech stack (not necessarily anything critical)

Bad over Windows 10: Breakage through new context menu, breakage of window bar (forced grouping, no window text), introduced window bar spacing to context menu actions

Downside over Linux: Restrictions (configuration, adjustments), Annoyances (pushing of MS software and tech)

Upside over Linux: Rich usage, gaming, software ecosystem, more of a straight-forward default and customizability over many distributed options and divergence(?), usability feels better.

Artix Linux, cuz systemd isn’t minimal enough for my insanity, and I don’t have time to compile Gentoo rn

Artix. Windows free since around 2001-2002

M2 Macbook Air for personal use and my freelance work and an AMD Ryzen 5600 with a Radeon 6700 XT with Ubuntu for ML/AI hobby work and Windows 11 for some minor gaming here and there.

I use linux distros but I won't go into detail which ones I use.