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What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?

I myself am a daily Void user. I used to use Devuan, but wanted to try rolling release and ended up loving Void!

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[–] QueenOfSquiggles@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

I've been using Manjaro and having a pretty good time. I mainly use it because I like the idea of Arch, but not the time investment needed to get everything set up how I like it. I originally moved over because I wasn't happy with Ubuntu putting ads in the terminal when updating through apt.

[–] atamblingpoder@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Fedora Silverblue (I made the final switch from Tumbleweed when I discovered that flatpak mpv also has vaapi and the steam and lutris flatpaks work flawlessly)

[–] PangolinAlone@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I used Endeavour, but hopped to openSUSE Tumbleweed and I am currently very happy with it!

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[–] erbs@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really like Endeavor OS. I think it's a great mix of ease of installation whilst still remaining close to Arch. I used to use Manjaro but I'm moving machines away from that as I need to rebuild them.

[–] Halvdan@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Exactly where I'm at as well. Maybe I'll move to Arch proper down the line, but I see no real advantage with that, for me anyway.

[–] Aster347@partizle.com 2 points 2 years ago

OpenSuse Tumbleweed. I tried so many others, and I really wanted to like Arch and the Arch-based distros, but they just weren't for me.

Honestly, I've been trying to jump ship. Suse has some things I would like improved, but I still want that stable rolling release. So I might just be joining you there on Void. My main concern with void for some reason has always been the package manager, but considering Flatpaks are fully matured now and apx is available if I really need it, I don't have much of an excuse other than the fact that I need to do some testing first.

[–] sobersquid@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use KDE Neon. I was and still am a big fan of arch, and while I appreciate the philosophy behind it, I just didn't feel like setting it all up this time around, KDE Neon had the software I was looking for and just got out of my way (outside of needing to deal with NVidia drivers, which seems like a pain wherever I go, I eternally hope for improvements from Nvidia)

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[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Fedora on my desktop, Alpine on cloud servers, Debian on my Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu for work. Also messing around with Arch, Debian, and PeppermintOS on some older boxes.

[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I use Linux Mint XFCE on my laptop and desktop. And the standard Steam OS on my Steam Deck.

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Linux Mint on my main PC (which still has a Windows drive on it) but I really want to get a bigger Linux SSD and I want to try out OpenSUSE Tumbleweed instead.

I also use Fedora on my laptop.

[–] carnha@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

I'm using Fedora - was using Arch for a while, but realized I didn't want to put in the work to keep up with/migrate to the newest tech (Wayland, Pipewire) but I also didn't want to fall behind. Fedora has been great at integrating new tech without me needing to pay close attention or migrate to it myself.

[–] Mantis7818@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Been using nobara with kde for the last 2-3 months

[–] Artyn@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

My favorite are Alpine Linux and NixOS, I use Alpine Linux mainly for my home server and nixOS on my laptop. I really like the power they give you.

[–] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whatever my Steam Deck runs (steamos I think?), fedora 38 kde on my laptop (although I don't use my laptop much), truenas scale for my NAS, proxmox (Debian) for my hypervisor and regular Debian for my vms.

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I believe SteamOS is a fork of some type of Arch distro.

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[–] alsivx@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago

Debian on my gaming desktop and Ubuntu on the family laptop.

[–] echo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been using Arch for years, but NixOS may be in my near future.

[–] zwerdlds@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Do it! The initial work is probably larger, but the payoff is a hugely stable system.

[–] 0000@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Arch on my workstation, Ubuntu on my servers.

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I've been mostly using Ubuntu and it's been working mostly well but I do want to switch at some point. I've tried Porteus but I've tried it on two different computers and I couldn't get the WiFi adapter to work on either of them. I know why it's not working on one of the computers but the WiFi adapter in the other one works just fine with Ubuntu so I have no Idea why it's not working.

I've got my eye on some other distros that I want to try but I haven't had the time or the desire to try them yet.

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[–] sedot@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

openSUSE Tumbleweed, it just works for me.

[–] quitehumerus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I've really been enjoying CachyOS on the desktop, seems it's got the performance tweaks for gaming but without the bloat like in Garuda. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with Gnome for the laptop. I thought I didn't like Gnome but it's a breeze with a trackpad

[–] Synapse8260@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Arch on my workstation (home and work) and Debian (formerly CentOS) on corporate servers.

[–] s_s@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Manjaro on desktop. Otherwise mostly FreeBSD.

[–] 42triangles@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I used to distro hop A LOT, but by now I'm mostly on Arch [my laptop still runs Nix but I'm thinking of going back to Arch on that one too - Nix is nice but I feel like the difficulties for non-pre-packaged stuff aren't worth it for me personally], just because it's simple enough that I know where to look to fix things, plus the wiki is great.

[–] EricZhang456@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Arch Linux with GNOME on my primary desktop. Fedora for other desktop. Rocky Linux on servers.

[–] danie10@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Manjaro KDE for last few years

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Been using ubuntu for quite sometime now it just works for me. Not much setup needed and currently has most of the support of my favorite programs.

[–] lillo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago
  • Debian: home laptop, home PC, work PC
  • Ubuntu Server: at work (servers)
  • Rocky Linux: at work (servers)
[–] OmniUni@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I use KUbuntu. It's got the packages of Ubuntu, but seems somehow to be better across the board.

[–] sam@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Fedora for desktop/laptop, and Debian or Ubuntu for my servers.

[–] chrundle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Ubuntu 23.04 on home media server mini pc and on second laptop. Ended up being the most stable for my use cases and with the most sane defaults, requiring only a couple of extensions. Used Pop_OS! in the past, will switch to their desktop once it's released next year.

[–] chaoschorus@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

I daily drive Zorin, it is a fork of Ubuntu that carries some Windows like features and has been helping me transition over.

[–] pancake@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Mint, Manjaro and Gentoo atm.

[–] kraxyk@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Proxmox for VMs. Fedora on my personal workhorse laptop. Arch for my PineTab 2

[–] bootyberrypancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Right now, endeavourOS and XFCE on my desktop, Unraid on my server.

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[–] lemmyng@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Server: Ubuntu at work (previously CentOS), Debian at home. Toying with the idea to switch the home server to NixOS, given that all the services I run there are already configured declaratively.

Desktop: Ubuntu mainly due to inertia from back in the day when it was the simplest way to get Steam and ZFS support, but my loathing of snaps increases every day and I would be willing to consider alternatives if I had to reinstall. I don't care for rolling release as long as I have flatpaks. An install option with LVM is a must for me, however.

[–] pancake@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Mint, Manjaro and Gentoo atm.

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