Linux

Fedora on everything. Gets shit done, and plays my video games. Packages are new enough that I know I'll have compatibility with things that I want to do, too.

I currently have four Linux installations:

Worklaptop: Ubuntu 22.04

Personal Laptop: Fedora 38

Home Server : Fedora 38

Raspberrypi: Raspbian

Happy with all really. They all nice and stable.

They are running defaults. So Gnome Desktop, very few changes. I have started always installing Tmux and forcing myself to use that since I often log into a server and that helps a lot with managing multiple tasks and coming back to tasks later. Using it locally is also sweet since switching between windows is nicer with the keyboard in Tmux than in Gnome-terminal.

Although I'm using Fedora, I also make extensive use of Distrobox (specifically, with Arch and Debian Sid containers). Makes it easy to install software not easily available on Fedora, or when I want a version of a program from a different distro.

Trisquel GNU/Linux

It is Ubuntu with all the non-free and contrib removed.

Feels good to actually be using a 'free as in freedom' distro that works.

(Free drivers are the only drivers included, so you need to plan ahead and purchase hardware that is going to have free drivers too. Ath9K for wifi etc)

Next to check out is Parabola Linux. Arch based and libre.

PS. Check out the Linux family tree here: here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions

Debian on servers and Arch Linux on clients. No bloat and simple!

I run Tumbleweed on my x86_64 machines, Asahi on my M1 macs. I might try to install Gentoo on one machine, tried in the past but my inexperience led to some frustration. Pretty confident I could get it running now and it would be pretty fun to learn!

Nobara Official, I pretty much only game on my pc and have had no issues with Nobara.

Linux Mint. It just works.

(Yes I know. but multiple services I use need Debian-based sadly. I wish to go back to Manjaro/Arch someday.)

I have openSuse Tumbleweed on my desktop and Ubuntu 22.04 on a laptop which I use as a server... But which has become my temporary, primary machine, as my desktop is down with a dead psu ATM...

Fedora Silverblue

Gentoo on most of my machines, CentOS on an internet connected server.

Recently switched from Fedora to Manjaro.

Unfortunately I found Fedora to be too unstable for daily use. Just too many issues, some (like shim-x64 versions after 15-8 not being able to boot my system) which just didn't get fixed. And every new major version had its own new set of issues. So after seeing the umpteenth attempt to automatically install a firmware update fail due to shim-x64 being too old and the gazillionth window manager crash wiping all my open applications I bit the bullet and migrated away.

So far no major issues with Manjaro, one of the things that did work excellent on Fedora was Wireplumber automatically switching Bluetooth profiles when I connected to a online call. That seems to be a bit more unstable in Manjaro and often requires manually changing to the correct one. But I don't attend enough meetings for that really to become a major issue for me.

I'm currently dualbooting Gentoo (w/ AwesomeWM) and Fedora Silverblue.

Gentoo started as a challenge to myself, but I really fell in love with the customization and portage is an amazing package manager.

Silverblue, was a similar challenge to push myself to try something different. Still trying to wrap my head around containers and working around the limitations of flatpaks, but I'm enjoying it.

I find myself switching between the two on a regular basis. A couple of days to a week in one before switching back to the other.

I'm using Void too! I love it.

I just put Ubuntu on my gaming computer a month ago. it's my first time trying Linux and so far I'm enjoying it a lot. the first couple weeks were hard when I was trying to handle the weird things in my setup that didn't work right away, but now that most things are set up I can't imagine ever switching back to windows. Even just using plasma I stead of gnome feels a little weird now, like it's too windows-y lol

Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma

I am constantly switching back between:

• Fedora Linux, both KDE and Gnome versions.
• Arch Linux, thanks to Archinstaller. (almost only Plasma DE).
• EndeavourOS, I probably have written it wrong. I hope I won't get phished because of my goddamn illiteracy.

Debian Stable... I just upgraded to Debian 12!

I use debian testing with XFCE. I get fresh enough packages and the only time I had trouble with it was when I didn't had space for /tmp

MATE Mint at work, Fedora KDE at home. I am a fan of both, I dont see myself switching any time soon

Fedora on my desktop and laptop since a few years. Proxmox on my server, Openmediavault on my nas, Ipfire on the router, Openwrt on the access point and Debian(stable) on my virtual machines.

Usually EndeavourOS

Fedora @home ubuntu @home for my server (eventually switch to fedora server)

Ubuntu @work kinda have to stay in the debian/*buntu universe, probably test mint or popos with the next lts

Been running Arch on both private desktop an work laptop for multiple years. Although there was never an incident, I always hat the constant fear of turning on one of the machines one day and nothing works.

Now it's Debian on the work laptop and Tumbleweed on the desktop. Having btrfs and automatic snapshots enabled by default gives a warm feeling of security. The TW community feels way smaller though. I know I could've have set up the same on Arch, but I wasn't that familiar with btrfs back then.

However, I do have to give credit for the speed of pacman. And setting up proprietary codecs was somehow way harder than I expected on TW compared to Arch.

Cinnimon

I love Manjaro when I just want things to work out of the box, but I use EndeavourOS on my main machine for better AUR compatibility. I love how minimal Endeavour is. The few issues I've had (always due to me screwing up updates) have been fixed in minutes with Timeshift + BTRFS snapshots. KDE Plasma always. I love KDE software, and you can customize it for any workflow - I've got my system exactly how I want it for the sort of work I do.

I use Debian 12 with Plasma at home. I'm retired so no work computers.

i'm a pretty big fan of "Just Works" stuff in general, so i went with fedora, especially considering my pc (originally built for windows) has a nvidia card.

though, in the future, i might like trying out a rolling-release distro like arch.

I use Arch on my desktop and Asahi Linux on my laptop

I use mint, but I run i3-gaps on it

I want things to be up to date, stable, and customisable. Oh and not have the crap Ubuntu tries to shove down my throat these days.

I run Lubuntu on my main laptop, Xubuntu on my wife's; she had no preference when we were setting it up, so I figured it would be a good test, she can compare using hers vs mine. She still has no preference; oh well, I tried.

Debian on my linode and local server. Some godforsaken Debian spinoff on my Rock64, which is pretty much exclusively an SMB/NFS server.

Oh, and the Windows 7 laptop, chugging along running a few services, mostly through inertia. We don't talk about Windows.

I'm currently in the middle of setting my laptop up with a dual boot into Arch (btw).

My reasoning is that it's more customizable and I can more easily know everything on my machine...

...my real reasoning is I like the logo better.

NixOS on everything but my Steam Deck which is running SteamOS.